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Investing in Non-Profit Leaders of Color
12 THE POWER FUND
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LESLIE-BERNARD JOSEPH, CEO CONEY ISLAND PREP CASE STUDY
Coney Island Prep is a small network of K-12 public charter schools in Southern Brooklyn, serving over 1,200 scholars. “We serve a predominantly low income-population. The majority of our students are Black and Latino, the first generation in their family to go to college and qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. “We tried to make sure our schools feel like an oasis, but the truth is that our kids are impacted by the realities of poverty every single day. Our students are light years behind where we would have expected them to be if we did not experience three years of constant interruptions in their educational learning. But because of Robin Hood’s Management Assistance Team, we’ve been able to over-hire and over-staff to provide students with the wraparound support they need, including additional social workers on every single campus and apprentice teachers. “This multi-step process was a true collaboration and started with Robin Hood sitting down with our leadership team to map out how they could best support us in achieving our organizational goals. With this plan in place, the Management Assistance team supported our search for a Chief Talent and Equity Officer to improve recruitment and retention, helped us think through how to best incorporate our communications planning and storytelling into our fundraising practices, and more. “The bottom line is that Robin Hood’s support has been absolutely game changing. It has elevated who we are as an organization and what we are able to do for our kids and their families.”
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