The Greater Washington Community Foundation is improving the quality of life in our region through community leadership initiatives.
Our education initiatives are geared to preventing youth from falling off track (which means 2 or more years behind graduation requirements), intervening with at-risk students before they fall off track, reengaging students and accelerating completion of graduation requirements, and targeting drop out populations for re-enrollment toward an educational and career trajectory.
Our team pursues this work in in three key ways: Defining needs, best practices approaches, and collective impact.
Defining Needs
Our commitment to defining needs helps to inform the creation of multiple education options matched to students’ needs by investing in research and other products that define the needs of “disconnected youth.”
Best Practice Approaches
Define and invest in best practice approaches to re-connecting disconnected youth to education and training opportunities that lead to a post-secondary credential and ultimately a career.
Collective Impact
Support communities to work together on a common agenda that will improve the lives of young people by investing in collective impact.