Fiscal Sponsorship Allies
Project Title
For core support of the Student Success Network
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
One route to transforming the student experience is to build the capacity of schools and programs to integrate social emotional development into academic learning. Student Success Network (SSN) was founded in 2013 by leaders of community-based organizations in New York City, who organized around an expanded vision of socio-emotional development and academic learning as requisite to long-term success. The creation of SSN established a forum for their organizations to learn together, scale solutions, and use data to drive improvement. This proved successful in building practitioner capacity and creating greater coherence across the local ecosystem. Continued Corporation support will enable SSN to strengthen partnerships between members and city agencies in service of a more coordinated youth-serving sector, leverage practitioner and youth expertise to create solutions to barriers to equitable student outcomes, and increase the footprint of the network. SSN’s network has grown to eighty member organizations serving more than 400,000 low-income youth, and has expanded its focus and expertise to include elevating youth voice and leadership. In a recent survey, the vast majority of members reported increased access to resources that they would not otherwise have access to, stronger professional connections, and improved capacity to model the socio-emotional learning skills they aim to foster in youth.