NPower NY wants to improve its Technology Service Corps (TSC), which provides technology skills training and workforce development services to disconnected (i.e., not working or in school) youth ages 18–25.
As an extension of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program, this small grant provides capacity-building support to youth-serving organizations in our local community.
How do LGBT youth respond to stigma and stress in communities either hostile or supportive of LGBT rights? How do community based organizations attempt to empower youth to work for social change?
This study will investigate the role of intermediaries in conveying research evidence in support of college completion, ways research evidence is used, and the extent to which policymakers rely on intermediaries.
In this mixed-methods study, Simpkins and her colleagues will focus on the role of culture. They will use data about Latino families and the activities that Latino youth participate in.
Vital Theatre Company produces original family musicals in its 108-seat theater and also provides arts-integrated education to three partner schools (800 students) in Brooklyn and the Bronx through Vital High School Voices.
New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) wants to improve the Science Career Ladder program (SCL), which recruits and trains high school students to become Explainers, who then interact with museum visitors by answering science questions prompted by exhibits.
Renaissance E.M.S. provides music instruction and musical instruments to 23 schools in the Bronx and offers an after-school program at its center in the South Bronx.
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.
