Great News From Philly

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

The Center for Community Partnerships, the West Philadelphia 
Partnership, and the School District of Philadelphia, West Region are 
most pleased to announce that their "University-Assisted Community 
School Program" has won the inaugural William T. Grant Foundation 
Youth Development Prize sponsored in collaboration with the National 
Academy of Sciences' Board on Children, Youth and Families.  The 
award was announced at a gala dinner at the NAS on March 25, 2003. 
NAS reviewed nearly 270 applications.

The goal of the prize was to "recognize high-quality, evidence-based 
collaborative efforts that generate significant advances in knowledge 
while increasing the opportunities for young people to move 
successfully through adolescence with ample support and care."

The NAS award announcement is available at http://www.nas.edu/  and 
the WT Grant Foundation announcement is available at 
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/

Also, if you have not yet registered, there is still time to join us 
and representatives of many other exemplary 
university-school-community collaborations from the US and 
internationally at the Center for Community Partnerships' 10th 
Anniversary Conference on "University, Schools and Communities: 
Partners for Effective Education, Community Building and Democracy." 
on April 7-8.  We are most pleased that Karen Hein M.D., President of 
the W. T. Grant Foundation, will speak on a panel of foundation 
leaders that concludes the conference on April 8.

While registration  to attend only the conference sessions may done 
in person on the day of the event, to attend the luncheons and 
reception a paid registration form must be received by April 1.

Please check the Center's web site, www.upenn.edu/ccp for conference 
and hotel registration information,  list of speakers, and most 
recent agenda.    Registration will be open on Sunday April 6 from 
6-9 PM, and  will reopen at 7 AM each day of the conference. 
Registration is in Houston Hall, 3600 block of Spruce Street, on the 
Penn campus.  The conference will conclude by 4 PM on April 8.

Please contact us at ccptenth@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-746-0214 with 
any questions.