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    Northside Achievement Zone

    Inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone, in late 2007 community organizations began to collaborate in order to safeguard and guarantee opportunities for children growing up in the Northside of Minneapolis.

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    Harlem Children’s Zone

    Called "one of the most ambitious social-service experiments of our time," by The New York Times, the Harlem Children's Zone Project is a unique, holistic approach to rebuilding a community so that its children can stay on track through college and go on to the job market.

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    Whatever it Takes

    (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt © Sept. 2009)

    Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.

    Tough, Paul. Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. ISBN-13: 9780547247960