From The Daily Caller, about the conservative Republican's work during a two-day Anti-Poverty Summit in conjunction with the Congressional Republican Study Committee in Washington, D.C.: "Summit leader Robert Woodson, founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and a veteran of the civil rights movement, explained how he came to realize that 'race alone' is not the chief barrier to betterment, but poverty and disadvantage, which led him to work on behalf of all low-income people. 'I also recognize that America is a very compassionate country, but our strategies over the last 50 years have not only not improved a lot of poor people, but in many ways have injured with a helping hand,' Woodson said, noting that traditionally the government has conducted what he called 'failure studies' on the poor, in which they tally up the social ills such as dropout rates and illegitimacy, only to have well-intentioned government leaders try to fix the problem with ham-handed solutions. 'They ask not which problems are solvable, but which problems are fundable,' Woodson said."
More: "Woodson’s center is focused on finding out how people are achieving success in their communities, so that those methods are implemented elsewhere — 'if you wanted to learn to play the piano would you go to five people who failed and say ‘let me learn from your failure’? Or would you go to the one person who has mastered the instrument?' he asked. The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise has trained over 2,500 grassroots leaders in 39 states to work in their own communities to help give people the tools to get out of poverty."
Robert Woodson Confronting Poverty At The Grassroots
