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To support a program in which a Career Advisor offers participants 30 months of job retention counseling and career advancement mentoring after "graduation" and initial job placement.

To support the Virginia Afterschool Campaign, a statewide filed campaign, led by the Afterschool Alliance and The Every Child Matters Education Fund, to develop and distribute advocacy tools to...

To support the Virginia Afterschool Campaign, a statewide filed campaign, led by the Afterschool Alliance and The Every Child Matters Education Fund, to develop and distribute advocacy tools to...

Does the use of a structured, computer-centered reading program in after-school settings affect reading performance? What are the factors that affect the implementation of the intervention?

How does poverty affect youth development in rural areas? What physical and psychosocial factors in children’s homes and communities explain why some children do well while others do poorly?

To support a project that will examine the degree, if any, of affirmative action for men in selective college admissions.

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

What predicts what children understand about the everyday economic world? What is the role of children’s family and community-related experience in the development of their economic understanding?

To contribute to a special investment fund that would support talented and promising scholars as they undertake path-breaking work on research methods, write articles summarizing and disseminating...

Which of the different dimensions of research abstracts are most likely to capture the attention of policymakers?

This grant supports a series of eight forums and one field trip to better inform Washington, DC-based policymakers and practitioners about current and important work to improve the quality of...

To support on-going analysis regarding the New York City city-wide effort to improve the coordination of its after-school programs.

To support a series of radio reports for National Public Radio on healthy youth development.

To support a program that trains youth leaders to educate other young people about topics such as international and public policy, community service, diversity, and human rights.

To support a program that uses art to improve the visual literacy skills of students.

To support a program that provides New York City public school students with in-school counseling, violence prevention workshops, and stress management programs.

To support a technology-based after-school program for low-income minority youth in Yonkers.

To support Girls Incorporated of New York City, an independent affiliate of Girls Incorporated whose mission is to inspire all New York City girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

To support a one-to-one mentoring program serving CT youth.

To support Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, which develops the potential and political awareness of young Bronx residents through youth development and youth organizing.