After a cold winter, it’s finally spring in Boston. In this season of blooming flowers and renewed growth, we are excited to debut our very first Root Cause Impact Report! Below are some highlights from 2021:
In 2021, Root Cause completed 12 projects with 34 partners, including 20 nonprofits, 8 foundations, 3 school districts, 2 government agencies, and 1 medical center. (50% of our projects were with repeat partners!)
33% of our projects focused on improving health and well-being, 25% on education and youth development, 17% on economic mobility, and 25% on multiple social issues.
We are proud of helping our partners advance college and career readiness, eliminate racial disparities in infant mortality and maternal health, strengthen STEM educational equity, promote healthy and fulfilling aging, reduce homelessness, and more.
Read below to learn more about Root Cause’s work in 2021 and contact us if we can help you advance your work and impact!
Abby Fung + Erin Rodriguez
NEW: 2021 ROOT CAUSE IMPACT REPORT
We are excited to share the first-ever Root Cause Impact Report! The Report includes highlights from projects, events, and partnerships in 2021. At Root Cause, our goal is to help our partners drive effective and enduring social change. Click below to read about how we did that in 2021.
CONFERENCE: 2022 NPEA Annual Conference
Root Cause presented at the National Partnership for Educational Access’s (NPEA) Annual Conference April 12-14.
- Principal Consultant, Colette Stanzler and Manager Alekhya Chaparala, discussed how equity is essential to performance measurement and ways your data collection and reporting practices can support equity.
- We also shared a video about the Biogen STAR Initiative, which works to diversify STEM pipelines in Cambridge and Somerville Public Schools.
CONFERENCE: 2022 Collective Impact Action Summit: Diversifying Funding to Sustain Collective Impact
On April 28, Root Cause Principal Consultant, Sonja Okun, Alazar Ayele from the Biogen Foundation, and Angie UyHam from the Young People’s Project discussed how collective action initiatives can cultivate partnerships that will diversify funding to ensure long-term sustainability. Check out the presentation!
If you are interested in learning more about the work we're doing, please contact our Managing Director Abby Fung or visit rootcause.org.
