CURRENT GRANTEES

A Holistic Approach

Ready to Rise organizations provide a variety of programs and services focused on arts, wellness, educational attainment, leadership, workforce development, mentorship, youth organizing and other engagement areas. Partnering organizations share a focus on multiple aspects of youth development – academic, identity, socio-emotional, physical and emotional wellbeing and others – which are integrated into their services.

Ready to Rise fosters a full spectrum of community-informed practices—through a whole person approach—while recognizing nonprofits can also benefit from shared learning spaces, training and support that will build their own programmatic and organizational effectiveness. All grantees of this program receive customized capacity building support, including regular professional coaching, cohort-based training, and peer learning. Rooted in the communities they serve, Ready to Rise programs are designed by and for community, reflecting culturally responsive practice and in-community services that meet young people where they are and reduce barriers to participation.

Together, these programs advance Ready to Rise’s larger goal: building a youth justice ecosystem that replaces traditional structures of punishment and incarceration with community-rooted practices centered on healing, learning, and opportunity.