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: 13

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)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of efforts to analyze federal and state-level economic and budget policies and their impact on low-income people and communities. (2005)

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)

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: 17

Aspen Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$30,000 in support of The Community Development Finance Scale and Sustainability Project. (2005)

CDFI Data Project (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$650,000 to gather and report information on the characteristics and performance of community development financial institutions in the United States (over five years). (2005)

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)

Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action (New York, New York)
$150,000 in support of the project, How To Talk about Government: Creating a Framework for Communications about the Role and Capacity of Government. (2005)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$75,000 in support of a project to plan and design an equity and venture capital investment fund to invest in nonprofit housing owners and community development financial institutions. (2005)

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 Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
$500,000 in support of the Key National Indicators Initiative (over two years). (2005)

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)

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

Shorebank Enterprise Pacific (Ilwaco, Washington)
$100,000 to explore a merger between ShoreBank Enterprise Pacific and Cascadia Revolving Fund. (2005)

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: 3

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)