Robins Foundation Awards Five Innovation Grants Totaling $1.2 Million RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 8, 2016 – ChildSavers has been named the winner of the third annual Lora M. and E. Claiborne Robins, Sr. Community Innovation Grant by the Robins Foundation for a visionary project designed to help students and teachers in Richmond’s East End schools overcome…
CIG 2016 Top 5 Spotlights We’re excited to announce this year’s CIG top five finalists! Congratulations to the following organizations: 50CAN: A Platform to Advance Structural Solutions to Public Education With the CIG funding, 50CAN would launch VirginiaCAN — Virginia’s first comprehensive K-12 education advocacy organization. VirginiaCAN will transform how the Greater Richmond region and…
How to become our next Community Innovation Grant winner In RVA, two out of every five children are born into poverty. It’s a staggering statistic and one of the key drivers behind why we launched the Lora M. & E. Claiborne Robins, Sr. Community Innovation Grant (CIG) in 2014. Something NEEDS to change. We’re looking…
$1 Million in Robins Foundation Grants Focused on Improving Local Education 17 non-profit organizations to receive funding for a range of Richmond-area projects RICHMOND, Va. (June 22, 2016) – Reflecting the organization’s focus on helping transform the broad continuum of education in the Richmond region, the Robins Foundation announced today that it has selected 17…
The second Lora M. Robins Speaker Series event focused on the implications of demographics and geographic disadvantage on public education in Richmond. In his presentation, Dr. James Johnson, director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the University of North Carolina, focused on six disruptive trends that are impacting education.
We kicked off this year’s Lora M. Robins Speaker Series with a great discussion and presentation lead by Dan Cardinali, President of Communities in Schools (CIS). CIS, founded in 1977 is the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization which serves more than 1.3 million students each year, including students in the Richmond metro area. CIS Richmond supports students in 41 Richmond City and Henrico County high poverty neighborhood schools, by working with 160 partner agencies in our area to eliminate barriers to success and keep kids in school.
This year, Travel + Leisure ranked Richmond # 3 on its Best Places to Travel list, and National Geographic included our region on its list of Where to Travel for Food in 2016. But where you won’t find Richmond is on the list of the best public school systems in America. That’s why we’re renewing and expanding our focus to support the education continuum on the micro and macro levels here in RVA.