2024 Community Collaboration Challenge: Announcing Awardees
The NPSS Support Hub, with support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation is distributing $175,000 in Community Collaboration Challenge stipends to 22 communities across the country. Awardees will use these funds to host local collaboration events in their communities, bringing together diverse stakeholder groups such as local schools, districts, nonprofit organizations, out-of-school programs, colleges, student groups, families, local government agencies, and other community leaders, to identify shared assets and challenges and set initial goals to get more people-powered and evidence-based supports to students in their communities.
Awardees were announced at the NPSS breakfast event held on Friday, February 16th at the AASA National Conference on Education. The NPSS Hub received over 90 applications from organizations in 36 states. Awardees hail from all corners of the country across 16 states. Organizations range in type from local districts, higher education institutions, and non-profit organizations. All awardees will share their learning with local stakeholders and NPSS.
Awardees Include:
| State | Community Impacted | Organization |
| AR | Mississippi County | TNTP |
| CA | Indio, CA + National | National Association of Secondary School Principals |
| CA | Santa Clara County | Bay Area Tutoring Association |
| CA | Turlock | CA State Stanislaus |
| CA | Greater Los Angeles | Step Up Tutoring |
| CT | Greater Bridgeport | Horizons Bridgeport |
| CT | Statewide Urban Communities | The Connecticut RISE Network |
| FL | Miami-Dade County | The Lucy Project |
| KY | Greater Hazard | Teach for America – Appalachia |
| LA | New Orleans | Dillard University |
| ME | Thomaston & Rockland | Trekkers |
| NC | Greater Raleigh | NC State College Advising Corps |
| NM | Albuquerque | ABC Community School Partnership, Bernalillo County |
| NY | Queens | NYCDOE District 26 |
| NY | Western New York | MENTOR NY |
| OK | Tahlequah | Cherokee County Health Services Council |
| OR | Dufur Community | Dufur School District 29 |
| OR | Greater Maupin | South Wasco County School District |
| PA | Somerset | Communities in Schools of PA |
| VA | Greater Richmond | Virginia Learns |
| VA | Glen Allen | Foundation for Art & Health, Inc. |
| WV | Morgantown | West Virginia University Foundation |
Boost Community Engagement with Our Planning Toolkit for Collaborative Goal-Setting Events!
Our 2024 Community Collaboration Challenge awardees are working to rally communities nationwide to uplift our young people. If your organization shares this vision, we have the perfect tool! Our Planning Toolkit for Collaborative Goal-Setting Events is a comprehensive tool for organizing effective gatherings that bring together diverse stakeholders and identify shared challenges, assets & solutions to implementing NPSS-aligned supports within your community.
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