The Riverside Upward Mobility Project is an interagency initiative of the County of Riverside, California, intended to boost mobility from poverty and ensure that prosperity is shared by all residents. The work is founded on the belief that creating a world where all families are stable, healthy, and thriving means that we must work to address systemic factors, such as systemic racism and geographic economic disparities, that impede economic mobility, power, and autonomy.

Riverside County, with the support of Lift to Rise, is working toward a future where all Coachella Valley families are healthy, stable, and thriving. Currently, 87,000 single-mother households reside in Riverside County; 49,000 of them have income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. By focusing on the people experiencing the most acute poverty, the county will advance system changes to benefit all low-income individuals and families. To that end, Lift to Rise, Riverside County, and other cross-sector partners have drafted mobility goal: at least 10,000 single-mother households experiencing poverty in Riverside County will increase their income to above 200 percent of the federal poverty level by 2028.