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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...
Youth Voice & Action
“Hopeful. Excellent. Excited. Future. Getting started. In awe. Inspired. Jazzed. Motivated. Passionate. Phenomenal.” These are the words that participants used when reflecting on the first Eastside Pathways Roundtable April 16. Recognizing the value of young people’s...
Bellevue’s 2013 Strawberry Festival
“The delight on the children’s faces as they walked away with their books!” “The parents’ happiness about the things we offered the children not costing them anything.” “Seeing the families we want to serve.” “Talking with families – especially immigrant families who...
City of Bellevue’s Diversity Initiative
In 1994, the City of Bellevue first established a cultural diversity initiative to help our community understand, appreciate and celebrate diversity. A document called the Cultural Diversity Task Force Report was produced and served as a guideline for a series of...