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The Key to Success is Community Voice: Community Leader Spotlight with Hilda Ramirez, Latino Education Institute

April 21, 2017

Hilda Ramirez strongly believes that “the answers to the problems that communities face lies within the people who are affected by the challenges.” Ramirez is the assistant director of the Latino Education Institute of Worcester State University, a partnership of community leaders that provides outcome-based development programs in education, literacy, leadership, civic engagement, and health.

Type: News

TAG: Youth Involvement, Hispanic/Latino

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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

Press Release Type: Press Release

OUR WORK: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America

April 17, 2017

How can we take what’s been learned and accelerate progress for young people in America, especially for those young people who are most vulnerable? How can we create the conditions for success for more young people, more quickly? To answer these questions, America’s Promise reviewed research about what’s changed in the past 20 years in young people’s lives and in our understanding of youth development. We surveyed our network, spoke with young people, and interviewed more than 200 people representing nonprofits, corporations, foundations, research and policy entities, educational institutions…

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Black/African-American, English Learners, Recommit2Kids

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

channels: Family Engagement, Re-engaging Youth, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

Alma Powell and Gen. Colin Powell Urge Nation to Recommit to Kids in Letter to America

April 13, 2017

Twenty years after the event that launched America's Promise Alliance the nation's largest network dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth is marking the occasion with a letter to America authored by its Chair Alma Powell and Founding Chair Gen. Colin Powell to focus the nation on the needs of young people.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

Press Release Type: Press Release

In Parramore Kidz Zone, a Role Model for Community Collaboration

April 12, 2017

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, America’s Promise is recognizing an organization that exemplifies how communities can collaborate to improve youth outcomes: The Parramore Kidz Zone (PKZ). The organization will receive the Powell Legacy Award—and a $50,000 donation—at the Recommit to Kids Summit on April 18.

Type: News

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise

In Music and in Football, Two Heroes

April 11, 2017

This award recognizes the “often unheralded contributions” of heroes who are making an impact on their communities in ways large and small.  And while Day and Mitchell are hardly unknown in their industries, they’ve each made contributions to issues impacting young people.

Type: News

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

General and Mrs. Powell Urge Nation to Recommit to Kids in Letter to America

April 11, 2017

Twenty years after the event that launched America’s Promise Alliance, General Colin Powell and Alma Powell are marking the occasion by urging Americans to recommit to the nation’s young people.

Type: News

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

Video: A Probation Officer, a Nonprofit Case Manager, and Family: The Relationships that Supported One Young Person’s Path to Success

April 11, 2017

As a child, Abisai Montes and his parents moved from their home in North Dallas to a rougher part of town, where Montes says he learned to carry a switchblade to feel safe. At 15, when he was on his way to see some friends, a stranger attacked him and Montes pulled out his knife. As a result, Montes spent time in a juvenile detention center.

Type: News

TAG: Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: Youth Opportunity Fund

America’s Promise Alliance Honors Parramore Kidz Zone with Powell Legacy Award

April 11, 2017

On April 18, 2017, America’s Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest network dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth, will honor Parramore Kidz Zone (PKZ) with the Powell Legacy Award at its annual Promise Night Gala in New York City. The gala will follow Recommit to Kids | The Summit for America’s Future, a daylong convening of business, philanthropy, nonprofit, government, education and faith leaders aimed to refocus the country on the needs of America’s children and youth. 

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

Press Release Type: Press Release

America’s Promise Alliance Names 2017 Promise Heroes

April 06, 2017

NEW YORK (April 6, 2017)  – America’s Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest network dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth, will recognize singer and songwriter, Andra Day, and New England Patriot, Malcolm Mitchell, as Promise Heroes at the third annual Promise Night Gala at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square on April 18.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

Press Release Type: Press Release