January 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
November 19, 2012
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Program Result Report
The Connecting With Care project of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention demonstrated that it was economically feasible to bring full-time, mental-health clinicians to schools in the low-income Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result Report
In the 1990s, Massachusetts led the nation in anti-smoking programs, but from 2000 to 2004, the state cut its funding for tobacco prevention by 95 percent.
November 18, 2009
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Program Result Report
Whatever the age, interests and neighborhood, young people and their parents now have an easy way to find out about these, through the Boston Out-of-School Time Navigator.
August 28, 2008
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Program Result Report
Young Achievers is one of 11 pilot public schools in Boston that are intended to serve as laboratories for educational innovation and models for other urban public schools. It runs from kindergarten through eighth grade.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
On the Rise created a new program director position and hired a doctoral student who wrote a 2005 research report, What it Means to be Successful: Lessons from the Lives of Homeless Women.
June 1, 2005
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Friends of the Community Path, a Somerville, Mass., citizens' group, helped raise funds to design a new 2.5-mile extension of a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that, when completed, will connect a popular commuter bikeway to downtown Boston.
December 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
The 1996 federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (known as welfare reform) changed the focus of welfare from providing open-ended financial aid to providing transitional assistance while the head of household secures work.
June 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
From January 2002 to October 2003, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a new automated technology for counting stair users.
June 30, 2003
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Program Result Report
Mediawrights, a communications strategy and production company, developed a videotape, a Web site and marketing materials to describe the experience of the Boston Strategy to Prevent Youth Violence.
