For Families
When You Lead, Our Children Succeed
GO engages with families to support your child, your school, and drive educational change. Here's how you can get involved, and this is what it looks like.
United Families Building Community brings together communities from diverse backgrounds in order to learn about and act upon important policies that affect our children’s education.
Families in Action are family leaders from Rise and New Highland Academy elementary schools committed to supporting and creating positive change for their child and other children’s education.
We support leaders with tools to help them advocate and ensure that every child in Oakland receives a quality education, and we participate in long-term educational issue campaigns that affect our kids and the community.
In California — particularly here in the Bay Area within GO’s Oakland and West Contra Costa communities — the vast majority of us are on… Read More
Over the past 10 years, GO’s local networks of families, educators, and community allies have proven over and over again that change is possible when… Read More
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“If we don't have numbers with families, we can't get the schools or things to change like we want them to change.”
― Annette Miller, Community Organizer
― Annette Miller, Community Organizer
You are closest to your child’s education, and together we can make a difference. We want to hear from you — share your story with us!