Improving Academic and Professional Outcomes For Every Child in Rochester, NY

ROC the Future Alliance is a community-wide coalition working together to ensure academic success for every child.

Our cross-sector initiative brings together parents, youth and system leaders to change the way our community works together so every child in Rochester has access to economic opportunity. We collaborate to improve academic and professional readiness and promote overall child well being at critical stages of a child’s progression and development. Together, we align around a shared north star: a Rochester where every child is school ready, supported and successful, from cradle to career. ROC the Future Alliance’s backbone staff and partners facilitate the change tables in Rochester that move the needle on critical indicators for cradle to career success. We engage funders, advocates, providers, educators, systems leaders, parents and youth to mobilize collaborative action, shift practices, policies and power and transform Rochester’s youth serving systems so that every child can thrive.

While our work primarily focuses on children, families and systems in Rochester, NY our collective efforts are making a difference across our region, state and nation. We are Co-Founders of the New York state’s first place-based and cradle to career policy coalition. We lead as part of several regional collaboratives committed to community schools, poverty reduction and expanding local civic infrastructure and we are a member of the StriveTogether cradle to career network, a national movement building a world where a child’s potential is not dictated by race, ethnicity, zip code, or circumstance.