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NEW Step-by-step How-To-Apply Guide

20 May 2010 |

Check out our new How-To guide for the application process: How to Apply: The Promise Neighborhoods Grant-writing Guide.

This guide is designed to help applicant organizations and neighborhood coalitions navigate through the guidelines and application for the 2010 Promise | Read more >

“Changing the Odds”

17 May 2010 |

Check out this short video by the Children’s Defense Fund on the “Changing the Odds” conference put on by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) and PolicyLink last November.

The conference highlighted the HCZ model and Promise Neighborhoods grant program. It features snippets of | Read more >

Creating Successful, Safe, and Healthy Schools

14 May 2010 |

What makes a successful, safe, and healthy school? The Department of Education says the Promise Neighborhoods program and the Harlem Children’s Zone model are a big part of the answer (pdf). Promise Neighborhoods, the DOE report says, offer crucial community-wide models for dealing | Read more >

A Promise Worth Keeping

10 May 2010 |

Now this is exciting.

The Promise Neighborhoods movement is growing stronger and louder every day. It’s as though the PolicyLink motto of “Lifting Up What Works” has come to life! Community leaders across the country are embracing the Harlem Children’s Zone model and using those | Read more >