Three different partnership levels offer various options for assessment, training, coaching, and learning community supports to match your team’s current goals, strengths, needs, and capacity.
Open enrollment—one year of services
- Administration of The Hope Center’s basic needs #RealCollege Student Survey
- Delivery of the #RealCollege survey results via Data Dashboard including a PDF report
- Three Students First Partnership Webinars
- Fall: Welcome to Hope Partnership/Basic Needs 101
- Winter: Identifying Your Students’ Needs Using the Data Dashboard
- Spring: What Now? Using Data to Build Campus Momentum for Change
- Three Students First Office Hour sessions for open Q&A with The Hope Center experts
- Unlimited access to three modules of the #RealCollege Curriculum (asynchronous digital content): The Students We Have, The New Economics of College, and The Practice of Care
Application Required—two years of services
- Support to build a cross-campus Basic Needs Task Force to successfully develop and advance your basic needs initiative
- Administration of The Hope Center’s basic needs #RealCollege Student Survey for all students on your campus
- Diagnostic Assessments of Campus Basic Needs Programs & Policies including:
- Campus Self-Assessment
- Campus Inventory
- Delivery of Campus Self-Assessment and #RealCollege Student Survey results via Data Dashboard including a PDF report
- Monthly support from The Hope Center:
- Six Trainings & Learning Community sessions per year: Experts share national basic needs research and best practices, then participants engage with other higher education practitioners in their cohort to consider application in their context.
- Four Coaching sessions to work 1:1 with your institutional Campus Lead and Task Force
- Action-Plan Guidance & Coaching using institutional data gathered to strategically map priorities, goals, programming, and action steps to address your students’ basic needs
- Unlimited access to three modules of the #RealCollege Curriculum (asynchronous digital content): The Students We Have, The New Economics of College, and The Practice of Care
Application required—two years of services
Level III Hope Impact Partnership offers a small cohort experience that delivers curriculum tailored to the needs/interests of this advanced group. Level III includes real-time access to the latest research for evidence-based practices which increase student basic needs security with a goal to design and launch such practices at the institutions. Institutions will use previous data collected to engage their cross-campus Basic Needs Task Force to plan, design, implement, and evaluate basic needs initiative programming at their institution over the two years.
Level III Hope Impact Partnership is an option for institutions further along on their basic needs programming journey. Institutions who apply for Level III are previous and current Hope partners who have existing data and understanding of their students’ basic needs.
- Program engagement is mapped over a two-year period and will follow the trajectory below:
- Fall 2022: Launching HIP & Strengthening Campus-Wide Task Force
- Winter 2022: Robust Action Planning using Student & Institutional Data
- Winter 2023: Strategy Selection
- Spring 2023: Strategic Initiative(s) Build-out & Design
- Summer 2023: Strategic Initiatives Implementation Planning
- Fall 2023: Strategic Initiative(s) Implementation
- Spring 2024: Strategic Initiative Assessment
- Summer 2024: Program Wrap-Up
- Customized quarterly 1:1 Coaching for Campus Lead & Task Force members including action planning guidance using Hope templates, toolkits, and more
- Advanced Training & Cohort Exchange Sessions per quarter including:
- Subject Matter Expertise Training delivered from experts on content-specific topics and strategies
- Case Studies of evidence-based high impact practices
- Peer Sessions for feedback and troubleshooting specific examples at partner institutions
- Six President Circle Sessions offer executive coaching on systems change at the institutional and state levels with nationally-recognized college Presidents advancing basic needs security for students
- Implementation Lab Convening with national top experts to anchor strategy in cutting edge research and practices. Engage in learning community with other leading national practitioners to strategize highest impact practices
- Administration of #RealCollege Student Survey with results delivered via Data Dashboard and PDF Report
- Unlimited access to three modules of the #RealCollege Curriculum (asynchronous digital content): The Students We Have, The New Economics of College, and The Practice of Care
“The Hope Center has the resources, the knowledge, and the experience of being able to lead basic needs work. They can put you in touch with community organizations and other schools… It’s all about connection and common desires to get more students through college and into family sustaining wage jobs – that’s everything. I’m so glad we partnered with The Hope Center.”
Partnership Levels Comparison
| Outcomes | Institutional Commitment | |
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| Level I: Students First Introduction to Students Basic Needs |
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1 year partnership Staffing needed for success:
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| Level II: 360° View Holistic Assessment Plus Action Plan |
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2 year partnership Staffing needed for success:
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| Level III: Implementation Lab Strategy Design, Implementation, & Assessment |
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2 year partnership Staffing needed for success:
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