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2 unusual facts about Harlem Children's Zone


Harlem Children's Zone

The Washington Post published a story about the HCZ on 2 August 2009, noting that the Obama administration has set aside $10 million in the 2010 budget for planning its Promise Neighborhoods program, which seeks to replicate the HCZ.

In 2008 President Obama, inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone immense progress toward breaking the generational cycle of poverty, proposed the creation of Promise Neighborhoods.


Heinrich Obersteiner

The eponymous Obersteiner–Redlich line is named after him, along with Emil Redlich (1866–1930).


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Stanley Druckenmiller

Harlem Children's Zone was founded by Druckenmiller's college friend and fellow Bowdoin College alumnus Geoffrey Canada.