Federal Support to Help Neighborhoods Thrive: Services, Challenges, and Outcomes of Promise Neighborhoods Grantees. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2026-006r
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| Title: | Federal Support to Help Neighborhoods Thrive: Services, Challenges, and Outcomes of Promise Neighborhoods Grantees. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2026-006r |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | George Smith (ORCID |
| Source: | National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. 2026. |
| Availability: | National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Available from: ED Pubs. P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Tel: 877-433-7827; Web site: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 33 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Contract Number: | 91990020C0001 |
| Document Type: | Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Early Childhood Education Elementary Secondary Education Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Federal Aid, Neighborhoods, Disadvantaged Environment, Poverty Areas, Grants, Neighborhood Improvement, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Family Programs, Career Readiness, Outcomes of Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Community Characteristics, Barriers |
| Abstract: | Children in the nation's most distressed neighborhoods often face complex, interconnected challenges stemming from persistent poverty and a lack of coordinated supports and services to help them achieve. The Promise Neighborhoods program aims to improve the academic and developmental outcomes of these children. Representing the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) largest commitment to "place-based" funding, the program invests substantial resources in struggling communities to address their potentially wide-ranging but specific difficulties. The program offers flexibility in how to accomplish those objectives, including who can lead and participate in the grants, the federal resources grantees receive, and the ways grantees define their "neighborhood" (which could range in size from a few city blocks to multiple rural counties). Although grantees must provide a comprehensive and integrated set of educational and community services in partnership with local schools, the program encourages grantees to tailor those services to best meet their neighborhood's highest priority needs. This congressionally mandated evaluation assessed the first 10 years of Promise Neighborhoods and the 25 grantees that received their awards between 2011 and 2018. The report describes these grantees and their neighborhoods, and assesses how grantees sought to address neighborhood needs and navigate potential implementation challenges. For grantees that received awards in 2011 and 2012, the evaluation also examines whether children living in Promise Neighborhoods experienced changes in educational outcomes. |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| IES Funded: | Yes |
| IES Publication: | https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/evaluation-report/federal-support-help-neighborhoods-thrive-services-challenges-and-outcomes-promise-neighborhoods |
| Entry Date: | 20260101 |
| Accession Number: | ED681474 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Children in the nation's most distressed neighborhoods often face complex, interconnected challenges stemming from persistent poverty and a lack of coordinated supports and services to help them achieve. The Promise Neighborhoods program aims to improve the academic and developmental outcomes of these children. Representing the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) largest commitment to "place-based" funding, the program invests substantial resources in struggling communities to address their potentially wide-ranging but specific difficulties. The program offers flexibility in how to accomplish those objectives, including who can lead and participate in the grants, the federal resources grantees receive, and the ways grantees define their "neighborhood" (which could range in size from a few city blocks to multiple rural counties). Although grantees must provide a comprehensive and integrated set of educational and community services in partnership with local schools, the program encourages grantees to tailor those services to best meet their neighborhood's highest priority needs. This congressionally mandated evaluation assessed the first 10 years of Promise Neighborhoods and the 25 grantees that received their awards between 2011 and 2018. The report describes these grantees and their neighborhoods, and assesses how grantees sought to address neighborhood needs and navigate potential implementation challenges. For grantees that received awards in 2011 and 2012, the evaluation also examines whether children living in Promise Neighborhoods experienced changes in educational outcomes. |
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