Network Members
The Promising Practices Network (PPN) was founded by a partnership between four state-level intermediary organizations. The Network now includes additional organizations and individuals dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, families, and communities.
Organizational Members
Individual Members
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Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
PPN Board of Advisors representative: Ken Seeley, Executive Director
The Colorado Foundation for Families and Children is a not-for-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado, that serves as a link between government agencies, constituencies serving families and children, and local communities to strengthen the well-being of families and children. CFFC works in the private and public sectors to promote cross-system solutions. Their scope is national, but concentrates on the middle and western United States, with Colorado as a priority. CFFC's overriding objective is to promote prevention and intervention strategies that work for families. The organization is not tied to a particular program, system, or discipline, and seeks only positive results that are family-focused, community-based, and capacity-building.
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Family and Community Trust
PPN Board of Advisors representative: Bill Dent, Manager, Missouri Community Partnerships
The Family and Community Trust seeks to coordinate and reform the systems through which communities and state agencies work to improve the lives and well-being of Missouri's families and children. This systems reform effort is known as "Caring Communities." It has substantially changed the way that government and communities interact, while addressing the diversity of need throughout the state. The Caring Communities initiative will focus on reporting the facts about whether goals such as moving people into higher paying jobs, keeping families healthy, and ensuring that children are learning are being met.
Family Connection Partnership
PPN Board of Advisors representative: Gaye Morris Smith, Executive Director
Family Connection Partnership is a nonprofit organization formed from the merger of Georgia Academy for Children and Youth Professionals, Inc. and Family Connection. Both organizations were founded in 1991 with funding from the Woodruff Foundation and the Whitehead Foundation, along with state investments. Georgia Academy has been a leader in providing training to professionals working with children and youth in Georgia. Family Connection is the largest statewide network in the nation with 159 community collaboratives working to improve results for children and families. Family Connection Partnership, Inc. is the catalyst that drives continued systems change on behalf of improving results for children and their families in the State of Georgia.
Foundation Consortium for California's Children & Youth
The mission of the Foundation Consortium for California's Children & Youth is to improve the well-being of California's children, families, and communities. This is achieved by influencing public policy and improving practice at the state, country and local levels. The Foundation Consortium offers policy leadership, technical assistance, and support to promote innovative thinking and motivate organizations and individuals to experiment with new ideas, tools, and practices. Their Community Approach promotes cooperation across organizations, embracing the key principles of family involvement, community partnership, and shared accountability. The Foundation Consortium seeks to unite all stakeholders in making the Community Approach the standard for child and family support programs throughout the state.
Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media, at Saint Vincent College
PPN Board of Advisors representative: William H. Isler, Executive Director
Staying true to the vision of Fred Rogers, creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and emulating the guiding principles of his life's work, the mission of the Fred Rogers Center is to advance the fields of early learning and children's media by acting as a catalyst for communication, collaboration, and creative change. Since its establishment at Saint Vincent College in 2003, the Center has focused on three strategic priorities: (1) to establish the official Fred Rogers Archive as both a physical and a digital resource for education, research, and new media applications; (2) to support established and rising leaders in early learning and children's media; and (3) to promote communication around current issues and new agendas.
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF)
PPN Board of Advisors representative: Stephanie McGencey, Executive Director
Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families (GCYF) is a membership association of grantmaking institutions. Our mission is to increase the ability of organized philanthropy to improve the well-being of children, youth and families. We serve as a forum to review and analyze grantmaking strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments and maintain ongoing discussions with national leaders.
Kansas Action for Children
PPN Board of Advisors representatives: Gary Brunk, Executive Director, and
Shannon Cotsoradis , Associate Director
The mission of Kansas Action for Children is to advocate for policies and programs that ensure and improve the physical, emotional, and educational well-being of all Kansas children and youth. KAC is an independent and nonpartisan voice on their behalf, working to ensure that Kansas children have the best opportunities in the nation to grow and thrive. Kansas Action for Children seeks to improve public policy and public systems rather than to assist children on a case-by-case basis through direct services. Changes in public policy affect large numbers of children.
KidsOhio.org
PPN Board of Advisors representative: Mark Real, President and CEO
KidsOhio.org is an Ohio-led, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to improve the lives and education of Ohio's nearly three million children, especially disadvantaged youngsters. Based in Columbus, KidsOhio.org advocates on a range of children's issues, including health, early childhood education, and improving public education for Ohio's children.
New York State Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS)
PPN Board of Advisors representatives: Nancy Martinez, Director, Strategic Planning and Policy Development, and Susan Mitchell-Herzfeld, Director of Evaluation and Research
The mission of the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is to serve New York's public by promoting the well-being and safety of its children, families and communities. OCFS supervises the child and family service programs operated by New York’s 58 local departments of social services, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, county and municipal youth bureaus, and private providers. Such programs include foster care, adoption assistance, child protective services, preventive services for children and families, protective services for vulnerable adults, programs for the blind and visually handicapped, domestic violence services, youth development programs, and child care. OCFS is also responsible for the administration of residential facilities and community-based programs for juvenile delinquents and for oversight and fiscal support of juvenile detention programs.
RAND Corporation
PPN Board of Advisors representative: James A. Thomson, President and CEO
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND employs more than 700 research professionals; nearly 80 percent hold advanced degrees, most commonly the doctorate, in varied disciplines. We have made rigorous program evaluation a hallmark of our work, enriching the range of techniques for evaluating policies in education, health care, welfare, drug control, and the justice system. We have provided practical advice about how well programs are working and how efficiently resources are spent in furthering program goals.
Doug Brengel
Senior Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Douglas A. Brengel is a Senior Managing Director in Citigroup Global Markets' Global Technology Group. He joined Salomon Brothers' Chicago office in 1977, and was named a Managing Director in 1987, and relocated to Los Angeles in July of 1987. He was named Head of Salomon’s West Coast Investment Banking in 1988, Head of Domestic Branch Investment Banking in 1989 and Head of Global Technology Investment Banking in 1994; a position held until 1997 and again during 1999. Mr. Brengel now is responsible for the Global Semiconductor, Information Storage and Test and Measurements Investment Banking Practices within the Global Technology Group.
Mr. Brengel has recently advised clients including: Advanced Micro Devices, Agilent Technologies, Amkor Technology, Chartered Semiconductor, Freescale Semicondutor, Hewlett Packard, Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies AG, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Maxtor Corporation, Micron Technology, Quantum Corporation, Singapore Technologies, STATS, and ST Microelectronics; in a variety of capital raising and strategic transactions.
Mr. Brengel received a B.A. degree in Economics from Lawrence University, Wisconsin in 1972 and a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1974.
He also currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Urban Education Partnership, LA's BEST (Better Educated Students for Tomorrow), Lawrence University and Creo Inc.
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