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===''Building a Grad Nation''=== In 2010, the campaign's leading organizations worked together to release the Building a Grad Nation report, research that analyzes the progress and challenges of raising the national high school graduation rate. [[U.S. Secretary of Education]] [[Arne Duncan]] spoke at the launch of the report, calling it "required reading for those who believe that the high school dropout problem is too intractable to successfully take on."<ref>[https://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/secretary-arne-duncans-remarks-release-america%E2%80%99s-promise-alliance-report-%E2%80%9Cbuilding-grad-nation%E2%80%9D U.S. Department of Education, Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks at the Release of America's Promise Alliance Report, "Building A Grad Nation", November 30, 2010]</ref> The four organizations β America's Promise Alliance, the Alliance for Excellent Education, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center β have released the report every year since 2010.<ref>[http://www.americaspromise.org/building-grad-nation-report AmericasPromise.org, ''Building A Grad Nation Report'']</ref> In 2013, America's Promise committed to helping community partners across the nation convene 100 GradNation Community Summits over three years.<ref>[http://www.srqmagazine.com/srq-daily/2016-09-21/4701_GradNation-Summit-Comes-to-Sarasota-County ''SRQ'', GradNation Summit Comes to Sarasota County, September 21, 2016]</ref> Modeled after the Dropout Prevention Summits, the community summits were designed to inspire local collaboration and action to raise high school graduation rates.<ref>[http://gradnation.americaspromise.org/community-activation ''AmericasPromise.org'', Community Activation]</ref> Summits have been hosted in major cities like Chicago, Boston,<ref>[http://sampan.org/2016/10/boston-gradnation-focuses-on-increasing-high-school-graduation-rate/ ''Sampan.org'', Boston GradNation focuses on increasing high school graduation rate, October 18, 2016]</ref> and Philadelphia, as well as smaller cities and rural areas in North Carolina,<ref>[http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article74766332.html ''The News & Observer'', Wake County high school students urge more guidance counselors, April 29, 2016]</ref> Northwest Indiana, and Tennessee.<ref>[http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/jul/12/gradnatisummit-be-held-increase-high-school-g/314199/ ''Times Free Press'', GradNation Summit to be held to increase high-school graduation rate, July 12, 2015]</ref> In 2015, America's Promise launched the GradNation State Activation initiative, an effort to increase high school graduation rates at the state level.<ref>[https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/k-12-education/2015/7/7/can-pearson-salvage-its-reputation-as-an-education-funder.html ''Inside Philanthropy'', Can Pearson Salvage its Reputation as an Education Funder?, July 7, 2015]</ref> The three-year initiative provides funding to state organizations that encourage statewide innovation and collaboration, shares that knowledge, and develops successful models all states can replicate. Organizations in Arizona, Massachusetts, and Minnesota were each awarded with $200,000 grants.<ref>[http://www.americaspromise.org/gradnation-state-activation-initiative ''AmericasPromise.org'', State Activation]</ref>
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