What if fighting poverty doesn’t start with money?
Take a radical approach to fighting poverty that begins entirely
with local vision and resources.
Our mission is to activate leadership to transform communities from the inside out.
At Five & Two, relationship is at the core. We begin with local leadership, vision and initiative. We seek to empower leadership teams who are working with a particular community, and walk with them through the ups and downs of the development journey. In so doing, we recognize our own need for restoration and walk alongside the poor in a spirit of humility and mutuality.
DISCOVER
We guide community leadership as they walk with communities through a period of engaging community discovery. As people come together to identify and map their local assets - physical, natural, social, financial, spiritual - they grow in dignity and hope for the future.
CONNECT
As communities build trust and meaningful relationships, and intentionally connect their collective strengths, gifts, and passions, they begin to recognize and pursue opportunities for sustainable community development.
MOBILIZE
With this foundation in place, the next step is action. Whether digging a well, planting a crop, or organizing a neighbourhood clean-up, these tangible efforts represent more than isolated projects, they are shared achievements. Each small victory contributes to growing social capital, reinforcing trust and collaboration, and laying the groundwork for long-term sustainability.
Stories
“Every community is already sustainable, at least to some degree, or it wouldn’t exist. It’s our role to discover the ways God has empowered a community to sustain itself, and to cultivate those things. Almost always, ideas and methods that emerge from this kind of collaboration are better than anything we could have brought from the outside.”
— Jonathan Wiles