The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, created in 1996, is one of the key federal funding streams provided to states to assist low-income families. A critical aspect of TANF has been its focus on employment and self-…

The Foundation Center issued this report on foundation giving trends in 2009. Education and health have the greatest shares of foundation grant dollars, which included areas of education, health, human services, and public affairs/society benefit…

The Welfare Peer TA Web site has received an APEX award for publication excellence in the area of Web site writing and content. APEX awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall…

Annually released by the Giving USA Foundation, this report details trends in charitable donating throughout 2010, the types of organizations giving money, and which charitable causes are receiving the funds. In 2010, contributions totaled $290.…

This brief was published by the Office of Disability Employment Policy of the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Technical Assistance and Research Center to Promote Leadership for Increasing the Employment and Economic Independence of Adults with…

The Department of Health and Human Services launched Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) to conduct a thorough and transparent review of the home visiting research literature and provide an assessment of the evidence of effectiveness…

The ACF Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) hosted a symposium on the application of behavioral research to programs that serve low-income children and families in July 2010. OPRE released a summary of the event, which included…

This is a presentation given by Child Trends at the Population Association of America meetings, which provides a framework for measuring the whole child in context. The presentation offers suggestions for expansion of federal data collection,…

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…

There is considerable flexibility within TANF to focus on preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy and many states have made good use of this flexibility to invest TANF funds in a variety of strategies to reduce teen and unplanned or non-marital…