Affiliate Offices
Currently, Stand for Children has 11 state affiliates: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Washington. They are supported by national offices in Portland, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts. While Stand for Children and Stand for Children Leadership Center are jointly led by CEO Jonah Edelman, they have distinct goals and methods of execution aligned with the sections of the federal tax code under which they are each described. Stand for Children, which is described under section 501(c)(4) is the grassroots advocacy group that works on the ground to mobilize concerned citizen activists at the local and state level to convince elected officials and voters to pass lasting and necessary education reforms (and to convince voters to hold elected officials accountable if they don’t). Stand for Children Leadership Center is a section 501(c)(3) organization that trains ordinary people to be effective citizen leaders capable of solving problems facing children, both locally and statewide.
In 2011, Stand for Children was cited in Time Magazine for “delivering results and changing how politicians think about grassroots education reform.” This acclaim was attributed to their work to improve school funding in Oregon, teacher evaluations in Colorado, and teacher policy in Illinois.
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