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Leading in Divisive Times: Uniting Communities for Children, Youth, and Families

April 10, 2024 | 7:00pm - 8:15pm ET

This event is for Harvard ID holders only. Join EdRedesign By All Means Senior Fellows as they delve into ways of uniting communities around cross-sector collaborative approaches to improve life outcomes for kids, youth, and families across the nation. The event will be followed by Q&A.

Leading Through Partnership: How the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) Built a Community-Driven Prenatal-to-Career Model

May 08, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm ET

This webinar will include highlights of our recently released case and a panel discussion with MEDA leaders who partnered with community residents and community-based organizations to create the Mission Promise Neighborhood. During the webinar, participants will develop a deeper understanding of MEDA’s innovative, community-centered approach; learn how leaders of place-based partnerships can address challenges and make difficult decisions; gain insights into forging strong, mutually beneficial cross-sector partnerships; and engage with MEDA and EdRedesign leaders during a Q&A.

Federal Funding Streams for Children and Youth Services

June 01, 2023

The Federal Funding Streams for Children and Youth Services database helps communities find federal funding available to states, tribal areas, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and local nonprofit organizations to support children and youth. This database catalogs the purposes and key characteristics of more than 280 federal funding programs—funded across 12 different federal agencies—that support cradle-to-career initiatives. Explore the tool below, read our frequently asked questions, view more resources, or contact us to provide feedback about the database.

Connecting the Dots: A Guide to Leveraging Federal Funding Streams

January 01, 2018

This map of federal funds and programs, developed by Jobs for the Future, provides an important organizing tool to communities that seek to support place-based, cradle to career and aligned efforts for disconnected youth ages 14-24. We anticipate this guide will help encourage important conversations around the need for more coordinated, cohesive programs that serve children and youth in communities across the country. About this Guide This guide details over 140 programs across nine different federal agencies that can support place-based cradle to career initiatives. The guide aims to help

Success Planning Academic and Non-Academic Metrics

April 01, 2019

This is a non-exhaustive table outlining potential academic and non-academic metrics that communities can use to track in their student Success Planning efforts. The table contains child-, student body- and community-level indicators as well as their corresponding data sources. Download the PDF.

2023 Condition of Education Action Guide: Looking Back to Look Ahead

February 01, 2023

Rennie Center To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Condition of Education project, the Rennie Center's year's report takes a look back at the programs they've featured in the past and highlights those with particular relevance in our contemporary education landscape. The practices and models highlighted this year fall into four categories: Early Education and Care, Instructional Practices, Student Wellbeing, and College and Career Pathways. Access the full article here.

Institute for Success Planning Virtual Learning Series Session 1: Leveraging Funding Opportunities and Supportive Policies to Advance Personalization

January 24, 2023

Understanding the funding landscape is essential for developing, implementing, and sustaining community efforts to ensure that every child has the supports and opportunities they need to thrive. State and local policies also offer mechanisms for incentivizing the implementation of tailored, relationship-based approaches. During the first session in our Success Planning Virtual Learning Series, EdRedesign Founding Director Paul Reville and Children’s Funding Project CEO Elizabeth Gaines discuss concrete strategies that local leaders can leverage in their own communities to advance

Daniela Lewy

Daniela Lewy serves as a Consultant to the Education Redesign Lab and is a Managing Partner at Social Determinants of Health Consulting, where she supports domestic and international organizations to use a multi-sector approach to address poverty. Prior to this, Dr. Lewy was a political appointee in Governor McAuliffe's administration, serving as Executive Director of the Virginia Governor's Children’s Cabinet. Before joining the Governor's Office, Dr. Lewy was on the International Health faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, working and teaching at

Institute for Success Planning Virtual Learning Series Session 2: Supporting Success Through Authentic and Effective Family and Community Engagement

February 23, 2023

Grounding family engagement strategies in an evidence-based framework can help guide school and community leaders in identifying effective approaches for supporting success for all. During the second session in our Institute for Success Planning Virtual Learning Series, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Karen Mapp presents the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships, which she and colleagues co-created. The framework can be applied to a wide array of settings, including schools, community-based organizations, and other agencies. She also shares learnings

Centering Equity in Collective Impact

December 21, 2022

John Kania, Junious Williams, Paul Schmitz, Sheri Brady, Mark Kramer & Jennifer Splansky JusterThis article focuses on centering equity in collective impact efforts and outlines a set of key actions.