Social-impact icon asks equity changemakers to take a stand Winter is coming and it’s time to take stand for children and families. Geoffrey Canada’s message to more than 1,400 community changemakers was to the point. He helped kick off the 2020 Cradle to Career Network Convening by encouraging true believers in equity to have the…
Authors: Colin Groth, Anne Griffith and Alexa Rosenberg As the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network focuses increasingly on systems transformation to advance racial and ethnic equity, housing has been identified by early Proof Point communities as a key adjacent sector needed to accelerate that work. As early as 2018, we heard from network members that…
We know racism is the root of many problems across our country, and COVID-19 is unmasking these long-standing inequities. Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian communities and communities facing extreme poverty are suffering the brunt of the pandemic due to structural and institutional racism, which leads to inequities in systems like education, employment, health care, housing…
“Public education saves lives,” said activist, author and civil rights leader Stacey Abrams. “I come from a story of miracles because my parents were saved — their lives were saved by public education.” Even before Abrams set foot in the jam-packed ballroom at the 2019 StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network Convening in Washington, D.C., the…
I showed up on StriveTogether’s doorstep as a social worker. I knew I wanted to support organizations to do better for kids and families, but I didn’t know how important a human services orientation would be in the work we do with our Cradle to Career Network every day. And now, which likely comes as…
Last summer I got an email from David Brooks of The New York Times. He had heard about StriveTogether’s approach to building community-based partnerships and wanted to visit our partners in Spartanburg to see the approach in action. After spending an afternoon with Spartanburg Academic Movement, he reached back out to me to talk about…
Close your eyes and imagine a world where homelessness is no longer the pervasive issue we see in American cities. Keep in mind that on any given night, roughly 84,000 Americans have been homeless for at least a year. Now open your eyes and visit the Community Solutions website to learn about 10 American communities…
This post originally appeared on the blog of the World Economic Forum. How might we prepare global residents for the future of work? Past waves of globalization offer lessons on what it will take to more effectively weather the transition. As leaders consider how to shape a new architecture for Globalization 4.0 (the theme of…
As hundreds of leaders and practitioners across sectors converge in Memphis for StriveTogether’s Cradle to Career Network Convening, we are proud to announce the designation of StrivePartnership of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky as our first Proof Point Community, celebrating the achievements of local partners and institutions working together to change how education systems work…
It’s easy to think of a system as a series of cogs and wheels: mechanical components that work together to get something done. In reality, the systems we work within are more diverse, complex and robust than anything we could imagine. They’re comprised of people with different perspectives, motivations, and behaviors. This means that changing…