Systemic Change

The Rockdale Foundation partners with organizations that share a vision for systemic change and a commitment to ethical leadership.

Grassroots Organizations

Grassroots organizations are often started closest to the issues faced in a community. Unfortunately, they lack the resources and accessibility to financial resources necessary to create the desired impact.

The Rockdale Foundation aims to resource grassroots organizations. We provide financial resources to support initiatives, as well as organizational capacity building to carry out those initiatives.

Collaborative Partnerships

We often form long-term, collaborative partnerships, providing organizations the opportunity to learn, grow, and improve their impact over time. We seek to learn, grow, and improve alongside our partners.

As often as possible, we support the work of local peer networks of organizations seeking to learn and share best practices.

Wholistic Impact

We recognize impact to be much more than numbers and charts. Various forms of feedback are used when evaluating the broader impact on a school community, including stakeholder interviews and other anecdotal evidence that take into account the local context, norms, and cultural values.

We rely on our grassroots partners to balance the importance of both quantitative and qualitative data when evaluating impact within a school community.