America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth
Founded:
1997
Contact:
Marguerite W. Kondracke,
President & CEO
Address:
America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth
909 N. Washington Street, Suite 400
Alexandria,
VA
22314-1556
Phone:
(703) 684-4500
Fax:
(703) 535-3900
E-mail:
webmaster@americaspromise.org
URL:
http://www.americaspromise.org/
NPO Spotlight - America's Promise
Mission:
To mobilize all sectors and every interested community across America to ensure that every child has five fundamental resources — caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, an effective education, and opportunities to help others.
About the Organization:
America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth grew out of the Presidents' Summit for America's Future in April 1997, at which President Bill Clinton and former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford (with Nancy Reagan representing Ronald Reagan), signed a declaration challenging America to make children and youth a national priority. Retired General Colin Powell served as the organization's founding chair, and his wife, Alma, is its current chair. Since its inception, the alliance has helped make it possible for two million young people to have mentors; three million children to have safe places to go; and four million children to have health insurance and experience the working world through "job shadowing." The organization has also encouraged more than a million young people to volunteer more than one hundred hours each year. With over a hundred partner organizations, the alliance is working to meet its "15 in 5" goal of improving the lives of fifteen million more children by 2011.
Current Programs:
America's Promise supports four main initiatives: 100 Best Communities for Young People celebrates innovative community efforts that improve the well-being of young people; Every Child, Every Promise produces research that attempts to measure the key developmental resources devoted to school-age children; Katrina's Kids works with alliance partners and state and local officials in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to ensure that children whose lives were affected by the hurricane receive the long-term resources they need; and its regional forums provide communities with tools to reach more children and youth (forums will take place in Houston and Nashville this summer).
Web Site:
The America's Promise site features Five Promises, the organization's five-year goals, and "Promises in Action." At Promise Stations — online gathering spaces created by various communities on the organization's Web platform — kids can learn about local organizations, services, and activities. The site also includes training materials for Promise Station administrators; online forums; and suggestions for ways that foundations, business leaders, educators, and policy makers can help young people.
Funding:
America's Promise is supported primarily by private donations from individuals, corporations, associations, and foundations.
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