How We Respond

Acting Locally

To improve Nevada's success at engaging and graduating "ready for life" students and re-engaging those who prematurely left school, NPEF builds collaboratives in communities across Nevada that link:

  • Educators,
  • Government agencies,
  • Non-profits,
  • Youth serving organizations,
  • Workforce development,
  • Policy makers, and
  • Business leaders.

Leading Statewide

Recognizing that multiple systems play a role in the overall success of our youth, NPEF has taken the lead in promoting a statewide action agenda and establishing a network for problem solving and communication across partners to leverage resources, remove barriers, and share information. NPEF facilitates planning and progress toward shared goals to ensure coordination, collaboration and joint accountability among state and community leaders. This action agenda reflects a unified vision and rallying point for a network of nearly 1,500 stakeholders.

Thinking Systemically

As an intermediary organization, NPEF provides statewide reach, visibility, and access to Nevada's publicly-managed system of education. We serve as a local and statewide facilitator, convener and advocate for promising innovations, help stakeholders navigate bureaucracies, forge partnerships, advance policy reforms and support on-the-ground assistance to seed promising and proven solutions and help them thrive. We coordinate the evaluation needed to identify and support the scaling of innovative, promising ideas that have the potential to transform outcomes in Nevada.

NPEF has the credibility, based on a history of success at achieving results, to catalyze partnerships between the government and nonprofits, businesses and philanthropists. The Ready for Life: Our Shared Youth Vision statewide collaboration has been highlighted by the United States Department of Labor as one of five best practices nationally.