Providing equity-centered strategic consultancy focused on supporting optimal development in children’s early years.

 Recent Projects:

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RACCEE supports the NBCDI’s research and evaluation efforts regarding expulsion and suspension of Black children and transforming the workforce. In addition, RACCEE serves as a strategic consultant for NBCDI’s Family Empowerment Programs, which encompass training schools and initiatives focused on strengthening the parent-child relationship, achieving optimal engagement, and building partnership between home and school.

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Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Great Expectations is a long-term, early childhood initiative that seeks to increase developmental, educational and health-related outcomes for children. RACCEE provides strategic support to guide their long-term goal of ensuring that children in Forsyth County enter Kindergarten ready to learn and set up for success in school and life.

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RACCEE provides evaluation support for the George Kaiser Family Foundation’s (GKFF’s) Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa (BEST). BEST is a place-based strategy that aims to profoundly alter the nurturing context of a city by focusing on the early years of the human lifespan. RACCEE’s research consultation services include advising AIR on evaluation design, sampling, recruitment, data collection protocols, data analysis, reporting, stakeholder engagement, contextual issues, and other topics relevant to the successful design and execution of the study.