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If you visit our offices at the Philanthropy Collective in Colorado Springs, you will see the walls adorned with intricate artwork. Three years ago, the Sachs Foundation board, while looking for new offices, set aside funds to invest in art by local Black artists that celebrate the lived Black experience. Three stand-out pieces belong to…

August, 2022 – This Summer, six Sachs Scholars traveled to England to join scholars from the Fulbright Commission and other international students from the UK and around the world to participate in the University of Bristol’s “Arts, activism and social justice summer school”. Ganete Alemseged, Gbemisola Akala, Kereine Ngoungui-Malemba, Nyankat Doldol, Sabrene Mechergui and Sophie…

Data from the Colorado Department of Education showed only 1.6% of teachers in the state identify as Black. By Cole Sullivan, 9News COLORADO, USA — Teach for America has partnered with a Colorado Springs nonprofit to offer $10,000 in salary incentives to attract Black educators to Colorado. Currently, fewer than 2% of teachers in the…

By editorial board, Denver Gazette In a perfect world, kids would be colorblind. Neither their own race nor their teacher’s would matter to their education. Our hope is that society eventually will get to that point, but until it does, some of Colorado’s children of color may be looking for a role model at the…

Partnership Delivers Financial Resources and Peer Networking Capabilities to Recruit More Black Educators to Teach in Colorado Schools, Improving the Number of Black Applicants by 150%. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Sachs Foundation, an organization that has supported Black Coloradans since 1931, and Teach For America (TFA) Colorado, the state branch…

By Marybeth Gasman, Contributor, Forbes.com Research shows that the presence of just one African American teacher in grades 3-5 increases low-income, African American boys’ interest in college by 29% and lowers the high school drop-out rate by 39%. Unfortunately, the number of African American teachers in the U.S. has been in decline since public schools…