Awarded Grants

How can urban middle schools increase opportunities for English Language Learners (ELLs), specifically focusing on building capacity in the school system to promote these students’ literacy development?

Can a large-scale apprenticeship after-school program for high school students improve positive youth development, marketable job skills, and academic performance, and prevent problem behavior?

How do peers influence social attitudes and behaviors?

Support was given to improve the implementation of school-based social and emotional learning programs.

The Brooklyn College Community Partnership (BCCP), which provides school-day and after-school programs to approximately 1,500 middle and high school students in central Brooklyn, plans to develop and implement a comprehensive professional development program for staff who are transitioning from...

Brooklyn Children’s Museum plans to address declining enrollment and participation among 6th to 8th grade students by restructuring its “Museum Team” after-school program to include a separate middle school ...

The Staten Island Children’s Museum plans to improve its Constructive Mood Management (CMM) Program, which trains the Museum’s Ambassadors (high school interns) to work with elementary school students ...

Dancewave, Inc., with help from a consultant, will create an improved curriculum, develop a school handbook, and institute a faculty training program for Dancewave AfterSchool, which offers kids and teens (ages 8 to 18) the opportunity to study a wide spectrum of ...

These funds support additional analyses for Dr. Weissberg and Dr. Durlak’s meta-analysis of school-based social and emotional learning programs.

Free Arts NYC plans to improve its core programs, which provide creative arts and mentoring for at-risk youth in New York City, by enhancing volunteer recruitment, retention, and diversity.