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‘I got this’: Learning to organize from my position and place

Community engagementBy Guest Post January 7, 2020 1 Comment

Guest post by Erica Valliant, an organizer, activist and mother in Saint Paul, Minn. I am a mother of three sons in Saint Paul, Minn. My children are 7, 10 and 17. I do not have a bachelor’s degree, so I have only secured jobs that do not require a college degree. I began working…

Census 2020: What nonprofits need to know

Community engagementBy Quinnetta Miller October 16, 2019 Leave a comment

“Much is at stake when African American communities are undercounted,” said Kareem Butler, 2020 Census project coordinator at the Chicago Urban League. At an event called 2020 census: Barriers to inclusion in African American communities, the Chicago Urban League hosted nonprofit organizations across the city to strategize about messaging and outreach material for African American…

Teens take action in Louisiana

Community engagementBy Guest Post September 3, 2019 Leave a comment

Guest post by Ta’mya Davis, communications chair for the Teen Advisory Committee at Step Forward. My name is Ta’Mya Davis and I am a junior at Benton High School in Benton, La. I serve as the communications chair for the Teen Advisory Committee (TAC) at Step Forward, a member of the StriveTogether Cradle to Career…

Engaging the community: Progress and learnings from the Network

Community engagementBy Jennifer Blatz August 23, 2019 Leave a comment

Engaging the community is essential to our work at StriveTogether to ensure every child succeeds in school and in life. That’s why community engagement has been a core principle of our approach since the beginning. Cradle to Career Network members have also identified the need to strengthen communication and engagement, which led to this being…

Transferring power to communities: Insights from Upswell 2018

Community engagementBy Josh Davis November 20, 2018 Leave a comment

Last week, I had the opportunity to join changemakers from across the country at the inaugural Upswell, Independent Sector’s forum for turning ideas into action. At the event, I facilitated two conversations focused on shifting power to communities. During those discussions and throughout the event, I heard examples of the importance of connections and community…

Becoming unstoppable: Committing to the power of community authority

Community engagementBy Jennifer Blatz November 19, 2018 Leave a comment

Below is a summary of our article on collective impact and community authority appearing in the winter 2019 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The story of StriveTogether began on a bridge. In August 2006, leaders from three communities met in the middle of the Newport South Bank Bridge, known locally as the Purple…

Making mountains moveable: Igniting the community to create real change

Community engagementBy Jennifer Blatz October 11, 2018 Leave a comment

When a community is together then mountains become movable Lights in a collective too bright to be dimmed We didn’t love our communities because they were beautiful. Our communities are beautiful because we loved them. — from Christian Paige’s “Trees” As spoken word poet Christian Paige shared in a performance that kicked off the opening…

Where are they now? StriveTogether catches up with past Bill Henningsgaard Cradle to Career Champion Award winners

Community engagementBy Dawn Raftery July 11, 2017 Leave a comment

Named after one of the earliest and staunchest champions of our work, the Bill Henningsgaard Cradle to Career Champion Award annually recognizes a local advocate from a community in the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network. We’re excited to open the nomination process for this year’s award. A tireless advocate for kids, Bill Henningsgaard brought together…

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