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ADVOCACY NETWORK CORE PRINCIPLES
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The Foundation for Tacoma Students envisions a Tacoma where every child succeeds in school, career and life. The Foundation’s mission is to build and strengthen Tacoma’s community-wide movement (Graduate Tacoma) to help every child achieve success from cradle to college and career.
Graduate Tacoma Advocacy Network Purpose Statement: “The Graduate Tacoma Advocacy Network is going to elevate the Tacoma communities voice to advocate for local, regional and state policies that will disrupt long-standing inequities for historically underserved communities.”
Graduate Tacoma Advocacy Network Core Principles:
- Robust quality investments must be made in education from early learning through higher education.
- Closing opportunity gaps for our most vulnerable populations will require keeping equity at the center.
- Improving educational outcomes for all students must include transparency, accountability, alignment and the use of data/continuous improvement.
- Working for advocacy outcomes for all youth, not to achieve monetary gain for network members.
Process and Criteria for Evaluating Support:
Process for evaluating policy support
The Foundation for Tacoma Students will selectively address impactful local, regional and state policy issues, which help to further our goals of every child in Tacoma achieving success from cradle to college and career.
Any Graduate Tacoma partner staff member, or board member may identify an existing proposed policy or community need and submit an application for support to the Graduate Tacoma Advocacy Network – a subset of the Graduate Tacoma Partnership. The application must include the attached cover page template as well as any and all publicly available information related to the proposed policy or need. The Committee will review the application in a timely manner and shall request any further information or clarification from the applicant before making a final decision.
Please note – The Foundation for Tacoma Students Board or executive staff will have the authority to review and ultimately approve, amend, or decline support of any proposed policy.
Criteria for evaluating policy support
The proposed policy should:
- Have the potential to materially impact the goals being sought by The Foundation for Tacoma Students under its current strategic plan and/or the indicators set forth by Graduate Tacoma.
- Have strong support from local, regional and/or statewide Cradle to Cradle partners;
- Include transparent reporting of achievements;
- Explicitly address disparities where relevant and provide for the adequate and equitable distribution of resources needed to reduce disparities; and
- Reflect input provided by a set of diverse, representative stakeholders most impacted by the policy.
In cases where a policy is determined to materially impact current strategic goals established by Graduate Tacoma (Criteria #1) but may not meet all of the above criteria, The Foundation for Tacoma Students reserves the option to lend its support while advocating for one of more amendments that would satisfy certain other criteria.
Network members are not required to advocate for policies supported by The Foundation.
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