Strada collaborates with students, policymakers, educators, and employers across the U.S. to strengthen the link between education and opportunity.
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We prioritize policies, practices, and programs that help ensure postsecondary education provides equitable pathways to opportunity.
We advance our mission through research, grantmaking, social impact investments, public policy solutions, Strada-supported nonprofit organizations, and strategic initiatives.
Research, grant-making, investments in promising solutions, and advocating for better state and federal policies — these are the ways we work to improve postsecondary education.
We accomplish our work through a multi-pronged approach: research, philanthropy, strategic investments, advocacy at the state and federal levels, and support for nonprofit organizations that work directly with students.
Together with our partners, we employ these tools to improve education and training after high school across the U.S.
Our research team conducts primary and secondary research to learn what students need and want so that educators, policymakers, employers, innovators, funders, and others can help all learners be prepared for success in work and in life.
We provide grants to nonprofit organizations and postsecondary education institutions that help students and workers, especially those who face the greatest barriers, succeed.
We invest in early-stage and established companies whose business models support the students and workers we seek to serve. Learn More
We share what we’re learning to demonstrate how effective education and training can help students and workers.
These organizations develop real-world solutions, learn from the field, and advance promising practices to ensure more individuals are prepared to pursue an education and a career. Learn More
Our policy agenda focuses on five priority areas: Clear Outcomes, Education-to-Career Coaching, Affordability, Work-Based Learning, and Employer Alignment. Our work focuses on improving both education and employment systems so students realize the economic value of their education and employers have the talent and skills they need to meet the demands of the labor market.
Strada’s newest report, Quality Coaching, looks at students’ experiences across three elements of quality coaching and we examine the experiences of recent graduates. The report also offers insights to leaders, practitioners, and others seeking to improve students’ career outcomes.
Education-to-employment data help individuals make informed decisions about college and workforce training.
Mentors in Tech recruits tech industry veterans from the region’s robust tech industry to mentor students at the area’s small, affordable, open-access colleges. The partnership between Green River and Mentors in Tech, or MinT, is supported in part by a $400,000 grant from Strada’s Employer and Community College Partnership Challenge.
Nationally recognized experts on postsecondary education and workforce development will provide leadership and support for Strada’s strategic plan.
Strada’s newest report, Building Better Internships, looks at the latest findings from the National Survey of College Internships (NSCI), a survey developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.
Strada Education Foundation, today announced two new leadership appointments. These leaders will support the foundation’s efforts to conduct research and develop policy solutions in two critical areas: quality coaching and work-based learning.
Through the Arizona State-led Work+Collective, more than a dozen institutions are injecting mentorship, career development skills.
Strada Education Foundation announced Justin Draeger will join Strada as senior vice president, affordability.
The State Opportunity Index was developed to help states build a stronger connection between education after high school and equitable pathways to opportunity so students realize the full value of their education and employers have the workforce they need to fill high-demand jobs.
Mamie Voight, president and CEO of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, on how states can use State Opportunity Index data to identify what is working within higher education and what needs to improve.
Michael Collins, vice president of the Center for Racial Economic Equity at Jobs for the Future, on how the State Opportunity Index tells a more nuanced story of the data surrounding the value of education after high school.
Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of The Education Trust, on how the State Opportunity Index helps measure whether policies and practices are actually benefiting the students they were designed to support.
‘Colleges and universities, states, and our country can do more to help prepare students for the critical transition from college to the labor market.’
New research highlights what states and institutions can do to help more graduates secure college-level jobs.
The gift of time. A recognition of talent. A helping hand. How our mentors helped shape us as people and professionals.