what we do
Turning community investment into student opportunity
Through four strategic pillars developed in partnership with Cincinnati Public Schools, KidFuture CPS aligns funding, partnerships, and community support with the district priorities shaping student success.
Our work is designed to strengthen academic achievement, student wellness, career readiness, and access to enrichment opportunities across Cincinnati Public Schools. Guided by real-time district insights and long-term collaboration with CPS leadership, we help ensure resources reach students where they can create the greatest impact.
our strategic framework
Four Pillars. One Shared Goal.
Created in partnership with Cincinnati Public Schools, our four pillars represent the highest-priority areas where strategic investment can expand opportunity, remove barriers, and strengthen student outcomes across the district.
Every child, regardless of zip code, deserves the structural support and tools required to thrive academically. We focus on strengthening literacy, early childhood learning, and core classroom experiences that build uncompromised academic foundations.
Focused Initiatives:
- 3rd Grade Literacy
- Algebra I Readiness
Students succeed when they feel safe, supported, and stable. We invest in resources that strengthen emotional, social, and physical well-being, and the conditions students need to thrive both inside and outside the classroom.
Focused Initiatives:
- Safe & Supportive Environments
- Mental/Emotional Support
- Resource Coordination
Connecting and exposing students to career pathways gives them confidence, skills and real-world experiences needed to navigate life and contribute to our future workforce.
Focused Initiatives:
- Job Shadowing
- Internships & Co-ops
- Workforce Readiness
- Industry Partnerships
Ensuring students have access to arts, athletics, extracurricular activities, programs, clubs, and experiences that foster belonging, confidence, curiosity, and opportunity in their neighborhood, city and beyond.
Focused Initiatives:
- Field Trips
- Extracurricular Access
- Cultural Experiences
- The Legacy of ABC
current priorities
Strategic Initiatives Driving Impact Right Now
Our featured initiatives reflect the evolving needs of Cincinnati Public Schools and the students we serve. Through targeted campaigns, partnerships, and strategic investments, we activate resources where they can create meaningful and measurable impact.
KidFuture CPS is helping lead a collaborative, citywide literacy movement designed to ensure every child in Cincinnati Public Schools is reading at grade level.
Developed alongside literacy-focused organizations, educators, community leaders, and strategic partners across the city, this initiative works to increase awareness of available literacy resources, strengthen family engagement, and make reading exciting and culturally visible for students. By utilizing real-time data to drive strategic literacy supports, we ensure that community-wide resources are deployed exactly where they are needed most for long-term student success.
Through data-informed decision making, strategic partnerships, public activations, and family-centered resources, we are helping build a future where every child has the opportunity, confidence, and support to become a strong reader.
KidFuture CPS is helping lead a multi-year campaign to restore and revitalize the athletic turf and track at Woodward High School—creating a safer, more inspiring environment for students, athletes, families, and the broader community.
This transformational project represents more than a field improvement. It is an investment in student experience, school pride, extracurricular access, and the community spaces that bring students together beyond the classroom.
The Cincinnati Bengals have pledged $150,000 toward the project, with an additional matching commitment from the NFL Foundation, creating critical momentum for the campaign’s next phase. Through strategic partnerships, community investment, and collaborative fundraising efforts, KidFuture CPS is working to close the remaining funding gap and help bring the vision to life.
Invest in what matters most for Cincinnati’s students
Every investment expands access and opportunity while removing barriers for students across Cincinnati Public Schools. Whether supporting academic foundations, expanding wellness resources, accelerating career connections, or funding enrichment experiences, your partnership helps ensure students have access to the tools, programs, and support they need to thrive.
fiscal services
Empowering community partners with strategic support
Community partners are essential to student success—and strong infrastructure makes that work possible.
Through our Fiscal Services, KidFuture CPS serves as a trusted administrative home for school-based groups and nonprofit partners. We provide the legal and financial structure needed to manage funds efficiently and transparently, simplifying the behind-the-scenes work so partners can stay focused on what matters most: the students.
SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS. STRONGER CINCINNATI
TOGETHER, WE BUILD the future
Whether you are an individual donor, a corporate partner, or a community advocate, there is a place for you in this work. Join us in closing the gap between potential and opportunity for every student, in every school, every day.