What Is Provision Lab?
Our Mission
We are a collaborative community dedicated to confronting poverty, combating injustice, and catalyzing transformative change. Our efforts include food security initiatives, providing low-cost legal assistance, and working closely with local stakeholders to drive positive change throughout the Chicago Southland.
Starts With Community
Building awareness is essential to a community's ability to bring effective change. What we have found to be true, as well, is that when a community becomes more aware of the issues that can plague that community, the people are often incubators for development.
Empowering citizens to play a role in their community's development requires education and an understanding that lasting change is possible and obtainable. Through efforts like the RFTL 5K, Action: Love, and Action: Freedom, we are able to bring the platform for change directly to the community. That kind of awareness leads to engagement and an ownership mindset as to what kind of community they want their children growing up in.
Once a community has taken that ownership of its own outcomes, security, and value, the progress becomes never ending and the result is revolutionary.
Municipalities
Municipalities play an integral role in establishing a culture in their communities. When Provision Lab and Municipalities work together, we are able to re-engage the community in a new way that can re-calibrate the existing culture into a community focused on love and freedom.
The way we do that is by first gaining a firm understanding of that community's specific urgent needs for social development. Once those are understood, we begin developing a strategy that aligns with our 5 tiers in providing hands on support. Like the municipality leaders, our mission is to create a culture of safety, provision, freedom, and love that meets the community where they are at.
To accomplish this, we provide a platform for those who can enact change to reach the people who are in need. When a community is given the opportunity to have an effect in their own development, we not only provide opportunity for physical resources and training to those entrusted with leading and enforcing, but we also provide empowerment to every citizen within that community.
