The D.C. Public Education Fund recently celebrated 10 years of service to District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), with panels and sessions highlighting some of their most successful work, particularly, their Empowering Males of Color initiative. Created for the 2007-2008 school year, the “D.C. Ed Fund,” as it is known by residents, began to connect the philanthropic community with D.C. Public Schools.

“We were created to help D.C. Public Schools usher in the sweeping, systemic changes that have helped earn DCPS a reputation as the strongest national model for urban education transformation. Since that time, our investments have helped shape DC Public Schools into the fastest-improving school system in the nation,” Jessica Rauch, president of the D.C. Public Education Fund.

One of the Ed Fund’s most successful initiatives, Empowering Males of Color, or EMOC, is an example of the transformative and long-lasting effect that can occur when strategic investments are used to address systemic challenges.

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