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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Measuring the Promise of Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Lionel Foster | Year of Publication: 2013
This interview with the Urban Institute's Peter Tatian follows the release of the guidance document "Measuring Performance." Peter discusses the challenges in quantifying the impact of a long-term, multifaceted program.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems
Promise Neighborhoods Restricted-Use Data Files: Technical Specification and Requirements
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2013
The Promise Neighborhoods restricted-use data files (RUDF) will contain individual-level and summary data on Promise Neighborhoods programs and participants. The Urban Institute will create the RUDF for the U.S. Department of Education from data collected by Promise Neighborhoods implementation grantees through surveys, case management systems, and administrative sources. Grantees collected the last required RUDF data in 2016.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results: FY 2013 Edition
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2013
This guidance document is designed to provide clarity on the U.S. Department of Education’s required Government Performance and Results Act indicators (guidance for grantees awarded in 2016 or earlier). Promise Neighborhoods implementation grantees must report on these measures as one of the requirements of their federal funding. This document also recommends data collection strategies, sources, and methods for the Promise Neighborhoods community at large, including the collection and tracking of demographic, family, and service delivery characteristics.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Astoria Houses Neighborhood Survey for Zone 126 Promise Neighborhood, 2012
Author: Chris Narducci, Amanda Mireles, Jennifer Comey | Year of Publication: 2012
Zone 126 is a nonprofit neighborhood organization in Queens, New York City, that received a Promise Neighborhoods planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education in 2011. The Urban Institute developed a neighborhood survey for residents of Astoria Houses, a public housing development in the Zone 126 neighborhood, to support Zone 126’s needs assessment and planning process. Zone 126 used results from the survey to inform the initiative’s family and child-centered programming.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement
DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative: Needs Assessment and Segmentation Analysis
Author: Susan J. Popkin, Jennifer Comey, Molly M. Scott, Elsa Falkenburger, Amanda Mireles | Year of Publication: 2012
In October 2010, the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) became one of 21 recipients of a U.S. Department of Education Promise Neighborhood planning grant. The Urban Institute partnered with DCPNI to act as the data analyst and local evaluator of this ambitious initiative. The Needs Assessment and Segmentation Analysis are intended to provide a timely understanding of the needs of the community and to inform the continuum of strategies DCPNI and their workgroups developed.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance
Impact in Place: A Progress Report on the Department of Education's Place-Based Strategy
Author: US Department of Education | Year of Publication: 2012
In 2010 and 2011, President Obama directed the Office of Management and Budget, the Domestic Policy Council, the National Economic Council, and the Office of Urban Affairs to conduct a comprehensive review of federal programs affecting places, the first of its kind in 30 years. Agencies were asked to consider how place matters to their work and how their policies affect the development of urban and rural areas and how well those places support their residents, in all aspects of their lives—education, health, housing, energy, and transportation.
Data Collection K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Policy & Systems
Bringing Promise to Washington, DC
Author: Jennifer Comey, Molly M. Scott, Susan J. Popkin, and Elsa Falkenburger | Year of Publication: 2012
This brief highlights Washington DC's Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) and its efforts starting in 2008, even before the grant began. Written after DPNI’s planning year, the brief describes planned activities and next steps in implementation.
Data Collection K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
Successful Research Collaborations: Rules of Engagement For Community-Based Organizations
Author: Harlem Children's Zone | Year of Publication: 2012
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are frequently asked to provide evidence of their organizational effectiveness. Both private and public funders increasingly want proof their dollars are producing the desired outcomes. As a result, many non-profits and CBOs have embraced a data-driven approach and found it has broader uses: As they begin to understand “what works,” they save time and money by choosing or keeping only the most effective and rigorously evaluated strategies that produce the strongest outcomes.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
Capacity-Building Toolkit Manual: Planning Back-Office Supports for Growing Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2012
This tool was specifically designed for organizations in Promise Neighborhoods to help them craft realistic visions and budgets for the back-office needs of managing their work. Given the variety in how Promise Neighborhoods are structured organizationally, this back-office capacity may be distributed among several partners or centralized in a lead agency. This tool provides guidance that each Promise Neighborhood can adapt to fit its model.
Data Collection Data Management Systems Staffing, Organization & Leadership
How to Evaluate Choice and Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Robin E. Smith | Year of Publication: 2011
Living in concentrated poverty stifles the life chances of adults and children. Efforts to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty into places of opportunity must grapple with disadvantages, including distressed housing, failing schools, joblessness, poor health, and violence. Two federal initiatives seeking to address neighborhood deficiencies simultaneously are the U.S. Department of Education's Promise Neighborhoods effort and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Choice Neighborhoods program. Evaluating these efforts presents many methodological challenges.
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