Ready by 21 Publications
| VIDEO: Ready by 21 National Launch Press Conference | Below are featured clips from the press conference announcing the national launch of the Ready by 21™ Challenge, aimed at helping state and local leaders change the odds for youth by changing the way they do business. | April 28, 2008 | |
| VIDEO: Ready by 21 National Launch Panel Discussion | The six partners who in 2007 made formal commitments to work with the Forum to advance the Ready by 21 Challenge represent the education, government, non-profit, business and community philanthropy sectors. Below are featured clips from the partner panel discussion at the National Launch in Washington, DC. | April 28, 2008 | |
| Ready by 21: The Challenge | "The Challenge" is the definitive guide to the key ideas and resources behind the Ready by 21 Challenge. The Dilemma. Too few young people are entering adulthood ready and our collective efforts to make a difference are far too fragmented to have a big impact. |  | February 27, 2008 |
| Iowa's Youth Development Strategic Plan, 2007-2010 | This plan focuses on youth Ready by 21TM Challenge, a youth development initiative designed by the Forum for Youth Investment, this plan links together efforts of multiple youth-serving agencies across systems, issues, age groups, and settings. |  | November 8, 2007 |
| Youth Ready by 21 - A 5-Year Action Agenda for Maryland | This report details the goals, strategies and action steps that members of the Leadership in Action Program (LAP) have determined as most critical to the long-term achievement of the result that all of Maryland’s children will enter school ready to learn. This Action Agenda is the result of lengthy deliberations and review of evidence-based proven practices by the LAP members. | October 31, 2007 | |
| Busines Leadership: Supporting Youth Development and the Talent Pipeline | The Forum for Youth Investment has partnered with Corporate Voices for Working Families to support a Youth Transitions Task Force charged with identifying and promoting the corporate and public policies necessary to ensure that young people ages 14-21 have the opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in work and in life. |  | February 15, 2007 |
| Core Assumptions About Youth | This two-pager summarizes the core assumptions that philanthropists, planners and policy makers consciously or unconsciously take into account when making decisions about where to focus their efforts related to young people. |  | December 15, 2006 |
| Core Assumptions About Change | This two-pager summarizes the core assumptions that philanthropists, planners and policy makers consciously or unconsciously take into account when making decisions about where to focus their efforts to bring about change. |  | December 15, 2006 |
| The United Way & UNITE-LA/L.A. Chamber Partnership Case Study | Part of the Ready by 21 Change Makers in Action Series, this case study describes the work done by the United Way and the Unite-LA/L.A. Chamber partnership in Los Angeles. |  | December 15, 2006 |
| Ready by 21: Taking Aim on the Big Picture | Ready by 21: Taking Aim on the Big Picture describes the basic process that can be used by cities, states, funders and programs to coordinate their policies and services to support young people and their families. This tool is the "closet organizer" of youth policy. |  | December 1, 2006 |