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Forbes Someone might want to write a book about Spartanburg, S.C. As an innovative city, it seems to be ahead of most other American towns. A quarter century ago, it partnered with BMW to create 11,000 new jobs at the automaker’s state-of-the-art BMW manufacturing plant, which transformed the region’s economy from textiles, tobacco and tourism…
The Modesto Bee Mini construction workers, tiny first responders and junior engineers were running around with abandon last summer at the Head Start preschool at Modesto Junior College. The preschoolers were unaware of the attention focused on them and their future careers by team members of StanReady!, a program designed to ensure that every Stanislaus…
U.S. News & World Report In Cocke County, Tennessee, Kathy Holt is meeting with parents, day care providers and others to spread the word about what children need to know to be ready for kindergarten. The former educator is among a group of leaders in three Appalachian communities chosen to try a new approach to…
Dayton Daily News African American boys and girls are behind their white peers on too many measures of academic achievement. These distressing disparities also show up in students’ absenteeism and suspension rates. Those numbers matters because missing school has a negative effect on school performance regardless of how many days are missed or for what…
Deseret News Since its earliest days, the work of United Way of Salt Lake’s Promise Partnerships has been guided by the phrase, “trying hard is not good enough.” Also the title of a book by Mark Friedman about how to design and measure social change efforts, this phrase became our mantra for building an infrastructure…
Stanford Social Innovation Review Despite growing pains, the pay for success funding model is finding renewed success in communities across the United States and is primed to evolve into an ever-more-powerful tool for social change. Read more
Rochester Business Journal ROC the Future, in partnership with Common Ground Health’s Healthi Kids Initiative, is one of the three StriveTogether communities that will work with KaBOOM! to design a community playground that will help close racial and socioeconomic gaps in kids’ access to great places to play. The partnership will build the civic infrastructure…
The Journal Times Modine Manufacturing Co. this week announced a Modine Foundation contribution of $200,000 over five years to Higher Expectations for Racine County. Read more
Muncie Star Press Muncie Community Schools, which has one of the highest percentages of needy students in the state, took time out this week to work on an academic innovation plan required by the state. In kicking off the 1½-day “innovation summit” on Wednesday, school board President Jim Williams said innovation meant “1,000 little things”…
Stanford Social Innovation Review If you’ve been following trends in the social sector for the past 10 years, you’ve likely heard of collective impact, a model for changing systems and improving community outcomes. Yet, despite the prominence of collective impact, a lingering question persists: Does it work? Read more
Patch Bridgeport Prospers/United Way was recognized for its initiative to improve the health of young children at the City of Bridgeport’s “Bridgeport for Babies Day.” The initiative – The Bridgeport Basics – is a parent education campaign designed to promote healthy brain development of children by encouraging nurturing, responsive interactions with children from birth to…
GV Wire What would you do if you had $250 million to spend on early childhood services? Linda Gleason, founding director of The Children’s Movement of Fresno, said that question turned out to be a stumper, at least initially, for officials focused on improving the education, health, and well-being of youngsters. But it ultimately helped…