The Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood is an education partnership that puts children in the Frogtown, Rondo, and Summit-University neighborhoods of Saint Paul on the pathway to college and career success. Housed at Wilder, Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN) takes a proactive and preventive approach to the education opportunity gap by focusing early in a child’s life.
The People’s Fellowship, a Saint Paul Promise initiative, supports African American families on a journey to build wealth for themselves, their families, and their communities. This two-page summary highlights the impacts of the program over the last five years.
In July 2023, Saint Paul Promise launched the first Promise Advocates Cohort (PAC) with 12 parents, caregivers, and neighbors. This summary report highlights what participants gained from the PAC, as well as insight into participants’ civic engagement practices, advocacy aspirations, and understandings of systems change.
The Saint Paul Area Council of Churches and Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood provided summer learning programming, using the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom School approach, to students living in the Promise Neighborhood area in Saint Paul. The goals of Freedom School are to get students to attend the program consistently and to maintain or improve their positive behaviors, self-esteem, and academic performance. This report describes the characteristics of students attending Freedom School during summer 2013, their attendance in the program, and their social skill and academic outcomes.
The Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood is an effort to ensure all children succeed in school by engaging residents to develop cradle-to-career support. The Promise Neighborhood encompasses a 250-block area in the Summit-University and Frogtown neighborhoods in Saint Paul. The purpose of the Community Assessment was to understand the living conditions, needs, and strengths of families with children who live in the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood to support the work of planning the Promise Neighborhood initiative. This brief summarizes information from a survey of neighborhood residents.
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