Results by Term: Staffing, Organization & Leadership
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.
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.
Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2017
This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighborhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated into overall strategy development.
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.
Planning for Growth and Sustainability of Promise Neighborhoods: Keys to Success
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2011
The brief presents resources and tips from the field about keys to success for growth and sustainability in Promise Neighborhoods.
Service Coordination to Achieve Results in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2010
This paper shares several observations derived from the history and difficulty of coordinating services in past initiatives. First, service coordination that appropriately serves as a means to an end (improved results for children and families, in the case of Promise Neighborhoods) should flow from a strong, shared sense of the results to be achieved. Second, this requires an agreed on set of results developed through a collaborative process that recognizes a shared responsibility and accountability.
Planning a Promise Neighborhood
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2010
The Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink turned to the Bridgespan Group to develop this planning guide. The document is based on Bridgespan’s experience developing business plans with the Harlem Children’s Zone and other neighborhood initiatives that seek to improve outcomes for children from families with low incomes. The guide also incorporates lessons learned from other comprehensive community -change initiatives across the nation, and Bridgespan’s cumulative knowledge gained from helping hundreds of nonprofit leaders expand their antipoverty, education, and youth-development services.
Evidence-Based Practice: A Primer for Promise Neighborhoods
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
This fact sheet discusses evidence-based practices, including the following:
- Why is evidence-based practice Iimportant?
- What kind of evidence makes a program “evidence-based”?
- Is an evidence-based program appropriate for your community?
- How to frame the evidence for your proposed programs
Technical Assistance Self-Assessment Tool
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
This self-assessment tool contains several categories and, within each category, a set of statements communities can use to assess their current plan and capacity for developing a strong Promise Neighborhoods implementation plan. The results of this assessment will assist communities in identifying their strengths, the particularly challenging parts of the planning process, and the areas that need the most technical assistance to complete the plan.
Sustaining the Promise Neighborhoods Movement
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: No date
This presentation shares the collective impact of Promise Neighborhoods in improving results for children from cradle to career. It also highlights the role of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink in sustaining the Promise Neighborhoods movement.