Supporting equity, inclusion, and social-emotional learning for all students.

To educate, empower and inspire individuals to become the change makers for tomorrow, by helping to

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Increase the number of children, educators, and schools benefiting from access to Changing Perspective’s resources.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Develop new strategies to increase the accessibility of Changing Perspective’s curriculum and broaden adoption by a broader range of audiences.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

In spring/summer 2021, our executive director completed an eight-month graduate leadership program, achieving a certificate in Social Impact Strategy Leadership through the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania. The training allowed our executive director to connect with other non-profit leaders throughout the world. This provided Changing Perspectives an opportunity to connect with experts in the field for growth of the organization and mission .

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Beyond partner schools, Changing Perspectives also engages in a number of fruitful collaborations with like-minded organizations regionally and nationally. This helps us to reach broader audiences while also strengthening our capacity for local work through exposure, content development, and access to resources Vermont schools might not otherwise know about, thereby enriching students’ educational opportunities. Collaborations vary based on our partners’ needs, but often focus on professional development for educators and educational staff, content development, conference presentations and workshops, and more.

In March 2020, when schools were forced to triage to remote learning, Changing Perspectives immediately created a library of free, online resources for educators. Over the course of -8 months, these materials were accessed more than 30,000 times on our website from users from locally and around the country and globe. Simultaneously, we began planning for the 2020-2021 school year with the knowledge that schools would be in high need of services and supports such as ours, yet managing extremely tight budgets. Changing Perspectives increased efforts to appeal to major donors and private foundation funders to support scholarship funding that would enable schools to engage with our programming and support their students through not only the trauma of COVID-19 and an array of social and political crises, but also help re-establish their disrupted learning communities and ensure that students’ social emotional well-being and skill building would be at the forefront of planning and decision making. Additionally, we modified professional development, educator coaching, and parent programs to create virtual options for school partners and added guidance for educators seeking to deliver lessons in remote learning settings.