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What is Promise?

Central Promise is a community-wide movement catalyzed by the Sisters of Charity Foundation (SOCF) and led by diverse partners, including residents, who are committed to making Central Promise families safe, healthy, educated, financially secure and rich in social capital. Originally the Central Promise movement was fueled by the opportunity to secure federal funding to support a continuum of education outcomes in a geographic area within Cleveland's Central neighborhood.

The Promise Neighborhood operates with Cleveland Central residents at the forefront, believing they are the ones who have the biggest impact in leading their neighborhood. The Promise Neighborhood engages these volunteers by providing leadership training, resource information, and tools to support them in connecting and sharing with their neighbors those opportunities that provide quality learning for their children.

The Promise Neighborhood also partners with the nonprofits, early child care providers, schools, public housing, libraries and businesses that provide the direct resources to families to ensure their effectiveness through communication and collaboration. It also seeks to identify gaps that can be filled by these partners or others.

To sustain their work together, the partners use the collective impact framework. Collective impact is a framework for diverse interests to achieve shared goals by building shared understanding, catalyzing the co-creation of shared goals and strategies to achieve those goals, and shared governance to sustain and coordinate their collective efforts.

 

Latest Stories

Central Surge Steering Committee: Details March 31, 2022 | Central neighborhood

How Central's leaders are accountability partners to the county Surge

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Promise Early Learning Navigator Selected for Groundwork Ohio Fellowship January 10, 2022 | Central neighborhood

Congratulations to Coretta Daniel for joining the 2022 early childhood leadership cohort

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Promise Ambassador's C.O.P.E. art exhibit on display at St. Vincent December 06, 2021 | Central neighborhood

In the News: Channel 5's "A Better Land" segment highlighted the ways one Promise ambassador has rallied the community to create art together.

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Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood Celebrates 2021 Champions of Central December 02, 2021 | Central neighborhood

The virtual Promise celebration on Nov. 18 was packed with joy, gratitude and community pride for those honored for their commitment to the Central neighborhood.

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