When Families Thrive, Children Succeed: How MEDA Created a Transformational Prenatal-to-Career Model
The Mission District has served for decades as the vibrant epicenter of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Latino community. The Mission District faces the challenges associated with neighborhoods characterized by poverty and gentrification. The Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), founded in 1973, has become a national model for place-based prenatal-to-career strategies designed to “build Latino […]
[Leer en español] | [Photos] “A picture is worth a thousand words” became the flagship saying for a group of families in San Francisco throughout 2023. The reason? A photography and advocacy project by the Mission Promise Neighborhood‘s Family Council. For 12 months, a group of Latino parents participated in a workshop on everyday life […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Delta Health Alliance in Mississippi, Mission Economic Development Agency in San Francisco, Partners for Rural Impact in Kentucky, and SBCS (formerly South Bay Community Services) in San Diego, leading place-based organizations announced the launch of the National Promise Neighborhoods Coalition. A national, nonpartisan coordinating body, the new coalition will advocate […]
[Click for English, which follows Spanish.] Families are often focused on enrolling their children in educational institutions, but the learning experience doesn’t have to stop at the end of the school day. After-school programs offer a plethora of opportunities for children to expand their horizons, explore new interests, and build valuable life skills. Mission Promise […]
By Jillian Spindle, MEDA’s Chief Operating Officer On February 16th, 2023, Mission Promise Neighborhood hosted the California Promise Neighborhood Network (CPNN) at our home in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. We were joined by colleagues, friends and movement builders from the Harlem Children’s Zone- William Julius Wilson Institute, Strive Together, the Ed Redesign […]
This month we were proud to celebrate our 10th anniversary as a Promise Neighborhood. Mission Promise Neighborhood provides a network of support services to help families achieve economic stability and gives them the tools to support their children’s academic achievement, creating a brighter future for the whole Mission community. The MPN vision includes a future […]
[Click for English, which follows Spanish.] Esa habilidad llegó a la vida de Elena Macario después de conocer a Luis Ostolaza, Guía de éxito familiar de Comunidad Promesa de la Mission a mediados de 2017. El encuentro se dio en la escuela primaria Bryant, donde estudiaban los hijos de Elena en ese tiempo. “No sabía […]
[Click for English, which follows Spanish.] A la Comunidad Promesa de la Mission la conocí por medio de mi sobrino que estaba en un programa de Seven Tepees Youth Program, uno de los socios fundadores de la Comunidad Promesa. Era el año 2014, hubo una feria de recursos en la que personal de MEDA estaba […]
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