Saint Paul Promise

Saint Paul Promise: From Cradle to Career

This year we invite you to lift up Saint Paul families and invest in the Career Pathways Initiative. 

Saint Paul Promise imagines a community that makes a promise of opportunity to ALL children and families.

At Saint Paul Promise (SPP), we believe in the power of education to transform lives and communities. Our vision is a community where every child, regardless of background, has the opportunity to thrive. Through our holistic, family-centered approach, we work to close the opportunity gap, ensuring that children in Saint Paul’s Frogtown, Rondo, and Summit-University neighborhoods are on the pathway to college and career success.

For over a decade, Saint Paul Promise has brought together parents, students, civic and nonprofit leaders to close education and opportunity gaps in the Promise Neighborhood community. Through a two-generation approach, we provide wraparound support to families, academic support to scholars, and advance systems and policy change that centers our families’ needs and lived experiences.

Introducing the Career Pathways Initiative

Research shows that hands-on STEM experiences and intentional career planning activities, beginning as early as middle school, improve high school graduation rates and post-secondary enrollment. At Saint Paul Promise, our goal is that all scholars in the Promise Neighborhood are on a pathway to careers that pay a family-sustaining wage.

Saint Paul Promise is excited to launch the Career Pathways Initiative in partnership with local colleges and universities, employers, and our school partners in the Promise Neighborhood. Our goal is for scholars in the Promise Neighborhood to be equipped and inspired to plan for their future and unlock their potential to achieve college and career success. 

Through coordinated STEM engagement and career exploration activities, mentoring opportunities with BIPOC professionals in high-wage fields, and intentional sense-making activities in a cohort model, participating scholars will discover their passion and develop their vision for post-secondary education, training, and career possibilities. 

Your Impact

When you support Saint Paul Promise, you’re not just making a donation—you’re investing in the future of our community. Every contribution helps fund vital SPP programs like the Career Pathways Initiative by supporting scholars on their college and career journeys. 

A donation to help us launch the Career Pathways Initiative will go towards the following:

• Internship stipends connecting with BIPOC mentors
• Career exploration activities
• Supplies for cohort meetups
• STEM engagement popups and summer programs

Together, we can ensure that every child and family in the Promise community has the chance to succeed. Your gift today will make a lasting impact on the lives of children and their families. Thank you for your generosity and commitment to building a brighter future for all.

What is Saint Paul Promise?

Over a decade ago, parents, students, civic and nonprofit leaders met to address deep disparities facing the Saint Paul community. That work created a community of people and resources who set out to secure the systems, support, and opportunities families deserve on the path to college and career success. Saint Paul Promise is a community-wide effort to ensure all children succeed in school and life through seamless coordination of cradle-to-career educational, family, and community supports. 

Learn more about Saint Paul Promise programs right here.