Results by Term: Data Management Systems
Sustaining the Infrastructure Behind the Promise: Sustainability Planning Guide and Workbook
Author: Promise Neighborhoods | Year of Publication: 2025
The Sustainability Planning Guide and Workbook offer past and present Promise Neighborhoods grantees and backbone organizations a four-step roadmap to maintain their collaborations after federal grant funding ends. The guide highlights the key infrastructure-essential for effective partnership-supporting seven conditions: community engagement, partnerships, data, financing, policy and systems, communications, and organizational capacity.
Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results (Third Edition)
Author: Karin Scott, Peter A. Tatian, Shubhangi Kumari, Jennifer Comey, Lesley Freiman, Mary K. Winkler, Christopher R. Hayes, Kaitlin Franks, and Reed Jordan | Year of Publication: 2025
This guidance document recommends data collection strategies and data system structures to ensure Promise Neighborhoods can manage and produce measurable results. This Third Edition represents the first major refresh since the document's original publication in 2012 and incorporates several key updates to align with current best practices.
Keeping a Promise: Case Studies and Annotated Resources for Promise Neighborhoods Sustainability
Author: Megan Gallagher, Emma Fernandez, and Ariella Meltzer | Year of Publication: 2024
This brief describes the Promise Neighborhoods program, its grantees, and their approaches to sustainability and includes case studies that present some of these approaches. It also provides a list of resources for sustainability planning.
Note: Initially published in March 2024, the brief was revised in April 2024 to update details about California Promise Neighborhood Network’s policy advocacy work.
Writing a Promise Neighborhoods Grant Application that Supports Long-term Results
Author: Megan Gallagher, Anna Morgan | Year of Publication: 2024
Promise Neighborhoods grant applicants can use this document to ensure that their applications are responsive to grant requirements and establish the key conditions for transformative practices in their communities. First, they can learn how to plan for and establish each key condition in the early years of an initiative based on A Developmental Pathway for Achieving Promise Neighborhoods Results. Next, they can see how the 2024 Promise Neighborhoods NIA requirements, selection criteria, competitive preference priorities, and invitational priorities allow applicants to demonstrate each key condition.
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.
How to Use Case Management Data
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2016
This video is a guide to improving a comprehensive community change initiative.
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.
Resources for Place-Based Initiatives
Author: Sarah Gillespie and Peter Tatian | Year of Publication: 2015
This brief reviews resources that provide more information and guidance on the major steps discussed in the Urban Institute brief “Six Steps to Success”: (1) define a set of indicators through which to measure and report results, (2) select target populations, and establish baseline population counts and penetration rates, (3) align evidence-based programs to indicators and target populations, (4) inventory available data and decide what original data collection is necessary, (5) establish an appropriate data system, and (6) collect and report on indicators.
Collecting and Using Performance Data in Place-Based Initiatives
Author: Sarah Gillespie and Peter Tatian | Year of Publication: 2015
A consensus is growing among funders and practitioners that effective performance measurement is essential to improving the results of community change efforts. Gathering and using performance data can be a daunting task, however, particularly for place-based initiatives that engage several service providers and aspire to bring about population-level change.