NNIP CURRENT ACTIVITIES

While individual partners engage on a wide variety of topics locally, NNIP chooses a select number of issues to focus on as a partnership for a given time period. For each of these areas, we support local capacity-building and community action, as well as contribute our neighborhood perspective to the broader field. We host in-depth sessions at our partner meetings, launch formal cross-site projects, present our work on the subjects at external forums, and create guidebooks to help other communities interested in similar work.

Current cross-site interests include:

The Foreclosure Crisis

• Visit our Foreclosure Resources page for project descriptions, presentations, and local publications.

School Readiness

• NNIP School Readiness and Success Initiative Project, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Project wiki
: Contains links to school readiness reports and system scans for each site.
• Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades, by Hedy N. Chang and Mariajose Romero. National Center for Children in Poverty, 2008.
  Full document     Executive summary
• Promoting School Readiness and Early Grade Success in Neighborhoods: Findings from Nine Cities, by Leah Hendey and G. Thomas Kingsley. Presented at the 2009 Urban Affairs Association Conference.

Supporting the Sustainable Communities Initiative

• UI/NNIP Support for the Sustainable Communities Evaluation, sponsored by the Macarthur Foundation
• Overview of the Sustainable Communities Initiative
• LISC Website on Building Sustainable Communities

For additional information, e-mail NNIP at nnip@urban.org.