Public / Private Ventures
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Grants
11
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Total Awarded
$2,677,000
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Years
1989 - 2012
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Categories
Grants
2012 (1 year)
$20,000
The Evaluation Roundtable seeks to improve the practice of evaluation in foundations by developing best practices and providing a forum for evaluation staff to share ideas and discuss current issues. The Evaluation Roundtable was founded by a small group of foundation evaluation directors in 1988, and serves as a resource to evaluation staff and leadership at about 50 foundations. It hosts meetings and discussions, and prepares and broadly distributes publications.
2010 (1 year)
$35,000
To support a literature review/practice scan and program recommendations for the Chicago Public Schools Violence Prevention Middle Grades Initiative.
2010 (1 year)
$35,000
To support a literature review/practice scan and program recommendations for the Chicago Public Schools Violence Prevention Middle Grades Initiative.
1998 (2 years)
$20,000
To support the Youth Development Directions project.
1997 (8 years 4 months)
$1,500,000
To assess whether mobility strategies increase access to work for the urban poor (over four years).
1995 (3 years)
$150,000
To support research activities related to the Community Change for Youth Development Initiative (over three years).
1994 (1 year)
$250,000
To design a national multisite demonstration of a mobility strategy to connect inner-city residents to suburban jobs by overcoming key barriers between cities and suburbs.
1993 (1 year)
$80,000
To plan and develop a national multisite demonstration project to examine reverse commuting as an antipoverty strategy.
1991 (1 year)
$250,000
To study the I Have A Dream program in Chicago and Washington, DC, and to analyze the national evaluation (over two years).
1990 (1 year)
$262,000
To study college students mentoring at-risk youth.
1989 (1 year)
$75,000
To study the I Have A Dream program in Chicago, Washington, DC, and selected sites around the country.
