Results by Term: Parent and Community Engagement
Advancing Statewide Coordination and Best Practices: California Promise Neighborhood Network
Author: Rodrigo Garcia and Karin Scott | Year of Publication: 2025
The California Promise Neighborhood Network strengthens the collective voice of current and graduated Promise Neighborhoods. Together, they build a statewide strategy that honors the unique characteristics of each Promise Neighborhood. The network coordinates advocacy efforts to secure lasting funding for cradle-to-career supports and shares best practices that can be replicated across communities.
Evansville Promise Neighborhood: Power in Partnerships
Author: Harper McCall and Amanda Hare | Year of Publication: 2025
Indiana's Evansville Promise Neighborhood demonstrates the power of community partnerships in fostering cradle-to-career support for children and families. This impact story highlights how a dedicated team at the University of Evansville unites with 22 local organizations to streamline services, maximize resources, and create lasting change in their "River City."
Promise Neighborhoods as a Strategy to Address Chronic Absenteeism: How Two Grantees Use Relational Approaches to Welcome Students Back to School
Author: Emily Verburg and Karin Scott | Year of Publication: 2025
Chronic absenteeism has lasting ripple effects on schools and communities. In this blog post, learn how Evansville Promise Neighborhood and IndyEast Promise Neighborhood are leveraging partnerships and adopting creative, relational strategies to connect with students and increase attendance.
Full-Time Parent, Full-Time Leader: How Jubilee Park, Dallas, Strengthens Parents to Become Community Leaders
Author: Vivian Liu | Year of Publication: 2025
Jubilee Park Promise Neighborhood, based in Dallas, Texas, exemplifies how place-based education initiatives can engage parents and elevate community leaders. These leaders advise the Promise Neighborhood initiative, support neighbors, and benefit the community by influencing affordable housing development and safety. This blog summarizes key strategies to create parent leaders.
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.
Advancing Conditions for Achieving Promise Neighborhoods Results 2025
Author: Lori Nathanson, Megan Gallagher, Karin Scott, Victoria Martin | Year of Publication: 2025
Six conditions are important for Promise Neighborhoods and similar place-based, collective impact initiatives to achieve results: Organizational & Leadership Capacity, Community Engagement, Cradle-to-Career Solutions, Strategic Partnerships, Sustainable Financing, and Policy & Systems Influence. This tool is designed for Promise Neighborhoods backbone organizations, partners, community residents, and technical assistance providers that work collaboratively to plan, implement, and sustain the conditions necessary for achieving collective impact outcomes.
Deer Creek Promise Community’s Early Learning Programs: Setting The Stage For Lifelong Success
Author: Karin Scott, Mikaela Tajo, Victoria Martin | Year of Publication: 2024
This impact story outlines how Mississippi Delta communities unite with a shared purpose. Deer Creek Promise Community’s early learning programs and strategies are featured.
Knox Promise Neighborhood: Attend Today – Achieve Tomorrow
Author: Amanda Hare, Victoria Martin | Year of Publication: 2024
This impact story discusses Knox Promise Neighborhood’s pioneering initiative that empowers student through consistent school attendance. Knox’s Attend Today – Achieve Tomorrow campaign is highlighted.
Making the Case for Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Megan Gallagher, Lori Nathanson, Peter Tatian, and Jarle Crocker | Year of Publication: 2024
This brief highlights Promise Neighborhoods’ 10-year history and vision for the future. Illustrative stories from Mission Promise Neighborhood, Partners for Rural Impact, and South Ward Promise Neighborhood are featured.
COVID-19 Response and Recovery in Promise Neighborhoods 2020-2022
Author: Jillian Spindle and Lori Nathanson | Year of Publication: 2023
A Promise Neighborhood is a place-based, collective impact approach to improving results for children and families. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Promise Neighborhoods were uniquely positioned to provide on-the-ground community response. They were partners to government, philanthropies, businesses, and community institutions in reaching students, parents, and neighbors with essential emergency services and vital information. This paper explores Promise Neighborhoods’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrates that investing in Promise Neighborhoods produces more than academic results; it ensures critical community infrastructure is available during times of crisis.