Our Mission: North Littleton Promise builds life-giving relationships with immigrant kids and their families to foster faith, education, and leadership in Christ-centered community.
Our Vision: We envision Littleton's immigrant families thriving as they connect with one another and the broader community through eating, playing, learning, and growing in faith in a central gathering place.
How it all began... |
In 2003, a group of community-minded people from Centennial Covenant Church learned about the suburbanization of poverty and began to explore if there was indeed a struggling community in suburban Littleton. After talking with local law enforcement, they discovered a community in northeast Littleton where gang involvement, truancy, and teen pregnancy were prevalent. This group then decided to start an after school kids club out of an apartment right in the neighborhood.
Soon, they had grown out of the apartment and began partnering with a neighborhood church for a facility. In 2005, North Littleton Promise became a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit and in 2010, the City of Littleton presented founding Director, Katie Brooks, and current Executive Director, Maureen Shannon, with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award.
North Littleton Promise has matured into an organization that partners with over 45 local churches, schools, organizations, and businesses and offers after school programs, soccer teams, summer camps, and a variety of community-building workshops and events. Through it all, our focus and priorities remain the same: walking alongside the incredible kids and families in northeast Littleton as they grow in Faith, Education, and Leadership.
Soon, they had grown out of the apartment and began partnering with a neighborhood church for a facility. In 2005, North Littleton Promise became a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit and in 2010, the City of Littleton presented founding Director, Katie Brooks, and current Executive Director, Maureen Shannon, with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award.
North Littleton Promise has matured into an organization that partners with over 45 local churches, schools, organizations, and businesses and offers after school programs, soccer teams, summer camps, and a variety of community-building workshops and events. Through it all, our focus and priorities remain the same: walking alongside the incredible kids and families in northeast Littleton as they grow in Faith, Education, and Leadership.
The superhero staff you love...
Maureen Shannon
Executive Director
Executive Director
Janet Watts
Program Director |
Nela Yovera
Director of Parent Engagement |
Ashley Ray
Operations and Development Manager |
Brie McMahon
Life Coach & Director of Leadership |
Led by the world's greatest Board of Directors...
Mike Wright, Chair
Pastor of Littleton Christian Church
Board superstar since 2011
Mike Harrison, Treasurer
Retired Pastor of Bethany E. Free Church
Board superstar since 2009
Lee Robinson, Secretary
Retired Geologist
Board superstar since 2005
Maureen Shannon
Executive Director, North Littleton Promise
Board superstar since 2007
Lyn Bajaj
Coordinator of Excellence & Equity, Littleton Public Schools
Board superstar since 2015
Mary Feeney Francis
Volunteer & Community Engagement Coordinator,
Lutheran Family Services Refugee & Asylee Programs
Board superstar since 2019
