All Hands Raised

All Hands Raised (ahr) serves as the collective impact "backbone organization for the All Hands Raised partnership. The collective impact focus is on improving education outcomes for multnomah county's 220,000 children, youth and young adults. With a focus on racial educational equity, we bring together partners and stakeholders from throughout the community to identify All of the barriers to bipoc student success in order to collectively agree on strategies to remove them. And, we are the only organization with a data-driven and evidence-based approach that is empowered by the community to gather and evaluate data to document and report on how students are doing from cradle-to-career. Continued on schedule o.the ahr partnership is committed to fundamental system transformation understanding that this approach can bring long-term substantive systemic changes to improve academic outcomes for bipoc students. To implement this shared approach of systemic transformation, ahr is the key convener of community leaders to assess and deliver collective impact tools that are critical to creating change and aligning community assets. And, we maintain a strong leadership structure that brings key leaders from a broad range of community sectors (business, non-profit, education, government and elected officials) to collectively support the work to find systemic changes and practices that will lead to bipoc student success improvement.