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Eastside Pathways Featured As National “Bright Spot”
Eastside Pathways was featured as a spring 2015 “Bright Spot” for the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. The article highlighted the way the Eastside Pathways partnership pairs the collective impact approach with the content of a literacy campaign....
New Faces at Eastside Pathways!
We welcome the newest Eastside Pathways facilitator, Carolyn Duffy. She is facilitating the Attendance Collaborative. Carolyn lives in Clyde Hill and is the mother of three children all of whom attend Bellevue public schools. Carolyn is currently a consultant for a...
Chinese Information and Service Center awarded the Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children 2015 Grant
Congratulations Chinese Information and Service Center! CISC joins the Bellevue Family YMCA, last year's recipient, in using this $5,000 grant to advance the mission of Eastside Pathways and honor Bill's memory. This year's award will allow CISC to host a Spanish...
Changes at Eastside Pathways!
With the start of the new year, we would like to share with you some changes at Eastside Pathways. We are delighted to introduce Jed Walsh, our new AmeriCorps VISTA. He will be starting a one-year commitment on Feb. 17 and will be working to build capacity for the...
Eastside Pathways Launches two collaboratives – Transitions and Career Pathways
Many of our youth are not on a pathway for career success, and the problem is twofold: our system is not helping enough youth obtain postsecondary degrees and certificates, and even many college graduates have little awareness of career options or of the skills and...
Eastside Pathways Signs onto Cradle Through College Coalition
As a result of input received by partner organizations a few weeks ago, Eastside Pathways has signed onto the cradle through college coalition. Other coalition supporters include Graduate Tacoma!, Puget Sound Coalition for College and Career Readiness, and the Youth...
Courageous Conversations: Reflections from Bellevue
Susan Sullivan, Brent Christie, Kelly Jones, and Charlotte Anthony share their thoughts on attending the Courageous Converastions Summit. I am white Susan Sullivan, board member of Eastside Pathways Black. Brown. Red. Yellow. White. These are the labels we use...
Learnings from StriveTogether Conference
Stephanie Cherrington, Kelly Jones, and Charlotte Anthony share their learnings from the StriveTogether Conference. Making Waves Stephanie Cherrington, executive director at Eastside Pathways The theme of this year’s StriveTogether National convening, making...
Community Café: Engaging Parents Through Conversations
How do we reach parents? How do we get their feedback? These are questions that many organizations in our partnership have struggled with. For this reason, over 35 people (parents and community partner representatives) joined together at the Eastside Pathways...