Modeling Harlem Children's Zone

by Leigh Graham · 2009-08-08 09:00:00 UTC
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I'm sort of putting this post up today as a reminder to myself to come back to it - it's a WaPo profile of Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada's unique, high-intensity community & human development organization that President Obama sees as an anti-poverty and neighborhood development model.

This is the starting point for the Harlem Children's Zone: the womb. Geoffrey Canada's nonprofit has created a web of programs that begin before birth, end with college graduation and reach almost every child growing up in 97 blocks carved out of the struggling central Harlem neighborhood.

Folks over at PostBourgie are discussing a recent biography of Canada and HCZ.  And I've mentioned HCZ in passing a couple times around this blog.

What do you think of this program?  What's not to like?  Anything?

Leigh Graham
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