Newsletter

July 2008

Champion of Change Donna Jones Baker

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  • President/CEO, Urban League of Greater Cincinnati
  • Through the League’s collaboration with Strive and its partners, I have seen firsthand how much the Greater Cincinnati community is dedicated to the academic success of our youth.
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Collaboration Corner - Kentucky

  • NKY Defines Kindergarten Readiness

  • Vision 2015 recently formed a steering committee to create a common definition of what it means to be ready for kindergarten.
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Collaboration Corner - KY/OH

  • Upcoming KnowHow2Go to College Rally

  • Is there a college-bound child in your life? If so, bring them down to Fountain Square on Saturday, September 6th and talk to representatives from 20 unique local colleges.
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Strive Awards Stage Two Endorsement to Increase College Access in Cincinnati

  • The College Access Alliance is working to create, sustain or improve college resource centers that provide one-on-one college advising services to students in CPS high schools. The services include academic advising, career advising, college advising, college application assistance, college awareness (campus tours, fairs, etc.), financial aid application, college entrance and placement test preparation, scholarship searches.
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Stage One Endorsement Awarded to Mentoring Network

  • The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Mentoring Student Success Network has created a plan for mentor recruitment that earned a Stage One Endorsement from Strive.
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Governor Strickland's Conversation on Education

  • Governor Strickland's Conversation on Education
  • On July 28, Ohio Governor Strickland held a conversation on specific ways to improve educaiton in Ohio.
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Resource Center

  • Convergence as Strategy and as Model
  • A case study of four P-16 initiatives (of which Strive is one) across Ohio. The journal focuses on convergence as a strategic approach that forms networks of organizations committed to collaboration towards common visions, use of data, and making efficienct use of resources.
  • ICMA
  • Eight case studies (of which Strive is one) illustrate how communities across the U.S. have already succeeded in collaborating to create more community-oriented schools.