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Strive Endorsement Process

Strive brings educators and providers of social services together to tackle issues and barriers they all face. Together, they determine goals that, once achieved, will greatly reduce these issues and barriers. They also do their homework; they use Strive Six Sigma to determine the measurements they will need to take to know what works. Once they know what they need to achieve and have a system in place to measure results, together they create a plan of action to achieve their goals.

We call this process the Strive Endorsement Process and we use it to communicate to the community what works for our children.

For example, one of these groups, or Student Success Networks, is called the Cincinnati College Access Alliance. Over the past two years, this Network of fourteen organizations has been working together to address a common problem: Cincinnati Public Schools students enroll in college directly after high school at a rate of only 48%. The Network found that the greatest indicators of success were filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), taking ACT or SAT tests and filling out the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation application. So that is exactly where they are focusing their efforts. Through 2013, the Network aims to increase direct college enrollment rates to the national average of 57%.

The Strive Endorsement Process is a two phase process. 

• Using the same example, at the point at which the Network had defined their common problem and created a data plan for measurement, they presented this information to Strive and were granted a Stage One Endorsement.
• At the point when they had collected local measurements to determine what indicators were most crucial and created a plan of action to influence those crucial indicators, they again presented this information to Strive and were granted a Stage Two Endorsement.

Now, the Network is in a continuous improvement phase where they regularly report their progress to Strive and use the information they continue to collect to make improvements ongoing.