Basic Organization Information
Stand for Children Leadership Center
- Also Known As:
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Stand for Children
- Physical Address:
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Portland, OR
97214
- EIN:
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52-1957214
- Web URL:
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www.standleadershipc...
- NTEE Category:
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O Youth Development
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O01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
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R Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy
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R01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
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S Community Improvement, Capacity Building
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S01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
- Year Founded:
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1996
- Ruling Year:
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1996
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to develop leaders who use the power of grassroots action to help all children get the excellent public education and strong support they need to thrive.We envision a society where all children receive the education and community supports that will enable them to live successful, fulfilling lives, and where parents and other concerned citizens are engaged and vigilant in ensuring that elected officials make decisions in the best interest of children and families. The Leadership Center works in concert with our 501(c)(4) membership organization, Stand for Children, to realize this vision.
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Impact Statement from Nonprofit
Since 1999, Stand for Children Leadership center has trained effective community leaders who have helped win more than $3.5 billion in public funding for schools and other vital programs serving more than 2.8 million children. Every dollar contributed to Stand for Children has delivered $122 in public funding for schools and other children's programs - a remarkable return on investment.
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Chief Executive
Mr. Jonah Edelman
Term:
Since
June
1996
Chief Executive Profile:
Jonah was the co-founder of Stand for Children in 1996. In 1998, after closely studying the work of a range of organizations, Jonah Edelman conceptualized Stand for Children's grassroots advocacy approach and then moved to Oregon to field test it himself. Since then, he has overseen the successful expansion of Stand for Children into the citizen voice it is today. Jonah was born and raised in Washington, DC, graduated from Yale University in 1992, and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where in three years (1992-1995) he earned masters and doctor of philosophy degrees in politics. In 1996, Jonah moved from direct service to activism, helping to organize Stand for Children Day. In the 10 years since Stand for Children's historic founding rally in Washington D.C., Jonah has helped Stand for Children become a pathbreaking child-advocacy organization.
CEO/Executive Director Statement:
A few aspects set Stand for Children Leadership Center apart from other organizations working on children's issues. First, we empower people to be effective advocates for children. We improve children’s lives not by providing direct services to individual children or their families, but by making those services more broadly available and more effective through advocacy. Every dollar contributed to a direct service provider yields less than a dollar of service, after administrative costs are covered. Every dollar contributed to Stand for Children Leadership Center is multiplied more than one hundred times, yielding greater resources for services that help large numbers of children.
We are also a true grassroots organization. All the issues we work on are chosen by the community leaders we train. These leaders are thus engaged in the process of civic change from beginning to end. In the process of creating a list of quantifiable results for children within their communities, leaders experience a long-lasting empowerment that comes from training, becoming more civically engaged, and making a measurable difference.
We are also highly strategic and focused. While children’s needs are myriad, we are increasingly focused on improving children’s opportunities through public education. Informed by our years of community-based experience and in-depth examination of best practices, we are developing a clear and compelling point of view about how to improve public schools focusing on three areas: teacher and principal effectiveness, instructional time, and school autonomy with accountability. From this, the community leaders we serve design state and local action strategies, from early childhood through high school, to better prepare our children to succeed in today’s global economy.
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Program:
Oregon State Affiliate
- Budget:
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$896,379
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Adults
Program Description:
The Oregon State Affiliate of Stand for Children Leadership Center develops community leaders who use the power of grassroots action to help all children get the excellent public education and strong support they need to thrive. Following specific priorities chosen by the leaders we train, we focus on reforming education policies and practices and securing adequate funding for public schools to help children thrive academically, giving them the opportunities they need to become successful, productive citizens.
Program Long-Term Success:
Since 1999, community leaders trained by the Oregon Stand for Children Leadership Center have won 72 state and local victories leveraging more than $1.9 billion in public funding for schools and other programs serving more than 970,000 children.
Program Short-Term Success:
We are training and supporting community leaders to empower them to pursue these goals:
· Recruit 1,000 Oregonians committed to advancing our campaign to Build Oregon Schools Back Better
· Advance innovations that enable teachers and principals to do their best work and improve student achievement in their districts
· Develop specific policy reform proposals that will remove barriers and create financial incentives for school districts to improve educator effectiveness and innovate to improve student achievement
Program Success Monitored by:
Stand for Children Leadership Center tracks the number of state and local victories won by community leaders we have trained and the dollars leveraged and children served by these victories.
Program Success Examples:
- Prevented massive cuts in instructional time by delivering the best possible K-12 budget allocation for 2009-2011, $200 million higher than proposed by the governor, amidst the worst economic crisis in decades.
- Continued to increase teacher quality and retention by protecting funding for the Oregon New Educator Mentor Program that we established in 2007, providing mentors for nearly 1,000 new K-12 teachers and principals serving 75,000 students in 2009-2011.
- Prevented $51 million in additional cuts to schools in 2009 by organizing a 5,000 person rally at the Oregon state capitol and delivering a “No more cuts” petition with more than 8,200 signatures.
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