Partnerships
Expanding access, strengthening families, and advancing opportunity.
Economic mobility for single-parent families is a collective effort.
At Raise The Barr, we know that the only thing most single-parent families lack is access—to stable housing, reliable childcare, financial resources, and coordinated systems of support. When access expands, potential turns into progress.
We work alongside colleges, community organizations, employers, public agencies, and funders to address the interconnected barriers that stand between student parents and a degree. Together, we are not just providing support; we are building the conditions for families to persist, graduate, and achieve long-term stability.
When a parent succeeds, a child’s future accelerates—and stronger families strengthen entire communities.
Our Partners
We are proud to partner with institutions and organizations that share a commitment to expanding opportunity for single-parent students and their children.
Higher Education Partners
Long Beach and Sacramento
Long Beach and Sacramento
We partner with college campuses to strengthen—not replace—existing support systems with programming designed specifically for single-parent students.
Through individualized coaching, financial support, peer community, and family-centered programming, we help institutions improve persistence, retention, and completion for a population that is often overlooked. Our approach is grounded in a simple truth:
Student parents don’t lack ability—they lack access. We remove barriers so they can finish what they started.
Current College and University Partners:
Los Angeles Community College District
Community and Service Partners
Degree completion does not happen in isolation. It depends on stability, which includes housing, childcare, mental health, and a reliable support system when life becomes unpredictable.
Our community partners extend the reach of our work beyond the classroom by connecting families to critical resources, including housing support, benefits navigation, financial empowerment, and early childhood services.
We approach this work with clarity and respect:
Families are not the problem—systems were not designed with them in mind
Support is most effective when it is coordinated, accessible, and responsive
Progress happens when immediate relief and long-term pathways work together
Why Partner With Raise The Barr?
Single-parent students are among the most motivated, and most under-resourced, populations in higher education. A partnership with Raise The Barr is an opportunity to make a measurable difference for families who are working hard to build better futures, while advancing your organization's own goals.
Partners gain the opportunity to:
Demonstrate impact by supporting economic mobility for low-income families in your community
Advance economic equity through a proven, two-generation model that benefits both parents and children
Connect with driven candidates by gaining access to a pipeline of motivated students working toward career and workforce goals
Strengthen campus outcomes by improving persistence, retention, and completion for a population that succeeds when the right support is in place
Expand access to critical resources that help single-parent students overcome barriers to educational success
Contribute to systems change by helping identify and scale solutions that can work across campuses and communities
Partnership Opportunities
We are actively building partnerships across a range of areas:
Direct Services
Housing stabilization
Childcare and early childhood supports
Mental health and wellness services
Benefits navigation and resource coordination
Family-centered programming
Workforce & Career Pathways
Internships, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities
Workforce development partnerships
Financial empowerment and asset-building initiatives
Funding & Systems Change
Sponsorship and philanthropic investment
Research, evaluation, and Learning Lab collaboration
Cross-sector partnerships to inform scalable solutions
Our Approach
We are compassionate, but not reductive. We acknowledge the realities families face without defining them by barriers.
We are hopeful, yet grounded. We know that education, combined with stability and support, creates long-term change—not quick fixes.
We are partner-driven, not organization-centered. Raise The Barr is the infrastructure; families are the drivers of their own success.
Get Involved
Raise The Barr is growing—and the families we serve are building futures that extend across generations.
We are looking for partners who want to be part of something larger:
Expanding access
Strengthening systems
Creating lasting impact
Ready to explore what partnership could look like? Contact us.