BOSS | Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
TACKLING THE ROOT CAUSES OF POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS, INCARCERATION & VIOLENCE
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) believes that your destiny shouldn't be determined by your Zip Code or the Color of Your Skin
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BOSS | Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
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BOSS conducts all of our work, outreach, and community interactions in alignment with our core values: SYSTEMIC CHANGE: Understanding the impact of policy violence on the people we serve, BOSS attacks inequity at the roots and removes systemic barriers to long-term success, stability, and resource access across sectors—education, employment, housing, health, criminal justice, land use, transportation, technology, and more. INCLUSION: BOSS centers the voice of the community’s most impacted in service development and delivery, to create a sense of ownership, respect, safety and belonging, including hiring and training people with lived experience at all levels. INNOVATION: BOSS uses both traditional and non-traditional empirical and evidence-based approaches to best serve our community, including culturally tailored programming and activities, always guided by successful outcomes and promising approaches, regardless of the way it’s “always been done”. COLLABORATION: To maximize impact, BOSS seeks allies from throughout our community who share our vision and want to contribute to solutions—combining experiences, assets, information, and abilities to forge lasting solutions with buy-in from all stakeholders. EMPOWERMENT: Always believing that those closest to the problem are closest to the solution, BOSS grounds our work in their strength and wisdom—empowering people to self-identify their needs and goals, lifting people out of despair with relentless compassion and support, and developing new leaders from impacted communities.
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info@self-sufficiency.org
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(510) 649-1930
Street address
1918 University Ave #2a, Berkeley, CA 94704