Uncommon Good’s mission is to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through innovative programs in education, health, and urban farming.
We accomplish our goals by:
- Helping low-income students succeed in school and go to college
- Supporting our students’ families with educational, wellness, and mental health programs
- Maintaining a robust urban farming program and food pantry to eliminate hunger and malnutrition among our students’ families and others suffering from food insecurity
- Providing educational loan repayment assistance to young doctors to enable them to practice in community clinics serving the poor.
Uncommon Good is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves the low-income population of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties
Uncommon Good Leadership Structure
Uncommon Good has a multi-layered, shared leadership structure. It is composed of the following:
- Student leaders elected by their peers among Uncommon Good students
- Parent leaders who volunteer to serve from among Uncommon Good parents
- A staff leadership team of three women and one man (three are Latinx and two were raised in impoverished immigrant families)
- An ethnically-, gender- and age-diverse Board of Directors
- An ethnically- and gender-diverse Advisory Board.
