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Beyond Backpacks: CIS Welcomes Students Back with Community Support

As Communities In Schools (CIS) prepares to welcome students and staff back for a new school year full of possibilities, affiliates are partnering with school administrators to build a roadmap to success. CIS site coordinators are stocking their offices with essential supplies to show up for students every day, and CIS staff are taking stock of what students still need to start the year confident and ready to learn.

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Story | Sept. 16, 2026
Growing Together

When a Neighborhood Invests in Its Schools—And Schools Invest Back

As a Purpose-Built Communities network organization, Growing Together serves as a neighborhood "quarterback," aligning partners and strategy around a shared local vision. Its work spans housing, economic development, education, early childhood, and community leadership. A key part of that work is its licensed partnership with Communities In Schools (CIS).

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Story | July 27, 2026
CIS Graduate: John

Connection Changes Everything

When John entered Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School as a junior, everything felt new and overwhelming. After years of online schooling, crowded hallways, full classrooms, and challenging subjects made it difficult for him to connect with peers, teachers, and even his own learning.

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Story | June 10, 2026
ELDP

Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP): Putting Our Shared Principles into Practice in CIS Organizations

ELDP is a year-long immersive experience designed to prepare a cohort of CIS leaders for the complexity, uncertainty, and challenges nonprofit organizations regularly face.  Participants gather in person multiple times during the year and meet virtually for learning, practice, reflection, and discussion with peers from around the CIS network. The program has been intentionally developed to reflect our shared principles through delivering relevant information—adaptive leadership, managing change, mobilizing others to action—and creating a safe space for relationship-building and dialogue. This combination of content and connection is critical to the success of the program and models how our shared principles can be put into action as leaders take both the experience and the learning back to their own organizations.

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Story | May 27, 2026
Harris Teeter Check Presentation

Together in Education: Harris Teeter and Communities In Schools Raise 300K for Students Across the Southeast

The "Together in Education" Round Up Campaign, which ran from July 30 through October 28, 2025, channeled those spare cents into real support through Communities In Schools (CIS), the nation's leading provider of K–12 school-based integrated student supports. Funds also benefited Classroom Central, The Salvation Army, and Alliance for a Healthier Generation, reaching CIS National and 19 affiliates across the Southeast region.

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Story | April 30, 2026
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