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February 27, 2010 -
Press release
How Housing Matters to Families & Communities: All Grantees
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Child Well-Being | Economic Opportunity | Education | Health | Instability | Neighborhoods
Child Well-Being
Boston College (2010)
Boston Medical Center/Children's HealthWatch (2008)
Columbia (2009)
Cornell (2009)
Johns Hopkins (2009)
New York University (2011)
Ohio ... Read More
February 23, 2010 -
Press release
How Housing Matters to Families & Communities 2009 Grant Recipients
Columbia (2009)
Cornell (2009)
Johns Hopkins (2009)
Ohio State (2009)
Princeton (2009)
RAND-Inclusionary Zoning and Schools (2009)
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto (2009)
University of Illinois at Chicago (2009)
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (2009)
University ... Read More
February 23, 2010 -
Press release
Competitive Grants Competition Awards $6 Million to 13 Housing Research Projects
The projects will produce a base of empirical evidence to show how housing affects children’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development and how housing choices shape the economic, physical, and emotional well-being of adults. Read More
June 25, 2008 -
Speech
“Philanthropy, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Public Policy,” Remarks by Jonathan F. Fanton at the 2008 Benefit-Cost Analysis Conference
MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton discusses the Foundation's research grantmaking and support for efforts to align policy with sound evidence. Read More
December 4, 2006 -
Speech
"Governing Together in a Post-Post Sarbanes-Oxley World," Remarks by Arthur Sussman at the BoardSource Leadership Forum
MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton discusses board responsibilities in the "post-post-Sarbanes-Oxley" era, pressing for continued focuses on accountability with renewed focus on an organization's place in civil society. Read More
April 1, 2005 -
Publication
Enewsletter: Housing Matters
For children and families, housing matters. But how?
How important is housing to healthy human and community development? Ask Maricela Contreras. She remembers how it was for her growing up in Chicago, moving from apartment to ... Read More