Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), a little-known experiment aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty in north Minneapolis, was in line for a $28 million Promise Neighborhoods grant.
| Read more >The local United Way won a $24.6 million federal grant to bolster children's educational achievement and community development on the East Side, scoring the highest in the nation among applicants, the U.S. Education Department and Mayor Julián Castro announced Monday.
| Read more >The Community Action Project of Tulsa announced Tuesday it is receiving three-quarters of a million dollars in grants to fund educational opportunities in a Tulsa neighborhood.
| Read more >The Buffalo Promise Neighborhood, a collaborative effort led by M&T Bank and the Westminster Foundation to provide a life-changing continuum of cradle-to-career services to some of Buffalo’s underprivileged children, has been awarded an historic $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of...
| Read more >Senior officials from the Obama Administration announced today that five organizations will receive the first round of Promise Neighborhoods implementation grants, and another 15 organizations will receive a second round of planning grants. Grantees, comprised of nonprofit organizations,...
| Read more >Hayward is one of just five communities in the United States to win a five-year federal Promise Neighborhoods grant to support low-income neighborhoods and the schoolchildren who live in them, the U.S. Department of Education announced Monday.
| Read more >During a recent lecture at Syracuse University, I asked the 100-plus graduate students in the Maxwell School public affairs program to answer a simple question: “Imagine the federal government budget is balanced and it miraculously finds an extra $100 million — how would you spend it?”
| Read more >Members of the Athens initiative unveiled a comprehensive plan on Monday to help more Athens children to graduate college and pursue a career.
| Read more >The DOR has promoted the work of many action teams and sponsored activities like forums on the racial achievement gap, the Promise Neighborhood Initiative, an economic summit, historic markers, producing an ex-offender re-entry manual, among many other very important activities that are cause...
| Read more >The D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative, which won a much-coveted $500,000 grant last year for a project to turn around a poor Washington neighborhood, always said it would continue its work with or without more federal money.
| Read more >During 2011, 20 adults and eight teens were named "Promise Ambassadors." Each agrees to reach out to at least 50 Central residents and to do a community engagement project to advance the Promise Neighborhood's "cradle to college" agenda. Each ambassador receives three weeks of training, funded...
| Read more >The promise of better homes, better schools and a better community brings hope to a section of Buffalo where crime, vacant buildings and lousy schools irk residents and business.
| Read more >Growing in up in apartheid South Africa and witnessing her country's first democratic election shaped the philosophy and character of Angelique Kedem, the new director of St. Paul's Promise Neighborhood.
| Read more >For the last year, members of the Main South Promise Neighborhood Partnership, armed with a federal planning grant and under the aegis of the United Way of Central Massachusetts, have conducted an exhaustive study of the social and educational challenges faced by young people in some of...
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