Our Focus

What MAYA Supports For
Community Equity

MAYA prioritizes supporting communities to make changes in practices, programs, and systems — from cradle to career — so we all live a good life. The six focus areas of what MAYA supports are interconnected and mutually reinforce each other. We strategize to include all 6 touchpoints when addressing any challenge.

Responsive
Relationships

Holistic Family,
Child and Youth
Support

Quality Learning
Environments For
Student Success

Community and
Systems Partnerships

Innovative Systems
and Models

Data Ownership,
Stewardship & Innovation

Responsive Relationships

We encourage positive, trusting, and healing interactions along with strong social connections between individuals and systems at all levels. This directly applies to our work in:

Cultural and community staff alignment: Advise how to create and strengthen culturally congruent staffing plans
Implementation of family health programs: Support the design, implementation, and assessment of family-to-child, adult-to-child, and adult-to-family interventions
Youth and family power building: Support organizations in shifting power to youth and families through strategies; increased ownership and engagement with data; and collaborative or delegated youth and adult decision making
Social-emotional health practices: Help integrate research-informed social-emotional health practices and systems

Holistic Family, Child and Youth Support

These programs and services address the interconnectedness of physical, mental, economic, social and academic well-being of children, youth and families. We support:

Two Generation (2Gen) programs
Wrap Around Support programs that help organizations and schools design, support, partner, and implement programs related to a variety of social determinants of education
Engagement strategies that coordinate opportunities in public schools
Development and growth of purpose-aligned nonprofits

Quality Learning Environments For Student Success

We utilize the system-level levers in schools, districts, and nonprofits such as talent, program, instruction, educator development, and assessment. We do this to improve and sustain student learning outcomes through:

Strategic staffing, especially in light of the Great Teacher Resignation
Curriculum, instruction, professional development, and assessment advising
Learning acceleration and strategic planning to efficiently close gaps of learning
State and Federal program assistance

Community and Systems Partnerships

We bridge cross-sector partnerships between institutions (non-profits, philanthropy, public school, charters, etc.) who have a common goal of strengthening outcomes for youth and families. We focus on:

Philanthropy-community partnerships for high-impact investments, from prenatal to postsecondary
District-charter partnerships for mutually beneficial student, family, academic, and financial outcomes
District-early childhood partnerships to strengthen early learning and development
Public-private partnerships to strengthen children, youth, family , and community wellbeing

Innovative Systems and Models

We build the capacity of community leaders to redesign and codify new models that directly improve results and influence policies. At the heart of this is:

Impact for regional ecosystems by aligning on a common agenda and a set of results
Innovation with Local Education Agencies (LEA), Career Technical Education (CTE) and Institutional Higher Education (IHE) from cradle to career
Advising to support students and families navigating pathways to postsecondary goals
District post secondary partnerships to connect PK-12, CTE and IHE ecosystems

Data Ownership, Stewardship and Innovation

The pathway to sustainable change requires that communities be empowered to use actionable and timely data. That’s why we prioritize: