Schools, Families, and Community Resources

A wildfire prompted Minnie Phan to create a book about the healing power of art.

In this guest opinion, authors from the Aspen Institute and FSG make the case that more funder support for multisector place-based partnerships is necessary in the face of a backlash against racial equity work.

Dramatic advances in the scale and sophistication of strategic philanthropy have not improved societal conditions at a national level. We propose empowerment philanthropy as a new approach to fostering political and economic self-determination by supporting people in finding their own solutions and ensuring an effective multiracial democracy.

Invest in creating and supplementing large-scale datasets focused on Black families and research that identifies, acknowledges, and investigates Black families’ social and cultural assets. Large-scale datasets are an important resource for understanding the status of people living in the United...

California is making the nation's largest investment in community schools. Marty Blank says success should be measured by community relationships, not just new services.

A decade of learning about power building from The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative

Occasional Paper Series Occasional Paper Series Issue 49 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship Introduction by Anna Lees and Megan Bang Indigenous communities, across lands and waters, engage in and build complex knowledge systems emergent from particular values and ways of perceiving...

The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias...

More than 5 million children in the United States are living in deep poverty. Researchers suggest that deep poverty-responsive schools—for instance, schools funded according to fair school finance formulas, designed around community schools principles, and centered on whole child teaching and learning—can address the full range of children’s needs and help heal trauma associated with living in deep poverty.

Much work has been done by Indigenous Peoples and the federal government to understand the ways in which policies contribute to health inequities and to develop potential policy solutions. With that existing work in place, we recommend the Committee look to two additional resources to understand...

Child Trends’ applied research agenda on Black children and families will focus on two priority areas: Black Family Cultural Assets and Protective Community Resources for Black Children and Families. Below, I describe the importance of these priorities for expanding and deepening research that can inform policies and practices to promote the well-being of Black children and families.

A comprehensive study of the economic and social issues impacting Latino families with children prenatal through five years old.

Approximately 476.6 million Indigenous people live across the world. Of these, more than 11.3 million are Indigenous to the present-day United States—a portion of the larger Turtle Island, land which has been known since colonization in the late 1400s as North and Central America. These Indigenous people from the present-day United States include 9.7 million peopl

There are a wide variety of definitions and ways in which people understand healing that have medical, spiritual, and indigenous roots. We at NEP believe that healing is a holistic process and journey to restore and experience health and wholeness to one’s mind, body, and spirit.

Design Principles for Building Belonging Across our planet, people are looking for effective ways to build just, equitable, and inclusive institutions that serve and support everyone.

How artists, communities, and funders can come together to effectively promote local change.

🆕 Hot off the press! @SEALedEQUITY and @CommSchoolsLX released a research brief with strategies around community schools that school and district leaders can easily implement to support multilingual families. ➡️ Check out 4 integrated approaches to strengthen family-school partnerships: https://bit.ly/3CkgPyo #EnglishLearners #CommunitySchools #DualLanguageLearners #Family #EquitableEducation

Many children of Hmong immigrants do not know their parents' native language well. The community does not have a separate nation in Southeast Asia.

Community Schools Forward is a partnership of four organizations collaborating with education practitioners, researchers, and leaders across the country to strengthen the community schools field.

The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.