Glenn County has formed Glenn 2 Greatness. Glenn 2 Greatness operates from a collective impact model with an emphasis on human-centered design. Our network is currently composed of local leaders representing sectors in educational services, business, philanthropic, nonprofit, and civic arenas of influence. The executive steering committee brings together key people from Orland Rotary, Glenn County Community Action Department, Glenn County Public Health, Glenn Medical Center, Quest Diagnostics, Northern Valley Indian Health, Butte College, UC Davis, Willows Unified School District, the Small School District Association, and Glenn County Office of Education.

Mission

Glenn 2 Greatness exists to equip the next generation of educators and healthcare providers with marketable skills. Our mission is to assist learners in acquiring jobs in the healthcare and education industries by providing them with access to local education/career pathways. 

Leadership Values & Vision 

Glenn County’s newly formed network is supported by an executive steering committee. The purpose of the executive steering committee is to create an environment conducive to cross-collaboration between community builders including the education, business, philanthropic/nonprofit, and civic sectors so that local resources are stewarded and made accessible to ALL Glenn county residents who are in pursuit of professions in the healthcare and education industries. Together, a cross-sector group of stakeholders will make collective decisions toward the implementation and direction of grants. 

Meet Christine, Glenn 2 Greatness Executive Committee Chair!

Christine was originally appointed coordinator for this network because of her extraordinary energy, intelligence, and innovative approach to project management. She was then elected by her peers to the position of Chair for the network’s executive steering committee.



Christine seeks to inspire action by living out her “Why Statement.” According to motivational speaker Simon Sinek, inspirational leadership begins with a “Why Statement.” Christine strives to be a creator of positive experiences. She enjoys fostering community connections and curating professional and personal resources so that others can thrive. In her words, “To live life is to master the art of meraki-completing every action with love and generosity, leaving a little piece of yourself behind in every creative work.” She invites others on a journey to live life to the fullest by seeing how they can serve their community.

First Glenn 2 Greatness executive committee meeting held at Glenn Success Square on October 12, 2022. 

Linda Riggle convening with the North State Together County Network Coordinators and Committee Members at Chicago’s Strive Together Conference.

As a backbone organization to our region, North State Together is focused on developing sustainable shared measurement systems. Our role is to ensure that county network partners see the value in data and have the data capacity to collect, analyze, and use data for their own continuous improvement.

National StriveTogether Convening Highlights

North State Together sent key cross-county network leadership and partners to the National StriveTogether Convening, September 21-23, 2022. These partners include: Reach Higher Shasta, Trinity Together, Advancing Modoc Youth, Cradle to Careers for Siskiyou, Expect More Tehama, and forming networks from Glenn, Butte, Lassen, Plumas and Sierra counties.

Outcomes:

Learn about other models of C2C collective impact.

Build our regional capacity to advance equitable outcomes and to measure our progress along the Theory of Action framework.

Build relationships, and sharing of practices, across county level lines.

Create/empower county level backbone mini teams to set their own goals and priorities based upon local needs.

Build county network capacity by leveraging StriveTogether tools and resources. 

Population-level outcome improvements:

Build regional civic infrastructure potentially impacting all our regional and county level cradle to career indicators with specific focus on creating equitable high school to college and career pathways around our regional industry healthcare and education needs.

“Collectively we must create environments that foster civic friendship and build long-lasting relationships to identify and work towards solutions for equitable policies, systems, services, and resources. This includes lifting up leadership from underserved communities and ensuring their voices are heard to change from trickle-down policy creation and implementation (top-down approach) to trickle-up policy advocacy, creation, and implementation (bottom-up).”

“The plenary sessions were my favorite. While they weren't earth shattering with new information, they allowed my mind to sit with the topics - civil friendship and institutionalized racism- in a way that I'm not often able to in my busy day, even while understanding them to be integral to the work we do.”

“I made a lot of connections with other networks (including other NST counties as well as other organizations) that challenged me to think differently and think bigger about our work. Primarily, I am excited to follow up with other folks working on educator pipeline issues and adopt more tools from the StriveTogether framework that will elevate and streamline our existing work.“

Most frequently used words from feedback surveys of convening attendees.

Our Vision

A thriving North State built on the educational success of every child from cradle to career.

Our Mission

To increase community vitality by increasing educational access and success in the North State through local solutions within a regional support framework.

Our Values

We are community, data, equity, and relationship driven.