
Partnership Newsletter (September 2026)
Kicking off the new school year with Partnership updates: Canal’s Investable Plan takes shape, Marin City Promise Neighborhood momentum + policy and data updates

Kicking off the new school year with Partnership updates: Canal’s Investable Plan takes shape, Marin City Promise Neighborhood momentum + policy and data updates

In Marin, families have been clear: early learning support needs to be closer to home, more coordinated, and shaped by community voice. That’s why Marin Promise Partnership and First 5 Marin are deepening our partnership to ensure community-led early childhood work in San Rafael, Marin City, Novato, and West Marin turns into real, lasting support for children and families.

Marin County is one of only three regions nationwide receiving a multi-year investment from StriveTogether to expand neighborhood-based partnerships that improve outcomes and opportunity for youth. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Jan. 13, 2026 — Marin Promise Partnership, a countywide collaboration focused on closing educational equity gaps, has been awarded $3 million over four

Watch this video to learn more about the Tamalpais District’s Wellness Center program.

The Keeping Every Door Open Action Team has been working together since the winter of 2019 to assess, plan and implement the policy and practice changes needed to ensure that by June 2025 all students will graduate college and career ready. Read more to view their process timeline.

Here is a compilation of Marin related education and/or equity podcasts.

Week 2 features Partners in their own voice. Here you’ll find a compilation of Partner videos, video toolkits, and Partner Profile Pages.
Come learn about Community Action Marin, a key Partner early childcare education collaborative action efforts.

Marin Promise Partnership is one of 7 communities across the country that have been involved in the Strive Together Systems Transformation Systems Indicator project. Out of this work, Marin Promise Partnership created a Learning Brief on Antiracist Education that focuses on several of the Systems Indicators, especially the Culturally Responsive Curriculum indicator.

Keeping Every Door Open (KEDO) policy Action Team successfully advocated to make equity a key element of district LCAPs.

Every year, Partners gather in the Fall to learn from each other across the Cradle to Career continuum, to deepen partnership relationships, and to see Marin’s entire education ecosystem in action. This year, during the months of October and November, we are transforming the annual event into an engaging on-line, multimedia, asynchronous experience.

Rooted in community, the collaborative summer efforts of Partners in West Marin focused on meeting the social-emotional needs of students through play & togetherness. For the first time in 25 years, Shoreline Unified School District was able to offer summer programming to students and ensure equitable access for students of color and students experiencing poverty.

Come learn about Canal Alliance, a founding Partner instrumental in helping to achieve educational equity in the canal neighborhood.
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