Promising Practices
The Promising Practices database informs professionals and community members about documented approaches to improving community health and quality of life.
The ultimate goal is to support the systematic adoption, implementation, and evaluation of successful programs, practices, and policy changes. The database provides carefully reviewed, documented, and ranked practices that range from good ideas to evidence-based practices.
Learn more about the ranking methodology.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Built Environment
The goal of GreenScapes is to encourage companies and organizations to make more environmentally conscious landscaping decisions and to reduce, reuse, recycle and rebuy.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants, Children, Adults, Families
The goal of the Healthy Places Coalition is to advance public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning in order to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health, Children, Teens, Adults
The goal of Keep America Beautiful is to coordinate and empower local communities to prevent litter, reduce waste, and beautify communities.
Filed under Good Idea, Economy / Economic Climate
The goal of the restoration of La Posada Hotel was to preserve and restore the hotel as a historic landmark, and to reinvigorate the economy of Winslow, Arizona.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Transportation, Children, Women, Men, Families, Urban
The goal of the trail is to provide a safe route for residents to travel to work, school, businesses and recreational areas.
Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Disabilities, Children, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of BORP’s Minority Outreach Program is to make recreational activities more accessible to disabled minority or immigrant individuals.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Crime & Crime Prevention, Children, Teens, Adults, Older Adults, Families, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
The goal of National Night Out is to strengthen community and law enforcement relationships and educate communities about crime and drug prevention.
Filed under Effective Practice, Community / Transportation, Urban
The goal of the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) is to increase safe traffic practices in Sacramento's neighborhoods by reducing the impacts from speeding vehicles and careless drivers on residential streets.
Filed under Good Idea, Community / Social Environment, Children, Teens, Adults, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Urban
The goal of the New Communities Program is to strengthen communities from within through planning, organizing, and human development.