Empowering promising Children to rise to their potential

Introducing: Bridges of Hope For All.

When schools closed their doors due to COVID, thousands of kids were cut off from school and learning opportunities. The data is in, and COVID has indeed caused devastating learning losses.

Despite the urgent need, there are glimmers of hope.

COVID has created a landscape where our educators are solving the digital divide, creating new opportunities to assist the children in ways never before possible. I invite you to join us in building Bridges of Hope for All. Generous partners will match every dollar you donate by November 30th (Giving Tuesday), up to $70,000.

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Children Rising Celebrates 20 Years

As we celebrate this very special milestone, we are taking time to remember and reflect on the moments that are special to you and our extended family.

Children Rising Legacy Circle

Your future gift will instill hope and promise in our community for future generations. You can leave a legacy with a planned gift through your will, trust, IRA, or life insurance.

Learn more!

Our Programs

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Our programs help close the achievement gap by providing literacy skills, science learning experiences, and career mentoring and internships.

Learn about our programs

You can help a promising child rise above!

We make it easy! We will train you, match you with a child that needs you the most, and support you and your student!

The life you change may be your own!

Reading Tutor

60% of Oakland 3rd Graders read below grade-level average. For them, it’s more than just learning to read. It’s about reading to learn.

Share the joy of reading with a child

Math Tutor

One-on-one teaching helps struggling students learn math concepts.

Give a child confidence in their critical math skills

Food Bagging

Students often go hungry over the weekend, and are unprepared to learn on Monday morning. Health4Kids provides a bag of nourishing food and recipes for children to take home from school every Friday.

Provide healthy food for children

Mentor

Nearly 40% of Oakland high school students are dropping out. Be a role model – open their eyes to career opportunities through education.

Build tomorrow’s workforce today

Easy Ways to Make an Impact

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Testimonials

"I'm so grateful for all of the experiences that I had with Career Bridge, from working at MLK to tutoring at the elementary schools last year. All of that helped me prepare me for this (job) opportunity right now and I want to thank you for everything that you have done for me over the last five years."

Gracie Wilson, CareerBridge Intern

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"I really like this one-on-one tutoring. It gives us an opportunity to really focus on each child, and tailor make each child's learning experience. You sit down and you learn what they already know and where their weaknesses are. And then, using the curriculum that is provided by Path2Math, we will then identify the next two or three areas for trying to fill in the gaps where, perhaps, they might be falling back a little bit compared to th...

Paul Rathkamp, Path2Math tutor

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"When you have confidence about something you're doing, you want to do it and you want to do it better, and you want to do it more often. It's really fun to see that she (Jennifer, her 2nd-grade sudent) began to enjoy it. I loved to see the progress and the growth, but I really felt at the end of the year that there was so much more if I just had more time.”

Lynn Nelson, Path2Math tutor

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