How We Can Help

Imagine a community of choice. It would be a place where neighbors nurtured and cared for each other. Decades of accumulated research show that we can achieve this vision. For this reason, a large group that includes neighborhood organizers and residents, behavioral and prevention scientists, epidemiologists, technologists, statisticians, and evolutionists came together and created the Promise Neighborhoods Research Consortium (PNRC).

The PNRC assists high-poverty neighborhoods in identifying and implementing evidence-based practices. The Consortium has teams of prominent researchers who have identified programs, policies, and practices that can enable high-poverty communities to ensure young people’s successful development. We are building a collaborative network of neighborhood and community leaders and policymakers to support neighborhoods.

We are a team of prevention scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop scientific infrastructure and support for the Promise Neighborhoods initiative, as well as other initiatives to promote health and wellbeing within distressed neighborhoods. We are not affliliated with the Department of Education and the recently released Promise Neighborhoods RFP, but offer this website as a resource to those who are applying for planning grants.