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America’s Promise Alliance Announces Effort to Raise Awareness and Catalyze Action around How Learning Happens

April 25, 2019

Today, America’s Promise Alliance announced plans to advance the national conversation about How Learning Happens and highlight the importance of fostering young people’s development and well-being.

Type: Press Release

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

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

America’s Promise Alliance Announces Gregg Petersmeyer as New Board Chair, Former Chair Alma Powell Steps Into New Role as Chair Emeritus

January 31, 2019

America’s Promise Alliance today announced that its Board has tapped Board Vice Chair C. Gregg Petersmeyer to serve as its new Board Chair. Former Chair Alma Powell will step into a new role as the Board’s first Chair Emeritus.

Type: Press Release

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

America's Promise Honors Six Exceptional Leaders at Fourth Annual Promise Night Gala

March 16, 2018

America’s Promise Alliance will honor six exceptional leaders with its Promise of America and Promise Hero Awards on April 18.  The awards will be presented by General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret) and Alma Powell, the founding chair and chair of America’s Promise, at the fourth annual Promise Night Gala which will be held at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

Type: Press Release

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

Advocates Set New Goal to Graduate 90 Percent of Homeless Students by 2030, Enroll 60 Percent in College by 2034

March 05, 2018

Homelessness (ICPH), Civic Enterprises and America’s Promise Alliance launched Education Leads Home, a first-of-its-kind national campaign focused exclusively on addressing the needs of the 1.3 million homeless students enrolled in America’s public schools.

Type: Press Release

promises: Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Citi Foundation’s Youth Workforce Fund to Increase Access to Jobs, Including Apprenticeships and Internships, Among Youth

October 23, 2017

The Citi Foundation today announced the launch of the Youth Workforce Fund as part of its Pathways to Progress initiative to provide youth both in the U.S. and around the world with training and access to jobs. In partnership with America’s Promise Alliance, 15 nonprofit organizations across the United States will expand their programming to provide a range of employment opportunities in various areas including environmental sustainability to robotics and culinary arts to coding.

Type: Press Release

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

America’s Promise Alliance Welcomes New Board and Trustee Members

October 19, 2017

America’s Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest network dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth, has elected three members to its board of directors and appointed two members to its trustees.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Youth Voice, Youth Involvement

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

America’s Promise Alliance Announces New GradNation Acceleration Grant

September 13, 2017

As part of the next phase of the GradNation campaign to raise the national high school graduation rate to 90 percent, America’s Promise Alliance, with generous support from AT&T, announced today the launch of the GradNation Acceleration Grant.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Funding Opportunities

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

When the Storms Pass, Caring Adults Must Remain

September 09, 2017

This time of year, 12 years ago, Hurricanes Rita and Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast. Houston became the refuge of choice for 60,000 people, over half of whom were school-aged youth. The city opened its arms, homes, schools, and churches, while more kept coming and many never left. Three hundred thousand people eventually chose to call this hospitable city their home. These same souls are now going through it all again.

Type: Press Release

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

Say Yes to Education and America’s Promise Alliance Announce Leadership for Weiss Institute

September 08, 2017

The Weiss Institute, a new nationwide partnership that helps local communities expand their capacity to support students as they prepare for college and other postsecondary education, announced today that it has selected Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey to be its first president.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, College Gap

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

channels: College & Career, Thriving

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Recommit2Kids, Weiss Institute, Center for Promise

America’s Promise Alliance Releases New Collaborative Framework for Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth

April 17, 2017

Our Work: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America – is a first-of-its-kind report from America’s Promise that offers a vision for how the people, organizations, and systems that surround young people can incorporate what’s been learned into sustainable, on-the-ground practices that will create greater opportunity to help more young people fulfill their American Dream. 

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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