Futures and Options wants to improve its Pre-Internship Program, which serves 100 middle and high school students who have not yet acquired the age or skill level to be placed in internships.
Peter Kleinbard will document the pathways to education and employment for young people who drop out of school and are unemployed–the disconnected youth.
Multicultural Music Group (MMG) wants to improve its Symphonic Youth Program (SYP), an after-school instrumental and vocal music training program operating in five middle and high schools in the Bronx and Harlem.
Dancewave wants to improve its Company I and II programs, in which 32 teen members train with professional guest choreographers and attend intensive rehearsals and dance classes.
Can an organizational intervention alter the culture and climate of mental health service programs for youth and result in improvement in staff attitudes, services delivered, and outcomes for recipients?
Funds were given for the Summer Matters Initiative, a public-private partnership of New York City youth grantmakers and the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development.
MDRC will work with Foundation staff to plan and convene a meeting of leading researchers to advance work on analyzing variation in intervention impacts.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
