The Eastside Promise Neighborhood (EPN) seeks to improve educational outcomes among youth in San Antonio’s historic Eastside. The effort brings together stakeholders to ensure that: the community supports youth to succeed in school and beyond; youth move along a cradle-to-career pathway and stay in the neighborhood; community shares accountability for results and works to improve service efficiency and effectiveness; and best practices are shared.

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Hayward Promise Neighborhood (HPN) is a results-focused partnership working to guarantee that children in the neighborhood succeed academically; enroll in college or workforce training after high school; and enter a productive career. HPN’s comprehensive cradle-to-college-to-career approach emphasizes both academic rigor and a holistic support system consisting of evidence-based programs addressing student achievement, health, access to technology, safety, community stability, and family engagement. Over the next 20 years, HPN expects to scale up its efforts to include a larger geographical footprint that will reach approximately 12,500 children.

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The Indianola Promise Community (IPC) unites health care, education, community, and faith-based services to create a pipeline of resources from prenatal care through high school graduation. The goal is to prepare children for school, improve their educational experience, keep them in school through graduation, provide a transition to postsecondary education and meaningful careers and, ultimately, break the cycle of poverty. Over the next 20 years, IPC expects to continue to scale up efforts with the goal of reaching 7,000 children.

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The Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood (LAPN) is a publicprivate partnership led by the Youth Policy Institute (YPI), the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that blends diverse funding streams to achieve a core set of outcomes and objectives. LAPN and YPI focus on integrating wraparound services that include early childhood development, extended learning time, linked learning, technology initiatives, summer and bridge programs, college preparation, career development, dropout and gang prevention, and reconnections for out-of-school youth.

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Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN) is a citywide community partnership created to support children and families living, working, and going to school in the Mission District. It brings together schools, colleges, community organizations, businesses, and community leaders to help students graduate and families achieve financial stability. Building on the successful model of the Harlem Children’s Zone, it seeks to provide families with coordinated health care, social services, and educational support from cradle to college to career.

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The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) Promise Neighborhood exists to end poverty in North Minneapolis through education. We work to ensure all youth graduate from high school collegeready. NAZ utilizes results-based, high-accountability strategies to: engage parents and strengthen their ability to support achievement; improve schools and the educational expe-rience within a continuum of support services; and coordinate effective whole-family support programs. Over the next 10 years, it is projected to reach about 2,500 families, approximately 6,250 children.

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The Berea Promise Neighborhood (BPN) promotes academic achievement and fosters the physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth in three economically distressed counties in rural Kentucky. The effort is centered on creating excellent schools and building a culture of success, and includes expanding access to learning technology and Internet connec-tivity, and boosting family engagement in student learning. Over the next 20 years, BPN is projecting to reach 17,344 children. 

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The Buffalo Promise Neighborhood advances the healthy development of over 3,000 children and their families from birth through college to career. BPN uses a continuum of tested, evidence-based interventions, and builds upon the transformation of Buffalo’s lowest performing school into the Westminster Community Charter School. BPN’s partnership with M&T Bank Corporation has brought strategic, managerial, and financial resources to the initiative. Over the next 20 years, BPN expects to build a system of supports that will serve approximately 33,400 children.

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The Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood (CVPromise) brings together a collaboration of partners focused on family, education, health, and community to support academic excellence and college-bound aspirations for all children in Chula Vista’s Castle Park community. Led by South Bay Community Services (SBCS), CVPromise’s collaborative partners serve the community with a vital early learning network, research-based and data-driven academic interventions, and family supports. Over the next 20 years, CVPromise expects to scale up its efforts to serve 122,350 children in the South Bay region of San Diego County.

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The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) will be the leading force in ending intergenerational poverty in the Promise Neighborhood and beyond. DCPNI’s mission is to provide opportunities and serve as a backbone, convener, and catalyst, supporting all members of the community in realizing their innate capacity to improve the quality of their lives and inspire positive change in their neighborhood and the world. Over the next 20 years, DCPNI projects that it will grow to provide supports to 3,000 children in the community.

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The East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood (ELPN) aims to give children a strong, healthy beginning in life, ensure basic needs are satisfied, and provide ongoing and enriching learning opportunities. Through exemplary schools and universities, career training, and opportunities for increased social choice and economic mobility, ELPN is creating a community that fosters civic responsibility and service and supports the security, health, education, and quality of life of its current and future members. It estimates that in 20 years it will have reached approximately 24,030 children.

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