CISDR School Supply Drive

Thank you to our School Supply Drive sponsors:

Capital One

Each year thousands of at-risk children drop out without ever graduating from high school. Faced with poverty, lack of parental guidance, drug abuse, illiteracy and other crises, these children struggle to reach their full academic potential.

Since 1985, Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. (CISDR) has provided programs and services on the school campus to best meet the physical and emotional needs of at-risk students and empower them to remain in school.

The mission of Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. is to help students at risk of failure stay in school, achieve academically and graduate, to become productive and contributing members of our communities.

Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. CISDR has just received four out of four possible stars when compared to other charities across America for successfully managing the finances of the organization in an efficient and effective manner. It is only one of 207 educational nonprofits in the US and ten in Texas to receive their highest rating.

To validate the effectiveness and importance of our program to education and dropout prevention in Texas, two reports from ICF International, in partnership with the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network were submitted to the Texas Education Agency. Results from “Best Practices in Dropout Prevention” and the “Evaluation of Communities In Schools (CIS) of Texas” were released by TEA in January, 2009.

“Only one program (Communities In Schools) reported meaningful effects on both reducing dropouts and increasing graduation.”

— ICF International Results from Best Practices in Dropout Prevention

“For middle and high schools students, CIS was clearly making a difference. Most striking, perhaps, was the unanimous response across students in high school and many in middle schools who stated that they would have dropped out of school if it were not for CIS.”

— ICF International Results from Best Practices in Dropout Prevention

We have built a solid reputation of success in increasing attendance rates, parental involvement and graduation rates, while fundamentally changing the lives of children—and families—in need.