May 1, 2005
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Program Result
From April 1998 through May 2004, the Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service (now Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement), Berkeley, Calif., formalized its structure and revised its mission.
September 1, 2005
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Program Result
The Social Workers National Research and Education Fund, Washington, convened a national conference in 1999 for social workers on alcohol and other drug use and abuse and the implications for clinical treatment and prevention.
October 1, 2005
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Program Result
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health coordinated efforts to improve techniques and increase consistency in the way economists and other experts model the effects of alternative proposals for expanding health insurance coverage.
February 1, 2004
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Program Result
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a national media campaign—the Harvard Mentoring Project—to recruit large numbers of qualified mentors to build supportive relationships with at-risk youth.
February 1, 2004
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Program Result
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Mass. convened the nation's leading economists and economic policy-makers June 27-30, 2001, to discuss and analyze the impact of economic policies of the last decade.
March 1, 2004
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Program Result
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national, non-profit child advocacy organization, conducted an educational campaign to increase policymakers' awareness of the value of publicly funded programs to strengthen youth and fragile families.
April 1, 2004
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Program Result
The International Center for Innovation in Civic Participation, Washington, (now called Innovations in Civic Participation) conducted a two-day forum in May 2003 to stimulate new thinking about the future shape and purpose of national service.
July 1, 2004
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Program Result
In 2002–03, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, Philadelphia, analyzed media coverage of terrorism threats.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
The US Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention helped colleges and universities promote evidence-based "environmental management" policies designed to prevent alcohol and other drug abuse.
