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To support the New Life Church of Staten Island's Youth Center Programs, which provide technology training and social support services to children from under-served areas of Staten Island.

General support was given for after-school education and youth development programs for young people in East Harlem.

Support was given for Human Rights 101, a project that encourages local high school students to explore local, national, and global human rights issues.

ARISE is a leadership development and organizing program for south Asian youth in New York City.

To suport the School of the Arts and In-School Workshops that offer participants training in traditional Chinese dance and art.

The Scholars Program is an out-of-school academic enrichment program for students of color in New York City public schools.

To support the Raul Julia Training Unit, a bilingual after-school program that offers arts education and youth leadership development training to New York City youth.

Boys-to-Men is an asset-building, risk-reduction initiative for young men, ages 11-16, that will prepare them for the successful transition from adolescence to responsible adulthood.

To support C.O.C.O.A. House

To support the Life Steps Group Program, which works with at-risk Brooklyn youth and their families to improve adolescent coping methods and support teen’s social and emotional development.

The Educational Learning Center is an after-school program for Bronx youth.

To support the Long Island Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a youth program that helps high school students start gay-straight alliance clubs.

Ice Hockey In Harlem’s participants receive weekly ice hockey instruction, along with academic tutoring.

To support the W. Haywood Burns After-School Program, which provides educational and recreational programming to elementary school youth.

To support the Co-op City Section of the National Council of Negro Women for their Saturday Educational Program, which provides academic tutoring to youth from the local community.

To support the Youth Leadership and Tutoring Program, which trains young people to create and implement civic engagement projects.

Are school-based mentoring (SBM) programs effective in fostering school performance and socio-emotional development?

To deepen and forge communications between and across research, policy, practice, and media within the allied youth fields.

What organizational practices appear to have the best payoff in terms of improving the quality of after-school program implementation? Which practices are not promising?

Investigators examine the social and economic characteristics of never-married mothers.