StriveTogether
Project Title
As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
StriveTogether (Strive) is a national network operating in over seventy communities across twenty-nine states that works to improve cradle-to-career outcomes and enact comprehensive agendas for economic mobility for low-income youth. Strive helps network members translate the growing research base on economic mobility into tangible change for students in their communities. Strive’s efforts to date have resulted in meaningful and measurable impacts for young people, with the Strive Network presently reaching fourteen million young people nationally. By 2030, Strive aims to work through its network to put four million additional children on track to economic mobility. With continued support from the Corporation, Strive will strengthen and grow its network, resulting in improved outcomes for significantly more youth; drive policy change and resources at the local, state, and federal levels; and build capacity broadly through evidence-based virtual training for leaders.
Project Title
To support codifying learning about equitable systems transformation
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Disruptions in educational and economic systems stemming from COVID-19 have dramatically impacted numerous systemic issues that inhibit children and families from achieving their aspirations. While these challenges paint a bleak picture, bright spots exist of communities building the civic infrastructure necessary to address these challenges and shift the policies, practices, resources, and power structures necessary to mitigate harm and support children and families’ well-being. Learning from and telling the story of complex systems changes is needed to enable more communities to enact similar change. StriveTogether is a national network aimed at building the capacity of communities to dramatically improve educational outcomes for every child from cradle to career. Through this grant StriveTogether will capture and share lessons and bright spots from the systems change efforts seen across its network.