2024 CrossPurpose National Network Impact Report

National Network

IMPACT REPORT 2024

“

What I can do, you cannot.

What you can do, I cannot.

But together, we can do something beautiful for God. MOTHER TERESA

”

A NEIGHBOR-LOVING MOVEMENT

SINCE WE STARTED CROSSPURPOSE IN 2012, we sought to spark a neighbor-loving movement that walks with men and women from generational poverty to generational wealth. For us, it started in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Denver called Five Points with our actual next-door neighbors.

Since then, we’ve not only aimed to see that spark growth in our city--but across America.

Denver isn’t the only city with thousands of people needing to escape poverty.

For you, it started in your own neighborhoods with your neighbors in Nashville, Des Moines or Houston.

In 2017, after meeting like-minded and likehearted leaders and teams, we started the CrossPurpose National Network. To our Network partners, we offer free resources, invite them into a support community, and help increase the credibility of start-up models in cities where career and community development is most needed.

We aren’t alone in our mission to abolish economic, relational and spiritual poverty.

This Network is proof that the Church is on the move, and we need more communities willing to embark on the Jesus-like journey of expensive love and walking people out of poverty and into flourishing life.

JASON JANZ CEO & CO-FOUNDER

THE CROSSPURPOSE MODEL THE PROBLEM In Denver, 350,000 people live in economic poverty making $17,000/year, on average. That’s not enough. CrossPurpose’s approach addresses income as the solution to solve poverty for good.

OUR LEADER PROGRAM In 2012, we started our flagship 6-month free career development program. Participants, called Leaders, graduate the program with employment earning $40,000 or more and are equipped through personal development and professional skills. In 2024, CrossPurpose graduated 274 leaders across three Denver metro locations and expanded the Alumni community to over 1,200 graduates to date.

personal development

job skills

career launch

ALUMNI PATHWAYS With about 100 new relationships, through a Leader’s cohort and their community allies, it only gets a Leader graduate halfway toward generational wealth. The Legacy Program offers our Alumni options for financial wealth building, homeownership and business accelerators.

To date, 55 alumni and Legacy fellows have become homeowners and 22 businesses and nonprofits have been started through the Change Agency program.

IMPACT In 2026, we’ll have issued more skills certifications annually than the 3 closest community colleges in Denver. Our Leaders experience a +500% wage growth increase from the beginning of the program to graduation. We train in 13 career tracks and have developed trusted hiring partners in our city.

By 2034, CrossPurpose will have helped generate $1 billion of wealth, cumulatively.

+1200

$3200

83%

all-time graduates

average monthly wage

job retention after 12-months

EXPANDING We aren’t the only city facing poverty. Over a dozen cities are replicating CrossPurpose’s model and work to abolish poverty in their own neighborhoods. To date, our national network graduated over 690 Leaders.

Today we have National Network partners in: Memphis, TN Nashville, TN Lubbock, TX Dallas, TX

Bay City, TX Houston, TX Canton, OH Virginia Beach, VA

Louisville, KY Missoula, MT Des Moines, IA Albuquerque, NM

2024 NATIONAL IMPACT

12

372

active cities in the national network

leaders served in 2024

129

leaders graduated in 2024

693 graduates all-time*

graduates projected in 2025

1,733

242

Americans are out of poverty through the National Network

367

projected to be employed after 6 months

*Includes data from 92% of survey respondents, and does not include CrossPurpose graduates.

NATIONAL

ORGANIZATIONAL DATA

5

AVERAGE ORGANIZATION STAFF SIZE

THE NETWORK’S AVERAGE OPERATING BUDGET

$485K

2023

VOLUNTEERS PROJECTED IN 2025

128

$798K

$560K

2024

2025

82% of operating budgets will increase in 2025

JOIN THE NETWORK Our vision is to spark a neighbor-loving movement that walks with men and women across America from generational poverty to generational wealth.

INTERESTED IN JOINING THE NATIONAL NETWORK?

SUPPORT THE NATIONAL NETWORK

The CrossPurpose National Network is a coalition of nonprofits working to abolish poverty in neighborhoods across the United States.

Our Network grows each year, and as it grows so do the needs. As we look toward expanding the Network’s national influence and reach, we need continued support. To give toward the Network go to: www.crosspurpose.org/give.

The Network is open to churches, existing nonprofits, or new nonprofits who want to create or expand their developmentbased poverty alleviation model. Members of the Network receive direct coaching from CrossPurpose staff, quarterly group member calls, a resource library of program materials and playbooks and more.

We invite interested and existing Network partners to attend Cultivate, an onsite learning experience.

Interested? Fill out the form below and let’s talk: National Network Interest Form.

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When you’re gaining these new skills and now you have this financial literacy piece in your pocket, guess who I’m teaching that to? My daughters. So now they’re changing the way they see money. This is more than just a program, it’s life-changing.

TIFFANY

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Neighborhood

Love the Hub

Advance Louisville

Josh Jones thisisneighborhood.com Chesapeake, VA

Mark Daniel lovethehub.org Lubbock, TX

Ben Birkholz advancelouisville.org Louisville, KY

The Collective Blueprint

Good Works Collective

Summit Career Center

Sarah Lockridge-Steckel thecollectiveblueprint.org Memphis, TN

David Ten Have goodworkscollective.us Houston, TX

Jaqueline Stevens summitcareercenter.org Stephensville, MT

Uprise Nashville

Rise Up Academy

Carole Peterson uprisenashville.org Nashville, TN

Gina Clarke Bay City, TX

Elevate Life Network

Northwest Community Center

Diana Spaulding elevatelifenetwork.com Canton, OH

Jeff Cross nccrefugees.org Dallas, TX

Change Course

Albuquerque Leadership Foundation

Joseph Johnson change-course.org Des Moines, IA

Ed Cook abqleadershipfoundation.org Albuquerque, NM

CrossPurpose 3050 Richard Allen Court, Denver, CO 80205 www.crosspurpose.org

Interested in joining the National Network or want to learn more? fill out this Interest Form to get connected today.