The Full Press
Creating A Transformative Vision Toward A Better Future​
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Our status quo is flawed, damaging, and unsustainable. We deserve better. So much better.
​The Change Campaign is dedicated to a robust and ambitious agenda that would better serve all people and author a healthier, more secure future. This agenda is grounded in a belief that we must invest in this future by investing in our communities, working in lockstep with local and regional coalitions, and fighting for a more sustainable, fairer, and more prosperous society.
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The Full Press is a wide-ranging and innovative plan that seeks to reconnect governmental and local entities through reinvestment directed at mitigating the consequences and prevention of trauma, creating sustainable structures and partnerships, unlocking innovation and democratic energies, and fostering an environment of shared prosperity.
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We believe this is the only way forward if we are to avoid widespread suffering, increased division and violence, and possible political and environmental collapse.
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A better future is possible and within reach.
Full Capital
Sustain and Scale Return on Investment Through Social Change
Full Capital was built upon the understanding that our society fails to sufficiently invest and capture cost avoidance realized from successful efforts to sustain and scale return on investment over time. We recognize that while our society so frequently invests economic capital in creating more economic capital, it would be far more efficient and sustainable to invest economic capital into all forms of capital (human capital, cultural capital, natural capital, etc.) to create better outcomes that allow our society to become better and healthier.
PressOn
Connect Communities and Systems Through A Social Infrastructure
The greatest needs and most valuable impacts of efforts to make lives healthier and better are in community. By supporting community leadership in initiatives that involve their own wellbeing, we build buy in so communities own their own transformation efforts, and by creating an infrastructure that connects these efforts, we can learn from each other what does and does not work as we take steps forward collectively. By connecting federal, state, local, and tribal governments into this infrastructure, we support coordination and alignment that allows these efforts to sustain and scale over time.
Lowering Overdose & Violence Epidemics (LOVE)
As the Philadelphia Healing Cities Coordinator, we are working to advance the LOVE Act in Philadelphia. This legislation will promote community-led, trauma-informed coalitions that span across the city's neighborhoods. We seek to build an education and engagement campaign while coordinating with and aligning governmental systems to support grassroots-level operations.
Why Philly?
Bringing LOVE to the City of Brotherly Love
Jesse, Founder of The Change Campaign, started the LOVE initiative when working at a community center in Philadelphia, the city he was born in and started his career. When he began working nationally, he promised that his work would come back to benefit the city. Now, an executive MPA student at the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, he is making good on that promise. We look forward to LOVE scaling over time, but are thrilled to launch it in Philly.