Alignment Rockford Announces Job Shadow Results
Alignment Rockford, a collective impact organization whose mission is to align community resources in support of public school strategies, is excited to share the results from its job shadow experiences during the 2019-2020 school year. Alignment Rockford connects local employers with RPS 205 to provide job shadow experiences for its 11th grade students. Job shadows
It’s Time to Think Beyond the Status Quo
Dear Friends of Alignment Rockford, The death of George Floyd has put a national spotlight on the issue of racism and systemic violence at a scale not seen in recent memory. That spotlight also shines on our own community. Our team had a conversation about the Rockford community and how we can enhance our own
Alignment Rockford Announces New Team Members
Jessica Hayes Brook Loomis Rachel Robinson Alignment Rockford is proud to announce the addition of three new team members. Jessica Hayes, Brook Loomis and Rachel Robinson joined the organization on May 4. Jessica is the Work-based Learning Coordinator and is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with businesses and non-corporate partners with the purpose of aligning
Community Partners Share Next Steps in Plan to Ensure all Kids are Ready to Learn
On Monday, January 13, community partners and the Ready to Learn Team shared the next steps to ensuring all Rockford kids are ready to learn. The event was held at Patriots Gateway Center, 615 S. 5th St., Rockford. The Ready to Learn Team – a joint effort from Alignment Rockford, Transform Rockford and Rockford Public
Catalyst Design and Photography to donate funds to Alignment Rockford from the Social Rock Conference!
The following article is from WIFR Channel 23 Newsroom. Posted Tue 6 p.m. May 14, 2019 ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) — Social media may be one of the most popular marketing channels to exist today. Thanks to a local conference on Wednesday, businesses will learn how to use it to their advantage. Winnebago Buy Local will host
Rockford Promise awards 31 scholarships to RPS students
ROCKFORD — Rockford Promise, a nonprofit that works to improve the local economy by awarding college scholarships to students of Rockford Public Schools, handed out a record-breaking 31 full-tuition scholarships Friday afternoon. The recipients were celebrated at a ceremony at Rock Valley College, where 27 of the students will attend classes in the fall. The
East High School Juniors experience first round of Job Shadows!
November 28, 2018: The Alignment Rockford Job Shadow Team created, planned, and piloted job shadow experiences for East High School Junior students this past November. Students were able to visit a local business with their desired career. Each student had hands-on training in the field and one-on-one time with career experts. By the end of
Why Expo?
A brief history behind large exhibitions, and why they work. A Career Expo in Marietta, GA, 2011 As Alignment Rockford preps for the Academy Expo, I started to wonder why people do Expos and how they really work. Where did they get their start? Who thought that gathering a large group of people in the
Transactional vs Transformational Relationships
Alignment Rockford is a Ford NGL community. What does this mean? Not only are students at the center of everything we do, but just like Alignment, Ford NGL is a larger organization that helps communities prepare a collaborative community-driven approach to achieve a new way of learning. You’ve already seen this in action with our
Trauma Informed Care – NICNE Community of Practice
Rockford, IL – Today, Alignment Rockford ventured to the Unitarian Universalist Church for the NIU Center of Nonpofit Excellence Community of Practice for Case Managers. This session we learned about how trauma affects children and adults. Lori Poppen from Children’s Home and Aid and Mary Ellen Commare from Youth Services Network led a presentation on
