Results by Term: Program Delivery/Partners
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.<br />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.
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.
Promise Neighborhoods as a Platform for Advancing Racial Equity
Author: Anand Sharma | Year of Publication: 2021
Leaders of Promise Neighborhoods and similar place-based initiatives must work to address racial disparities if they are to improve and sustain positive and equitable outcomes for children and young people on a large scale. This brief argues that Promise Neighborhoods, and similarly structured initiatives, are uniquely positioned to serve as a platform—or launching point—for advancing racial equity.
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.
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.
Integrating Family Financial Security into Cradle-to-Career Pipelines: Learning Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
With support from Citi Foundation, PolicyLink and the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (PNI) joined forces with five PNI communities (Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles, California; Chula Vista, California; Orlando, Florida; and Indianola, Mississippi) to design and carry out strategies for embedding financial security into their pipelines of supports. The collaborative effort set out to embed the concepts of budgeting, emergency savings, saving for college, and credit access, into existing PNI programs.