Greetings!
I hope you are well. You’re receiving this message because you, or your organization, have been a part of the collective work of Eastside Pathways Community Partnership and we’d like to provide a few important updates:
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Eastside Pathways Partner Annual Agreement (Action Required by March 31, 2021)
- Eastside Pathways Partnership: Background and Benefits
- Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children - Request for Grant Proposals
Please scroll down to read the details and information about each of these.
On behalf of the Backbone Staff and Board, I want to thank you for your thoughtful consideration and participation in this important, collective work. Please feel free to contact me, or anyone on the Board of Directors, to raise questions, concerns, suggestions, or to offer help. If other individuals or organizations ought to be engaged, please let us know that too.
Sincerely,
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Stephanie M. Cherrington
Executive Director
Eastside Pathways Backbone
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Eastside Pathways Partner Agreement |
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In prior years, Eastside Pathways Partners have periodically been asked to affirm their interest and commitment to our mutual work. However, beginning this year, each Partner will be asked to sign an annual agreement. Whether as an individual or organization, we see this as being beneficial to each Partner and is certainly helpful for the Eastside Pathways Backbone so that it can best support, convene, and serve each Partner.
Because we’re already in Q1 of 2021, this year will be a bit unique. You’ll receive two agreement requests this year. One later this week via DocuSign (please be sure to check junk mail), which will be for 2021, and then another in November, which will apply for 2022. From there you can expect to see an annual agreement each November, which will apply to the following calendar year.
Once you receive the Partner Agreement, if you are an Organizational Partner, it’s important for executive leadership or board to sign the agreement. If you’re new to the Eastside Pathways Partnership, it might be beneficial to understand a bit more about the history of the Partnership and benefits (see below) of regularly connecting and convening with fellow stakeholders in our community.
Upon receipt of the signed Partner Agreement, Eastside Pathways Backbone will send additional information to help you determine where and how to get involved.
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Eastside Pathways Partnership:
Background and Benefits
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The Partnership was founded in July 2011 in Bellevue, Washington, and serves East King County, specifically the Bellevue and Lake Washington School District catchment areas. The Eastside Pathways Partnership holds the vision that all children and youth, cradle to career, thrive in school and in life.
Though that vision remains the same today, we know there are communities and populations of children, youth, young adults, and families who are not afforded the experience and opportunities deserved. Current systems are not equitable.
Eastside Pathways Partnership is working to ensure a child’s possibility isn’t determined by race, ethnicity, ability, or circumstance. This cross-sector partnership is made up of community stakeholders including individuals, families, youth, and public, private, non-profit organizations. Eastside Pathways Partnership is working to improve the way we work together; create shifts in policies, practices, power, and resources, which result in more equitable pathways for children, youth, and young adults who desire to unlock and achieve their greatest potential.
The Partnership operates under the collective impact and adaptive leadership frameworks, and is “staffed” by the Backbone of the Partnership. This Backbone, also called Eastside Pathways, works alongside community and organizational representatives to collaborate, focus efforts, find efficiencies, and increase impact. The Backbone does this by specifically providing facilitation, strategy, data assistance, communications, and operations support.
Though the Eastside Pathways Backbone is a dedicated support for the Partnership, true success requires that each of us as Partners actively engage in this work. As one partner shared, “if we’re already doing this work as individuals, or within our own organizations, why not spend a portion of our time in collaboration, together with others doing similar work, so we can create a better community system”.
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Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children
Request for Grant Proposals
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The purpose of the Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children Grant is to assist in bettering the lives of, and creating opportunities for, children of all ages through leveraged programs in the Lake Washington and Bellevue School District service areas. This year the goal of the grant is to financially support systems working to battle the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial inequity.
Existing systems in place prior to COVID-19 were already inequitable. During 2020 and into 2021, communities already most impacted by inequitable systems, including Black, LatinX, and Low-Wealth communities, continue to bare the greatest burdens.
The 2021 Bill Henningsgaard Fund for Children Grant Committee is interested in how Eastside Pathways Partners are improving or modifying practices or processes, as individuals or within organizations, and collaboratively with each other. The Committee is also interested in how Partners are tracking and measuring practice or process changes and what is the expected positive impact outcome for Eastside children, youth, and young adults most impacted by the pandemics.
The expected award amount is $5,000 and will be announced on May 7, 2021. If you have any questions regarding criteria and eligibility, please submit them to bhfund@eastsidepathways.org.
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Giving every child the opportunity to thrive from cradle to career requires dedication and teamwork. That’s why Eastside Pathways helps individuals and organizations collaborate to focus their efforts, find efficiencies and increase their impact. Together, using a proven framework and data-driven strategies, we create better outcomes for our youth. |
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