Greater Power, Lasting Impact: Effective Grantmaker Strategies from the Communities for Public Education Reform Fund (CPER):

CPER’s history of impact illustrates the efficacy of community organizing for sustainable education reform.  This report describes CPER’s grantmaking strategies and showcases impacts achieved in building communities, strengthening civic leadership,  and achieving policy change. Snapshots of campaigns across CPER’s six investment sites describe how youth and parents in low-income communities of color have tackled challenges and made gains in school finance, teaching quality, access to higher education, disciplinary policy, and other key areas.  While grounded in educational justice work, this report sheds light more broadly on how grantmakers can effectively support social movements to strengthen opportunity and justice.