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Sarasota Summit Offers More than One Path for Post-High School Success

November 03, 2016

“Eyebrows shot up and mouths dropped open as about 100 local high school students calculated how much more money they could make with a bachelor's degree than as high school dropouts,” the Herald Tribune recently wrote, reporting on the GradNation Community Summit held in Sarasota County.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Grad Rate Data, Youth Involvement

promises: Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

California School District Uses Design Thinking to Raise Grad Rates

November 03, 2016

Like many school districts across America, California’s New Haven Unified School District is trying to narrow its achievement and graduation gaps. And it’s using design thinking to do it. “Young people are pushed out of a school system that doesn’t love and accept them,” Dr. Arlando Smith, co-superintendent of NHUS, said at the UC Exceed GradNation Community Summit on Sept. 24. “It just tolerates them.”

Type: News

TAG: Using Data, Grad Rate Data, Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

New LinkedIn for Good Program Offers Young People Free Career Coaching Sessions

June 29, 2016

If you’re an organization that prepares youth and young adults for the workforce, consider connecting the young people you know to LinkedIn for Good’s new Ambassador pilot program.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Community Leader Spotlight with Rev. Samuel Casey, ED of COPE in San Bernardino, CA

June 21, 2016

Pastor Samuel serves as the Executive Director of Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE) in San Bernardino, CA.

Type: News

TAG: Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation Community Summits

VIDEO: High School Students Get Chance at Real-World Engineering Experience

May 19, 2016

On May 17-18, a group of 60 high school students got a taste of what it’s like to be professional energy efficiency engineers by conducting a professional lighting audit at LA City Hall South.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Opportunity Fund

Target’s Brian Cornell: ‘It’s one of the most emotional moments I’ve had as CEO’

April 14, 2016

In December, Target CEO Brian Cornell visited Target House, a no-cost home-away-from-home for families that need long-term housing while a child receives live-saving treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

What Do Disadvantaged Youth Need More than Anything Else?

January 12, 2016

Urban Alliance is a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. that matches disadvantaged high school students with internships, mentors and a path to the workforce. This story is part of a series on the innovative ways that 2015 Youth Opportunity Fund grantees, supported by America’s Promise Alliance and the Citi Foundation, are placing low-income young adults on a path toward college and career success.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Opportunity Fund