• $37,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is the fiscal agent for John Jay College, home of the Research and Evaluation Center, which assists public and private agencies by conducting research and evaluation studies. The Center will use this grant to hold a roundtable meeting with academic researchers and juvenile justice experts and produce a white paper on the feasibility of a national system for monitoring the progress and impact of juvenile justice reform.

• $1,800,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Founded in 1965, and led since 2004 by Dr. Jeremy Travis, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York is a leading center for learning and innovation in criminal justice. This grant supports the Chicago Violence Reduction Strategy, a national police reform demonstration addressing high levels of gun violence in city neighborhoods. It will be used to provide technical assistance to the Chicago Police Department and collaborating criminal justice agencies as they develop and implement the Initiative's coordinated and intensified law enforcement strategies, which are the principal suppression components of the Foundation's anti-violence program.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The Research Foundation is a task force co-chaired by former Lieutenant Governor of New York Richard Ravitch and former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker that will study the causes and implications of growing state structural deficits, and champion its findings and recommendations to policymakers and stakeholders. The study will quantify the structural deficits in five representative states; document the ways in which their fiscal and budgeting systems foster widening revenue/expense gaps that put essential investments and services at risk; and develop and promote budgeting and fiscal management practices that would improve states' long-term fiscal performance.

• $600,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — In support of the Chicago Violence Reduction Initiative.

• $375,500Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To support the National Network for Safe Communities (over three years).

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To support a police reform demonstration project in Chicago.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Research Foundation of the City University of New York $3,562,500 between 2009 and 2012.