Graduation Pathways Summit Wrap-up

The fifth annual Graduation Pathways Summit on Oct. 29, 2018 provided a touch point for schools, agency leaders, and nonprofit partners to examine and strategize ways to ensure more DC youth to start high school on the right foot, recover if they have fallen off track, and reconnect if they have dropped out. The Summits are one initiative of the multifaceted Graduation Pathways Project.

Click on the buttons below to view presentation materials from this year's Summit plenary and workshops. 

To get involved in the work of Raise DC's Graduation Pathways Project, please reach out to Amy Dudas, Raise DC's Senior Director of High School Success, at adudas@raisedc.org.

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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.

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