Client Morehouse School of Medicine
Project Description
In December of 2010 an Atlanta University Center Consortium (through Morehouse School of Medicine) / United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta partnership received a $500,000 planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create an Atlanta Promise Neighborhood.
Stakeholders worked to create the Atlanta Promise Neighborhood Strategic Plan as a pre‐requisite to being considered for a larger, multi-million-dollar implementation grant.
C & M served as facilitator for the planning process, which required the collaboration of multiple partners, agencies, organizations and residents to complete a comprehensive needs assessment, asset mapping and best practice research across five disciplines – education, health and wellness, housing, economic development and safety and security — to create a continuum of solutions that can be collaboratively applied by leveraging community resources.
The resulting strategic implementation plan defined an organizational and governance structure, vision and mission, goals, strategies and outcome measures and a budget for a newly created Atlanta Promise Neighborhood Alliance.