The Community to Community Impact Engine (C2C) at Northeastern University has received the 2025 Data Champion Award from the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), recognizing its innovative use of data to improve youth employment outcomes and influence public policy. The award was presented during NYEC’s annual forum, “Empowering Youth, Transforming Communities,” held this week in Minneapolis.
Lynn Sanders, global director of C2C, accepted the award on behalf of the team and its partners. “This award recognizes not just our team’s efforts,” Sanders said in her remarks, “but the power of community-centered research to drive meaningful change.” Led by Executive Director Alicia Modestino, C2C has spent more than a decade partnering with the city of Boston to study and expand summer youth employment programs.
