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"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Grantees of JPMorgan Chase’s PRO Neighborhoods Competition improved their finances so that they could address community needs equitably. 

America’s farmers feed our families and care for the land, whether they manage a few acres or thousands. Across the country, amid shrinking margins, producers face challenges in accessing loans, responding to disasters, and navigating federal assistance. USDA’s partnership with Abt Digital Solutions is making it easier for them to stay productive and steward America’s land.

Abt is heading to Las Vegas to meet health agencies and tech partners reshaping how public programs use data for better decisions, faster insight, and stronger outcomes for the people they serve.

The Feed the Future Egypt Rural Agribusiness Strengthening Project, funded by USAID, pilots and scales up new agribusiness models to help smallholder farmers.

Abt’s developed a playbook that illustrates six different types of program theories to help program developers and evaluators visualize program theories.

Egypt’s agriculture sector is becoming a commercially viable trade partner—with lower post-harvest losses, higher yields, and more private investment from U.S.-aligned firms.

In this blog, Abt shares the insights gained from—and stories told by—people with lived experience in Rapid Re-housing Programs.