Schools are back in session around the country! As students, parents, teachers, and school staff settle into new classrooms and new routines, it’s time to roll out your fresh communications plan for the new year. What are you most excited for? September is truly a month of new beginnings: a new school year, a new season—for weather and for school sports, a new start. All across your district, students and families are ...

Finding the right activities for children as they grow up is kind of like riding on a carousel. Maybe when your child stepped on to that spinning platform adorned with porcelain animal seats, the first seat they took was the perfect seat for them and they never wavered as they spun around the ride enjoying every second. Maybe though, it took awhile for them to find the right seat. The horse seat was too scary looking or the ...

Justina Caras and the Rising Sun Center for Opportunity found Peachjar after a brainstorming session with another partner organization of theirs. They needed to find new ways to increase marketing efforts for their various programs. Rising Sun Center for Opportunity focuses on providing non-profit jobs to local youth in their area as well as providing no-cost energy and water efficiency upgrades to their residents inside ...

Over the next month and a half, students around the country will be headed back to class. Parents are stocking up on school supplies and scoping out new activities for their kids. Teachers are preparing classroom spaces and lesson plans. District teams like yours are preparing to meet students, new and returning, and getting them started for an exciting, fulfilling, and successful school year....