We envision a community where every child is happy, healthy, and successful.
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An Interview With Sue Baugh, Board Chair
Eastside Pathways recently restructured their board, unifying the earlier Eastside Pathways Board and the Partner Leadership Committee. We spoke to Sue Baugh, Board Chair on the why and the way forward.
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The Mainspring Wealth Advisors Charity Invitational Golf Tournament
Huge thanks to our long-time partner, Mainspring Wealth Advisors for hosting their Charity Invitational Golf Tournament to benefit the Eastside Pathways partnership.
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School Attendance: It Matters!
September is Attendance Awareness Month.
What can you do to help?
Spread the word about the importance of regular attendance to student, families, caregivers, and the wider community.
Check these resources for materials:
Also read a blog by Stephanie Cherrington, Executive Director of Eastside Pathways on how businesses can get involved in the Attendance Awareness Campaign. Published by Bellevue Downtown Association.
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Does Collective Impact Really Make an Impact?
The authors highlight eight important findings, including the fact that:
"...we
determined that collective impact undoubtedly contributed to changes at scale within initiatives' targeted people or places."
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Boys & Girls Club of Bellevue - BE GREAT: Graduate (BGG) program awarded the
2018 Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children
"I am excited that the Boys & Girls Club of Bellevue's (BGCB) BE GREAT: Graduate program has been awarded this year's grant from the Bill Henningsgaard Fund. The program has many different elements that support youth in their exploration and identification of career pathways, this year's grant focus. BGCB has long been a partner of Eastside Pathways and in true collective impact fashion works to mobilize and engage other organizations to work together to support kids which is the purpose of the Bill Henningsgaard Fund."
- Susan Sullivan, Co-founder and Past Board Chair of Eastside Pathways.
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We Are Hiring
Join us if you are passionate about collective impact and creating systems change to have better outcomes for our kids, cradle to career.
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Calendar
The Calendar on our website is your resource for all Eastside Pathways events and meetings of the collaborative, as well as the meetings and events of our partner organizations.
Click on a date
to find out details of the meeting, the organizer, and a link to the registration page, if any.
Partners, who would like to have their events and meetings featured here, can email
[email protected]
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Welcoming Week: September 14 - 23
Every year communities across the U.S. host a variety of events that bring newcomers and longtime residents together in honor of the social, cultural, and economic benefits that immigrants bring to communities.
Welcoming Week is a way for us to promote belonging and welcoming for ALL residents, and to celebrate the amazing diversity in our region.
Events include resource fairs, an employer panel, potlucks, documentary film screenings, book discussions, crafts and dance, community conversations, an urban garden tour, and more. Events are free and open to all. Find events near you.
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Bellevue School District is looking for
Big Brothers Big Sisters Puget Sound is looking for mentors to work with students at
Interlake High School in Bellevue.
MentorU is a 1-to-1 high school mentoring program, focused on career readiness and college preparation.
Apply
Bellevue Diversity Advisory Network is recruiting members.
As part of ongoing efforts to provide better service to its increasingly diverse population, the City of Bellevue is seeking up to nine volunteers to serve on the Bellevue Diversity Advisory Network. BDAN members advise and provide insight to city departments on how to better communicate and serve our diverse community.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Monday, August 20.
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KidsQuest's Early Childhood Classes
The classes nurture the curious nature of your child and help build the early learning foundation vital to success in school and later in life.
Ages: 9 mo - 5 yrs
- Busy Hands: 9 mo - 2 yrs with caregiver
- Tinker Tots: 2 - 5 years old with caregiver
- Ready, Set, Learn: 3 - 5* yrs, drop-off
- Little Picasso: Walking - 3 years with caregiver
- First Experiences: Walking - 3 yrs with caregiver
- Little Lab: 2 - 5 years with caregiver
- We Explore Stories: 2 - 5 years with caregiver
- Music, Movement & Me: 9 mo - 2 yrs with caregiver
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Hopelink's "English for Work" ESL course
The course is designed to give non-native-English speakers the verbal skills they need to find work. Students learn technology skills, receive one-on-one advising, and participate in mock interviews conducted by local employers.
Orientations start on September 11. Classes will be held in Hopelink's Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland centers (as well as Shoreline). Course work is designed for intermediate English speakers and up.
Call Hopelink at 425-250-3007 or email [email protected] to register or to ask questions.
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Eastside Pathways is a strong community-wide partnership of more than 65 public, private, and nonprofit organizations on the Eastside that works collectively to attain better outcomes for children, cradle to career (birth to 26 years). We use the collective impact framework to work across sectors, focus on different goal areas to improve educational outcomes for children and make lasting systems change. The partnership is supported by a backbone entity that mobilizes, convenes, and facilitates its work.
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