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)
Building Capacity for Better Results
Author: Silloway, T.; The Finance Project | Year of Publication: 2010
This strategy brief discusses four approaches that leaders of youth-serving nonprofit organizations can pursue to help support and strengthen their organizational capacity: build accurate overhead rates into contracts and grants, access funding to directly support capacity building, access technical assistance to support or improve organizational capacity, and form partnerships to share administrative services.
Planning a Promise Neighborhood
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2010
The Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink turned to the Bridgespan Group to develop this planning guide. The document is based on Bridgespan’s experience developing business plans with the Harlem Children’s Zone and other neighborhood initiatives that seek to improve outcomes for children from families with low incomes. The guide also incorporates lessons learned from other comprehensive community -change initiatives across the nation, and Bridgespan’s cumulative knowledge gained from helping hundreds of nonprofit leaders expand their antipoverty, education, and youth-development services.
Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Staffing, Organization & Leadership
Results and Indicators for Children: An Analysis to Inform Discussions About Promise Neighborhoods
Author: ChildTrends | Year of Publication: 2009
This 2009 report recommends 21 results and accompanying indicators for Promise Neighborhoods. The authors detail existing key data sources, results, and suggested indicators focused on improving health, development, and education of children.
Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhoods: Recommendations for the Federal Initiative
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2009
This discussion paper is jointly authored by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), PolicyLink, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, with contributions by Child Trends.
Data Collection Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance Program Delivery/Partners
Choosing a Data System for your Promise Neighborhood
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
To build a strong Promise Neighborhood and be well positioned to seek funding and demonstrate success, communities should incorporate a robust data collection and evaluation plan into their work. Communities seeking federal funding will need to meet U.S. Department of Education requirements, but all communities should use a comprehensive data system to collect and organize data, and help inform decision-making.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Using Data to Make a Difference: Keys to Success
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
This fact sheet provides tips and resources for Promise Neighborhoods to effectively approach data. It contains best practices on data collection and sharing and use of information to document community needs, design solutions, and monitor progress.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Parent and Community Engagement
Why Promise Neighborhoods are Keeping Score
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: No date
This brief discusses the purpose behind using results-based approaches on initiatives like Promise Neighborhoods. It presents Clear Impact's contribution to data collection and results focused on Promise Neighborhoods operations.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems
Aligning for Impact: Connecting Promise Neighborhoods and the Cradle-to-Career Civic Infrastructure
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: No date
The Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink and the Strive National Network collaborated to produce this fact sheet on strategies for aligning Promise Neighborhoods and cradle-to-career civic infrastructure efforts in communities.
Community Engagement Data Collection Parent and Community Engagement
PNI Peer Learning Tool
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
Recognizing that communities themselves are an important source of expertise and support for community change work, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (PNI) created this tool to assist leaders and staff of Promise Neighborhoods from across the country in connecting with one other.
Early Childhood Education K-12 Academic Performance Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
Evidence-Based Practice: A Primer for Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
This fact sheet discusses evidence-based practices, including the following:
- Why is evidence-based practice Iimportant?
- What kind of evidence makes a program “evidence-based”?
- Is an evidence-based program appropriate for your community?
- How to frame the evidence for your proposed programs
Data Collection Data Management Systems Staffing, Organization & Leadership