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Cincinnati Business Courier A newly formed national education-focused nonprofit will celebrate its new downtown corporate office on Aug. 16. StriveTogether, which works to improve education success for all ages, will hold an open house 4-7 p.m. at 125 E. Ninth St. to mark its new headquarters. The move comes months after StriveTogether transitioned to an…
Post-Bulletin A group of more than 30 Rochester organizations is stepping up to make sure students do well in school, and they say success isn’t possible without a supportive community. The Cradle to Career summit brought those groups together Friday morning in hopes of coordinating a variety of efforts already underway in the community. Often,…
Educative Dive Schools collect attendance every day. In Texas, the P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County is helping districts think about this data differently. P16 Plus unites organizations across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to work collectively toward improving student achievement in the Greater San Antonio region. Beyond San Antonio, Waterbury, CT, Albuquerque,…
Stanford Social Innovation Review It’s easy to see why collective impact—the commitment of a group of important cross-sector actors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem—caught fire in 2010. During an economic downturn, when few new resources were available, a voice said there was a way to do more with what we…
Kenosha News New StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network member Building Our Futures is receiving $50,000 in funding annually for the next five years to support all Kenosha County students. The partnership formed last year using the StriveTogether framework. Read more
Inside Philanthropy Since retiring as CEO of Microsoft a few years ago, Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, started engaging in large-scale philanthropy, including a youth-focused donor group called Blue Meridian, a grant to the Children’s Bureau of Southern California and an investment to the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network. Read more
Tulsa World While educational achievement gaps between socioeconomic and racial groups continue to persist, Tulsa-area students are showing progress, particularly in reading proficiency and post-secondary opportunities, according to a report released Thursday. The ImpactTulsa 2016 Community Impact Report shows recent trends in kindergarten reading readiness, third-grade reading proficiency, middle school mathematics, high school graduation and…
Urban Milwaukee For the second year in a row, community organizations and programs including Milwaukee Succeeds received a historic level of funding from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Milwaukee Succeeds also has been selected for StriveTogether’s Accelerator Fund initiative. Read more
Stanford Social Innovation Review What does a global effort to reduce malnutrition have in common with a program to reduce teenage substance abuse in a small rural Massachusetts county? Both have achieved significant progress toward their goals: the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has helped reduce nutritional deficiencies among 530 million poor people across…