Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) program

Posted by U.S. Department of Education on January 19, 2015

Performance Partnership Pilot- Up to ten pilot sites will be able to test innovative, outcome-focused strategies to achieve significant improvements in educational, employment and other key outcomes for disconnected youth. These pilots will receive start-up grants of up to $700,000. (Deadline: March 4th, 2015) For more information, please visit here.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/11/24/2014-27775/applications-for-new-awards-performance-partnership-pilots#h-3

The Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) program, authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, Division H, Section 526 (the Act), will enable up to ten pilot sites to test innovative, outcome-focused strategies to achieve significant improvements in educational, employment, and other key outcomes [1] for disconnected youth [2] using new flexibility to blend [3] existing Federal funds and to seek waivers [4] of associated program requirements. P3 pilots will receive start-up grants to support ongoing planning, streamlined governance, strengthened data infrastructure, improved coordination, and related activities to help pilots improve outcomes for disconnected youth.

Successful pilots will use cost-effective strategies to increase the success of disconnected youth in achieving educational, employment, well-being, and other key outcomes. Through a combination of careful implementation of evidence-based and promising practices, effective administrative structures, alignment of outcomes and performance measures, and more efficient and integrated data systems, P3 may produce better outcomes per dollar by focusing resources on what works, rather than on compliance with multiple Federal program requirements that may not best support outcomes.