The Florida Prosperity Project
Together, we can end childhood poverty in Florida.
714,768 children in Florida are living in poverty—and half of them live in just 15% of our zip codes. The Florida Prosperity Project unites business leaders to tackle the root causes of generational poverty one zip code at a time. Join the movement and help shape a future where every child in Florida has a path to prosperity.
Join These Leading Businesses On the Front Lines of the Movement to Eliminate Poverty in Florida
HOW TO HELP
Whether you lead at the county level, within a specific zip code, or as a champion of a single root cause, your commitment can make all the difference.
The Florida Prosperity Project is a business-led initiative created by the Florida Chamber Foundation to cut childhood poverty in half by 2030. We focus on understanding the unique challenges in each of Florida’s 983 zip codes and addressing the 10 root causes of poverty through tailored, community-driven solutions.
Since its launch, the Project has developed tools like TheFloridaScorecard.org and TheFloridaGapMap.org to provide real-time data, connect leaders to local challenges, and track measurable progress. We believe the business community is uniquely positioned to drive long-term solutions at the local level—zip code by zip code.
We’re inviting businesses and community leaders to take ownership of their neighborhoods. Get started today:
The Prosperity Playbook
The Florida Prosperity Playbook is your guide to understanding the ten root causes of generational poverty and our roadmap for addressing them, one by one, in each zip code.
The Florida Prosperity Project In action
Addressing Education Inequity as a Root Cause of Poverty in Florida
The Path to Prosperity Scholarship Program
In partnership with Florida Prepaid College Foundation, The Path to Prosperity Scholarship Program seeks to raise $20 million in college scholarships for Florida’s most economically disadvantaged students in grades 9-12 in the most poverty-stricken zip codes in the state.
Statewide Data for Statewide Action
Ending generational poverty can’t be done from the national or state level. In fact, even counties can be too large.
To end generational poverty, we must identify the hurdles blocking one’s path to prosperity, understand each neighborhood’s unique identity and troubles, and work with business leaders within those neighborhoods to provide solutions tailored to their communities. To facilitate this chain, the Florida Chamber Foundation has created an innovative set of tools that not only raise awareness to the issues in our state and its communities, but provide the insight and analysis needed to prescribe the remedies.
The Florida Gap Map
TheFloridaGapMap.org visualizes the intersection of childhood poverty and third-grade reading scores for every public school in Florida to spotlight where support is most urgently needed.
The Florida Scorecard
TheFloridaScorecard.org tracks key poverty-related metrics across all Florida counties and zip codes to help leaders understand where we stand, measure progress, and drive local solutions.
Help Create Paths to Prosperity for All Floridians
Become a Prosperity Project leader—whether at the state, county, zip code, or root cause level—and help drive real, local solutions to end childhood poverty in Florida.