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Are We Talking About The Backbone Or The Partnership?
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...
Engaging Business Community In Collective Impact
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...
Community Truancy Board awarded the Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children 2016 Grant
We are happy to announce that the 2016 grant award for Attendance and/or Tardiness goes to... Community Truancy Board Congratulations! The Community Truancy Board, staffed by the Bellevue School District, is the third recipient of the $5,000 grant to advance the...
Partner Spotlight: Year Up Puget Sound
Let us learn a bit more about one of the newest Eastside Pathways Partners, Year Up Puget Sound. Year Up plays an important role in the community. Year Up Puget Sound leads low-income young adults ages 18-24 to gainful employment, and helps them reach their full...
Eastside Pathways Racial Equity Team
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...
Partner Leadership Committee
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...
8 Yummy Tensions of Collective Impact
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...
Bellevue School District Creates a BOOM Experience at Bellevue College
On December 15, 2015, Bellevue College hosted 170 Bellevue School District male students from grades 7-12 for an all-day conference. The event, known as the BOOM Experience, was created with the intention of providing middle and high school boys of color the...
Systems Change: More than a Buzzword
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 communities,...