About Every Child | Every Promise
What is Every Child | Every Promise?
In partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Every Child/Every Promise engages our community to promote collaboration among youth-serving agencies, eliminate duplication of services, gather effective data, and create a more efficient system to deliver the Five Promises to youth: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, An Effective Education, and Opportunities to Serve.
Dubuque has been recognized as a national leader in creating a community that delivers the Five Promises to its youth. This includes being recognized as one of the 100 Best Places for Young People by America’s Promise in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011. In addition, Forbes Magazine has also honored our community as the Best Small City to Raise a Family.
Every Child/Every Promise is committed to ensuring the brightest futures for our young people by collecting better data and measuring our progress regularly. Toward that goal, Every Child/Every Promise published the first-ever Community Growth Chart in 2008 to help us understand the overall health and well-being of our children. This snapshot of our community was a starting point for the actions necessary to provide every child in Dubuque and Dubuque County with the Five Promises.
In 2009, Every Child/Every Promise synthesized stakeholder input from the Growth Chart to create the Youth Master Plan, a blueprint for our community to work together, draw in more resources, and create positive outcomes for children, youth and families.
The 2011 Youth Indicator Report released in November 2011 is the most up-to-date view of our community’s progress in keeping its promises to young people. This comprehensive report tracks the factors effecting our youth so that we can improve outcomes and help our children to flourish.
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For more information or to make a tax-deductible donation:
Every Child/Every Promise
700 Locust Street, Suite 195
Dubuque, IA 52001
office@dbqfoundation.org
563.588.2700