The Promise Neighborhoods program is proud to have many training and technical assistance (TTA) and national partners to support grantees’ work in their communities. The TTA team, led by Westat and the Urban Institute, supports grantees throughout their grants by providing tools, resources, workshops, facilitated communities of practice, and one-to-one support. Additional TTA partners include Clear Impact, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Tribal Tech, Sanametrix, and providers that offer a suite of specialized supports for grantees, including data analysis and project management support, sustainability planning, and virtual courses. TTA partner Institute for Educational Leadership focuses its support on Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS), another U.S. Department of Education place-based program centered in a single school and community. National partners for Promise Neighborhoods and FSCS include the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Justice, Child Trends, Coalition for Community Schools, and the Learning Policy Institute. Click a category and scroll to learn about TTA and national partners.
Westat
Westat is the hub of TTA for Promise Neighborhoods grantees, helping them build capacity, plan, and implement their cradle-to-career approach. Westat's innovative professional services and dedication to improving lives through research help clients improve outcomes in health, education, social policy, and transportation.
Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organization that believes decisions shaped by facts, rather than ideology, have the power to improve public policy and practice, strengthen communities, and transform people’s lives for the better. It is a trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. The Urban Institute has been supporting Promise Neighborhoods grantees since 2011.
Clear Impact
Clear Impact works with the TTA team to provide a platform for grantees to report their Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) measures. Grantees report their GPRA results on Clear Impact’s Scorecard. Clear Impact provides grantees with Scorecard TTA.
Tribal Tech
Tribal Tech is a Native American, Small Business Administration 8(m), third-party verified, woman-owned small business. Tribal Tech supports all grantees by co-leading a community of practice and provides Tribal grantees with specialized technical assistance related to health and wellness issues, education, communications, and grants administration.
Center for the Study of Social Policy
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to achieve a racially, economically, and socially just society where all children and families thrive. CSSP has supported Promise Neighborhoods grantees since the program’s inception and continues to welcome new grantees with its Leadership Development Program.
Sanametrix
Sanametrix is a minority-owned small business that provides focused technology and research solutions to federal agencies. Sanametrix hosts the Promise Neighborhoods website. In addition to keeping the website secure, Sanametrix updates data dashboards and maps and uploads new infographics, resources, and quarterly newsletters.
Institute for Educational Leadership
The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) is the home of the Coalition for Community Schools, which acts as an intermediary between the Coalition’s national and place-based networks. IEL focuses on TTA for FSCS grantees, including the Results-Based Accountability performance improvement framework and logic model development.
StriveTogether
StriveTogether leads a national network and movement working to ensure every child has every opportunity to succeed. Like Promise Neighborhoods, StriveTogether advocates for cradle-to-career initiatives by providing grantee recipients with TTA that accelerates the achievement of equitable results for children and families.
FourPoint Education Partners
FourPoint Education Partners is an education consulting company that provides assessment, recommendations, training, and development for schools and nonprofit organizations. FourPoint provides TTA to grantee recipients on finance and sustainability planning, including developing resources, supporting a virtual course, and coaching grantees to develop robust sustainability plans.
National partners, including federal agencies, support community and neighborhood programs.
Housing and Urban Development
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offers grants and neighborhood supports through Choice Neighborhoods and awards localities designations as Promise Zones. Choice Neighborhoods fund the preservation and transformation of multifamily housing, and engage local partners to improve surrounding communities. Promise Zones, although absent of grant monies, provides technical assistance to help secure funding for community programs and other support.
Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice manages the Innovations in Byrne Criminal Justice Innovations Program which supports community-oriented strategies to address priority crime problems and develop comprehensive crime strategies.
The Center for Universal Education
The Center for Universal Education at Brookings works closely with networks of international partners to accelerate educational progress and systems change to ensure all learners, including the most marginalized, can develop a breadth of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. The center helps develop policies and actionable strategies related to global education for and in partnership with policymakers at all levels of government, funders, civil society, and the private sector.
Child Trends
Child Trends promotes the well-being of all children and youth through applied research that informs public policies, builds the evidence base for successful strategies, and mines data to identify young people who are overlooked or ill-served by public systems. Its work in the community focuses on early childhood, child welfare, school climate, reproductive health, juvenile justice, trauma, and youth development.
Children’s Aid Society
Children’s Aid provides services such as adoption, foster care, afterschool and weekend programs, camps, early childhood education, and health services to ensure youth can succeed and thrive.
Coalition for Community Schools
The Coalition for Community Schools is a local engagement strategy that creates and coordinates opportunities with public schools to accelerate student success. It focuses on preparing, supporting, and mobilizing leaders of all ages, stages, and contexts to create ecosystems of collaborative leadership and advance community schools as a key equity strategy for children, families, and communities.
Learning Policy Institute
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) seeks to advance evidence-based policies at the local, state, and federal levels that support empowering and equitable learning for every child. LPI conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve education policies and practices.
Center for Community Schools
The National Center for Community Schools (NCCS) seeks to build capacity through technical assistance to schools, school districts, and communities focused on student success. NCCS publishes technical assistance resources, provides strategic partnerships, facilitates in-person professional development, and promotes equitable education policies.
The National Education Policy Center
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) disseminates research, produces policy briefs, and publishes third-party reviews of think tank reports to inform education policy discussions and strengthen the democratic governance of public education. NEPC is housed at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education.
Future of Learning
Partnership For the Future of Learning assembles diverse networks of individuals and organizations with deep commitments to an equitable, high-quality public education system. It promotes policies to strengthen the public education system.
Research for Action
Research for Action focuses on using field-driven insights to advance equity in opportunities and outcomes for underserved early childhood through postsecondary students and their families. Research for Action’s work is designed to strengthen public schools and postsecondary institutions, provide research-based recommendations to policymakers, and enrich the public dialogue about public education.
PolicyLink
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®. Through its three initiatives, PolicyLink advances policies that enable everyone to participate in an equitable economy, live in a community of opportunity, and thrive in a just society.
StriveTogether
StriveTogether is a national network of local communities striving to achieve racial equity and economic mobility. StriveTogether transforms failing systems with a collaborative improvement methodology that directs data from small changes to inform adjustments in the community.
William Julius Wilson Institute
William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone is a national resource for place-based, people-focused solutions that open pathways to social and economic mobility. Through direct work with a set of places, William Julius Wilson Institute builds an ecosystem that enables place-based work and activates neighborhood leaders as integral to driving sustainable change in the most vulnerable communities.