YDEKC Field Notes – July & August 2016
Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends - Summer is moving fast and furiously. With strategic refresh planning underway, learning from other communities at the Every Hour Counts System Building Institute in Chicago last week, a YDEKC Mariner's game outing on Tuesday (15 innings to beat Detroit!), and [...]
Topic: Newsletter
YDEKC Field Notes – June 2016
Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends - Summer is here! We hope that your vacations are planned and lake swims and barbecues are on the horizon. We also recognize that summer doesn't look the same for kids across our communities. I was glad to share a blog post on the Gates Foundation Impatient [...]
Topic: Newsletter
YDEKC Shared Advocacy Agenda – June 2016
Deep Dive into Advocacy: Our Shared Agenda Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends - Advocacy is about Hope. At the May 26 poverty conference hosted by Partners for our Children, Siobhan Ring from the Children’s Alliance compellingly stated “I suggest inspirational thinking and a long view into [...]
Topic: Advocacy, Best Starts for Kids, Newsletter
YDEKC Field Notes – May 2016
Greetings YDEKC Members and Friends - Watching my kindergartner's elementary performance of "An Evening with Frog and Toad" earlier this week made me realize how fast this year has flown by! As school year programming wraps up and summer launches, I hope you're able to take a moment to reflect on [...]
Topic: Advocacy, Newsletter
YDEKC Shared Advocacy Agenda – May 2016
YDEKC Advocacy Deep Dive Rene Murry | Public Policy Manager Greetings YDEKC Members! This is the first of a new monthly communication packed with updates about our common agenda across jurisdictions (starting locally, moving out to federal), and in support of young people reaching their full [...]
Topic: Advocacy, Newsletter