“The data shows that most of the residents (of Tindall Heights and the nearby Unionville neighborhood) are living at or below the poverty gap,” said Cooper, noting a graduation rate for Southwest High School of less than 40 percent. But there may be hope for that troubled part of Macon.
| Read more >If you haven't seen the hit movie "Moneyball," it's the story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, portrayed by Brad Pitt. He figured out how to make the 2002 A's, with about $41 million in salaries (the lowest in the league), competitive with wealthier teams who spent more than $125...
| Read more >An exciting model for this investment is Promise Neighborhoods, a program to improve educational outcomes for children, based on the success achieved by the Harlem Children's Zone, by wrapping youngsters in educational, health and social services from cradle through college to career.
| Read more >Over the next five years, just over 1,000 families in an 18-by-13-block area of North Minneapolis will be participating in a $28 million social experiment. What is at stake is much more than money; what is at stake is the future of these families’ 3,000 children, and perhaps, insofar as it could...
| Read more >Even before the Promise Neighborhood concept was developed, the foundation for the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) was being laid as Peace Foundation members turned their attention from violence, a symptom, to education, the plausible solution, causing the Geoffrey Canada model Obama spoke...
| Read more >The Urban League of Greater Madison on Thursday named Peng Her to lead its ambitious initiative to challenge the people and institutions of south Madison to fulfill the promise of the community. Based on the Harlem's Children's Zone, the goal is to return a better bang for the buck from public...
| Read more >It’s been three months since the Institute wrote about the good work going on in Washington DC’s Parkside-Kenilworth neighborhood and its Promise Neighborhood initiative.
| Read more >President Obama said today he wants to increase spending on Promise Neighborhoods projects—which offer an array of “cradle to college” services to young people and families in troubled communities.
| Read more >In April the School Reform Commission voted to give Kenny Gamble's Universal permission to convert both Audenried High School and Vare Middle School to "Promise Neighborhood Partnership Charters" as part of Universal's proposed Promise Neighborhood.
| Read more >The new center is the health partner in the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood redevelopment initiative to help residents from cradle through college. The five-year plan also calls for a new early childhood center, home rehabilitation and improved accessibility to social and health services in the...
| Read more >Community leaders in Macon spent part of their weekend brainstorming ways to improve schools in the Tindall Heights and Unionville neighborhoods during a meeting for the Macon Children's Promise Neighborhood project.
| Read more >Leaders in towns throughout the 1st Congressional District Thursday night brought these and other concerns to U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews (D, Haddon Heights) during what Andrews called a roundtable discussion of troubling issues, in troubling times.
| Read more >Redd wanted to know if funds from Promise Neighborhoods, a federal Department of Education program, will still be available.
| Read more >By sharing resources, expertise, and accountability, community schools can address challenges related to economic hardship and create essential conditions for learning by concentrating on a single access point—public schools—to effectively target their efforts. Any type of public school can...
| Read more >Local elected officials and community leaders gathered on January 13 to announce that a $500,000 Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) had been procured for the children of the Astoria Houses.
| Read more >As with nearly any conversation that takes place these days about education, the key issue was the Achievement Gap. Angelique Kedem, from St. Paul’s Promise Neighborhood called to mind Brown vs. Board of Education, which in 1954 ordered desegregation of American schools. What we have now, Kedem...
| Read more >The U.S. Department of Education recently selected five communities to receive the first round of Promise Neighborhoods multi-year implementation grants and another 15 communities to receive a second round of one-year planning grants
| Read more >In this economy, the D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative is working to build a cradle-to-career pipeline of intensive support to keep children and their families on the road to success that has for too long bypassed them. This includes evidence-based approaches such as home visitation for teen...
| Read more >A steering committee made of people focused on helping low-income students has been meeting for over a year. The hope was to receive a Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant to fund their initiatives. Now all that hard work and dedication has paid off, and $470,000 will speed up the mission
| Read more >A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development....
| Read more >The Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant for 2011 has been awarded to Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties, Diocese of Albany in partnership with the Hudson City School District.
| Read more >President Obama announced Monday that Berea College is one of five Promise Neighborhood implementation grant recipients. This cradle-to-career initiative will fund work in Clay, Jackson and Owsley counties.
| Read more >A steering group representing Shawnee and parts of Portland and Russell has been turned down for the second year in a row for a $500,000 federal Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
| Read more >And now, for some good news about education in Minnesota. December has been a good month for the state, with word that three separate streams of federal dollars are flowing into the state to improve our education system. A $28 million Promise Neighborhood implementation grant goes to the...
| Read more >The federal Department of Education announced this week that the Mission district will be part of Promise Neighborhoods, a program promoted by President Barack Obama and launched in 2010.
| Read more >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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