The Alameda County Upward Mobility Project is an interagency initiative intended to boost mobility from poverty and ensure prosperity is shared by all residents. Alameda County has a host of efforts, programs, initiatives, and plans focused on aspects of upward economic mobility. Through this project, the county will use a racial equity lens to address inequities in economic and social outcomes. This work focuses on the priority areas of essential needs, financial health, employment and community wealth, and cross-cutting systems change.

Alameda County’s vision for boosting upward mobility from poverty is place based and considers race and racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and systems in addressing upward mobility. It uses a targeted universalism approach, which focuses efforts in geographic areas and populations with the highest disparities of upward mobility outcomes. The county also analyzes the effects of and interventions deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the plan focuses on the role of Alameda County itself and how systems change within county agencies can serve upward mobility for its residents.