Results by Term: Brief
Taking Promise Neighborhoods to the State Level: Lessons from California and Minnesota
Author: Alyse D. Oneto and Megan Gallagher | Year of Publication: 2020
This brief highlights Promise Neighborhoods grantees that are developing partnerships to extend their impact beyond their neighborhoods to the state level. The brief explores how partnerships in California and Minnesota have established shared goals, invested their time and resources to achieve their goals, and engaged with new stakeholders to build a broader coalition.
Promoting Sustainability for Promise Neighborhood Grantees: Understanding Needs and Strategies
Author: Sharon Deich, Heather Padgette, and Meghan Neary | Year of Publication: 2020
This brief summarizes findings and recommendations from a needs assessment undertaken to help Promise Neighborhoods grantees and their technical assistance partners understand how the sites are approaching sustainability. The brief also reviews the financial landscape of Promise Neighborhoods grantees.
Creating Lasting Change Through Community Leadership
Author: Katrina Ballard, Sara McTarnaghan, and Brittany Murray | Year of Publication: 2020
This digital feature discusses how Promise Neighborhoods are working with residents to weather crises and transform communities.
Advancing Results Through Leadership Development: Reflections on Technical Assistance for the Promise Neighborhoods Program
Author: Anand Sharma | Year of Publication: 2020
Over the past decade, communities nationwide have used federal Promise Neighborhoods grants to develop cradle-to-career solutions, or “pipelines,” to produce better results for children and youth. Although their communities, populations, and circumstances are unique, Promise Neighborhoods grantees share a common approach (being driven by data and evidence and fostering deep collaboration) and a common aspiration (to achieve population-level changes in a set of results from early childhood to young adulthood).
Youth Engagement in Collective Impact Initiatives
Author: Jessica Shakesprere, Mica O'Brien, and Eona Harrison | Year of Publication: 2020
Youth engagement is the meaningful and sustained involvement of young people in efforts to create positive social change. This approach requires youth-serving organizations to rebalance traditional power dynamics between adults and young people, enabling youth to take on decision-making responsibilities. Collective impact initiatives such as Promise Neighborhoods are well -positioned to meaningfully incorporate youth input and leadership in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Learn About Your Neighborhood: Uncover the Strengths and Challenges
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2018
This tool provides information to help individuals find the right people to include on neighborhood leadership teams and begin outreach in their communities.
Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2017
This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighborhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated into overall strategy development.
Building out an Effective Case Management System
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
A robust case management system is critical to tracking progress and improving outcomes for children and their families along the cradle-to-career continuum.
Long-term Change Takes Real-time Data
Author: Sarah Gillespie, Mary Bogle | Year of Publication: 2016
This blog post emphasizes the need for collecting data to successfully implement place-based initiatives, like Promise Neighborhoods. It includes a video guide to improving a comprehensive community change initiative.
Building a Culture of Results: A Guide to Emerging Practices in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2016
This guidebook highlights the “culture of results” adopted by Promise Neighborhoods and how the program ensures effective solutions are launched, tracked, improved, and sustained.