As we work with sites across the country to build cradle to career civic infrastructure, we are learning a great deal about how communities are overcoming both the adaptive issues that are so fundamentally critical for changing culture to align limited resources and the technical solutions for improving supports for children on the ground. Perhaps one of the most important technical issues is how to fund the critical staffing support needed for the backbone organizations. We have seen communities approach this in numerous ways and have boiled down some of those lessons in the attached white paper. In the end, this is a very real challenge. It is much easier to find funders to invest in programming directly serving children. But as noted in the paper, there are key messages and a value proposition that make it clear investments in limited infrastructure can have a major impact on student outcomes. We would welcome your input on the content and real-world examples from your work to inform this emerging white paper on this very challenging topic.
Read the white paper:Funding to Support Backbone Organization
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Jeff Edmondson – who has written 13 posts on Striving for change.
Jeff Edmondson is the managing director of the Strive Network
