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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 ...
Today, Gen. Colin Powell and his wife, Alma, penned a letter to the nation titled, "Our Cause: A Letter to America" in celebration of America's Promise Alliance's 20th anniversary.
Mrs. Powell: America's Promise has always been a nonpartisan organization, a safe space for collaboration with all who care about the health and progress of children. Our founding 20 years ago ...
Alma Johnson Powell, the wife of the late Secretary of State Colin Powell, has died. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by the former diplomat’s chief of staff and family spokesperson, Peggy ...
Powell was the chair of America's Promise, the nation's largest partnership dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth. She also authored two children's books, America's Promise and My Little Red Wagon. [6] [7] In 2011 she was named the NASBE's National Education Policy Leader of the Year along with her husband. [8] [9]
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The Promise Neighborhoods initiative provides much needed incentive for community-based organizations to coalesce and communicate around the singular topic of how to support children from cradle to career. [21] [22] Promise Neighborhoods are unique in their practice of information sharing for collective impact. [22]