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Accepting the?gift?of travel expenses from the William Julius Wilson?Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone for Mayor Carter to attend the Summer?Institute: Transforming Place through Neighborhood Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in partnership with The Ed Redesign Lab from Jul 9-10, 2025 in Cambridge, MA.
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WHEREAS, the William Julius Wilson?Institute?(WJWI) at Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is a national resource for place-based, people-focused solutions that open pathways to social and economic mobility. The?Institute?works with on-the-ground collaborators and national partners to deliver comprehensive strategies, support services, and tools that systematically root out poverty and close opportunity gaps in neighborhoods across America. WJWI is a central hub for place-based services and programs, and for backbone organizations to access the support they need to be successful; and
WHEREAS, the Summer?Institute: Transforming Place through Neighborhood Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in partnership with The Ed Redesign Lab, (Summer Institute) will focus on the impact of neighborhood organizations and system leaders advancing place-based cradle-to-career solutions and include programming on cohesive strategies that align cradle-to-career work, including cross-sector evaluation capacity and research on place-based strategies; and
WHEREAS, Summer Institute will take place from Jul 9-11, 2025 in Cambridge, MA; and
WHEREAS, the William Julius Wilson?Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone has offered to cover the travel expenses not to exceed $3,000 for Mayor Carter to attend; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Saint Paul finds that attendance at this convening is beneficial to the City by providing an opportunity for participants to engage in sessions to develop expertise, obtain practical knowledge, share successes, and to develop a professional network; now therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that th...
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