Power of Place partners closely with organizations, funders, non-profits, and institutions of higher education around the country to provide our members with access to the newest, most relevant content, tools, and resources. Our current and past list of valued partner organizations include:
The mission of the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) is to transform schools to ensure that all students succeed. Founded in 1994, CCE envisions a just and equitable world where every student is college- and career-ready and prepared to become a compassionate, thoughtful, and contributing global citizen. CCE was the Essex County Learning Community’s implementation partner from 2018 through 2021. (Founding Partner)
Community Catalyst has spurred community-driven advocacy efforts for better, more equitable health care in 40+ states for more than two decades. It has helped make the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a reality, expanded Medicaid coverage to millions, improved the Medicare program, and secured victories at the local and state level to make care more affordable and accessible for everyone.
EarlyBird is a breakthrough assessment tool that empowers educators, parents, and clinicians to replace the old “wait to fail” paradigm with a proactive, preventive tool to identify and support children at risk – in the window when intervention is most effective. EarlyBird is an easy-to-administer solution that is game-based and combines proven predictors of reading.
EdTogether is a non-profit empowering youth with disabilities to thrive in learning and in life. They explore and share how emotion plays an integral role in children’s learning and engage youth to personalize [their] learning, foster empathy, and strengthen relationships between [them] and [their] educators.
Educating for Good helps learning communities uncover the roots of their successes and challenges as they strive to meet the needs of each learner and the goals of the community. By building deeper understanding through dialogue, identifying practical solutions to adaptive challenges, and redesigning for justice, we seek to improve the lives of all learners in a community.
Endicott College offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, plus graduate-level certificates, and enrolls more than 2,900 traditional undergraduate students and 1,760 graduate students at its main campus in Beverly, Mass., online, and at offsite locations. Endicott is the only college to require internships in every major, and students benefit from their unique approach to hands-on instruction.
Equity Journey Partners works closely with schools and their communities to support their journey to become culturally proficient and equitable ecosystems that ensure students of all cultures and social identities can achieve a future inspired by boundless dreams.
Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. For more than three decades, EP has helped civic groups, faith communities, colleges, and workplaces foster resilience, cohesion, understanding, and trust.
The Essex County Community Foundation inspires philanthropy that strengthens the communities of Essex County by managing charitable assets, strengthening and supporting nonprofits, and engaging in strategic community leadership initiatives. Our ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life in the 34 towns and cities of Essex County. (Founding Partner)
Eye to Eye’s mission is to improve the educational experience and outcomes of neurodiverse young people, while engaging them and their allies in the movement for a more equitable and inclusive society.
Full Frame Communications is a consulting practice based in the Boston area that supports mission-driven organizations in developing their communications, engagement, and leadership capacities--as a foundation for driving meaningful and sustained social change. (Founding Partner)
Lesley University is the largest educator of teachers and counselors in New England, and prepares graduates to impact lives, strengthen communities, and act as catalysts for a more just world. Their focus is on the human arts, with programs that live at the intersection of education, counseling, and the visual arts.
New Profit is a national venture philanthropy organization created by and for social entrepreneurs. It backs breakthrough leaders in the social sector and believes that those who have lived experience with the systems that need to change – in education, health, economic mobility, and others – have the deepest knowledge about the assets in their communities and are creating innovative, experience-driven solutions. Over the last 23 years, New Profit has supported 78 organizations. Deep diligence, portfolio support, and measurement and evaluation, combined with cross-sector partnerships, are the hallmarks of the organization. (Founding Partner)
The mission of Partnerships in Education and Resilience (PEAR) is to make meaningful theoretical and practical contributions to youth development, educational innovation, and mental health so that young people can learn, dream, and thrive. PEAR works to develop school and afterschool settings that promote positive youth development so that all young people can be successful.
The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation is a family foundation that supports and collaborates with nonprofit organizations and community partners that share its mission of helping children, adolescents, and young people affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, and substance use disorders. The Tower Foundation envisions equitable communities where all young people are included, accepted, and valued; and are confident in themselves. Their work is focused in Western New York and Eastern Massachusetts, areas that are important to the Tower family. (Founding Partner)
Storytellers for Change works at the intersection of narrative, leadership development, facilitation, participatory engagement, and community building for social change, racial equity, belonging, joy, and healing. They work with youth, educators, leaders and cross-sector organizations to amplify their impact through storytelling.
The Core Collaborative co-designs strengths-based, sustainable professional learning for measurable impact. The organization works with schools and districts to empower instructional leadership, foster a climate of belonging and inclusion, enrich authentic family-community partnerships, implement inclusive policies and practices, advance learner-centered curriculum and instruction, and strengthen learner-centered impact teams.
The National SEED Project partners with communities, organizations, and institutions to bring people together to learn through self-reflection, to build relationships through structured dialogue, and to create change through systemic analysis. SEED provides transformational professional development that prepares leaders to facilitate conversations that drive social change within their institution.
The Teacher Collaborative (TTC) is a Massachusetts-based, non-profit community for PK-12 educators across the Commonwealth that offers free programming to help them connect, learn, innovate, and lead. TTC collaborates with ECLC in a multi-pronged partnership to provide various critical back-end administrative functions, including conferring professional development points (PDPs) for members of the learning community. In addition, TTC leads and facilitates the ECLC Teacher Action Research Fellowship program.
Transcend is made up of a diverse team of educators, innovators, and changemakers with experience as school and system leaders, working towards a vision where all young people learn in ways that enable them to thrive in and transform the world. The organization is unified in the mission to support school communities to create and spread extraordinary, equitable learning environments.
Since its founding in 2017, the Winthrop Park School has offered programs for teachers and students with a focus on fostering educational innovation and opportunity. We advance models of schooling where learning thrives everywhere, in classrooms and beyond; where students and their families are empowered to shape their own educational journeys; and where entire communities contribute to the development of young people.
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence provides training to educational leaders, teachers, and school staff to support the systemic implementation of social and emotional learning and foster those skills in all stakeholders in these communities, including in families and out-of-school time. They test and refine each element of their work, with the goal of leveraging emotions to create healthier and more equitable, innovative, and compassionate communities.
