The U.S. Department of Education recently announced seventeen winners (including recipients in Maine and Massachusetts) of the 2012 Promise Neighborhoods $60 million grant fund.
Promise Neighborhoods, first launched in 2010, is a community-focused program that funds local-led efforts to improve educational opportunities and provide comprehensive health, safety, and support services in high-poverty neighborhoods. To help leverage and sustain grant work, 1,000 national, state, and community organizations have signed on to partner with a Promise Neighborhood site, including over 300 organizations supporting 2012 grant winners.
The recently announced awards are split between ten planning grants totaling more than $4.7 million and seven implementation grants totaling nearly $30 million. Planning grantees will each receive one-year awards of up to $500,000 to create targeted plans for combating poverty in the local community. Implementation grantees will receive awards up to $6 million to fund the first year of a 5-year grant to execute community-led plans that improve and provide better social services and educational programs.
Award amounts reflect first-year funding with additional years subject to congressional appropriations. Among the implementation grantees that will build on previous work is the Boston, MA, Promise Initiative, which has been awarded $1,485,001. Among the planning grantees is the Many Flags Promise Neighborhood, which serves Cushing, Owls Head, Rockland, St. George, South Thomaston, and Thomaston, Maine.
Promise Neighborhoods is a programs of the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, which is designed to support innovative and inclusive strategies that bring public and private partners together to help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. It encourages collaboration between the U.S. Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Treasury, and Health and Human Services to support local solutions for sustainable, mixed-income neighborhoods with affordable housing, safe streets and good schools.
For additional information on the Promise Neighborhoods program, please visit:
U.S. Department of Education: Promise Neighborhoods
For additional information about the New England grant winners, please visit:
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (Boston)
Facebook: Boston Promise Initiative
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