UpTogether is a technology platform where you can build and strengthen your social networks — and get cash — so you, your friends, family and neighbors can support each other, reach your financial and personal goals, and move up together. Cash offers depend on the availability of funds.

If you are over the age of 16 and live in the United States, you’re in! 

You Share
Connect with groups to share solutions and support to help each other reach your financial and personal goals.

We Invest
We provide you access to unrestricted cash investments you can use to reach your goals.  (Cash offers depend on the availability of funds.)

Together We Transform
Share your successes and stories to shift perspectives about – and policies that impact – people living with low incomes.  Sharing your stories will also help bring in additional cash investments for you and others in your community.

Groups on UpTogether are not like groups on other social media platforms. They are purposeful, intentional and relational. Groups are also private and small. What’s shared in your group stays in your group. UpTogether groups are a safe, quiet space where you can invest in your real-life relationships.

Groups help one another. They share connections, opportunities and support. Groups connect often outside of UpTogether, checking in on each other regularly over phone or text. In the near future, groups will also have tools to share their goals together.

After creating your account on UpTogether, there will be a set-up guide to walk you through the process. You can grow your group by inviting people to join through text or email. We encourage you to have conversations with the people you plan on inviting. Talk through your group’s name, purpose, and intentions together.

Nonprofit Family Independence Initiative (FII) created UpTogether in 2013 at the request of its families. The platform has changed a lot since then. With guidance from our members, we are constantly learning and evolving. But FII’s mission — and why it created UpTogether — has remained the same since 2001: To accelerate the exchange of financial and social capital in low-income communities across the nation.

Because the mission of Family Independence Initiative (FII), which created UpTogether, is to accelerate the exchange of financial and social capital in low-income communities across the nation, typically UpTogether cash offers are available for households earning 50% – 150% of the federal poverty level, which is $10,860 – $32,580 per year for a family of three and $15,340 – $46,020 per year for a family of five. However, there may be cases where funds are available for people outside of that criteria. Cash offers depend on the availability of funds.

The creators of UpTogether, Family Independence Initiative (FII), believe one of the keys to economic mobility is investing directly in individuals living with low-incomes, and allowing them to use the money as they choose. People know best what their families need most. We’re investing toward their progress – the things they are already doing – to improve their economic situation. (Cash offers depend on the availability of funds.)

It’s up to you! You can receive the cash through a direct deposit right into your bank account. If you don’t have a bank account, we can send you a physical or digital UpTogether Card.