January 2012

Using Metrics of Success to Build a Lasting Civic Infrastructure

January 31, 2026

While traveling to sites all over the country that are working to build the civic infrastructure necessary to addresses communities’ biggest problems and challenges, we hear about the concerns and issues with effectively engaging a broad cross-section of the community. The recent paper, Transactions, Transformations and Translations: Metrics that Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding [...]

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Education is Key to the Economic Recovery

January 23, 2026

Sites across the country are wrestling with how to frame the work of building cradle to career civic infrastructure so that leaders at all levels will be willing to put their social capital on the line to make it happen. Some might assume that the low test scores, especially for students coming from the most [...]

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Collective Impact: Using Data to Address the Achievement Gap in Seattle

January 20, 2026

Seattle, one of seven Cradle-to-Career communities across the country, was recently recognized in The Atlantic: Cities for its collective impact work around the area’s educational achievement gap. The article, “Targeting an Achievement Gap in One of the Country’s Most Educated Metros,” focuses on the progress being made through The Road Map Project, and captures exactly [...]

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Collective Impact: Be the Change

January 19, 2026

At the Strive Partnership in Cincinnati, we often emphasize the idea of “walking the talk.” For this reason, 100% of The Strive Partnership staff tutors at Rothenberg Academy, an elementary school with Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS). We do this because we believe that tutoring can make an impact on student achievement. In fact, a recent study [...]

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Transforming Charitable Giving into Social Investing

January 6, 2026

Although published over three years ago, the ideas explored in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal article “The End of Charity: How to Fix the Nonprofit Sector Through Effective Social Investing” are still very much relevant today. The article delves into what author David E. K. Hunter calls “three impolitic, unpleasant truths” about nonprofits. These truths [...]

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