Jacksonville’s Success Zone
In today’s Jacksonville, Florida, Times-Union, an editorial about the Harlem Children’s Zone, Whatever It Takes and the city’s new “Success Zone”: Late in the new book describing the Harlem Children’s...
View ArticleA Palm Beach Zone?
In the Palm Beach Post, an editorial urging civic leaders to create a Promise Neighborhood in West Palm Beach: The Obama administration wants to help 20 cities adopt anti-poverty programs modeled on...
View ArticlePromise in Pensacola?
In today’s Pensacola News-Journal, columnist Reginald Dogan writes about “Whatever It Takes,” Geoffrey Canada and the possibility of a Promise Neighborhood in Pensacola: I’m reading about Canada’s...
View ArticlePromise Neighborhood News
Newspapers around the country are reporting on local efforts to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone and to take advantage of the Obama administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative. Here are...
View ArticleNews from West Palm Beach
In the South Florida Sun-Sentinel this week, an opinion piece by Kimberly Mitchell, a West Palm Beach city commissioner, about efforts there to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone: This past August,...
View ArticleNews from Sulphur Springs
In today’s St. Petersburg Times, an article about a program to revitalize the Sulphur Springs neighborhood in Tampa, inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone: Beginning in 1997, the Harlem Children’s...
View ArticlePromise Neighborhood launch
The federal Department of Education finally officially launched its Promise Neighborhood program last week. The department invited interested non-profits to submit applications for planning grants....
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