How would you complete this statement?  “If not for Eastside Pathways, x, y, z would not have happened in our community.” When answering the question, did you think of Eastside Pathways the partnership or Eastside Pathways the backbone organization?  An important distinction, but perhaps one that...

Republished with permission from Allen Grossman and Ann Lombard   The business community can be a powerful partner in collective impact. The overwhelming majority of collective impact initiative leaders we surveyed for our new report said that business involvement enhanced their initiatives’ ability to improve educational outcomes for children...

The Eastside Pathways Racial Equity Team (EPRET) functions as a resource and support for Eastside Pathways in viewing all our work through an “equity lens,” challenging institutional racism, and promoting racial equity throughout our community.  The team is led by Tom Brewer, Shomari Jones, and...

The Eastside Pathways Partner Leadership Committee (PLC) serves as the decision-making and accountability body for Eastside Pathways partnership.  Its role is to: Align individual and organizational actions Work with partner organizations to align resources and funding to support the common goals as identified by the...

I had the great fortune of attending the first learning community of the Working Cities Challenge (WCC), an initiative led by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to advance collaborative leadership and support ambitious work to improve the lives of low-income people in smaller Massachusetts cities. Passionate...

I left college hungry to find solutions to tough problems and, thanks to my upbringing, I was encouraged to focus on inequity. Four years later, after a powerful experience in the Peace Corps, I was convinced that education was the key to lifting not only...

What role does Camp Kindness Counts play in the community? Camp Kindness Counts considers community-building to be one of our most important tenets!  We believe that by teaching our young people to be more empathetic and socially aware this will inspire them to want to improve and give...

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