We had an excitingly busy summer...

Finally, planning for the upcoming RISE Partnership Readiness Learning Session on September 9th, and the RISE Partnership Implementation Learning Session on September 10th are underway. Please remember to RSVP by September 6th using the link in the invitation you received. For any questions, contact us below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to the Philadelphia Foundation's Key to Community Grants Winners!

Congratulations to our very own RISE Partnership cohort members who were winners in the Key to Community Grants announced in July:

Philadelphia Youth Basketball: First place winner in the Community and Civic Engagement category.

Girls Inc. of Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: Third place winner in the Opportunity Divide category.

Our 2017-2019 BECI cohort member, HopeWorks, was also nominated as a runner up in the Opportunity Divide category.

We're so proud of all the winners and participants doing great work in the region!

Earlier in June, RISE Partnership along with The Consultation Center at Yale presented at the Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Meeting.
The SCRA meeting brings together over 700 community-based researchers, practitioners, and evaluators from all over the world to share new approaches to promoting social justice, equity, and positive systems change. This year, Jack Tebes and Samantha Matlin shared some of the work of the BECI and RISE teams in the Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey region to build evaluation capacity so as to strengthen nonprofit organizations for collective impact. In addition to summarizing elements of the Readiness, Implementation, and Sustainability components of the program that help build a sustainable evaluation culture in each organization, they described the work of the new funders' collaborative that was established in the transition from BECI to RISE that is intended to effect systems change in the region to sustain evaluation capacity.