August 2018 began the fourth academic year of OnTrack Greenville (OTG), the broad collaborative to boost middle grade success at Berea, Lakeview, and Tanglewood Middle Schools and Greenville Early College. […]
Community Data Infrastructure
Funders often ask for data from grantees – data to document the need for their program or organization and data to demonstrate the impact of their work. Funders also base […]
OnTrack Funder Update
When funder members of the Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy began joining the OnTrack Greenville partnership in 2015, they had high expectations. This vast new collaboration to boost middle grade success […]
Adverse Childhood Experiences
At the March 2018 GPP, guest speaker Jennifer Parker, PhD, LPC, Director Child Advocacy Studies, Professor Psychology at University of South Carolina Upstate asked attendees to think of their earliest […]
OnTrack Greenville: cooking with oil in year three
It is hard to believe that OnTrack Greenville is in the third year as it feels like yesterday that we met together to envision an innovative way to impact middle […]
Finding Out What Works: Evaluation of OnTrack Greenville
In 2014, the Social Innovation Fund agreed to invest $3 million in the United Way of Greenville County over three years to support OnTrack Greenville. The goal of OnTrack […]
OnTrack Greenville kicks off year two
When a student begins seventh grade, she feels a level of comfort, unlike during the first year of middle school. She knows her way around, she sees familiar faces, she […]
Building the “Wall of Champions” – OnTrack year one in review
In the fall of 2015 when Rushawnda Olden, a Student Support Specialist at Communities In Schools, claimed a bulletin board at Lakeview Middle School for students to post their academic […]
Collective Impact: A Case Study
Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy stepped in to develop a collaborative approach to funding to allow both the United Way and its subgrantees to focus on program outcomes rather than fundraising. […]
