Quad Cities Promise Neighborhood

1. Quad Cities Promise Neighborhood

2. Promise Neighborhood Grant Program • Based on the Harlem Children’s Zone project • Neighborhood revitalization • Coordinating existing services to create a “cradle to career continuum of services” • Education focus

3. Promise Neighborhood Efforts to Date • Year One (2010) • Community-wide informational meeting • Established Lead Agent (Fiscal Agent) and Core Partnerships • Formation of Grant-writing Team • Submitted a Planning Grant Application for the City of Davenport • Results: • Funding from the Department of Education: • $10 million for 20 Planning Grants • Promise Neighborhoods Application finished in the top 35 • Invitation to join the Promise Neighborhoods Institute

4. Promise Neighborhood Efforts to Date • Year Two (2011) • Formation of Governance Structure • Steering Committee and Advisory Board • Formation of Task Forces • Restructured Grant-writing Team • Evaluation of existing community surveys • Conducted a residential needs survey • Submitted a Planning Grant Application for the City of Davenport • Results: • Funding from the Department of Education: • $ 30 million for 5 Implementation Grants and 15 Planning Grants • Promise Neighborhoods Application finished in the top 20, less than 2 points from the cut

5. Promise Neighborhoods • Pick a high-need neighborhood and use local resources to coordinate services to improve educational outcomes 2012 QC Promise Neighborhood Grant • School Readiness • Grade-level reading and math scores • Attendance • Graduation Rate • Post-graduation education or training • Safe routes to school • Student mobility rate • Parents who read to their children • Parents who encourage college • Broadband Internet access • Access to Health Care • Child exercise and healthy eating • Youth mental health services

6. 2012 QC Promise Neighborhood Grant % of Population in Poverty Adults w/o High School Degrees Median Family Income

7. HUB SITES * Friendly House * United Neighbors 2012 QC Promise Neighborhood Grant * MLK Center SERVICE SITES * Community Health Care * Scott County Family Y * YWCA

8. $5.4 million per year for 5 years • Year One Budget Items • $1 million in upgrades to both Davenport Community Schools and Rock Island School District • Rock Island Safe Routes to School • Expanded staff and hours of operation for hubs and service sites • Extended hours for bus routes and free bus travel within QCPN Zone • QCPN Staff (Director, Data, Development, Services) 2012 QC Promise Neighborhood Grant

9. Cradle-to-Career Continuum of Service • Five Year Goals • Double the number of QCPN children who get pre-kindergarten educational training • Increase the percentage of 3rd-graders at level in Reading and Math by 10% • Cut the percentage of middle schoolers who are chronically absent each school year in half • Increase the graduation rate to 95% • Increase the percentage of graduates who go on to earn post-secondary degrees by 13% 2012 QC Promise Neighborhood Grant

10. Thank you. Promise Neighborhood