Remembering Bill Henningsgaard

Remembering Bill Henningsgaard

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the following news with you today, August 9, 2013. We are very sorry to inform Eastside Pathway’s partners and friends that Bill Henningsgaard, founder and Executive Director of Eastside Pathways, and his son, Maxwell...
Core Functions of a Backbone Organization

Core Functions of a Backbone Organization

FSG (co-author of the original Collective Impact article that helped spark the eponymous surge in collaborative efforts across the country) recently shared their thinking on how to evaluate progress in collective impact efforts. With Eastside Pathways now two years...
Pimento Prophecy

Pimento Prophecy

As we start to crawl out of the great recession, with new signs of economic life emerging across the Eastside, we have the opportunity to shift our gaze from the here and now to the future. The economy that faces the next generation will be more global, more dynamic,...
Reflections on the Year

Reflections on the Year

I had coffee yesterday with a friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while.  Our kids attended Sunday school together, and we had lots to catch up on.  It seems like it’s always hard to believe that almost two years had passed since our last conversation – in some ways,...
Moving from Proving to Improving

Moving from Proving to Improving

At the end of September, Susan [Sullivan] and I flew to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to attend the Strive Network 2012 Cradle to Career Network convening. We hadn’t realized when we scheduled the trip that our visit would follow only five days after Seattle’s controversial...