Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL)

A nonprofit organization

$1,720 raised

100% complete

$1,000 Goal

CPAL launched in 2018 out of the Mayor's Office to tackle child poverty as Dallas' North Star. CPAL's genesis came after years of deep data analysis, input from 200+ community stakeholders, and on-the-ground implementation. Learning from the GrowSouth initiative, the Mayor's Task Force on Poverty, and other efforts underscored the importance of having a dedicated intermediary organization using data with local stakeholders to understand and tackle drivers of intergenerational poverty spanning issue-area domains, neighborhoods, and public systems.

CPAL's services as a "think and do tank" center on (1) open-source data tools democratizing data to improve service coordination and (2) strategic project design and management to surface and scale effective practices, and (3) system and neighborhood capacity-building. Adapted to context and ongoing learning, CPAL's services help make programs across Dallas County more data-driven and connected in advancing the regional child poverty North Star. As a testament to this approach to date, Dallas' child poverty rate has decreased faster than the 20 largest cities in the U.S. and outpaced Texas' other large cities more than two-fold.

CPAL orients its services around six evidence-based Big Bets: Benefits Delivery; Maternal Health & Family Planning; Birth-3 Care; Affordable Housing; Criminal Justice and Incarceration; and Trauma Prevention and Public Safety domains. An additional cross-cutting focus on place-based neighborhood investment reinforces CPAL's emphases on brokering productive project relationships and on strengthening enabling conditions for economic mobility in place.

Our Needs

Operating support for data and mobilization team designing for collaborative action at scale.

Mission

Reduce Child Poverty by 50% over the next 20 years

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL)

Tax id (EIN)

47-3863079

Guidestar

Causes

Youth & Children

Operating Budget

$3,000,000 - $9,999,999

Counties Served

Dallas

BIPOC Serving

Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx

Address

1808 S. Good Latimer Expy Suite 102
Dallas, TX 75226