As an Incubator
Helping to bring new, researched-based ideas to life.
For decades, community leaders and stakeholders have wrestled with how to better support education in our community, limit disparities and elevate outcomes for all young people in NKY. Incubated at the OneNKY Alliance, EducateNKY was launched in March 2023 convening a diverse group of stakeholders dedicated to improving systems across the NKY community. While we are dedicated to the region encompassing Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, our efforts are focused in our vibrant River City communities of Ludlow, Covington, Newport, Bellevue, Dayton and Southgate. EducateNKY is a “learning organization” – seeking to learn before acting and are looking to build collaboration that will lead to robust public/private partnerships. These partnerships will lead to more innovation, expanded grant opportunities, expanded business engagement, and more meaningful collaborations with public schools, private schools, and community agencies to expand educational opportunities and services to students and their families. We are an action-oriented, research-based organization. We will not be competing with other nonprofits to run programs in our region. However, we will use resources to ignite new and existing local, statewide, national, or international ideas/initiatives that will make positive impacts in education and in respective communities.
EducateNKY will serve as a catalyst within three areas:
Executive Director, NKY Community Action Commission
President & CEO, St. Elizabeth Healthcare
Co-Founder, Tier 1 Performance Solutions
President & CEO, OneNKY Alliance
Board Chair / Chairman, Fischer Homes
Chief Executive Officer, WCM Holdings, Inc.
Exec Director of Strategic Relationships & Community Engagement, KLH Engineers, Inc.
Treasurer / Retired President, Victory Bank
PhD Student Representative, UC Irvine
(Recent Covington Holmes Graduate)
Chief Executive Officer, Accelerate Great Schools
Secretary / Community Volunteer
Executive in Residence, Northern Kentucky United Way
Legal Counsel / Attorney-at-Law, Ziegler & Schneider, P.S.C.
Vice Chair / President Emeritus, Northern Kentucky University
President & CEO
Logistics and Communications Lead
Vice President
Executive Assistant
To best understand this complex matter, the Governing Board contracted with a national firm to complete a thorough Landscape Assessment throughout the fall/winter of 2023/24. This comprehensive analysis included a “deep dive” of existing data, interviews with 200+ stakeholders and development of key trends and findings.