Awarded Grants

How does poverty affect youth development in rural areas? What physical and psychosocial factors in children’s homes and communities explain why some children do well while others do poorly?

To support a project that will examine the degree, if any, of affirmative action for men in selective college admissions.

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

What predicts what children understand about the everyday economic world? What is the role of children’s family and community-related experience in the development of their economic understanding?

To contribute to a special investment fund that would support talented and promising scholars as they undertake path-breaking work on research methods, write articles summarizing and disseminating lessons from ongoing and completed projects, and participate in workshops and other activities ...

Which of the different dimensions of research abstracts are most likely to capture the attention of policymakers?

This grant supports a series of eight forums and one field trip to better inform Washington, DC-based policymakers and practitioners about current and important work to improve the quality of after-school programs.

To support on-going analysis regarding the New York City city-wide effort to improve the coordination of its after-school programs.

To support a series of radio reports for National Public Radio on healthy youth development.

To support a program that trains youth leaders to educate other young people about topics such as international and public policy, community service, diversity, and human rights.