$15.1M in expenses

Cradle to Career Grantmaking: StriveTogether remains dedicated to advancing better and more equitable outcomes for youth and families. In 2024, our investments continued to strengthen civic infrastructure, increase access to capital to leverage local investments, and accelerate measurable progress toward transforming systems to improve opportunity. Grants awarded this year supported a diverse range of initiatives aimed at sustaining long-term impact and driving meaningful change in communities nationwide.

$9.8M in expenses

Cradle to Career Network: In 2024, StriveTogether focused on strengthening network capacity to advance cradle-to-career outcomes across its network of 68 communities in 28 states. Through dedicated support and collaboration, StriveTogether helped local partnerships implement data-driven strategies, utilizing a collaborative improvement approach to make progress along the StriveTogether Theory of Action. In the meantime, StriveTogether supported cradle-to-career partnerships develop local policy solutions to advance educational outcomes associated with their Know Your Number initiatives. StriveTogether launched a state policy implementation community of practice to support state agencies and departments with newly authorized educational policies begin their implementation. Cont. in Sch OIn addition, StriveTogether supported twelve state coalitions advance their data infrastructure to support outcomes improvement across each of their states.

$2.8M in expenses

Training Hub: The StriveTogether Training Hub builds competencies for leaders in place-based partnerships to help communities transform systems in service of better, improved outcomes. In 2024, the Training Hub provided over 4,800 hours of learning to leaders across the country in critical topics like collaborative improvement, backbone excellence, and data & analytics. Over 85% of attendees reported having increased their skills as a result of our trainings.