Giving Compass' Take:

• Over 85 percent of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District live near or below the poverty line, and only 80 percent of the district's students graduate from high school. But charities like Communities In Schools (CIS) are working to bring graduation numbers up and get kids into college.

• How can funders support existing impactful organizations? Where is there need for new organizations?

• Read more about helping kids graduate high school.

CIS of Los Angeles (CISLA), founded in 2007, serves 10,000 students annually in nine high-need middle and high schools. In that time, over 40,000 students and their families have been supported. In 2017, 100 percent of CISLA seniors graduated from high school.

CIS also operates nationwide, with nearly 1.5 million students in 25 states and Washington, D.C. 96 percent of CISLA's students graduate from high school, college or career ready.

Read the full article and find the details about Communities in School charity by Liz Cantrell at Town & Country.