Community Collaboration Challenge

Community Collaboration Challenge is sponsored by NJSACC (with support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation). The Challenge supports collaboration that expands and pilots evidence-based K-12 student supports in the form of high-impact tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, postsecondary transition coaching, and/or wraparound/integrated student supports.

Community Collaboration Challenge | The Partnership for Student Success Community Collaboration Challenge 2026 Community Collaboration Challenge Supported by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation.

With support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the Challenge provides $5,000 – $10,000 awards to communities across the country and is designed to support collaboration that expands and pilots evidence-based K-12 student supports in the form of high-impact tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, postsecondary transition coaching, and/or wraparound/integrated student supports.

Through our 2026 Challenge, the Partnership for Student Success is distributing $168,000 in Community Collaboration Challenge awards to 20 communities across the country from 18 states and DC. Awardees will use these funds to support local collaboration in their communities and to pilot or expand evidence-based student supports between March and October 2026.

The 2026 cohort was selected from a competitive group of over 700 applicants submitted from communities in all 50 states, D. C. , and Puerto Rico.

Step Up Tutoring, Deans for Impact, & Elevate Teaching Communities In Schools Atlanta Chicago Public Schools, Network 17 Montgomery County Public Schools University of Maryland, Baltimore County Minneapolis Public Schools, Roosevelt High School Center for Rural Education, Missouri State University North Carolina Central University Ohio Valley Youth Network/Sycamore Youth Center Career & Academic Development Institute Longer Term Impact Report: 2023-2024 Learn more about the longer term impact of these microgrants through a report on progress made by 2023-24 awardees.

2025 Community Collaboration Challenge Awardees The 2025 Community Collaboration Challenge will distribute awards to support local collaboration. 2024 Community Collaboration Challenge Awardees The 2024 Community Collaboration Challenge distributed 22 awards to support local collaboration. 2023 Community Collaboration Challenge Outcome Brief The 2023 Community Collaboration Challenge distributed 21 awards to support local collaboration.

Learn more about the importance of collaboration to support student success.

Community Spotlights included 2023 and 2024 Community Collaboration Challenge awardees: Bay Area Tutoring Association Boston Partners in Education National Association for Secondary School Principals & Indio High School Download Planning Toolkit for Collaborative Goal-Setting Events This Toolkit of Planning Collaborative Goal-Setting Events is specifically intended to support community, school, and district leaders in bringing together key stakeholders in their communities to identify shared assets and challenges, and consider where and how they might bring tutors, mentors, student success coaches, post-secondary transition coaches, and/or wraparound/integrated student supports to students in their communities.

This guide was created to help you plan a local collaborative goal-setting convening and includes considerations for the planning process, invitees, program elements, and follow up that you may choose to use in your own planning.

VIEW TOOLKIT FOR GOAL-SETTING EVENTS Reference to any non-U.S. government organization, event or product does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation or favoring of that organization, event or product and is strictly for the information and convenience of the public. As of January 19, 2025, this website no longer represents the National Partnership for Student Success public-private partnership.