Educate. Engage. Empower.
Only about 65% of students in Aurora Public Schools graduate from high school. Family leaders are RISING to say enough.
Our mission is to Educate, Engage, and Empower low-income families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public school system.
Changing the world is possible.
We’ve done it before! RISE works directly with low-income families, families of color, and individuals from refugee, immigrant, and undocumented communities. Learn more about our family leaders’ impact over the last 8 years.
time to RISE together.
RISE Colorado is launching the RISE Together Emergency Relief Fund to support RISE Family Leaders in need through the COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate your support and generosity — please read below to learn more about this important initiative.
It takes a village.
When families come together, they are unstoppable at creating equitable and sustainable systemic change.
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly...Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail