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Moving forward with the "Promise"
October 10, 2011
© United Way Central of Massachusetts
Recently, United Way of Central Massachusetts and community partners such as
Clark University, Worcester Public Schools, Family Health Center, and Main
South CDC submitted an implementation grant, titled the Main South Promise
Neighborhood Partnership, to the US Department of Education for a five year $27
million grant under the nearly created Promise Neighborhoods program. The
two-year-old federal program, which is meant to help local schools and
non-profits work together to pair education with wraparound services received
234 applications nationally for the latest $30 million in grants, an amount
that is to be split between planning and implementation awards. Among the
implementation grants, the category in which United Way of Central
Massachusetts submitted their proposal, there were a total of 35 applications,
including 32 from non-profits, and three from institutions of higher education
across the country.
The MSPNP implementation grant is the second phase for United Way and it’s
partners. Last year, UWCM was one of 21 communities across the country that had
received a $470,000 planning grant. The last twelve months have consisted of
research, interviews, resident engagement, planning, and community agency
buy-in to develop the comprehensive five-year implementation proposal. Although
the entire grant submission is not being released to the public for proprietary
reasons, recent press coverage, a summary of applicant types, as well as
an overview of the grant are available here.
United Way of Central Massachusetts anticipates
notification of grant award before the end of November.
Click here to learn more about the "Promise Neighborhoods" project at the United Way website.
Click here for a summary of the "Promise Neighborhood" project.
Click here for an article on the project in the Telegram & Gazette.
