Regional Education Partnerships Grant
In order to ensure each child is challenged, prepared and empowered, everyone must work together. Collaboration will enable our children to gain the knowledge and skills they need to be successful, start a meaningful career and contribute to the economic vitality of Ohio. Fortunately, many communities have achieved this through Regional Education Partnerships. Regional Education Partnerships are critical collaboratives that bring together the leaders of early learning, primary, and post-secondary education, social services, business, nonprofit and community organizations to strengthen the education pathway for all children in their community.
At the center of the Regional Education Partnership is a backbone organization that acts as a managing partner to coordinate and lead the partnership’s work on a daily basis. This organization may be a new entity or an existing one with deep roots in the community. Functions of backbone include acting as the fiscal agent, fundraising, providing data support, etc. This grant is meant to fund these backbone organizations and pilot the expanding or enhancing of these partnerships.
Grantees
Partnership Name
- Learn to Earn Dayton
- Pickaway Works Regional Education Partnership
- Office for Advancing Strategy Partnerships Institutional Relations and Economy (ASPIRE)
- Cradle to Career Cincinnati
- Southern Ohio K-6 Careers
- Fairfield 33 Development Alliance
- West Central Ohio Regional Education Partnership
- Northwest Ohio Regional Education Partners
- East Central Ohio Regional Partnership
- Gallia-Jackson-Vinton-Meigs Regional Partnership
- Summit Education Initiative
Applicant (Backbone) Organization
- Learn to Earn Dayton
- Pickaway WORKS
- Miami University
- YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
- Ohio Valley Educational Service Center
- Fairfield County Economic and Workforce Development
- Edison State Community College
- Toledo Tomorrow
- Cambridge Area YMCA Family Center
- Gallia Jackson Vinton JVSD
- Summit Education Initiative
Today, students need to see a link between what they are learning and future work. Career Connections offer practical ways for teachers and school counselors, families and community members to show students, as early as in kindergarten, the types of careers possible for them.
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