Portland Public Schools (PPS) is involved in an exciting period of change. In the fall of 2017, Guadalupe Guerrero began his tenure as the District’s new Superintendent, with a focus on orienting Portland’s school system toward a 21st century system that provides all students with an equitable, inspired, intellectually rigorous educational experience to prepare them to succeed and thrive. In the fall of 2018, Superintendent Guerrero and the Board of Education launched an ambitious process to develop a community informed vision for the future of public education in Portland. Finalized in June 2019, this vision provides a framework to continue the strategic transformation of our school system over the next decade. Our vision--the District’s community promise--will continue to require a well-coordinated effort involving multiple stakeholders throughout the region. It will encourage business, philanthropic, and civic leaders to become inspired and take action to support, contribute, and hold themselves accountable for better outcomes for all public school students in PPS. To build on this coordinated effort, we established The Fund for Portland Public Schools with a focus on building and accelerating the identification, cultivation, and strengthening of strategic relationships with those who will serve as investment partners in a citywide movement to create a world-class public school system. This organization’s core function is to create, coordinate, and facilitate public, private, and philanthropic partnerships that foster equitable opportunities and benefits for PPS students.