A Second Chance: Reconnecting NYC's Out-of-School and Unemployed Young Adults

To support a citywide group of NYC public and private stakeholders to connect, improve, and scale-up government and privately funded programs for young adults currently disconnected from education and job preparation services.

After-school Program Policy Outreach and Education

The Afterschool Alliance will continue their work on engaging key stakeholders as part of its campaign to increase the quality of after-school programs for all children.

Jodi Grant

Afterschool Alliance

2011 – 2012
$300,000

Grant

Proposal to Integrate Targeted Academic Help into a Community Afterschool Program

Can a simple, low-cost intervention increase the number of low-income high school students taking the necessary steps to go to college?

Tiffani Chin

Edboost Education Corporation

2010 – 2011
$25,000

Grant

Attributes of Good Learning Experiences for Youth

Funds were provided for a paper on the attributes of good learning experiences for young people, ages 13 to 18.

Robert Halpern

Erikson Institute

2010 – 2012
$24,167

Grant

Development of Training Materials for the Promising Practices Rating System

Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used more broadly for research and program development purposes.

Deborah Vandell

University Of California, Irvine

2010 – 2012
$50,000

Grant