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Pathways Early Education Center: Growing to Serve in Immokalee

Only an hour from downtown Naples, but a world apart, Immokalee is home to Pathways Early Education Center. In operation for more than 56 years, Pathways ably serves its mission…

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Future Ready Collier: The Promise of Collective Action

In assessing how to strengthen our communities, collaboration is a frequently raised topic—most commonly relative to its current insufficiency. Local stakeholders may bemoan the lack of cohesiveness, overlapping or unclear…

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Healthcare Network: The Power of Access and Community Health

When you think of a community initiative centered primarily on education, your first guesses of likely partners may not include healthcare providers. However, engaging the medical community has been key…

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The Greater Naples Chamber: Connecting Education to Workforce through Work-Based Learning

When Future Ready Collier was formalized, it was as a strategic offshoot of the Greater Naples Chamber’s Opportunity Naples initiative. This effort identified a need to assign resources to support…

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The Boys & Girls Club of Collier County: Adapting in a Time of Need

On any given day during what we might now refer to as “normal” times, the Boys & Girls Club of Collier County would welcome 400 to 500 kids at their…

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The Early Learning Coalition: Fostering Collaboration with Future Ready Collier

If an objective of early childhood education is helping kids learn the value of sharing and partnership, then a collective impact model is a real-world extension of that ideological premise….

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Collier County Public Schools eLearns!

Collier County County Public Schools (CCPS) is committed to supporting children and families in continuous learning. When the schools are closed for any reason, CCPS encourages parents and caregivers to…

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Collier County Public Schools Updates

Source: Collier County Public Schools Collier County Public Schools (CCPS) continues to monitor the rapidly changing situation regarding COVID-19 and will regularly share updated information regarding school closure.

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Guadalupe Center: Creating Possibilities Through Future Ready Collier

A partner organization since Future Ready Collier’s founding, the Guadalupe Center has a 35-year history of, as their organizational mission decrees, using educational opportunity to help break the cycle of…

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Learning Together: A CDA Pilot Project

Future Ready Collier partner organizations, with pilot funding from the Early Learning Coalition, have embarked on an initiative to facilitate a better completion rate among candidates for Child Development Associate…