Thanks to "College Possible Access and Success Partnership" college is possible for many youth

The "College Possible Access and Success Partnership" is an award winning and evidence based program that works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Omaha, Nebraska and the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The 2011 Mutual of America Community Partnership National Award Winner College Possible (originally named Admission Possible), is a nonprofit that helps economically disadvantaged high school students navigate college. The organization helps students with the college admissions process and while in college. College Possible works with several partners to help pull off the program including high schools in their target areas, numerous institutions of higher education, and AmeriCorps and VISTA.

What a great way to fill a gap and to use partnerships to do it. Each partner is critical to the process. I would even argue critical to the programs 98% success rate. 

Mutual of America honors partnerships with its "Community Partnership Award"

For the past 15 years, Mutual of America has been recognizing U.S. nonprofit organizations for their efforts in facilitating partnerships that benefit their communities. Ten organizations are chosen as winners. There's one national winner and the other nine fall into two categories - Honorable Mention or Merit Finalist. The lucky recipient of the National "Community Partnership Award" gets $25,000 along with a documentary to help promote the partnership. Mutual of America is currently accepting applications for the 2012 "Community Partnership Award". Click here for more information.

It's great to see community partnerships being honored and promoted. There are so many people, sometimes in different job sectors, that care about the same issues. What better idea than to have them come together to address an issue. Not only can you share material resources, but invaluable one's such as time, skills, expertise, and social networks. That's just the power of partnerships.