Featured Resources on Education

The Institute for Youth, Education and Families website, which is published by the National League of Cities, keeps you up to date on education initiatives and projects happening across the country.

"Authentic Youth Civic Engagement: A Guide for Municipal Leaders" was created by the National League of Cities, with support from the Surdna Foundation. The guide helps city officials promote youth civic engagement and gives officials a framework for developing and improving youth civic engagement in their communities.

Town/Gown Network Need some ideas for strengthening the bonds between your community and the local college or university? If you are interested in university/city collaboration, you can use this website to communicate with people like yourself.

Reach Studio Art Center, located in REO town near the heart of Lansing, focuses on offering art activities to residents of surrounding mixed income neighborhoods and the greater Lansing area. Read more about how the center is contributing to a growing effort to “Reach for Community”.

Michigan State University Extension’s county-based staff and MSU faculty provide communities across Michigan with “knowledge-based” educational programming “on agriculture and natural resources, youths and families, and community and economic development.”

The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Judith Rodin, the former President at the University of Pennsylvania and current president of the Rockefeller Foundation, recounts her involvement in a highly acclaimed neighborhood revitalization program in west Philadelphia in her book, "The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets."