Empowering promising Children to rise to their potential

There is an education crisis affecting our city’s most vulnerable children.

For many of the children, youth, and families in our programs, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a catastrophic disruption to normal routines of life. Our local schools have struggled to provide quality distance learning, exposing the digital divide for how it’s been maintaining the achievement gap for some of our most vulnerable children and youth. Now more than ever, we need to nurture and equip promising children to rise to their God-given potential.

Learn More

Together We Serve for Racial Justice

Click below to read a statement from Children Rising’s Executive Director and Board Chair on racial justice.

Read here

COVID-19 Response

Reconnecting with Our Kids

For many families in the Children Rising community, COVID-19 means a daily struggle to put food on the table and to pay the rent. We are reconnecting the kids with their tutors while providing immediate assistance to the many families in our programs in need.

Learn more here

Our Programs

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Our programs help close the achievement gap by providing literacy skills, science learning experiences, and career mentoring and internships.

Learn about our programs

You can help a vulnerable child rise above!

We make it easy! We will train you, match you with a child that needs you the most, and support you and your student!

The life you change may be your own!

Reading Tutor

60% of Oakland 3rd Graders read below grade-level average. For them, it’s more than just learning to read. It’s about reading to learn.

Share the joy of reading with a child

Math Tutor

One-on-one teaching helps struggling students learn math concepts.

Give a child confidence in their critical math skills

Food Bagging

Students often go hungry over the weekend, and are unprepared to learn on Monday morning. Health4Kids provides a bag of nourishing food and recipes for children to take home from school every Friday.

Provide healthy food for children

Mentor

Nearly 40% of Oakland high school students are dropping out. Be a role model – open their eyes to career opportunities through education.

Build tomorrow’s workforce today

Easy Ways to Make an Impact

Donate

Testimonials

"We continue to move forward academically since we have worked together. I don't think this would have been possible without our partnership. You provided many of our students with inspiration and consistency. You are our extended family. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."

Wendi Caporicci

Former Principal at Emerson Elementary ,

“We’ve been given these gifts, time, talent and resources, and there just seemed to be an opportunity to reach out and have an impact on elementary school students, helping them grow confidence in their math and reading skills, and making a good connection with them. We’ve been blessed.”

Dennis Burke

Tutor,

"We appreciate our relationship with Children Rising. Our leaders were impressed and inspired by the partnership and commitment to the community in the Bay Area. Your dialogue and contributions left our US leadership team with a lot of impressive ideas to consider as the Firm continues to look for ways to increase the effect of PwC’s Earn Your Future (financial literacy program) across the country."

Jennifer L. Belardi

PwC San Francisco Geography Marketing,