National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
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Grants
17
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Total Awarded
$6,434,200
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Years
1988 - 2017
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Categories
Grants
2017 (3 years 6 months)
$403,000
Founded in 1941 as a nonprofit social science research and public policy organization, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducts rigorous research and analysis in the public interest. NORC has developed a research project with Get IN Chicago (GIC)—a partnership among Chicago-based corporations and private foundations that has pledged $50 million to anti-violence efforts—to evaluate six mentoring programs funded by GIC that show promise as means to prevent young people from engaging in violence. The six mentoring programs replicate the Quantum Opportunities Program, an evidenced-based youth mentoring program, and focus effort on reaching youths at high risk for violence involvement. This renewal award supports a continuation of evaluation research using a randomized-controlled trial to determine program effectiveness in reducing high-risk behaviors and improving school engagement and performance.
2017 (2 years 9 months)
$500,000
Founded in 1941 as a nonprofit social science research and public policy organization, National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducts rigorous research and analysis in the public interest. NORC has developed a research project with Get IN Chicago (GIC)—a partnership among Chicago-based corporations and private foundations that has pledged $50 million to anti-violence efforts—to evaluate six mentoring programs funded by GIC that have a primary goal of preventing young people from engaging in violence. The six mentoring programs are replicating the Quantum Opportunities Program, an evidenced-based youth mentoring program, and focusing the effort on reaching youths at high risk for violence involvement. Grant funding supports the first year of a two-year, randomized-controlled trial to determine program effectiveness in reducing high-risk behaviors and improving school engagement and performance.
2015 (6 years 1 month)
$407,000
ORC at the University of Chicago (NORC) was founded in 1941 as a nonprofit social science research and public policy organization dedicated to conducting high-quality research in the public interest. Based in Chicago with offices in multiple cities across the country, NORC's experts span a wide range of topics including public health, psychology, economics, education, and statistics. NORC has developed a research project with Get IN Chicago (GIC)-a partnership among Chicago-based corporations and private foundations that have pledged $50 million to anti-violence efforts-to evaluate seven mentoring programs funded by GIC that have a primary goal of preventing young people from engaging in violence. The grant will support a two-year, quasi-experimental evaluation of the programs, which use a variety of approaches, to identify promising mentoring interventions targeting at-risk youths.
2009 (3 years 2 months)
$150,000
In support of the Cultural Infrastructure Project to study the impact of capital campaigns on arts organizations undertaking building projects.
2008 (1 year)
$1,112,000
In support of a longitudinal study of public housing residents and their experiences of relocation, services, and effects.
2008 ( 3 months)
$225,000
In support of a study of relocating leaseholders of the Chicago Housing Authority.
2007 (2 years)
$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).
2006 (1 year)
$150,000
In support of a research design for a panel survey of current and former residents of public housing in Chicago.
2005 (1 year)
$400,000
In support of a longitudinal study of public housing residents and their experiences of relocation, services, and resettlement.
2005 (1 year)
$95,200
In support of the development and production of a scholarly compilation of research on the transformation of Chicago's public housing.
2004 (1 year)
$500,000
In support of a study of relocation and resettlement among public housing residents.
2003 (2 years)
$870,000
In support of a longitudinal study of public housing residents and their experiences of relocation, services, and resettlement (over two years).
2002 (1 year)
$750,000
For an assessment of public housing resident relocation and to establish a process for monitoring residents' experiences.
2001 ( 5 months)
$220,000
In support of Public Response to a National Tragedy, a research project to learn how individuals readjust their lives in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and how they react to additional events associated with actions taken against terrorism.
1992 (1 year)
$100,000
To support the National Health and Social Life Survey, a study of adult sexual behavior.
1988 (1 year 1 month)
$50,000
For meetings of U.S.-Soviet teams in preparation for a collaborative survey of social and political participation by the Soviet Academy of Science's Institute of Law and Society and U.S. researchers from Harvard, University of Michigan, Boston College, and National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
