Awarded Grants

Funds were given to the Center for Knowledge Use’s 2011 Big Ideas Retreat, “Opportunities in the New Normal: Leveraging Knowledge to Move Forward.”

The Child Welfare League of America in partnership with the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families will host a series of meetings with key researchers and practitioners in child welfare and other related fields.

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) will use this award to improve its after-school and weekend Respite program, which serves special needs youth.

What are the strengths and limitations of staff surveys as measures of after-school program quality?

Children’s Arts and Science Workshops (CASW) will use this award to improve the safety and operation of its Cornerstone after-school program, located in the Bronx River Houses in the South Bronx. CASW will engage the Washington Heights-Inwood Coalition to ...

Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow (OBT) will use this award to improve its Youth Education, Employment, and Training Program.

Casita Maria will use this award to improve their smART Kids after-school program, which serves more than 200 students in the South Bronx.

Youth Communication New York will use this award to improve the writing and journalism training they provide to New York City high school students.

Creative Arts Team (CAT) will use this award to improve its Literacy Leaders program, which serves eight high-needs middle schools in New York City.

The Ghetto Film School will use this award to improve its Fellows Program, which serves high school students who aspire to be filmmakers.