Partners
NAZ is a Collaborative of Nonprofits and Schools
Through NAZ, the community and multi-sector, cross-agency leaders have responded to a call to action. We have aligned our organizations and systems to support the same group of NAZ-enrolled parents and children.
Anchor Partners
NAZ Anchor partners are at the core of our collaborative. Each provides a critical component of our best-practice supports from pre-natal through college. Partners coordinate services around family and student Achievement Plans through the NAZ Connect data system, and work together in our learning community Action Teams.
These are ways our partner nonprofits and schools collaborate:
- Shared goals
- Shared data system: NAZ Connect
- Staff co-location
- Evidence-based NAZ Results Plans
- Leading policy change
- Working in Action Teams
All NAZ partners are adopting evidence-based practices called NAZ Results Plans for each of these action areas:
Early Childhood
- Everyday Miracles
- La Crèche Early Childhood Centers, Inc.
- Minneapolis Public Schools Early Childhood Education
- New Horizon Academy
- Northside Child Development Center
- Phyllis Wheatley Community Center/Mary T. Wellcome Child Development Center
- The Family Partnership
- Think Small
- Way to Grow
K-12 Schools
- Ascension Catholic School
- Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
- KIPP Minnesota (North Star Academy & North Star Primary)
- Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary School (MPS)
- Patrick Henry High School (MPS)
Expanded Learning/Out-of-School Time (OST)
- 21st Century Academy (Liberty Church)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Plymouth Christian Youth Center (PCYC)
- Reading Partners
- ServeMinnesota (Reading Corps)
- YMCA Beacons
- Playworks Minnesota
- V3 Sports
College
Community Wellness
Career & Finance
Housing
Other NAZ Partners
These partners serve as a referral source for NAZ families with specific needs, they play a role on our Action Team learning communities, and/or provide capacity support to NAZ.
- Augsburg College
- Athletes Committed to Educating Students (ACES)
- Beyond Walls
- Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities
- Broadway Family Clinic
- Capri Theater
- Children’s Defense Fund
- City of Lakes Community Land Trust
- City of Minneapolis
- CommonBond
- Dress for Success
- FLOW
- Generation Next
- Girl Scouts of Minnesota & Wisconsin River Valleys
- Greater Twin Cities United Way
- Hennepin County Libraries—North Regional Library
- Hospitality House
- Jewish Community Action
- Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis
- Kente Circle
- Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts
- Macalester College
- Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota
- Minneapolis Adult Education
- Minneapolis Beacons Network
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)
- Minneapolis North WorkForce Center (DEED)
- Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board
- Minneapolis Public Schools (Community Education & ALC/CBO)
- Minneapolis Urban League
- Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
- Minnesota Children’s Museum
- Minnesota Department of Education
- Minnesota Reading Corps
- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
- Neighborhood HealthSource
- Normandale Community College
- North Community YMCA
- Northside Home Fund
- Parents as Teachers
- People Serving People
- PICA HeadStart
- Pillsbury United Communities—Oak Park Center
- PRG
- Project Success
- Ready, Set, Smile
- RESOURCE (EAC)
- Shiloh Temple
- Summit Academy OIC
- Treehouse
- Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity
- University of Minnesota Center for Early Education Department (CEED)
- University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach & Engagement Center (UROC)
- YWCA of Minneapolis
- Wilder Research