Policy Research

Recent Grants

Human Development
Institutional Support
Program-Related Research
Research on Regional Resilience

Human Development

Number of Grants: 4

Chapin Hall Center for Children (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of a conference on adolescence and the transition to adulthood for vulnerable young people (over four months). (2006)

Children's Hospital Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
$350,000 in support of the Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development's Bucharest Early Intervention Project (over three years). (2006)

Harvard University School of Public Health (Boston, Massachusetts)
$400,000 in support of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (over two years). (2007)

University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$63,300 to preserve research materials from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. (2007)

Institutional Support

Number of Grants: 14

Advance Illinois (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to support identification of policy issues and to inform public discussion of educational reform in Illinois (over three years). (2008)

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Washington, D.C.)
$900,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2007)

Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program (Washington, D.C.)
$2,000,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Center for Law and Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
$2,000,000 in support of general operations (over four years). (2006)

Civic Federation (Chicago, Illinois)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2008)

National Council of La Raza Policy Analysis Center (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of the Policy Analysis Center (over three years). (2007)

National Urban League (New York, New York)
$350,000 in support of the Policy Institute (over two years). (2008)

National Urban League (New York, NY)
$400,000 in support of a program of policy research and analysis (over two years). (2006)

National Women's Law Center (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over four years). (2006)

Tobin Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2008)

Urban Institute, Tax Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)
$900,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

Woodstock Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over four years). (2006)

Program-Related Research

Number of Grants: 14

Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$485,000 to support an expert advisory committee and a mid-term assessment of The Power of Measuring Social Benefits (over three years). (2009)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Mailman School of Public Health (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of planning a Research Network on an Aging Society. (2007)

National Academy of Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Washington, D.C.)
$380,000 to support a workshop on the implications of cost-benefit methodology for the evaluation and design of early childhood interventions (over 15 months). (2008)

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (New York, New York)
$500,000 to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of a case management model for the treatment of drug dependency (over three years). (2008)

Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research (Salem, Oregon)
$1,000,000 to support a cost-benefit analysis of the impact of health insurance on low-income people in Oregon (over three years). (2009)

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$285,000 to further the work of the Partnership for America's Economic Success. (2008)

RAND (Santa Monica, California)
$1,000,000 to conduct research to expand shadow prices to include more outcomes affected by social programs (over three years). (2008)

Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina)
$200,000 to pilot a stated-preference survey of the value to the American public of reducing childhood poverty. (2008)

Social Science Research Council (New York, New York)
$375,000 in support of the Privatization of Risk project (over three years). (2006)

University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$30,000 to support a plan to develop integrated administrative data systems to improve social programs and policies. (2008)

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)
$850,000 in support of business models of successful community development financial institutions (over three years). (2007)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$285,000 to develop and promote standards and principles for benefit-cost analysis of social programs (over 18 months). (2008)

University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs (Seattle, Washington)
$200,000 in support of a conference on cost-benefit analysis in social policy decision-making. (2007)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$480,000 in support of the project, Risk and Low-Income Working Families: Providing a Solid Empirical Base for Policy (over three years). (2006)

Research on Regional Resilience

Number of Grants: 4

Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 to promote the understanding of and policy guidance about economic changes underway in American cities and metropolitan areas (over two years). (2009)

Institute for International Economics (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 in support of a research project on "Trade in Services and Its Impact on U.S. Firms, Workers, and Regions" (over two years). (2006)

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$252,000 in support of research on the regional effects of globalization on job quality and volatility and worker inequality and insecurity (over two years). (2007)

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
$3,200,000 in support of the Research Network on Building Resilient Regions (over three years). (2006)