From Public/Private Ventures, this white paper provides an overview of how nonprofits are evaluated. Authors propose an approach to engage nonprofit practitioners as partners in evaluation efforts in order to provide a tailored approach to each…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data that revealed 12.4 percent of families included an unemployed person in 2010, up from 12.0 percent in 2009, which is at its highest level since the data began being collected in 1994. These…

As part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation published this report on the Enhanced Early Head Start (…

From MDRC, this report presents findings from Britain’s Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration program, which was designed to improve the employment prospects of low-paid and long-term unemployed individuals. Researchers…

This paper is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and shows why collaboration and coordination across programs is critical in terms of policy, procedure, and data utilization. Designed for practitioners, authors discuss the…

This working paper examines the relationship between material hardship and child behavior using the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study Data. Researchers analyze if economic and financial hardship associates with child socio-emotional…

From the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this issue brief discusses how there is currently a gap between the supply and demand of workers in the STEM labor force. As baby boomers…

First Focus and the Brookings Institution released a report that provides information on child poverty, specifically during the current recession. According to the Census Bureau, one fifth of children were poor in 2009, and this report is focused…

Given the weak economy, many nonprofit organizations have been forced to make budget cuts, and often, these reductions are in organizational capacity, rather than direct service funding. The Finance Project authored this report in response to…

The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings recently released a report that compared the change in geographic distribution of the low-income population to trends of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients’ location. The data used…