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Career Exploration Day Reaches New Heights
The Northfield Promise Career & College Readiness Action Team helped sponsor the fifth annual Career Exploration Day on May 14, 2019, at the Northfield Middle School. A few of the highlights included: 1,005 youth attended (a new record!) 61 businesses participated 143 professionals took part 30 immediate job openings for graduating seniors were highlighted A […]
“Move 5 Kids” featured in National Profile
Northfield Promise was recently featured in a national profile by StriveTogether. The piece highlighted the “Move 5 Kids” strategy that the Northfield Promise Reading Team and Northfield Public Schools have implemented the past two years to improve 3rd grade literacy rates. The Move 5 effort supports teachers in providing extra resources and new strategies for […]
Bright Spot: Early Childhood Navigators Help Connect Young Children to Preschool Options
Esther, her husband, and their four children moved to Northfield in September. The three oldest children go to school during the day; still at home was Ben-Felix, about to turn 3. “My husband works nights, so I work mornings,” Esther explains. “I go in to work; he cares for Ben. He can’t sleep well. To […]
The Effect of High-Quality Early Childhood Experiences
Northfield Promise recognizes the power of high-quality early childhood experiences in helping kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. The latest data shows that there is currently a gap in the amount of time that low-income Northfield children spend in early childhood experiences versus their more affluent classmates. In addition, local data shows that most Northfield […]
StriveTogether Features Northfield Public Schools and Northfield Promise
StriveTogether recently featured Northfield Public Schools and Northfield Promise in their national Stories of Impact section. Read the story here.
Education Fellow Pilot
Yamile Hernandez wants to help children grow and develop. With the help of the Northfield Community College Collaborative (NCCC) and its new Education Fellows program, she’s on her way. After she graduated from Northfield High School in 2018, the Education Fellows program helped Yamile secure a full-time position as a Minnesota Reading Corps tutor at […]
New Transportation Co-op Formed!
A new co-op providing transportation for youth development and early childhood programs has come to Northfield, thanks to the Northfield Area Family YMCA, Northfield Healthy Community Initiative, and Northfield Promise. Co-op Details Youth/Child programs will share a passenger van and minibus to drive kids, youth, and families to local programming sites. Partners and local donors […]
Northfield Receives Nearly $75,000 Through StriveTogether Grant
NORTHFIELD RECEIVES NEARLY $75,000 THROUGH GRANT PROGRAM BY NATIONAL NONPROFIT STRIVETOGETHER TO IMPROVE RESULTS AT MAJOR MILESTONES FOR KIDS Northfield Promise is one of 21 cradle-to-career partnerships that will advance equity and spread bold strategies to help children and families access opportunity and move up the economic ladder Northfield Promise — a community movement to enable […]
Greenvale Park Community School Annual Report
Celebrating the successes of its 4th year, the Greenvale Community School Annual Report for 2017-18 is now available online. A total of 861 youth from elementary school through high school participated in programming last school year. In addition, 54 community partners and 462 volunteers contributed to the project’s success. Sam Richardson, Greenvale Park’s Principal, is […]
Navigators Connect Families with Young Children to Preschool
One of the primary goals of Northfield Promise is to make sure that all children are ready for kindergarten. In 2017, 66% of Northfield children from low-income households were ready for kindergarten in reading, compared to 90% of children from higher-income households. A group of local early childhood professionals determined two strategies to address this […]