2026 Community Collaboration Challenge
Supported by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation.
With support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the Challenge provided $5,000 – $10,000 awards to communities across the country and was designed to support collaboration that expands and pilots evidence-based K-12 student supports in the form of high-impact tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, postsecondary transition coaching, and/or wraparound/integrated student supports.
Through our 2026 Challenge, the Partnership for Student Success distributed $168,000 in Community Collaboration Challenge awards to 20 communities across the country from 18 states and DC. Awardees used these funds to support local collaboration in their communities and to pilot or expand evidence-based student supports between March and October 2026.
The 2026 cohort was selected from a competitive group of over 700 applicants submitted from communities in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Awardees Include:
| State | Community Impacted | Organization |
| CA | Santa Monica | Step Up Tutoring, Deans for Impact, & Elevate Teaching |
| DC | Washington | The Literacy Lab |
| DE | Wilmington | Reading Assist |
| GA | Atlanta | Communities In Schools Atlanta |
| IL | Chicago | Chicago Public Schools, Network 17 |
| IN | Merrillville | Uthiverse Incorporated |
| KS | Lawrence | SparkWheel, Inc. |
| MD | Rockville | Montgomery County Public Schools |
| MD | Baltimore | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| MI | Monroe | Monroe Family YMCA |
| MN | Minneapolis | Minneapolis Public Schools, Roosevelt High School |
| MO | Springfield | Center for Rural Education, Missouri State University |
| MT | Helena | Helena Indian Alliance |
| NY |
Brooklyn |
Mindset Math |
| NC |
Durham |
North Carolina Central University |
| OH | Steubenville | Ohio Valley Youth Network/Sycamore Youth Center |
| OR | Portland | Open School Inc |
| PA | Philadelphia | Career & Academic Development Institute |
| SC | Columbia | Fact Forward |
| TX | Houston | iEducate |
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