Project Grant 16PSHMA001

Community Partners received a $1,066,300 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The three-year award will support Community Partners' PROJECT SOAR initiative, which will provide college and career support services to residents in public housing in Los Angeles, California through August 2025. FIPSE aims to support innovative strategies to improve postsecondary...

The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $450,038 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to study the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in education. The two-year award beginning August 2022 will support research comparing student learning outcomes between those randomly assigned to attend public-private partnership schools versus traditional public schools through a lottery system. Administrative data on...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Life Learning Center, Inc. $2,700,000 on August 31, 2026, under the Social Services Research and Demonstration program (CFDA 93.647). Life Learning Center will expand its Foundations for a Better Life peer-led program into three high-need regions across Kentucky's area development districts. The program delivers life skills training across five domains (physical, financial, spiritual, emotional, and...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Partners In Development Foundation $2.3 million on August 31, 2026, under the Social Services Research and Demonstration program (CFDA 93.647) to expand the Keiki Assets Account (KAA) and Family Strengthening Program. The award funds an evidence-based initiative that serves low-income and ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) families with children from birth to age five. The program...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Partners In Social Research, LLC a $1,720,873.35 cooperative agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086) to implement the New Britain Healthy Relationships Project. Partners In Social Research, LLC will deliver evidence-based Relationship SmartS Plus 5.1 curriculum through 14-hour workshop series to high-school-aged youth...

This $140,482 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds research to develop a new methodology that can distinguish between research findings that are generalizable across populations, places, and time, versus those that are context-specific. The research aims to address the fundamental challenge of determining which experimental or observational results can be reliably generalized, in order to improve the...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded the District of Columbia Department of Behavioral Health $5.989 million on September 30, 2025, under the Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) to implement the Strategic Prevention Framework–Partnership for Success initiative. DBH will fund eight sub-recipient organizations to deliver evidence-based interventions and environmental strategies addressing substance use prevention among youth aged...

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded the Illinois Department of Human Services $7.190 million on September 30, 2025, under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) to reduce youth substance use on the South and West Sides of Chicago through the Strategic Prevention Framework—Partnerships for Success project. The Illinois SPF-PFS project implements...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention awarded the Massachusetts Department of Public Health $2 million on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.492) to implement the Positive Adolescent and Childhood Experiences to Prevent Substance Use (PACES) initiative. PACES will prevent, delay, and reduce youth substance use by strengthening...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) award provides $274,574 to Lifelab Studios, Inc. to develop and test an AI-powered platform that assists justice-involved youth in developing protective factors for positive life changes. The project will use advanced machine learning and large language models to optimize the platform's effectiveness in providing tailored, strengths-based feedback to help break the cycle of recidivism and support...