Ogle County

Bridges Out of Poverty Community Workshop: Strategies for Professionals & Communities
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Tuesday, March 10; 8:30 - 11:30am
Nash Recreation Center, 304 S 5th Street, Oregon, IL
The Bridges Out of Poverty: Individual Lens Workshop helps organizations that serve people experiencing poverty build stronger relationships and achieve better outcomes. Through case studies, practical exercises, testimonials, and proven strategies, participants gain real-world insights into why traditional “middle-class” approaches often fall short, and what truly works instead.

This workshop challenges assumptions, shifts perspectives, and equips you with practical tools you can immediately apply within your organization. It is designed for all community sectors (nonprofits, agencies, local government, healthcare, education) and is valuable for staff, board members, and volunteers at every level of involvement.

Upward Mobility Data Dashboard
Ogle County Metrics
The Upward Mobility Data Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities. The dashboard provides Mobility Metrics data for 24 predictors. The predictors are indicators that are strongly associated with upward mobility, according to the Upward Mobility Framework’s three-part definition of the term that encompasses long-term economic success, dignity and belonging, and power and autonomy. The predictors fall within one of five pillars, which represent supports people need from their communities to achieve upward mobility.

Distressed Communities Index
Ogle County Data

Running the data for each zip code in Ogle County allowed us to see how it’s ranked on the Distressed Communities Index. Out of the ten zip codes that comprise the county, one is ranked as distressed (Mt. Morris), one is at risk (Polo), five are mid-tier (Forreston, Oregon, Rochelle, Chana, Leaf River), two are comfortable (Byron, Davis Junction) and two are prosperous (Stillman, Monroe Center). The zip code that ranked as distressed makes up 7% of the overall population, while 21% of the county’s population fell into the ranking of comfortable. 

United Way ALICE Report
Ogle County

In Ogle County 22% of households are ALICE households, with another 10% of households in poverty. ALICE is an acronym for asset limited, income constrained, and employed, and it represents the growing number of families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, childcare, food, transportation, health care, and technology.