Chalkbeat Why are some students consistently absent? That’s the question more than 30 local school leaders were trying to answer when they gathered last week around tables in a sunlit conference room in Memphis. Read more
Inside Philanthropy The Ballmer Group is behind a new $20 million challenge grant program from StriveTogether to use data to promote policy and system change in communities across the country with the intention of bettering student outcomes.Read more
Kenosha News Building Our Future in Kenosha County will be one of several organizations receiving funds from StriveTogether in order to improve student outcomes. The Wisconsin Partnership, which includes Building Our Future, Milwaukee Succeeds, Higher Expectations for Racine County, and Achieve Brown County, has received nearly $350,000 from StriveTogether, a national nonprofit working to bring…
The Journal Times Higher Expectations for Racine County is launching an initiative to help local single mothers gain sustaining employment, while also preparing their children for academic success. Higher Expectations, an organization with the mission of establishing a fully capable and employed Racine County workforce, will fund the initiative with an up to $500,000-per-year, three-year…
The Cincinnati Enquirer Let me explain how former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is connected to a lady who is in the first trimester of her pregnancy in Cincinnati but hasn’t seen a medical provider yet. Ballmer Group, the philanthropy co-founded by civic activist Connie Ballmer and Steve Ballmer, has placed its substantial backing…
Milwaukee Courier Earlier this week, the Wisconsin Partnership announced that StriveTogether awarded them approximately $350,000 in grant money. The partnership, which consists of Milwaukee Succeeds, Higher Expectations for Racine County, Achieve Brown County, Building Our Future and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said they plan to put the grant towards testing, learning and spreading strategies that…
Milwaukee Business News National education nonprofit StriveTogether will award $1 million over three years to a coalition of regional education organizations working to advance changes in state policy and use data to improve student outcomes. Read more
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal The Spartanburg Academic Movement just got a shot in the arm from a national nonprofit that will be used to directly help students in the county’s four highest poverty schools. Read more
Dayton Daily News A national non-profit has awarded $500,000 to help Dayton Public Schools and Northmont City School District close achievement gaps linked to race, gender and culture. The grant from StriveTogether will fund the work of Learn to Earn Dayton, which will work with DPS and Northmont to place equity fellows in select schools.Read…
WDTN-TV StriveTogether, a Cincinnati-based, national non-profit, has awarded Montgomery County’s Learn to Earn program $500,000, some of which will benefit Dayton Public Schools. Read more
Dayton FOX 45 A national nonprofit is helping to close the educational achievement gap in Montgomery County. StriveTogether said Thursday that it will support Learn to Earn Dayton’s work, including to help place what are called Equity Fellows in Dayton Public and Northmont City Schools. Read more
16 winning initiatives will tackle systems changes needed to help children and families living in poverty move up the economic ladder CINCINNATI, OH — StriveTogether, a national nonprofit working to bring communities together around data to make decisions and improve results for kids, today announced the first group of awardees for its Cradle to Career…