Use this template to help determine the key roles and responsibilities in your partnership. You can then create a charter that is general, as in our Sample Partnership Charter, or one that is more detailed and specific.
This paper outlines a vision for a “partnership ecosystem” that unites school-based service providers into a seamless web of supports for students. Here we describe the rationale for school-community partnerships and the key features of a thriving ecosystem. This document serves as the basis for YDEKC’s School & Community Partnership Toolkit.
This activity is designed to help school and community leaders map out the ecosystem of supports for students at a school site. This can be a helpful exercise if you want to visually represent the complexity of partnerships. See the sample map to get an idea of what a finished map can look like.
Use this tool to think about possible meeting topics and structures that would best suit your partnership.
This unconventional final report — a collection of 18 x 24 posters — highlights each journey of Youth Development Executives of King County’s sixteen 2019 Whole Child, Whole Day mini-grantees. Every poster outlines the what, so what, and now what of each Whole Child, Whole Day Mini-grant project.
In early 2022, Youth Development Executives of King County (YDEKC) announced grantees of the Thriving Leaders of Color Fund, an initiative designed to advance, rejuvenate, and/or celebrate leaders of color within youth-serving organizations.