Community Engagement Council
The Charleston Promise Neighborhood is pleased to announce that its efforts to meaningfully engage the community are in full swing. We have reached out to community leaders from throughout the 5.6 square mile area that comprises the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, and assembled a roster of trailblazers who will direct our outreach efforts with the Neighborhood. Continue reading
It has been just over six months since the Post and Courier published its July 5, 2010 article on the formation of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood. For many residents in the Charleston area, this article was the first they heard of our area’s ambitious effort to replicate the success of the nationally-renowned Harlem Children’s Zone, founded by Geoffrey Canada. The July article reported that The Charleston Promise Neighborhood staff was just moving into its newly-rented office space, and that it had just hired its Chief Executive and Managing Director.
Importantly, the article also reported that the Charleston Promise Neighborhood had recently applied for one of twenty federal planning grants in the amount of $500,000, designed to help create promise neighborhoods, and that the grant recipients would be announced in September. Continue reading
On Friday, January 7th, a group from the Charleston Promise Neighborhood had the honor of hearing Geoffrey Canada speak in Columbia, South Carolina. Geoffrey Canada is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone, the model upon which the Charleston Promise Neighborhood is based. Geoffrey Canada was the keynote speaker for a charitable fundraiser held at the Brookland Baptist Conference Center on behalf of the Eau Claire Promise Zone. The Eau Claire Promise Zone Board is chaired by Dan Canada, Geoffrey’s older brother. Continue reading
