The Sarah Stitt Hope Foundation empowers people, families, and communities to better their lives through the science of hope. Hope Rising works with local community leaders by providing the framework, training/certification programs, and ongoing support so they can: assess hope levels among their community's key sectors, determine their most critical issues/focus areas, learn and apply evidence-based methods for raising hope levels in individuals and organizations, equip organizations that are already building hope to measure and maximize their efforts, and maximize the local community's existing resources, talent and knowledge.