Commentary, perspectives, and research.
Our new resource guide, Achieving Health Equity in Promise Neighborhoods: A Resource and Implementation Guide, articulates how a focus on health equity is critical to the success of the Promise Neighborhoods program. It describes how Promise Neighborhoods have used a disciplined | Read more >
With this week’s return of Congress to Washington, we thought it was a good time to highlight two important companion bills introduced earlier this summer by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Congressman Gary Peters (D-MI). The Promise Zones Job Creation Act of 2014 (S. 2597;H.R. 4941) | Read more >
Our new resource guide, Ensuring Black Males are Successful Early Readers – the second in the series Accelerating Results for Black Males: A Resource Guide for Promise Neighborhoods – features a number of interesting and successful programs and practices that Promise Neighborhoods | Read more >
This post originally appeared on the Institute for Black Male Achievement blog.
Last weekend, I attended the first Hackathon for black male achievement: “Could an app have saved Trayvon Martin.” Pulled together by local organizations, businesses, funders and residents, the event | Read more >
Setting targets and measuring performance can go a long way toward achieving goals. For ambitious, multi-pronged, cross-organizational, place-based initiatives like Promise Neighborhoods, target setting is critically important. It allows an organization to track progress, make | Read more >
Harlem Children's Zone student Kiara Molina introduces President Obama at the Promise Zones announcement.
President Obama, today, named the first five sites to receive “Promise Zone” designations: Los Angeles, San Antonio, Philadelphia, south-eastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw | Read more >
Michael McAfee, Director, Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink
Promise Neighborhoods in Canada? Why not?!
Daphne Bramham’s profile of Michael McAfee in the Vancouver Sun today shows that reducing poverty is simple, though it does require hard work.
"Poverty is a big | Read more >
Curious about real, on-the-ground solutions to improve early childhood education? Want to know what the first five implementation sites have been up to?
This new Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink paper, written by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, gets into | Read more >
We know many grantees spend a lot of time on the topic of neighborhood surveys. Collecting data through a neighborhood survey is critical for measuring overall trends in the neighborhood throughout the initiative (not just among direct participants) and much of the information | Read more >
Even though the Arlington Promise Neighborhood’s planning grant ran out in September 2011, it hasn’t stopped making its community better for students and families.
Since the end of the grant period, The Community Group, the lead agency for the planning which has a successful record | Read more >