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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 ...
America's Promise Alliance leads more than 400 organizations, communities and individuals dedicated to making the promise of America real for every child. The organization is devoted to helping to ...
Kentucky Child Now (KCN), founded in 2000, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of children throughout the state of Kentucky. [1] It is the Kentucky affiliate of America's Promise , [ 2 ] an organization started by Colin Powell in 1997 for child welfare. [ 3 ]
Emry founded America's Promise Ministries in 1967 in Phoenix, Arizona. [5] Later, through the church, he took over the America's Hope radio program previously established by Stadsklev, making it a daily program known as America's Promise Radio. [1] The radio program was broadcast nationwide on more than 25 radio stations. [5]
One graduate, Patrick Breton of Brockton, applied his communications skills to introducing Gen. Colin Powell at a 2010 event for America's Promise Alliance (the speaker after that was President ...
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]