Proven Strategies for Community Change
Our Approach
Helping communities get better results for young people, cradle to career.
StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network Convening
Our Framework for Local Change
The StriveTogether Theory of ActionTM is our proven framework for results, built with communities and constantly evolving with their insights. It helps partners create the civic infrastructure needed to change the systems that shape opportunity.
Our framework lays out progressive milestones, not a rigid recipe. Local context leads the way. These milestones bring together leaders across education, housing, health care and more, so communities can work better together.
The Theory of Action showed us how to do this work, and that has helped to shape our journey as we’ve been moving this work forward from cradle through career.
Dr. Russell W. Booker, CEO of Spartanburg Academic Movement
Spartanburg, South Carolina
How Progress Happens
Cradle to Career Network members apply shared principles to their work: expanding access to opportunity, prioritizing community engagement and local context, focusing on outcomes and the systems that impact them, and securing public sector adoption.
These principles guide how partners use data and shift policies, practices, resources and power to improve results for young people.
Together, our collective vision is to support 4 more million futures on the path to economic mobility by 2030, as measured by milestones from cradle to career.
Communities build their work on four pillars, designed to create the civic infrastructure needed to increase economic opportunity.
What We Measure
Our network members get better results for young people from cradle to career, measuring key milestones to track their progress. These seven milestones are critical steps on the path to economic mobility.
We expand our impact by supporting policies proven to get better outcomes for young people.
StriveTogether partners with communities across the country to turn data and local insight into evidence-backed policy.
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