Resources
The Promise Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance team, the U.S. Department of Education, Promise Neighborhoods grantees, and key technical assistance partners have produced written guidance, tools, and videos about how to launch and manage a successful cradle-to-career pipeline of solutions and strategies for early learners, students, and families in economically distressed communities. Resources appear in the order they were added with the most recent additions first.
Cradle to Career
Find resources related to the four pipeline areas: Early Childhood, Kindergarten to Grade 12, College and Career, and Family and Community Supports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND WHITE HOUSE WEBINAR SERIES
Understand how to blend and braid federal, state, and local funds to implement whole child approaches to education.
Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Learn about sustaining Promise Neighborhoods from grantees and others with expert guidance and reflections.
Results (93)
Successful Research Collaborations: Rules of Engagement For Community-Based Organizations
Author: Harlem Children's Zone | Year of Publication: 2012
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are frequently asked to provide evidence of their organizational effectiveness. Both private and public funders increasingly want proof their dollars are producing the desired outcomes. As a result, many non-profits and CBOs have embraced a data-driven approach and found it has broader uses: As they begin to understand “what works,” they save time and money by choosing or keeping only the most effective and rigorously evaluated strategies that produce the strongest outcomes.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
Capacity-Building Toolkit Manual: Planning Back-Office Supports for Growing Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2012
This tool was specifically designed for organizations in Promise Neighborhoods to help them craft realistic visions and budgets for the back-office needs of managing their work. Given the variety in how Promise Neighborhoods are structured organizationally, this back-office capacity may be distributed among several partners or centralized in a lead agency. This tool provides guidance that each Promise Neighborhood can adapt to fit its model.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Staffing, Organization & Leadership
How to Evaluate Choice and Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Robin E. Smith | Year of Publication: 2011
Living in concentrated poverty stifles the life chances of adults and children. Efforts to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty into places of opportunity must grapple with disadvantages, including distressed housing, failing schools, joblessness, poor health, and violence. Two federal initiatives seeking to address neighborhood deficiencies simultaneously are the U.S. Department of Education's Promise Neighborhoods effort and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Choice Neighborhoods program. Evaluating these efforts presents many methodological challenges.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems
Planning for Growth and Sustainability of Promise Neighborhoods: Keys to Success
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
The brief presents resources and tips from the field about keys to success for growth and sustainability in Promise Neighborhoods.
Early Childhood Education Staffing, Organization & Leadership
Promise Neighborhoods: A Comprehensive Approach to Expanding Opportunity for All Children
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
This fact sheet describes the impact of Promise Neighborhoods with funders and partners.
Early Childhood Education Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance
Beyond Lessons in the Field: Creating and Sustaining Partnerships in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
This fact sheet provides frequently asked questions and answers for using partnerships for effective implementation and long-term sustainability of Promise Neighborhoods. The factsheet provides examples from communities where partnerships have helped communities succeed.
Community Engagement Data Collection Data Security and Confidentiality Parent and Community Engagement
Beyond Lessons in the Field: Community Engagement in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
This fact sheet details information on building strong leadership for supported, respectful, long-lasting community engagement and partnerships in Promise Neighborhoods.
Community Engagement Community Safety Parent and Community Engagement
Sustaining Community Revitalization: A Tool for Preparing Budgets for Promise Neighborhood Initiatives
Author: Laura Martinez and Jenifer Gager Holland, The Finance Project | Year of Publication: 2011
This report shares how Promise Neighborhoods sites can plan and map fiscal needs, gaps in funding, and funding and financing strategies. It provides tools and guidance for thinking through costs of different components of an initiative.
A Guide to Setting Up Congressional Site Visits
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
This guide outlines the process for undertaking a site visit with U.S. Senators and Representatives.
K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Policy & Systems
Service Coordination to Achieve Results in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2010
This paper shares several observations derived from the history and difficulty of coordinating services in past initiatives. First, service coordination that appropriately serves as a means to an end (improved results for children and families, in the case of Promise Neighborhoods) should flow from a strong, shared sense of the results to be achieved. Second, this requires an agreed on set of results developed through a collaborative process that recognizes a shared responsibility and accountability.
Data Management Systems Parent and Community Engagement Staffing, Organization & Leadership