Columbia, Missouri — The Boone County Cradle to Career Alliance will receive $100,000 from the StriveTogether Challenge Fund over the next two years to help address educational and health disparities in Boone County. Boone County joins 50 other communities across 26 states to deliver more equitable outcomes for children and Read more…
Cradle to Career and Boone County Community Services have partnered to receive a Missouri Children’s Trust Fund capacity building grant to build the Brilliant Beginnings hub and to pilot the model for potential state scaling in collaboration with Kansas City and St. Louis over the next 2 ½ years. A Read more…
We want to send our most heartfelt congratulations to board member, Nikki McGruder for being recognized and receiving the individual Columbia Values Diversity Award at the Columbia Values Diversity Breakfast! Ms. McGruder’s work promoting equity and inclusion is an incredible asset to our community. For more information, we encourage you Read more…
Nearly 100 business and community leaders gathered at the Club at Old Hawthorne November 19 for the 3rd annual launch of our community report card on Opportunity Pathways. Mardy Leathers, Director of Missouri Division of Workforce Development shared state updates and future directions in workforce development followed by C2CA’s key Read more…
Click below to learn more about the sessions, and to register. https://www.inclusiveimpact.org/event-info/state-of-inclusivity-2019-conference
Cradle to Career Alliance and Boone County partnered to receive Pritzker Foundation funding to increase Kindergarten Readiness through prenatal to age 3 interventions. Based on recommendations coming from our 2018 K-Readiness Community Status Report, identifying critical factors to improve children’s preparedness for school through two generation support, we are designing Read more…
Click on the picture below to read more about how one community in South Carolina is using the StriveTogether model to make powerful differences.
Cradle to Career Alliance among honorees at PWArchitects 40th Anniversary Celebration. PWArchitects, Inc. is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this month with an event that will benefit three youth-based organizations in our community. Please join us as we celebrate the past, look to the future, and honor our featured guests: Great Read more…
Thanks to KOMU for sharing info on our exciting Pritzker partnership with Boone County!
Cradle to Career is pleased to host a legislative update session regarding recent state policies affecting children and families. Join us in the Friend’s Room at the Daniel Boone Regional Library July 23, from 10 – 12. Kids Win Missouri is a coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving Read more…