YouthTruth

Overview
Headquarters: 
San Francisco, CA, USA
Website: 
youthtruthsurvey.org
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
2008
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Philanthropy / Grantmaking Foundation
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

YouthTruth harnesses student perceptions to help educators and education funders accelerate improvements. Through our validated survey instruments and tailored advisory services, we partner with schools, districts, states, and education funders to enhance learning for all students.

YouthTruth is funded through a mix of grants and earned revenue and is growing rapidly — and accordingly expanding the number of schools, districts, and charter management organizations that are using student perceptions in their instructional and leadership decisions.

Programs: 

YouthTruth pursues its mission through three key areas of work.


1. SURVEYS, ANALYSIS, AND REPORTING: YouthTruth offers several student survey products, as well as more recently added tools to gather input from family and staff members. Survey instruments are research-based and continually tested for their validity and reliability, as well as their utility to clients. Results are shared back, typically within seven business days, in an online interactive reporting platform.


2. ADVISORY SERVICES: Through our advisory and professional development offerings, YouthTruth equips our partners to integrate insights from student feedback into planning and improvement efforts and coaches leaders on how to use the data to drive change.


3. AGGREGATE ANALYSIS, RESEARCH, AND RESOURCES: In addition to our work with clients, YouthTruth publishes guidebooks and reports analyzing and sharing what we’re learning nationally from hundreds of thousands of students. YouthTruth also creates timely resources for our national audience of education and foundation leaders, such as case studies or exemplars, webinars or trainings, and guidebooks on how to use student perception data effectively for different use cases.

Why Work For Us?: 

Focused on our mission

We believe in our missions and we walk our own talk of effectiveness and improvement

People

Our people are our greatest asset. We are a group of high performers doing high-quality, meaningful work with a commitment to excellence.

Big goals and clear roles

Our people are our greatest asset. We are a group of high performers doing high-quality, meaningful work with a commitment to excellence.

Diversity

We believe that diversity of thoughts, experiences, backgrounds, personalities, and identities helps us think bigger and better, and we practice respect for qualities and experiences that are different from our own

Voice

All of us have an important and valued voice, and we believe that great ideas come from across the entire organization.

Learning to improve

In our effort to be impactful and effective, we are always learning, changing, and improving. That means we take calculated risks, make mistakes along the way, and take the time to learn from them.

Authentic and open communication

In our effort to be impactful and effective, we are always learning, changing, and improving. That means we take calculated risks, make mistakes along the way, and take the time to learn from them.

Hard work, not over work

In our effort to be impactful and effective, we are always learning, changing, and improving. That means we take calculated risks, make mistakes along the way, and take the time to learn from them.

Support, caring and collegial environment

In our effort to be impactful and effective, we are always learning, changing, and improving. That means we take calculated risks, make mistakes along the way, and take the time to learn from them.

Fun!

We value coming together informally for lunches, snacking, games and events

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industry: 
Nonprofit