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Your Gift is a Good Investment

Twin Cities RISE! (TCR!) serves people with multiple barriers to success that come from deep and generational poverty. Beyond our unique Personal Empowerment training, our proven outcomes and exceptional Return on Investment, TCR! uses a unique Pay-for-Performance (PFP) model. This is an example of our transparent accountability, a key TCR! value that differentiates us from other non-profits. We have several large funders, notably the State of Minnesota, that fund us solely on a PFP basis.

In concept it is quite simple…

We establish outcomes-based success measures with the State, and the State reimburses us to cover some of our expenses when we demonstrate successful outcomes.

TCR! defines success in two ways:

1. Placing a participant in a full-time, living wage job paying at least $20,000/year with benefits and
2. Having a placement stay in the same position for at least one year.

With this innovative approach, TCR! takes all the risk and bears all of the expense of recruiting, training for 13+ months and placing our graduates.

Not unlike a for-profit organization, we are outcomes-focused. In order to break the cycle of generational poverty we need to create long-term change.

TCR!:

• Measures performance
• Tracks outcomes
• Provides transparency to donor and employer constituents
• Reports on the Return on Investment (ROI) that we create

ROI is a key measure that donors want. This measure assures them that their investments in our program and people are being put to good use. In a recent ROI review for the State of Minnesota, we noted that:

• Our program return to the State is 295%
• The payback comes in less than two years.

This means that for every dollar the State has invested in TCR!, it has received $3.95 in return value. This return comes in the form of:

• State income taxes paid
• Sales taxes paid
• Eliminated medical and financial subsidies

Our successful participants who transform their lives become taxpayers instead of tax “users”.

Your investment today means that we can leverage these dollars to provide hard skills training, Personal Empowerment and coaching to those most in need.