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Eastside Pathways Hires Stephanie Cherrington as Executive Director
The Eastside Pathways Board of Directors announced that it has hired Stephanie Cherrington as Executive Director. Cherrington, who had been interim Executive Director for the past two months, was Operations Officer for the previous year and a Program Facilitator...
School Readiness and the New Bellevue School District Attendance Policy
Students arriving at Bellevue elementary schools this fall are receiving some extra encouragement to be in the “Right Place, Right Time, Ready to Learn.” The district recently updated its tardy policy. It’s also participating in Eastside Pathways’ Attendance...
Eastside Pathways Board Appoints Interim ED and Elects New Board Chair
Eastside Pathways Board met on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, to appoint Stephanie Cherrington as the Interim Executive Director of Eastside Pathways. Stephanie served as Eastside Pathways’ Operations Manager for the past year; prior to that, she led a volunteer group in...
Eastside Pathways Establishes a Fund in Memory of Bill Henningsgaard
To honor the memory of Bill Henningsgaard’s commitment to children and belief in the power of collective impact, the Eastside Pathways Board is establishing the Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children. This fund will help children and youth living in low-income...
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...
Strawberry Festival 2013: Four Thousand Books Find New Homes
Imagine throngs of kids poring through boxes of books to choose the very best ones, parents standing nearby and smiling at the kids’ enthusiasm or sifting through them exclaiming, “Hey, how about this book!” Volunteers in bright green t-shirts providing information on...
Data Update!
It’s been a busy 3 months for the Data Team, learning about Eastside Pathways, meeting with the partners and teams, digging around in various data sources, and trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible. Having just attended the first Strive Data Managers...
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...
Bellevue School District’s Bold New Plan
The Bellevue School District has developed a bold new plan to ensure every student reaches academic, social and emotional success. The district recently unveiled three new Instructional Initiatives, a set of priorities for the next three to five years which are...