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Net Promoter Score Is a Valuable Tool in Nonprofit Work

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by Christine Salinas, Grants Manager

We’re excited to integrate the Net Promoter Score as a valuable analysis tool that enhances the quality of the services we deliver to foster youth. Thanks to the Fund for Shared Insight’s Listen for Good grant, we have the financial backing to implement a more advanced survey system of our youth’s experiences with Pivotal.  The grant has helped us think of better ways to ask and collect feedback and to add closed feedback loops to our survey process.

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Winning on the Mat and in Life

by Christine Salinas, Grants Manager

We love sharing stories of our college scholarship recipients like Noor Almusahwi, a former foster youth, and current Pivotal scholar. Noor is well on his way to realizing his career goals. He sets the bar high for all college students, not just those from foster care.   

 

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Homelessness Is a Barrier to Earning a College Degree

by Christine Salinas, Grants Manager

Homelessness is a deepening problem for college students. Even as California voters passed two propositions expected to battle homelessness in our community, tent encampments continue to grow in cities across the area. Homelessness has reached a watershed moment in California and foster youth scholars are being hit hard by this crisis. 

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Welcome to Pivotal – Our New Name for the Next Chapter of Our Organization’s Story

by Elise Cutini

You may know us for our work as Silicon Valley Children’s Fund – or perhaps you knew us as TeenForce – but now, you can just call us Pivotal. Pivotal is so much more than just a new name and logo. If there's anything we've learned from our 20 years of experience working with foster youth, it's that the nature of what we do - providing academic and employment support to foster youth - is pivotal to their future. 

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