Kids & Community Partners

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Kids & Community Partners

Every time a Connor Group associate adds to the bottom line, they’re helping under-resourced kids in the communities where we operate.

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What we do matters

Hugs and high-fives filled the sidewalk in front of The Greater Dayton School as a Developing Leaders bootcamp arrived. A group of six Connor Group managers spent a September morning opening up books and reading side-by-side with students.

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About Us

A percentage of The Connor Group revenue goes to its non-profit arm, The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners, which has invested $152 million in programs since inception. The company plans on devoting $800 million to non-profits over the next decade.

Kids & Community Partners is committed to pulling kids out of generational poverty in Connor Group markets. That means researching and vetting non-profits we can help scale into — or beyond — communities in which we operate. And when we see the need for a new program… we create it ourselves.

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What we've started
Our Programs

Greater Dayton School

Greater Dayton School

Ohio's first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students.

Connor Kids Academy

Connor Kids Academy

An innovative approach to sports camps that provide kids with a potentially life changing three year experience.

Colin's Lodge

Colin's Lodge

An evening-and-weekend recreation and enrichment center for young adults with cognitive differences.

Greater Dayton School

Greater Dayton School

Ohio's first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students.

Connor Kids Academy

Connor Kids Academy

An innovative approach to sports camps that provide kids with a potentially life changing three year experience.

Colin's Lodge

Colin's Lodge

An evening-and-weekend recreation and enrichment center for young adults with cognitive differences.

Greater Dayton School

Greater Dayton School

Ohio's first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students.

Connor Kids Academy

Connor Kids Academy

An innovative approach to sports camps that provide kids with a potentially life changing three year experience.

Colin's Lodge

Colin's Lodge

An evening-and-weekend recreation and enrichment center for young adults with cognitive differences.

Greater Dayton School

Greater Dayton School

Ohio's first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students.

Connor Kids Academy

Connor Kids Academy

An innovative approach to sports camps that provide kids with a potentially life changing three year experience.

Colin's Lodge

Colin's Lodge

An evening-and-weekend recreation and enrichment center for young adults with cognitive differences.

Who we partner with
OUR CURRENT INVESTMENTS

  • Learn to Be

    Learn to Be

    Learn to Be helps kids from underserved communities unlock their own potential by connecting them with exceptional one-on-one online tutors, for free.

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  • Bottom Line

    Bottom Line

    Bottom Line helps first-generation-to-college students from low-income backgrounds get to and through college.

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  • The Mayo Clinic

    The Mayo Clinic

    The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners is also proud to support the cutting-edge research of James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph. D. and the Mayo Clinic at the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center for Aging to improve the quality of life for all commencing at birth.

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  • Road to Hire

    Road to Hire

    Road to Hire and its partners support underrepresented high school students, college students and young professionals on their way to strong, sustainable tech careers.

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  • Alliance for Decision Education

    Alliance for Decision Education

    The Alliance for Decision Education improves lives by empowering students with essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions.

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  • Code Nation

    Code Nation

    Code Nation equips students in under-resourced high schools with the skills, experiences, and connections that together create access to careers in technology.

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  • CityLink - PelotonU

    CityLink - PelotonU

    PelotonU offers busy, working adults a flexible and affordable path to their Associate or Bachelor’s degree. It’s a collaborative approach to overcoming poverty.

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  • Dayton Children's Hospital

    Dayton Children's Hospital

    Dayton Children’s believes in reinventing the path to children’s health for families throughout the Dayton region and beyond.

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  • Miracle Makers

    Miracle Makers

    Miracle Makers is an after-school and summer program located in Dayton’s East End. Students receive a wide range of services in an academically stimulating environment.

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  • Victory Project

    Victory Project

    The Victory Project is an intense after-school program, mentoring disengaged young men in Dayton with its groundbreaking 3E curriculum: education, entrepreneurship, and enlightenment.

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  • Dayton Early College Academy

    Dayton Early College Academy

    DECA’s mission is to prepare future college graduates today to become the leaders of our community tomorrow.

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  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland Clinic

    Kids & Community Partners’ invest — through the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic in cutting edge artificial intelligence projects that have the potential to redefine the treatment of spine and hypertension treatment.

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  • Montgomery County Ohio College Promise

    Montgomery County Ohio College Promise

    MCOCP supports poverty impacted 8th graders in Montgomery County who show academic promise and helps prepare them to attend and graduate from college.

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  • McLean Hospital

    McLean Hospital

    The Connor-McLean Healthy Kids Development Program is a partnership with one of the world’s leading psychiatric hospital. It consists of a biological study of trauma and its long-term effects on mental health, particularly in children living in poverty.

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Dayton Early College AcademyDayton Early College Academy
Cleveland ClinicCleveland Clinic
Montgomery County Ohio College PromiseMontgomery County Ohio College Promise
McLean HospitalMcLean Hospital
Learn to BeLearn to Be
Bottom LineBottom Line
The Mayo ClinicThe Mayo Clinic
Road to HireRoad to Hire
Alliance for Decision EducationAlliance for Decision Education
Code NationCode Nation
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Dayton Children's HospitalDayton Children's Hospital
Miracle MakersMiracle Makers
Victory ProjectVictory Project
Dayton Early College AcademyDayton Early College Academy
Cleveland ClinicCleveland Clinic
Montgomery County Ohio College PromiseMontgomery County Ohio College Promise
McLean HospitalMcLean Hospital
Learn to BeLearn to Be
Bottom LineBottom Line
The Mayo ClinicThe Mayo Clinic
Road to HireRoad to Hire
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Core Values

It's our culture

LOOK FAR AND WIDE; ACT NARROW AND DEEP

ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE

TRANSFORM KIDS' LIVES

EXCELLENCE IN EVERYTHING

INVEST FOR THE LONG-TERM