Mother Up is a guaranteed income pilot run by Mothers Outreach Network, a Washington DC nonprofit, paying $500 a month for up to three years to Black mothers living below 250% of the federal poverty level, with a focus on mothers involved in the child welfare system. It is a philanthropically funded, community-lawyering organisation testing cash as an alternative to punitive child-welfare intervention.
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Philanthropic grants and donations to a DC 501(c)(3) public charity, including support from the Greater Washington Community Foundation and other regional funders. Not a city-budget programme, though the organisation advocates for DC public guaranteed income policy.
Mothers Outreach Network Inc., a Washington DC 501(c)(3) (EIN 27-4647364), with a participatory "Mother Up research group" that includes participants; member of the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition.
Melody Webb (founder and executive director)
- Distinctive framing: cash as a family-preservation tool, testing whether guaranteed income reduces child-welfare system involvement driven by poverty rather than abuse.
- Small scale compared with other US programmes; still in phased pilot form rather than at scale.
- The organisation also campaigns against DC budget cuts to public cash programmes, but its own pilot is philanthropically funded.