The Practice Space

The Practice Space is a community-based non-profit organization that builds youth and adult confidence, leadership, and community through communication skill development, advancing inclusion, developing empathy, and elevating underrepresented voices. With this organizational effectiveness grant, The Practice Space will a launch a strategic planning project to strengthen its business model and conduct growth planning around spreading and scaling impactful and equitable student voice programs. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)

The Practice Space is a non-profit organization that builds confidence and community through communication skill development, advancing inclusion, developing empathy, and elevating underrepresented voices. With this organizational effectiveness grant, The Practice Space will develop an approach for data collection and evidence focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This project will build the organization's capacity to know who they serve, what practices are most effective, what impacts occur in the short and long term, and how they can prepare to incorporate evidence into their strategy for growth. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)

The Practice Space is a nonprofit organization for youth and adults in the Bay Area that aims to help people speak in a clear, engaging way that represents who they are and what they care about. The organization offers camps, school-based programs, private lessons, and organizational training to develop communication skills. All of their curriculum guides for teachers are available as open educational resources. These programs and resources help people of all ages be authentic, inspire positive change, address social anxieties, and feel connected to others. (Substrategies: Content, Tools, and Services; and Student and Community Voice)