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The article highlights Dear Steamboat, an immersive exhibit that brings the Yampa Valley’s affordability crisis to life by combining local data with personal stories from residents struggling with housing, childcare, and rising living costs. Through photography, storytelling, and interactive experiences, the exhibit aims to humanize the challenges behind the statistics, spark community conversations, and inspire collective action toward a more affordable future.
In this podcast, Denver Frederick speaks with Andrew Wolk about rethinking how we address society’s biggest challenges by starting with the outcomes we want to achieve rather than focusing solely on programs, policies, or activities. The conversation explores how shared goals, measurable results, and collaboration across sectors can drive meaningful change and create greater accountability.
In this opinion article, Andrew Wolk argues that America’s affordability crisis is also a crisis of democracy, as rising living costs and economic insecurity erode public trust in government and institutions. He advocates for an Outcomes Movement that brings communities together around shared, measurable goals—such as affordable housing, living wages, and childcare—to create meaningful progress, strengthen accountability, and rebuild public trust.
In this op-ed, Andrew Wolk argues that America needs an Outcomes Movement that measures success not by good intentions, spending, or headline economic indicators, but by whether working families can thrive and not merely survive.
In this op-ed, Andrew Wolk argues that America needs an Outcomes Movement that measures success not by good intentions, spending, or headline economic indicators, but by whether working families can thrive and not merely survive.
This press release describes Common Purpose and the core argument that our country must measure success by whether working Americans are truly thriving.
Steamboat for All created an Affordable Housing Dashboard that measures how many households spend 30 percent or more of their income on housing and had an opportunity to introduce their work locally.
What leaders are saying
"The American promise has always rested on the belief that effort should lead to opportunity. Common Purpose asks us to take that promise seriously by examining the preconditions necessary for effective effort and then measuring whether families have access to those basic conditions needed for success. This is an important contribution at a moment when too many feel the American promise slipping out of reach."
Paul Reville, Professor and Founding Faculty Director of EdRedesign Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"The promise of Common Purpose’s focus on whether families are thriving is not abstract to us in Poughkeepsie — it is something we are putting into practice every day. With support from Finding Common Purpose, we are aligning partners around the outcomes that matter most to our community and using data to guide action, accountability, and learning. It has helped us build momentum toward real, measurable change in youth and families' lives."
Jill Gomez, Executive Director, Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet
"Common Purpose speaks to one of the central challenges facing communities today: how to rebuild trust by showing measurable progress in people’s lives. Its outcomes-centered approach gives leaders and residents a shared way to name what matters, track what is changing, and work together toward communities where people can truly thrive."
Brooke Smith, Deputy Director, Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
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