Capacity-Building and Communications

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.

The After-School Corporation (TASC) will develop and test a high school Expanded Learning Time (ELT) model that can be scaled nationally.

Funds were given for a conference in honor of Sheila Kamerman, which will focus on comparative child and family policy.

The Afterschool Alliance will continue their work on engaging key stakeholders as part of its campaign to increase the quality of after-school programs for all children.

The Forum for Youth Investment will use this award to maintain and enhance their capacity-building assistance to the Foundation.

The goal of the project is to develop a sustainability plan for the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars, whose mission is to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge.

Raudenbush and Bloom will continue to develop the field’s ability to conduct more rigorous and cost-effective intervention and measurement studies. They will also advance methods for determining whether intervention impacts on youth operate through their effects on youth settings ...

Can a simple, low-cost intervention increase the number of low-income high school students taking the necessary steps to go to college?

Funds were provided for a paper on the attributes of good learning experiences for young people, ages 13 to 18.