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How a Unique Youth Anti-Violence Program is Changing Lives

November 9, 2011 by Andrew Brewer in Neighboring, School Partnership with 0 Comments

Photo provided by the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise

Today’s post is by Robert L. Woodson, Sr., the president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Woodson and his team several months ago at a conference in Denver, and I am very excited to have him share about the work that CNE is doing in neighborhoods around the country. The Violence-Free Zone featured in this post is only one of many ways that CNE is transforming neighborhoods. I highly recommend checking out all that they do by going to their website, www.cneonline.org.

Dawn was an A student at Milwaukee’s South Division High School when she became the victim of bullying by a gang of girls who resented her success. One day coming out of a class, they jumped and severely beat her. Fearing for her daughter’s safety, her mother sent her Continue Reading…

How One Church Bandaged a School’s Budget Cuts

November 4, 2011 by Andrew Brewer in School Partnership with 0 Comments

*This is one of the stories  that my wife, Jayne Brewer, wrote that didn’t make the cut for our free, dowloadable document, “The Best Externally Focused Ideas of 2011.” If you like this, I highly encourage you to download this free resource which contains 29 stories like this one. You can download it by clicking here.

What’s the problem?
The Great Recession is still taking its toll on budgets of school districts across the state of Arizona.(1) The Vail School district in Tucson, Arizona is no stranger to this reality. It is expected to lose $5.8 million dollars in funding by 2013.(2)

What’s a solution?
In June 2011, a growing conviction arose in the hearts of Continue Reading…