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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
