Clients

The Arras Foundation is committed to growing a healthier community in which all people in Fort Lawn, Great Falls, and Lancaster County, South Carolina have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Working strategically and collaboratively across five focus areas (community investment; youth development; open dialogue; partnership building; and shared learning), the Arras Foundation adapts to support the changing conditions and needs of its community and people.

The Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio serves the needs of the students and educational community by supporting, collaborating and partnering with local, regional, state and national agencies and providing quality leadership, products, programs and professional services. ESCNEO supports 47 school districts across 5 counties.

The Franklin Department of Job and Family Services (FCDJFS) is a county, state and federally supported agency responsible for basic financial, medical and social services programs.

Enterprise Ohio works with partners to create and advocate for affordable homes in thriving communities linked to good schools, jobs, transit and health care. They lend and grant funds, provide technical assistance, finance development and manage and build affordable housing, while shaping new strategies, solutions and policy, such as the Housing First Initiative.

When Cleveland, Ohio, leaders wanted to increase access to and quality of preschool for 3- and 4 four-year-olds, ACS helped create a highly acclaimed model, build local support, and raise the profile of their work across the state and the nation.

The Ohio 8 Coalition members’ perspectives - as school administrators and teacher representatives - uniquely position them to drive changes to K-12 policy at the state level. When this group needed to come to consensus on how to achieve the policy changes they sought, they turned to ACS for lobbying and communication that ensured their voices were heard loud and clear.

In 2022, the Greater Cleveland Career Consortium (GCCC), a group of public, private, education, and non-profit organizations was formed. This collective impact organization works together to help every student in the region design a career plan that aligns with their interests and skills. The GCCC partners with school districts to include self-awareness and career-based learning opportunities for all students during the school day and connect employers with local school districts, students, and families to help build our regional workforce.

Iberville Parish’s Ready Start Network is a coalition of individuals committed to creating and implementing a bold local vision for early childhood. Our Ready Start Network is driven by our community’s need to improve opportunities and inspire change for children birth to age five.

Lead Safe Cleveland is a Coalition from Enterprise, created as a public-private partnership to support effective, enforceable, and equitable solutions to lead poisoning in Cleveland, Ohio.

Louisiana Department of Education is built on the premise that Louisiana students are just as capable as any students in America, and that those closest to children – parents and teachers – are best positioned to help students achieve those expectations. Louisiana’s Academic Strategy creates a birth through 12 system and its Academic Plan focuses on Access to Quality Early Childhood Education, Academic Alignment in Every School and Classroom, Teacher and Leader Preparation, and Pathways to College or a Career.