Library

This grant supports the Foundation’s membership in the Education Funder Strategy Group (EFSG).

The primary goal this work is to better understand how community organizations use research to inform decisions about programs and practices designed to reduce children’s exposure to violence.

The Peter Cicchino Youth Project (PCYP) provides legal representation and advocacy for 200 homeless and street-involved young people ages 25 and under.

Day One New York works to end dating abuse and domestic violence by providing education, counseling, legal, and social services to New York City youth ages 24 and under.

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) wants to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to help NYC children recover from experiences...

Education Through Music (ETM) partners with New York City schools to provide music education to inner-city New York students.

Midori & Friends provides a variety of music education to New York City children and teens in 35 public schools and community agencies.

Operation Exodus Inner City promotes personal growth, high educational achievement, and leadership skills to underserved youth, with an emphasis on the Latino communities of Washington Heights,...

How capital investments improve school building conditions? Do school facility conditions and investments affect student performance? Do facility conditions and investments influence other aspects of...

Sumie Okazaki, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, will immerse herself in two vastly different organizations to observe how they limit and facilitate opportunities for Asian...

Lisa Chamberlain, assistant professor and co-founder and director of the Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Rotation and the Pediatric Residency Stanford Advocacy track, will immerse herself in the...

Why do some students from low-income families drop out of college?

How do long-term care facilities for runaway, homeless youth promote positive development?

Former William T. Grant Scholar Renee Boynton-Jarrett will use this award to continue collecting and analyzing data on the impact of social environments and stressors on growth and pubertal timing in...

How can out-of-school time programs more reliably measure and improve the quality of their academic interventions?

This award will support further development and testing of a survey instrument to assess differences in youth’s mentoring experiences.

Does a well-designed quality improvement system enhance youth mentoring programs?

When a school’s principal changes, what are the effects on teacher engagement and student achievement? What factors are associated with a successful transition?

To support and help expand National Public Radio's news programming on youth issues.

This grant will support the Youth Development Institute to partner with two Youth Service Improvement Grant grantees to research, document, and publish lessons learned as a result of their Foundation...