The Future is Collective Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 2025

Impact StriveTogether measures its impact through seven population-level outcomes: kindergarten readiness, early grade reading, middle grade math, high school graduation, postsecondary enrolment, postsecondary completion and employment. Outputs and outcomes Policy wins Evaluation results Over a three-year period (2015-2017), external evaluator Equal Measure surveyed more than 4,000 partners and community members in 14 communities to understand how civic infrastructure develops over time, and whether or not there is an association between improvements in civic infrastructure and positive improvements in key indicators for cradle-to-career outcomes. The evaluation revealed that civic infrastructure develops in similar ways across different communities, and that implementation of the StriveTogether Theory of Action contributes to positive outcomes for children and youth. Additionally, more than 60% of network members identified policy wins: 41 network members played a part in policy wins $1.4 billion public dollars added to communities and across states since 2021 8.5 million students impacted across StriveTogether network member communitiesImprovements in cradle-to-career outcomes In the last two years, six of seven outcomes were improved by at least 40% of network members. Note: This data compares outcomes during the two most recent years of reporting for each network member that submitted data. Youth meeting milestones across Cradle to Career Network communities Includes the most recent data, 2021-2022 or 2022-2023 school year, from network members that submitted sufficient historical data.Kindergarten readiness 36% 45.6% 43.6%36.9%85.1% 38.6%42.9%Early grade readingMiddle grade mathHigh school graduationPostsecondary enrollmentPostsecondary completionEmployment 15/4057% 32/5652% 30/5652% 30/5636% 11/2950% 15/3044% 8/17 Coming soon! The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 60