Guidance for Creating Promise Neighborhoods

by | Apr 30, 2013

 

A new report from The Urban Institute, Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results, provides recommendations on data collection and strategies to track progress over time and ensure program efficiency and effectiveness.  Other place-based initiatives and organizations working to improve schools and early childhood education programs in their communities may find these recommendations useful for measuring the progress of their efforts.

Promise Neighborhoods is a federal place-based initiative intended to turn neighborhoods of concentrated poverty into neighborhoods of opportunity by providing a continuum of school readiness, academic services, and family and community supports for children from early childhood through college. The initiative seeks to improve kindergarten readiness, proficiency in core subjects, high school graduation rates, and the chance of obtaining a post-secondary degree.  As a federal funding requirement, Promise Neighborhoods collect and track a wide-range of data on an on-going basis to help manage improvement efforts, make mid-course corrections, and ultimately to determine which strategies are most effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families.

Transform Consulting Group has worked with the Martindale Brightwood community in Indianapolis on developing a Promise Neighborhood.  Contact us today to learn how we can help your organization develop the best ways to collect data to improving the quality of programs and services, to evaluate the success of initiatives, and most importantly, to achieve better results!

 

 

Tags:

Related Articles

10 Tips for Your Year-End Giving Campaign

10 Tips for Your Year-End Giving Campaign

Another year is quickly coming to an end! Before you know it, we’ll be saying “Happy New Year”. We’re heading into the season of giving. It is the busy time of year when donor dollars increase...

read more

Blogs

Tools

Data Informed Tool

Data-Informed Tools

Toolkits address the “why” of data.

Data Informed Tool

Data Dashboard Tools

It is still possible to meet your fundraising goals

Data Informed Tool

Strategic Planning Tools

We’ll work to identify the key stakeholders to inform your planning process.

Data Informed Tool

Evaluation Tools

How effective is your program? Is it working as intended?

Data Informed Tool

Fundraising Tools

With simple, practical tools, your team can diversify funding streams.

Data Informed Tool

Coalition Tools

Is your issue bigger than one organization can handle? A coalition may be the answer!