Heartland Center Selected as Learning Partner
for Hitachi Foundation Initiative

The Heartland Center will be serving as a Learning Partner for the Hitachi Foundation´s Work Skills/Life Skills initiative. In this role, Center staff will work with 11 grantee organizations in an effort to enhance their capacity to achieve and sustain success over time. Focused on helping underserved youth and their communities, these grantees will convene several times during the three-year program and share critical elements of their experiences.

Heartland Center staff will design several pathways for communication and peer learning among the grantees in addition to convening the organizations that will use print and electronic media. Tools for participatory evaluation, peer learning and innovative approaches to youth entrepreneurship will also be developed. Vicki Luther and Milan Wall will serve as project co-directors.

"Involvement with the Hitachi Initiative offers our staff a chance to increase our skills in working with underserved youth."

Milan Wall, Co-Director