Grant for

Year

2013

Program

Community Innovation Grants

Amount

$100,000

Term

50 months

Northfield Promise' is a collective impact initiative designed to achieve community-level change for children and youth growing up in Northfield. By aligning all the major community institutions around a shared set of measurable benchmarks, assembling diverse action teams, collecting and sharing data, implementing action plans, and sharing progress with community stakeholders, the project seeks to ensure success for all Northfield youth.

Reports

The longer we do this, the more committed we are to the reality that community innovation is about disrupting systems -- systems that are not working for people. This disruption can cause levels of friction and uncomfortable moments, which are not only okay but necessary.

Interim Report

Report date

March 2016

Put your seatbelt on and step on the gas! When we began this work, we never expected that there would be the level of interest in Northfield Promise that there was (and, remarkably, continues to be).

Interim Report

Report date

February 2015

Utilizing data to help evaluate efforts and guide future decisions has helped ensure a level of credibility for the Northfield Promise initiative and its resulting work.

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