Northside Achievement Zone

The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) has a bold mission: to end multi-generational poverty in North Minneapolis by building a culture of achievement where all low-income children of color graduate high school, college and career-ready. NAZ was launched in 2008 when a group of multi-sector Northside leaders and neighbors decided once and for all to work together as one system of support for low-income families of color so they could lift themselves out of poverty and put their children on a path to college/career. Today, NAZ is the "backbone" of an ecosystem of 30+ neighborhood schools and nonprofit partners that provide a continuum of cradle-to-career whole family support for more than 1,000 families and 2,000 children. NAZ serves the North Minneapolis community as an engine of hope, opportunity, and change in the most challenged of neighborhoods, working intentionally to move Minnesota from worst to first in eradicating opportunity gaps.