Our Strategy
EdLoC engaged in an in-depth strategic planning process over several months, including focus groups and one-one-one conversations with leaders within and outside of EdLoC and sessions with our board and staff.
These conversations further pushed us to align our work to our founding values and called us to expand our impact, specifically highlighting an increasing need for education leaders of color to have broader cross-sector support. Ensuring youth of color thrive depends on the work of leaders beyond the education sector alone.
We are therefore excited to announce that our strategic direction will evolve EdLoC’s vision to build on our first five years and take a more holistic approach to supporting leaders working with young people of color.
Our Vision
EdLoC exists to realize the vision that young people of color are thriving, building generational wealth, and face fewer systemic barriers to capitalize on opportunities.
Our Mission
Our mission is to catalyze cross-sector collaboration through a network of values-aligned leaders, help drive policy change, and directly support senior leaders of color who are explicitly focused on dismantling systemic barriers to the academic and economic advancement and success of young people of color.
Our Strategic Priorities
Aligned to this mission and our evolution as a growing organization, we will focus on the following priorities in this next phase of our work:
Build to Last: Align organizational design to our strategic direction, ensure leadership is distributed across the team, and staff core functions with full-time employees who are building systems that will guide EdLoC for the long-term.
Evolve our Network: Increase the sector and ethnoracial diversity of an active network of values-aligned leaders connecting organically and collaborating with each other to reduce the wealth gap.
Increase Boulder Fund Impact: Expand our cornerstone grantmaking fund and increase funding available to entrepreneurs of color designing and leading innovative organizations that support building generational wealth.
Influence Policy: Prioritize influence on 1-2 federal policies while supporting EdLoC members in collaborating on moving local policies.
Strategically Place Leaders: Work towards an increasing number of values-aligned leaders of color in senior leadership positions in strategic sectors.
