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The Paradox of Progress

May 31, 2017

How do we accelerate progress for more young people in America? This is the question I have spent the last year helping America’s Promise Alliance answer.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

The Power of Belonging

May 10, 2017

I recently joined former Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas at the America’s Promise Alliance Summit for America’s Future for a discussion about the importance of young people feeling a sense of belonging.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Recommit2Kids

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

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise

What’s Working: Six Ways to 90

May 04, 2017

For the second year in a row, the United States remains off pace to reach a 90 percent on-time high school graduation rate by 2020, according to the 2017 Building a Grad Nation report.

Type: News

TAG: Special Populations, Black/African-American, English Learners, Students with Disabilities

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

2017 Building a Grad Nation Report

May 03, 2017

Type: Report

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education

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

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

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

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

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