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November 01, 2020

The following grants and funding opportunities are currently accepting applicants. These grants are not offered through America's Promise Alliance, but they each relate to our Five Promises. If you have questions about these opportunities, please follow the links provided in each item.

Type: News

promises: A Healthy Start, Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

Creating Cultures of Care: Supporting the Whole Child through Trauma-Informed Practice

January 28, 2020

This brief offers a framework for how trauma-informed practice complements positive youth development, while illustrating the bridge between theory and practice. You’ll read about the work of two specific communities- one in Oregon and one in Missouri- which are engaged in collaborative, on-the-ground efforts to make healthy schools that support all young people the norm and not the exception.

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy

Meet and Greet: Promise Night Honoree Tim Finchem

October 18, 2019

In the hot seat today: Tim Finchem, the retired third commissioner of the PGA TOUR, whose contributions to the PGA TOUR, its tournaments and players, and the broader world of golf catalyzed a remarkable commitment to the positive development of children and youth

Type: News

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

America’s Promise Alliance Announces Grants for Five Communities to Support Young People’s Social, Emotional, Cognitive Growth and Development

September 19, 2019

Convenings will focus on supporting and engaging youth, promoting equity, and inspiring action across diverse communities.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Community Partnership In Action

July 19, 2019

“We actually don’t have the answers, the answers are in communities and in the people we are investing in. They are the key to unlocking solutions.” -- Darren Walker

Type: News

TAG: How Learning Happens, SEL, Youth Engagement, Cross-sector collaboration

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

These Are Our Children

June 28, 2019

The heartbreaking photo of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his not-even-two-year old daughter, Valeria, made me want to simultaneously scream, envelop my own two young sons in a hug, and do something—anything—to help. Almost a year ago to the day, America’s Promise Alliance released a statement on the forced separation of children at the U.S. border. This image shows the appalling lack of progress we’ve made in a year.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

New Funding Opportunity to Host Community Convening on How Learning Happens

June 26, 2019

Are you working to advance young people’s social, emotional, and cognitive development? Are you poised to extend those efforts through intentional crosssector collaboration? Is your organization trusted in the community to represent and honorits young people?

Type: News

promises: A Healthy Start

Call for Community Conveners on How Learning Happens

June 26, 2019

Join the national and local movement to advance young people’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. America’s Promise is seeking five community conveners to inspire action on how learning happens. Each community will be awarded $30,000 to support planning and execution of the convening.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

New In-Depth Analysis of High School Graduation Rates Reveals Progress Is Real, But Slowing, Indicating Urgency to Double Down on Equity Gaps

June 11, 2019

The ‘Building a Grad Nation’ Report’s First-Ever Secondary School Improvement Index Shows More Than Two Thirds of States Have Increased Graduation Rates and Other Measures Of Academic Achievement, Mitigating Concerns Around Diminished Graduation Standards

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

GradNation Community Leader Spotlight with Adelante Mujeres

May 01, 2019

Adelante Mujeres’ mission is to provide holistic education and empowerment opportunities to Latina women and their families. Part ofl this mission is to increase graduation rates of Latinos in her community.

Type: News

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Every School Healthy