Abstract
After years of grant making that had produced benefits for individual children, but no lasting change in their conditions, The Skillman Foundation in 2006 formally launched a 10‐year, $100 million commitment to the Good Neighborhoods (GN) Initiative. GN aims to ensure that young people living in six Detroit neighborhoods1 are safe, healthy, well‐educated, and prepared for adulthood. While the GN Initiative was being rolled out, the Foundation honed its work with schools and in 2007 created the Good Schools Program. Skillman’s overall work, brought together in 2008, became known as the “Good Neighborhoods and Good Schools” (GN/GS) Initiative.