2005

How do policy influentials use research-based evidence on the effectiveness of sex education in schools?

Can trained, informal mentors reduce the rates of substance use among rural African Americans making the transition from adolescence to adulthood? Are informal mentor relationships more effective than simply training families to be supportive of these young adults?

This is a special initiative at the Foundation, developed with the Principal Investigators to increase the capacity of practicing social scientists to design and carry out credible group-based intervention studies.

To support a program that provides middle school alumnae of the Cornelia Connelly Center with academic and financial assistance through their four years of high school and beyond.

To support an asset-building, risk-reduction initiative for approximately 80 boys ages 11-16 in the South Bronx.

To support a program that serves young men, ages 11-15, living in single mother households.

To support a program that provides educational enrichment programs to educationally at risk, students from New York and New Jersey.

To support an educational after-school program that serves youth ages 6-22 living in the low-income neighborhoods of the South Bronx.

To support a program that brings high quality art education into schools in support of New Jersey core curriculum standards.

To support the Women’s Center/Children’s Center, a grant funded, community based mental health and primary health care clinic operating under the aegis of Montefiore Medical Center. Services address the needs of HIV infected/AIDS diagnosed women, their ...