A Commitment to Educational Equity

CONVENING partners. changing systems. CREATING A BETTER DC.

Raise DC is a collective impact initiative that supports success from birth through college and into career throughout all eight wards of the District of Columbia. We align the data and actions of more than 250 organizational, agency, and business partners to measurably improve educational outcomes in five citywide goal areas.

Our collective work coordinates and unifies stakeholders to address persistent opportunity gaps with the ultimate aim of transforming systems so they operate how they should – equitably for every young person in our city, regardless of zip code, race, gender identity, or disability. We believe that every child and youth is capable of thriving, given the opportunity.

Each of us has a role to play in ensuring this success.

 

Raise DC focuses ON MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENT IN FIVE CITYWIDE GOAL AREAS:

 
 

Raise DC’s 2018 Progress Report highlights core and contributing data indicators related to each of the five, high-level goals. Collecting and reporting on this data regularly helps Raise DC guide its work, identify gaps, measure improvements, and unite the community around a set of common goals.

 

VPP + Raise DC
is now Youth
Invest Partners

In June of 2000, Venture Philanthropy Partners opened it doors, spurred by the efforts of three founders who asked themselves,
“Could the business world provide a different, innovative approach to social change?”

In the years that followed, VPP quickly became a strategic hub for high-impact investments through deep and sustained partnerships with foundations, businesses, government agencies and school systems.

In April of 2020, VPP formed a strategic alliance with Raise DC to build an investment organization capable of driving alignment among communities, and nonprofit, business and regional leaders around systems change. VPP+Raise DC committed to call out and confront policies, practices and systems that contribute to racial inequity.

Today, we recognize the need to do more, be bolder, and act faster. Youth Invest Partners is a call to “dream big and do big” to drive change that will build better futures for Greater Washington youth today and in the days, months and years to come. Our new name and brand reflects energy and focus as we collaborate, innovate and transform.

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