Empowering Parents: How Advocacy Groups Are Fueling Parent Power
In late April, dozens of families sorted through stacks of books laid out on tables, trying to decide which ones to read immediately and which...
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Empowering Community: Investing in Children’s Mental Health and Wellness
Fifteen initiatives supporting the mental health and wellness of children are receiving $90,000 from The Opportunity Trust’s Reinvention By Community Fund. Nonprofits and schools across...
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Expanding Access: STL Pre-K Cooperative grows high-quality seats
The number of children attending high-quality pre-Kindergarten programs in St. Louis’s most underserved communities has grown – exponentially. The STL Pre-K Cooperative has quadrupled the...
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Changing Systems: Bridge 2 Hope turns parent frustration into activism
Samantha was floored. The data on the screen indicated that her youngest son was attending a failing school – when she thought it was high-performing. ...
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Catalyzing Change: Two Innovative St. Louis Nonprofit Leaders Receive Camelback Fellowship
Two founders of St. Louis nonprofits focused on expanding education equity have been awarded the prestigious Camelback Ventures Fellowship. Julius B. Anthony, founder of St....
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Empowering Community: Giving Grantmaking Decisions to Those Most Impacted
Expanding access to middle school sports. Providing teens and young adults with entrepreneur training. Improving financial literacy at four high schools. Over the summer, a...
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Empowering families: Helping parents navigate the school search process
LaTricia Smallwood’s mind filled with questions as she joined parents inside Beginning Futures Early Childhood Center in St. Louis’s Walnut Park neighborhood. It was time...
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Broadening Coalitions: Meet Tanesia Simmons
Tanesia Simmons joined The Opportunity Trust as partner working to empower and support the most marginalized families and students, and to design and drive change...
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Elevating Voices: When Parents and Students Decide
One evening in late August, nine St. Louis students, parents, and educators gathered around a conference table to read through grant applications and award a...
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Advancing Equity: How Sherita Love Developed the Education Equity Center, an Organization For And By Educators to Develop Anti-Racist Schools
In 2020, the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice brought increased attention to the St. Louis education system’s profound inequities. These events caused Sherita...
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Increasing Access: Blending Online and In-Person Engagement, Navigate STL Schools Reaches Nearly 8,000 Families In Its First Enrollment Campaign
With school schedules and enrollment timelines in flux, families are faced with even greater barriers to finding the best school for their children. Many of...
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Empowering Families: Meet Krystal Barnett, a St. Louis Mother Leading a Campaign to Ensure Every Child Has a Learning Recovery Plan
Krystal Barnett launched Bridge 2 Hope in 2019 to unite parents and grandparents exasperated by the lack of quality school options to demand responsiveness from...
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