Awarded Grants

To support an internship program that provides paid, residential, fieldwork opportunities for urban youth interested in conservation.

To support and help expand National Public Radio’s news programming on youth issues.

To support a study that aims to identify how organizations gain the motivation to adopt Youth-Adult Partnerships (Y-AP) in quality ways.

Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?

To support a pilot study aimed at informing a larger proposed National Institute of Child Health & Human Development project by collecting middle and high school yearbooks from schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

To support a seven-week paid internship program that teaches Bronx and other youth about Van Cortlandt Park and its ecology.

To support an after-school program for kids in West and Central Harlem that combines homework help and tutoring with “high yield” (e.g., computer skills, chess) leisure.

To support Youth for Leadership, Education, Achievement, and Discipline, an after-school program that helps East Harlem teens build leadership and academic skills. The program consists of academic tutoring, work and vocational training, health education, and family development skills.

To support a program that matches children who have a parent in prison with volunteer mentors.

To provide program expansion funding for youth basketball programs serving high-need communities in Southern New Jersey.