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Press Releases
Obama Administration Announces 2011 Promise Neighborhoods Grant Winners (December 19, 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
Promise Neighborhoods and the Urban Institute: Measuring Performance - A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results.
PDF (3 MB)
Impact in Place: A Progress Report on the Department of Education’s Place-Based Strategy (June 2012)
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:
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)
Other Helpful Tools
United Neighborhood Centers of America Building Neighborhoods Blog