National Evaluation of StriveTogether's Cradle to Career Network

The Change Our Client Sought

StriveTogether aims to improve educational outcomes for children regardless of race, income, or zip code. The organization works in nearly 100 communities nationally, developing “cradle to career” collective impact and cross-sector partnerships that build civic infrastructure and work towards systemic change.

The Role We Played

StriveTogether’s measurable success with a collective impact approach to education garnered national attention in 2011. To understand and document the impact of these partnerships, StriveTogether engaged Equal Measure over a three-year period to:

Understand how partnerships build civic infrastructure;
Assess the relationship between civic infrastructure and community-level outcomes;
Examine strategies that contribute to successful civic infrastructure development.

Equal Measure also explored how partners—including education institutions, community based organizations, funders, and policy-makers—have shifted their practices and policies to support cradle-to-career success.

The Results So Far

Equal Measure has presented a final report to StriveTogether. The executive summary is available here. What has been learned from findings will continue to inform how StriveTogether supports cradle to career networks in advancing systems change.

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