Resources
Evaluating Programs and Impact within Promise Neighborhoods
Place-based education and community change interventions such as Promise Neighborhoods face distinct challenges designing and executing high-quality evaluations. Because these efforts attempt to create population-level change by using a comprehensive continuum of cradle-to-career programming,...
Creating Lasting Change through Community Leadership
A digital feature discussing how Promise Neighborhoods are working with residents to weather crises and transform communities.
Advancing Results through Case Managers
Case managers are a central component of Promise Neighborhoods, a US Department of Education–funded grant program that provides cradle-to-career services and supports to marginalized young people and families. This brief explores the role of case managers, who coordinate delivery of services and...
Sharing Results: A Guide for Communicating Promise Neighborhoods Outcomes to Diverse Audiences
This guide is designed for project teams working on place-based initiatives as a resource for establishing a communications strategy and developing compelling stories about their work. It offers a useful framework for stakeholder engagement and an application of this framework to the Promise...
Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighorhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated to overall strategy development. Highlights reflections, lessons, and strategies from multiple PN grantees geared...
Service Coordination to Achieve Results in Promise Neighborhoods
This brief provides information on service coordination and capacity building for promise neighborhoods based on previous place based initiatives.
A Look at College and Career in Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood
This resource provides a grantee spotlight on Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood in a series of videos that highlights PNs' work to target the cradle-to-career pipeline in improving student and family outcomes. This video focuses on Chila Vista's use of leveraging community partnerships to prepare...
A Look at Early Childhood in Berea College Promise Neighborhood
This resource provides a grantee spotlight on Berea College in a series of videos that highlights PNs' work to target the cradle-to-career pipeline in improving student and family outcomes. This video focuses on Berea College's strong early childhood segment of the pipeline.
A Look at K-12 in East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood
This resource provides a grantee spotlight on East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood in a series of videos that highlights PNs' work to strengthen partnerships between schools, the school district, and partners. This video focuses on the grantees' work to target students in K-12.
Postsecondary Success in Promise Neighborhoods
This report shares strategies for sustaining postsecondary results over time for college and career success of young people living in PNs. It highlights the successful place-based efforts of Harlem Children's Zone, the Education Fund of Miami-Dade County, and the Center for Educational Partnerships...