What is the highest-value thing you could do today?

Three numbers, never one

A single net-worth figure hides more than it shows. Someone can hold almost nothing and still be climbing quickly — so these stay separate, and none of them is a score.

• Personal Position

  What you hold.

  Tools, vehicles, savings, land. Slow-moving, and the thing that survives a bad month.

• Monthly Stability

  What you can count on.

  A rolling average, smoothed so one good or bad month does not swing it.

• Productive Capacity

  What you generate.

  Food grown, goods made, work sold. This is the one that moves first when things improve.

Stability comes first, whatever the numbers say

Every opportunity carries a stage. The system will never put a later-stage suggestion above an open earlier-stage one, no matter how much money is attached to it.

1. 1 Stabilize Food, housing, health, safety.
2. 2 Save A cushion, and benefits actually claimed.
3. 3 Produce Growing or making something.
4. 4 Earn Work, training, a service line.
5. 5 Invest Equipment, a business, larger grants.
6. 6 Share Co-ops, teaching, community capacity.

If that were a scoring weight, a big enough figure would eventually outrun it — and the system would end up telling someone facing eviction to start a business. It is a filter applied before anything is compared, and there are tests to keep it that way.

Support is a map, not a list

The useful thing is not knowing forty agencies exist. It is knowing which door opens the next one — and that is written down here, not left in a caseworker’s head.

unlocks

Finishing one thing makes another available — one form, two benefits.

frees up income for

Cutting one cost creates the room for something else.

requires first

This cannot start until that is in place.

pairs well with

No hard dependency, but historically effective together.

way in to

One low-friction door that opens several others.

What it will not do

• It never decides who qualifies. Eligibility is the agency’s call. This says "you may qualify — ask your caseworker", and never computes an amount or a limit.
• It never replaces an agency’s application. Every official process stays on the agency’s own portal. Status is tracked here; their forms are never rebuilt.
• It never shares your record. Not with partner agencies, funders, or aggregate reporting, without your explicit consent.
• It never requires faith participation. Any faith-based option is offered alongside an equally supported secular one. Your choice is private by default.