Partner With Us
You don't fund a program. You fund a person in a building.
Support Creates Momentum.
Behind every improved attendance record and every student who walked the stage is one thing: a trained, caring adult who showed up every day. Your investment is what puts that adult in the building. The community does the changing — you make it possible.
The Need
The barriers are real — and they're not academic.
Across Hampton Roads, students arrive at school carrying things no lesson plan can fix: unstable housing, hunger, grief, trauma, and the quiet weight of feeling that no one is in their corner. Teachers can’t do it alone. That’s the gap CISofHR was built to close — by embedding a full-time Site Coordinator inside the school to remove the barriers standing between a student and their potential.
Why It Works
A model that's proven — and measured.
CISofHR delivers the nationally recognized Communities In Schools® evidence-based model, validated by Harvard and Cornell research. Our outcomes are tracked all year and independently verified — so when you invest, you can see exactly what your dollars moved.
The Investment
$83,500
puts a full-time, trained Site Coordinator inside a school for a full year.
2024–25 Outcomes
What that investment returns.
77%
Improved Attendance
78%
Behavior Improvement
87%
Course Improvement
95%
Graduation Support
Based on 2024–25 school-year outcomes.
Ways to Invest
Choose the impact you want to have.
Fund a Coordinator
$83,500
Underwrite a full year of daily presence in one school — the single most direct way to change outcomes.
Adopt a School
Custom
Put your name behind a specific school and see the difference in that building, class by class.
Launch an Initiative
By project
Help us stand up priority initiatives — from financial-capability programming to classroom technology.
Partnership Pathways
There's more than one way to stand with students.
Corporate
Sponsor events and campaigns, run employee mentoring and giving, or provide in-kind expertise.
Foundations
Fund coordinators, schools, or initiatives with measurable, independently verified outcomes.
Faith Partners
Congregations can adopt a school, sponsor a coordinator, or mobilize volunteers into their community’s schools.
Civic & Community
Bring resources, programming, and connections that wrap around students and families.
What Partners Receive
Partnership is a two-way relationship.
Our partners receive verified impact reporting, recognition across our platforms, and invitations to our Community Impact Series — an invitation-only convening across all seven Hampton Roads cities. You’ll see your investment at work, and you’ll be able to tell your board and your community exactly what it made possible.
In Good Company
Trusted by the people who know this work best.
Two kinds of partners power this work: the funders who make a coordinator’s daily presence possible, and the community partners we connect students to every day.
Our Lead Funders
Communities In Schools, Inc. · Communities In Schools of Virginia · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Portsmouth Public Schools · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Partner With Us
Let's build something that lasts.
Reach the right person for what you have in mind — they’ll take it from there.
Long-Term Partnership & Sustainment
Dr. Hope R. Sinclair
For multi-year commitments and strategic, sustaining partnerships.
Foundations & Grants
Anne Wilber
For foundation funding, grant partnerships, and institutional giving.
Bring CIS to a School
Dr. Jahkari “JT” Taylor
To explore placing a Site Coordinator in a specific school.
Community & Civic Partnerships
Hallie Shook
For civic groups, community organizations, faith partners, and volunteers.
Prefer to call? 757-334-2315