San Antonio, with a population of around 1.5 million residents, is the second most populous city in Texas and the seventh most populous in the United States. Its rich culture is heavily influenced by its diversity — particularly by its Latine and Indigenous populations. Alongside that diversity comes racial and ethnic disparities that affect young…
StriveTogether designates StrivePartnership in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky the first cradle-to-career partnership to demonstrably improve outcomes and change systems Cincinnati, Ohio — Ten years of community-wide collaboration have paid off for students in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. After a decade of bringing together cross-sector partners to improve academic outcomes from cradle to career, nearly 80…
Welcome to Together for Change, the podcast where we explore the transformative power of systems change and civic infrastructure. The North Star is the only bright star whose position relative to a rotating Earth does not change. For StriveTogether, that North Star is economic mobility and creating equitable pathways for every child to have the…
In Marin County, California, more than 100 community, organizational, philanthropic and governmental leaders are changing systems to ensure every child in the county achieves their full potential. This work is facilitated by StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network member Marin Promise Partnership. In a recent assessment, Marin Promise Partnership earned the Systems Change designation along…
StriveTogether chooses participants for eight-month Tableau Software training cohort Cincinnati, Ohio — School districts, non-profit education organizations and collective impact partnerships rely on data to uncover achievement gaps and identify effective programs that improve student outcomes. But making sense of thousands of data points and sharing them in a way that encourages people to take…
Cradle to Career Champion Award recognizes dedication to student success Cincinnati, Ohio — As a constant advocate for change, StrivePartnership Executive Director Greg Landsman is this year’s Cradle to Career Champion. At its annual convening in Minneapolis, StriveTogether today announced Landsman as the 2015 Bill Henningsgaard Cradle to Career Champion Award recipient. In Cincinnati and…
This guest blog was written by Rebecca Parshall, Ph.D., director of strategy at Learn4Life. In it, Parshall shares research she did during her dissertation, focused on how collective impact can improve education outcomes. Hard questions As we are inundated with study after study describing the pandemic’s devastating impact on learning, it is important to ground…
StriveTogether works with Tableau to help communities see, understand and use data effectively Cincinnati, Ohio — A colorful line graph creatively displays third-grade reading results throughout the county, showing just over 52 percent of students reading on level in 2014. With a couple of clicks, a parent, community leader or district administrator can break down…
StriveTogether chooses collective impact partnerships for Cradle to Career Accelerator Fund cohort Cincinnati, Ohio — With help from some big-name funders, StriveTogether announced the first six communities to receive support from a $15 million investment fund designed to accelerate education-focused collective impact. As a part of the Cradle to Career Accelerator Fund, the first six…
We often hear about the divide between rural and metropolitan areas but today we’re going to explore what that really means, the challenges that we face, and why, to really reach systems transformation, we need to face them together. This episode features Tony Pipa, a Senior Fellow of Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings…
Annie E. Casey, Draper Richard Kaplan, KnowledgeWorks, Schusterman Family and Target foundations pledge support Cincinnati, Ohio — More than 60 communities nationwide are working to change local education systems to improve results for kids using a collective impact approach. A new investment fund will focus on accelerating this impact in select communities, and some big-name…
We are at a pivotal moment in our country and in our work. Thanks to funding available through the American Rescue Plan and more, we have access to resources and the will to not just meet the present moment, but to make significant progress toward addressing racial equity and economic mobility for children and families.…