The Taproot Foundation will provide capacity-building services for five New York City-based grantees of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program.
Funds were given to the Forum for their support of California’s efforts to build quality improvement and accountability systems for after-school programs, and to better align school-day improvement initiatives and after-school improvement initiatives.
Does an intensive, academically-oriented after-school and summer program for low-income, urban youth have positive long-term outcomes on academic engagement, performance, and the selection of and admission to competitive high schools?
I have a Dream Foundation – New York (IHDF) will use this award to strengthen the college preparation section of their program, which serves youth who live in under-resourced areas of the tri-state region.
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.
Devaney proposes a Fellowship experience that will deepen her familiarity with organizational quality improvement research design, methods, and measures.
Getting Out and Staying Out (GO&SO) will use this award to improve and upgrade the database that tracks the activities of their formerly incarcerated clients who utilize their New York City office.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
