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.
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Local Data as an Equity Tool
Author: Fay Walker, Sonia Torres Rodríguez, Mica O'Brien | Year of Publication: 2021
Data intermediaries and backbone organizations, two types of place-based organizations, play a key role in helping their communities attain equitable outcomes by building local data capacity, creating data-driven partnerships, and centering community voices.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Evaluating Programs and Impact within Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Peter A. Tatian, Benny Docter | Year of Publication: 2020
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, experimental evaluation methods may be impractical or inappropriate. Nevertheless, planning, formative, and quasi-experimental methods can be used to conduct rigorous and instructive evaluations of Promise Neighborhoods.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports
Introduction to Data Quality: A Guide for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Reliable Information to Drive Programming and Measure Results
Author: Peter Tatian with Benny Docter and Macy Rainer | Year of Publication: 2020
This brief provides a basic overview of data quality management principles and practices that Promise Neighborhoods and other community-based initiatives can apply to their work. It also presents examples of data quality practices Promise Neighborhoods have implemented. The target audiences are people who collect and manage data within their Promise Neighborhood (whether directly or through partner organizations) and people who need to use those data to make decisions, such as program staff and leadership.
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.
Community Engagement Policy & Systems Program Delivery/Partners Staffing, Organization & Leadership
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.
Advancing Results Through Case Managers
Author: Mica O'Brien and Sarah Gillespie | Year of Publication: 2020
Case managers are a central component of Promise Neighborhoods, a grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Education that provides cradle-to-career services and supports to young people and families with low incomes. This brief explores the role of case managers, who coordinate delivery of services and interventions to some students and families, among Promise Neighborhoods, highlighting cross-cutting practices, and trends across 12 current grantees and 1 former grantee.
Early Childhood Education Family Supports Program Delivery/Partners
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.
Sharing Results: A Guide for Communicating Promise Neighborhoods Outcomes to Diverse Audiences
Author: AEM Corp. | Year of Publication: 2019
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 Neighborhoods context. The guide also includes a resource list with tools and references that readers can access to support the actions recommended throughout the guide.