RISE Colorado
Project Title
As a final general support grant
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
RISE Colorado, located inAurora, Colorado, partners with low-income families to support their engagement in improving public education. Working within a diverse community, RISE collaborates with Black, Latino, Burmese, Bhutanese, and Nepali families to address challenges in the education system. RISE has worked with 18,500 family and students across 79 schools in eight Colorado districts to enhance educational opportunities. With this final grant, RISE will expand its reach through its programs Educate, Engage, and Empower, by offering families and students leadership development opportunities, civic participation activities, and resources to shape education policies. Their NextGen program will include internships and workshops to help students prepare for higher education and careers, ensuring they are equipped to contribute to their communities.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
RISE Colorado is founded on the belief that families are crucial to student and school success. RISE Colorado works to educate, engage, and empower low-income families and families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public school system. Often low-income families and families of color do not feel welcomed in schools and are not yet prepared with the necessary mindsets, skills, and strategies to lead change within the system. Equally, education system leaders are not yet effective in working side-by-side with families to co-create solutions for increased student learning and achievement. In order to create a truly equitable education system, family, community, and education leaders within the educational ecosystem must develop the mindsets, skills, and strategies needed for greater collective impact. With support from the Corporation, RISE will deepen the implementation of its model that has been co-constructed with leaders and parents in the community. Through their organizing framework, families will continue to learn how to navigate the school system, gain skills and tools of community organizing, learn how to surface challenges, make an issue cut, and lead a campaign.
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Project Title
For project support for the RISE Inspired Leaders & Communities residency program
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
RISE Colorado is founded on the belief that families are crucial to student and school success. RISEColorado works to educate, engage, and empower low-income families and families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public-school system. Often low-income families and families of color do not feel welcomed in schools and are not yet prepared with the necessary mindsets, skills, and strategies to lead change within the system. Equally, education system leaders are not yet effective in working side-by-side with families to co-create solutions for increased student learning and achievement. In order to create a truly equitable education system, family, community, and education leaders within the educational ecosystem must develop the mindsets, skills, and strategies needed for greater collective impact. With support from the Corporation, RISE Colorado plans to research and design a two-year, multiracial, multilingual and multi-experiential leadership fellowship model for family, community, and education system leaders from diverse educational and regional contexts.