Media Coverage

Coverage of All Hands Raised and its work.

All Hands Raised for childhood education (Portland Business Journal, October 9, 2015)

Posted on October 13, 2015 in Media Coverage

The 2015 Portland Business Journal Corporate Philanthropy featured a column from All Hands Raised CEO Dan Ryan

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards $355,000 in Grants to Portland-Area Nonprofits Advancing Workforce Development & Education (The Oregonian, June 12, 2015)

Posted on June 18, 2015 in Media Coverage

By Bank of America – Oregon & SW Washington Read the story below and here. PORTLAND, OR. – The Bank of America Charitable Foundation today announced $355,000 in grants to 24 nonprofits focused on providing access to workforce development…

Who’s Getting Grants From This New Fund For Collective Impact in K-12? (Inside Philanthropy, June 16, 2015)

Posted on June 17, 2015 in Media Coverage

By Kiersten Marek Read the story below and here.   Back in April, we wrote about StriveTogether and its efforts to bring collective impact funding to education reform. Recently, through the Cradle to Career Accelerator Fund, StriveTogether…

Gresham Outlook Shines a Light on Partnership’s Attendance Work

Posted on May 15, 2015 in Media Coverage

DHS caseworkers keep school desks filled (The Gresham Outlook, May 15, 2015) By Teresa Carson Read the story below and here. A Gresham mom and her daughter recently fled domestic violence, leaving everything behind at their home and finding safety…

OPB Highlights Work of PPS Parents to Raise Funds, Fill Gaps

Posted on May 15, 2015 in CEO Updates, Media Coverage, PPS Foundation Updates

Dear PPS Friends – Earlier this week, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) ran a two-part series on parent-led fundraising in PPS schools. These stories were inclusive of all sources of parent-raised funds, but specifically highlighted the good…

All Hands Raised Partnership Recieves 2014 Light a Fire Award

Posted on October 24, 2014 in Media Coverage

Earlier this week Portland Monthly Magazine held its 10th annual Light a Fire Awards gala where the All Hands Raised Partnership was honored as its 2014 Game Changing Project. During the event, this brief video that the magazine produced about the…

Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Defining Quality Collective Impact”

Posted on August 14, 2014 in Media Coverage

By Jeff Edmondson & Ben Hecht | Fall 2014 Collective impact is at a strategic inflection point. After almost three years of extraordinary hype, investors are wondering what this concept really means when they receive proposals that simply…

Good Coffee Won’t Cut It – A Failing Forward Story from Portland, Oregon

Posted on July 31, 2014 in Media Coverage

The following appeared in the StriveTogether July 2014 eNewsletter.   Our Collaboratives are big. Like, really big. (Or at least they were.) In our conversations with StriveTogether’s Teri O’Brien she would often take a deep breath and…

The work of PPS parents and schools through the Portland Public Schools Foundation Continues to be a National Example (The Washington Post, May 10, 2014)

Posted on May 11, 2014 in Media Coverage

The Washington Post reported that a suburban DC school district is looking at the PPSF Equity Fund program and how it can be a model for parent-led fundraising to benefit an entire district.   Read the article below and here and here. By Donna…

Portland Public Schools foundations raised record-breaking $4.1 million last year (The Oregonian, April 22, 2014)

Posted on April 22, 2014 in Media Coverage

Read the story below and here. By Nicole Dungca Fundraisers for Portland Public Schools raised a record $4.1 million in the 2012-2013 school year. All Hands Raised, formerly known as the Portland Schools Foundation, has reported steady increases in…