We have great expectations for what we can do together.
Thank you! This community has stepped up once again to support kids. Together, we can help local youth succeed from cradle to career.
Funds raised support the Great Expectations Initiative’s wide range of education and youth programs and supports offered in the Orono and Wayzata School Districts as well as the Initiative’s broad work with partners throughout the community. Your support helps to ensure every child in our community has access to educational opportunities, from cradle to career. Your gift today will support:
Key Interfaith Outreach programs of the Great Expectations Initiative include: Caring for Kids, the Neighborhood Program, the Back to School Drive and the Great Opportunities Scholarship Fund.
Your investment will create life-changing opportunities like these:
Listen to individual stories & experiences:
Read the research:
Join your voice with others in support of local kids!
Engage your family, friends, book club or faith community
Host a virtual or in-person conversation and screening:
Contact elected officials and let them know why this matters to you!
To do so, check out these partner advocacy plans:
Practice being a brave bystander
About the Great Expectations Initiative
The Great Expectations Initiative is our community’s collaborative response to educational inequities.
Anchored by Interfaith Outreach and the Orono and Wayzata School Districts, Great Expectations helps ensure that every child in our community has access to educational opportunities—from cradle to career.
We do so by aligning and coordinating partners around common goals, facilitating communication and collaboration, and leveraging community resources to change conditions in order to ensure equitable access to educational opportunities.
For nearly a decade, Great Expectations has helped strengthen the entire “ecosystem of support”—families, teachers, schools, community members and organizations—that is needed to bring about true, systemic changes and educational equity for all kids and families in our community.
We have great expectations for what we can do together.
And Great Expectations has great impact.