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The New York campus opened after a $60-million renovation, led by Perkins Eastman Architects, [5] of the R.C. Williams Warehouse, a building originally designed by Cass Gilbert in 1928. [6] The school opened with 12 of its planned 15 grades for the 2012–2013 school year, including all grades between nursery and ninth grade.
Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Academy. Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) is an education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York City. Founded by Geoffrey Canada and led by its current CEO, Kwame Owusu-Kesse, HCZ pioneered the model of place-based, cradle-to-career services that empower young people and families from under-resourced backgrounds to achieve life-changing social and ...
In early 2009, America's Promise Alliance commissioned Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle the Dropout Crisis, written by Robert Balfanz and Joanna Hornig Fox of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University and John M. Bridgeland and Mary McNaught from Civic Enterprises, [37] to provide communities with research and ...
Powell and his wife, Alma Powell, who are former and current chairs of America's Promise, released a letter to the nation today marking the Alliance's 20th anniversary -- a milestone the non ...
Educational Alliance is a leading social institution that has been serving communities in New York City's Lower Manhattan since 1889. It provides multi-generational programs and services in education, health and wellness, arts and culture, and civic engagement across 15 sites and a network of five community centers: the 14th Street Y, Center for Recovery and Wellness, Manny Cantor Center ...
The Georgia Promise Scholarship is open to students who reside in a Georgia public schoolattendance zone of a public school on the list of lower performing schools provided by theGovernor’s ...
Promise Neighborhoods is a United States Department of Education program authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). [1] The Promise Neighborhoods program is based on the experience of programs such as the Harlem Children's Zone. [2]
Originally known as the Missionary Training Institute, [8] the school was founded in 1882 in New York City by Dr. A. B. Simpson. Simpson resigned from a prestigious New York City pastorate to develop an interdenominational fellowship devoted to serving unreached people. Simpson's view was shared by many of his contemporaries, including mainline ...