FY 2021 Promise Neighborhoods Competition – Mar 5

Posted by U.S. Department of Education on February 2, 2021

According to the Office of Elementary & Secondary Education, Department of Education, the FY 2021 Promise Neighborhoods Competition for new awards is now open. The purpose of Promise Neighborhoods is to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in our most distressed communities, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services. The program serves neighborhoods with high concentrations of low-income individuals; multiple signs of distress, which may include high rates of poverty, childhood obesity, academic failure, and juvenile delinquency, adjudication, or incarceration; and schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted support and improvement activities under section 1111(d) of the ESEA.

  • Intent to Apply: February 3, 2021 (strongly encouraged)
  • Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 5, 2021

Learn more and apply here


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