Outreach

In our effort to attract leaders of color to the charter school movement so that more of them open and grow highly successful charter schools and charter school networks, the team conducts extensive outreach across the country.

The primary goal of Partners’ outreach activities is to create awareness about the funding and leadership development opportunities Partners offers and to stimulate greater interest and excitement about charter schools among talented entrepreneurs of color. Examples of the kinds of outreach we conduct include conversations and meetings with prospective applicants, small group meetings, conference presentations, and collaborative working relationships with other organizations in and out of education. All are designed to allow for important interpersonal communications and relationship building.

A second goal of Partners’ outreach activities is to efficiently identify minority entrepreneurs outside education and draw them to the charter school sector. Partners seeks to attract leaders of color with a variety of backgrounds and experiences, ranging from mid-career, senior-level executives from the private and nonprofit sectors, to leaders within traditional public schools and charter school organizations (i.e., principals, teachers and others). However, Partners has a particular interest in minority professionals in other industries who want to use their skills in a socially positive way to the charter school movement. Partners embraces the distinct pathways leaders of color will have taken in coming to the charter school sector and encourages leaders of color from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds, prior experiences, and achievements, who wish to create a quality charter school or charter school network, to apply.