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  • 40. Beyond the Bell Series - Why We Stayed: A Parent’s Perspective, with Melissa Danisi

    40. Beyond the Bell Series - Why We Stayed: A Parent’s Perspective, with Melissa Danisi
    2025/11/20
    Melissa has every opportunity, blessing and resourcing laid out in front of her - her and husband have good jobs, financial flexibility, and two amazing adopted kids. When it came time to pick a school for them, some may be surprised that instead of picking the advanced charter or even private school up the street, the Danisi's chose and stayed in their districted dual immersion school. Today, Andrew and Grace get curious - why stay? They learn alot about Melissa's school history and her own experience, her son's education hurdles he is battling and winning, and the overall experience of what it means and feels like to root yourself deeply in a school and a community regardless of perception or benefits. Melissa has been married to her husband Santino for 19 years and is a mom to two awesome kids through adoption. She has served on staff at The Well Community Church for 12 years writing and teaching bible studies and the past few years as the life group director. Prior to that she was a classroom teacher in Fresno Unified for several years. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    35 分
  • 39. Partnerships That Change Schools—and Neighborhoods, with Carlos Huerta

    39. Partnerships That Change Schools—and Neighborhoods, with Carlos Huerta
    2025/11/06
    Carlos Huerta is back to chat with Andrew and Grace about what it has looked like to partner two or more organizations together and really embrace the word, Partner. Carlos and crew discuss authentic engagement, what is ours to do and when is it time to pass the baton, what happens when conflict arises, when organizations choose partnership over credit, and what it takes to put aside differences to see real change happen. Carlos is the Executive Director of the FPU Center for Community Transformation. With a mix of both for-profit and non-profit experience, Carlos loves to dream of a Central Valley that works for every neighbor, in every part of our city, all the time so that no one gets left out. He oversees the work of CCT, providing support to all programs that serves churches, start-up business, non-profits and school districts. Carlos has the honor of being a Locke Innovative Leader and counts it a joy to live, eat, serve and play in Fresno, CA. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    40 分
  • 38. From Schools to Community Hubs: Fresno Unified’s Next Chapter, with Darrin Person

    38. From Schools to Community Hubs: Fresno Unified’s Next Chapter, with Darrin Person
    2025/10/23
    What exactly is a community school, and what is the benefit not only to the community but to the individual who benefits from it? Grace and Andrew sit down with Darrin Person, Executive Director of the Community Schools initiative with Fresno Unified. Darrin is a long time partner and board member of ENP, and brings a lot of insight to the conversation around what it means to really engage families in underserved communities, in partnership with elementary school faculty and staff. The three chat through what the goal of community school is, and why it matters that a child's needs are seen through a holistic lens, not just a academic lens. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    41 分
  • 37. Creating Safe Schools Together, with Erin Obwald

    37. Creating Safe Schools Together, with Erin Obwald
    2025/10/09
    Erin Obwald joins What's Good today to chat through what it looks like to support a school outside the school. Erin runs an organization called Safe 2 School, which prioritizes the safety of the child on their route to and from school. Erin shares about what it takes relationally to build the capital and trust with parents and principals, the changes that are being made around traffic and safer walking routes by the city, and what it takes to educate and train crossing guards to become "guardians of the neighborhood," and empowered leaders. Erin is a lifelong Fresno native with deep ties to the local community. She grew up attending Fresno Unified schools and is a graduate of Hoover High School. She and her husband, her high school sweetheart of 26 years, have 5 children (three adult children and two children still at home). While her professional background is in graphic design, Erin spent most of her adult life homeschooling her children and actively engaging with her church community and local schools within the Fresno Unified. In 2017, she began working alongside her father, the founder of Safe 2 School, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe passage for children to and from school. Erin recently completed her master's degree in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University in 2023, the same year she became the organization's Executive Director. She is driven by her passion to empower neighborhoods and help school communities not just survive, but thrive, by working together to Build Safer Communities. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    41 分
  • 36. Beyond the Bell Series Intro, with Andrew and Grace

    36. Beyond the Bell Series Intro, with Andrew and Grace
    2025/09/25
    Our series Beyond the Bell is a deep dive on the dynamics, stories, and systems that shape our schools today. Whether that be test scores, socio demographics, safety, school choice, all these factors impact not only our kids, but the future of our city. Andrew and Grace open up the series to chat about their own personal lens and world view that shapes how we process and think about school, and how their own decisions as their kids have become of school age have impact. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    31 分
  • 35. Staff Roundtable: When is it Selfish, and When is it Self Care?

    35. Staff Roundtable: When is it Selfish, and When is it Self Care?
    2025/08/21
    Soul Care sounds really lovely until its gets real! So we thought we should sit down with some of our staff members about their own personal experience around burnout, high expectations around service as a lifestyle, and the importance of understanding your own personal limits and your opportunities. Our team gets personal about their own stories and how missed opportunities or struggle have shaped how they show up to work and leadership today. To learn more about our team, visit our Staff page - https://everyneighborhood.org/meet-our-team/ Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    48 分
  • 34.Being a Leader with true friends, with Victoria White

    34.Being a Leader with true friends, with Victoria White
    2025/07/31
    Can you lead and not have a close friend? Victoria is a leader of leaders - she finds herself in spaces guiding and holding space for the people who are leading the next generation. On this episode Andrew, Grace and Victoria chat through what kind of friendships you'll need to lead for the long haul, confronting your personal fears in community, the necessity of social chemistry in work, how to avoid echo chambers in our circles, and why community is the key to flourishing leaders. To learn more about Leadership Education at Duke Divinity - https://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/To order Victoria's book, Holy Friendships - https://a.co/d/htucagW Rev. Dr. Victoria White catalytically connects individuals, communities, organizations, and resources to increase resiliency and deepen the habits and practices of thriving and flourishing within networks and ecosystems. She is the Managing Director of Grants and Awards at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity where she facilitates capacity building within traditionally marginalized and under-resourced institutions serving pastors and congregations. She is the author of Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships that Sustain Pastors and Leaders. Every Neighborhood Partnership is a Fresno, CA based non-profit that exists to Activate. Equip. Mobilize and Transform so that our students excel, community members are healthy and whole, and our neighborhoods thrive. Learn more about us by visiting https://everyneighborhood.org or @enpfresno on socials.
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    45 分
  • 33. Coaching from the Inside Out, with Jon Hand and Joyce Harrington

    33. Coaching from the Inside Out, with Jon Hand and Joyce Harrington
    2025/07/17
    An investment in your own leadership will not only grow you in your work, but also more than anything your personal life. Today we have the gift of hearing from Jon Hand, co founder of Lead from Transformation coaching, as well as Joyce Harrington, ENP's own Associate Director who is in the middle of LFT coaching course. The two share their personal stories of where their journeys led them vocationally to be a leader desiring to lead from their own work, and that being able to face and journey through your own story is the key to unlock being a healthy leader. To learn more about Learn from Transformation Jon lives in Southern Ontario with his wife Aimee, where they’ve made their home since moving from the U.S. in 2015. With over 27 years of experience in church and business leadership, Jon’s journey took a pivotal turn after a life-altering season of burnout in his thirties. That moment led him to discover the transformative power of coaching—shifting his leadership from command-and-control to a non-anxious, team-empowering style.Since then, he’s built a thriving coaching practice and developed Soul Coaching, a yearlong journey that helps Christian leaders deepen their identity and character in Jesus so they can lead with renewed capacity and bear lasting fruit. Jon is driven by a clear vocational pledge: to wake up every day to challenge, equip, and inspire leaders to lead from their own transformation. Joyce was raised in Fresno and was the first in her family to graduate from college. Obtaining a BS in Business with an emphasis in Accounting she successfully worked in the corporate sector for over 15 years as a Controller. The social events which occurred in our nation in 2019 awakened Joyce to begin combining her Christian faith with the business skills she acquired to help non-profits. She took on the role of Finance Director at a statewide social justice non-profit where she excelled in Operations and Strategic Planning, helping bridge the gaps of programmatic work and back-end operations. With three amazing children in tow, Joyce is passionate about creating a world where faith, work and personal life are balanced. She believes when people are living their purpose, they strive less and are able to bring their whole selves to the workplace and have greater impact in their communities. Joyce finds refreshment, release and retreat in the expansive beauty of the Sequoia National Park and ministering to women.
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    52 分