Spotlight

The Family Independence Initiative (FII) is empowering low-income families. Since 2015, the Family Independence Initiative has used over $2.5 million in Google.org grants to empower families to escape poverty. Their technology platform UpTogether helps low-income families access small cash investments, connect with each other and share solutions.

In 2019, six Google.org Fellows spent six months working full-time with FII using natural language processing to help make UpTogether’s data more useful in determining what leads to family success.