The Connor Group Kids & Community Partners, recently honored by The Dayton Business Journal as Community Supporter of the Year finalist, grew in size, scope and impact in 2022. And it’s just getting started. In the spring, the organization broke ground on a $50-million campus for The Greater Dayton School. GDS, the state’s first private
Kids & Community Partners is a non-profit born out of a high-performance for-profit business. So when our associates began researching and vetting Road to Hire, it felt a bit like looking in a mirror. The Charlotte-based non-profit provides training and career guidance for underrepresented youth in the tech sector. It began as an equity and
Long before the COVID pandemic forced elementary school students to learn online, two childhood best friends and recent college grads decided to harness the Internet to help underserved students with their school work. Stephen Chen and Neeraj Kapoor founded Learn to Be in 2008 and began connecting kids with free online tutoring. “We thought it
June 8, 2022 – Enrollment is underway for the Greater Dayton School, Ohio’s first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students. The innovative educational model will cater to the whole child and, according to its founders, set the bar for a national model that provides students access to all the resources they need
While considering an investment in technology education, we got to know the leadership at Code Nation over the course of many months and many conversations. But one conversation stuck out. “In 15 years people are going to fall into two buckets,” one of the organization’s senior leaders told us during a visit to our office.
“Decision education” is a foreign phrase and concept for most of us. We teach students how to read and write and complete math problems. But, by and large, we don’t teach them how to make decisions, which is unfortunate, because decisions impact every aspect of our lives. Decision education is being applied in various ways
Kids & Community Partners views its work as non-profit investing – meaning we calculate a return on investment based on the value we’re bringing to under-resourced children and youth. That calculation takes into account more than 35 different outcomes that we believe pull kids out of generational poverty. And one thing our research and data
DAYTON, OH – The non-profit arm of a local real estate investment firm is partnering with one of the country’s top psychiatric hospitals on a Dayton-based groundbreaking research project aimed at understanding the biologic link between childhood hardships and mental disorders. The study, dubbed the Connor-McLean Healthy Kids Development Program, is a combined effort of
On the south side of Columbus, in a low-income neighborhood, is an early education and child care program that this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. But the work being done within its walls has little to do with the traditional 4-year-old nursery school model. Quite the contrary. The work being done in recent years at
