Capacity-Building and Communications

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will provide information to national policymakers—including six Capitol Hill forums—about research on effective strategies to improve the quality of youth-serving programs.

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

Support was given for the First Biennial Global Implementation Conference.

To support and help expand NPR’s news programming on youth issues.

Support was given to form a working group focused on improving developmental opportunities for American Indian children and youth.

This grant will fund three Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Fellows over the next three years, all of whom will be scholars interested in youth issues and with a background in psychology, human development, education, or a ...

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.

Support was given to publish a monograph of the University of Chicago’s model for urban elementary schooling.

Support was given to the Campaign for Educational Equity’s state-wide Task Force on Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.

Support was given for the SRA Young Scholars Program.