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Press Releases

• 2012 Promise Neighborhoods Competition Makes Available $60 Million to Continue Reform and Award New Planning and Implementation Grants (April 20, 2012)

• Obama Administration Announces 2011 Promise Neighborhoods Grant Winners (December 19, 2011)

• U.S. Department of Education Releases 2011 Application for Promise Neighborhoods Program, Includes New Implementation Grants and Second Round of Planning Grants (July 6, 2011)

• U.S. Education Secretary Announces $30 Million for New Round of Promise Neighborhoods Grants to be Awarded This Year (April 27, 2011)

• U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Priorities for Promise Neighborhoods Grants (March 10, 2011)

• U.S. Department of Education Awards Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants (September 21, 2010)

• 339 Communities Submit Applications for Promise Neighborhoods Planning Competition (June 29, 2010)

• U.S. Department of Education Opens Competition for Promise Neighborhoods (April 30, 2010)

Speeches and Interviews

• Secretary Arne Duncan’s Remarks at the Askwith Forum, Harvard Graduate School of Education (February 7, 2012)

• Next Steps for Promise Neighborhoods: An Interview with Jim Shelton (February 14, 2011)

• Interview with ED’s Jim Shelton Following the Release of the Planning Grant Notice (May 2, 2010)

• Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks to the National League of Cities' Congressional City Conference (March 15, 2010)

• Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks at the Harlem Children's Zone Fall Conference (November 10, 2009)

• Senator Barack Obama's Remarks at THEARC (July 18, 2007)

Blogs and other Publications

• North Minneapolis Promise Neighborhood Comes Together to Boost Education Opportunity (December 21, 2011)

• Creating Pathways to Opportunity-White House Report (October 2011)

• The Pathway to Success: From Cradle to Career by Jim Shelton (November 1, 2011)

• “Neighborhoods of Opportunity” Report Highlighted at Revitalization Conference (August 11, 2011)

• Communities Must Come Together by James Guitard, Promise Neighborhoods Team (April 28, 2011)

• Partnership Aims to Revitalize Decaying U.S. Neighborhoods, an editorial by Secretary Arne Duncan and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan (March 23, 2011)

• Promise Neighborhoods Newsletters:

• June 2011
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• April 2011
  MS Word (134KB) | PDF (702KB)

• February 2011 PDF (900KB)

• The Promise of Communities of Practice (February 11, 2011)

• The History and Hope of Promise Neighborhoods (November 12, 2010)

• 21 Promise Neighborhoods Grantees Representative of Broader Movement (September 27, 2010)

• Promise Neighborhoods FY 10 Project Director's Meeting: Event Recap

• What Works Clearinghouse Procedures and Standards Handbook

• Promise Neighborhoods Institute
  
• Archives of Webinar Series for Promise Neighborhoods Planning
• November 2009 PolicyLink convening with Harlem Children’s Zone

• United Neighborhood Centers of America Building Neighborhoods Blog

• Promise Neighborhoods Needs Assessment Guide
• What It Took: Lessons Learned From the First Cohort of Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant Applications.

• Coalition for Community Schools

• Financing Community Schools Report
• Webinar Archives on a Variety of Policy and Practitioner Topics

• The Children's Aid Society National Center for Community Schools

• The BridgeSpan Group

• Next Generation Community Revitalization: A Work in Progress
• Planning a Promise Neighborhood Report
• Realizing the Promise of Promise Neighborhoods Report

• Promise Neighborhoods Research Consortium

• The Finance Project

• Finding Funding: Supporting Making Connections Core Result that Children are Healthy and Prepared to Succeed in School
• Database of Funding Opportunities

• Find Youth Info