Informal Child Care in Philadelphia

This brief explores the informal child care landscape in Philadelphia. It explores the perceived benefits of informal care, why parents choose it, and why providers offer it.

Supporting Informal Child Care Providers in Detroit

This issue brief highlights learnings from a formative evaluation of a collaborative effort by a funder, a research organization, and three community partners that set out to shed light on the strengths, limitations, and needs of informal child care providers in southwest Detroit.

Engaging Youth and Families: A Deep-End Reform Brief

This brief describes findings from a developmental evaluation of Annie E. Casey Foundation’s deep end reform effort.

Keeping Youth Out of the Deep End of the Juvenile Justice System

This report provides an overview of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s deep-end reform and the findings from the evaluation.

Building Data Capacity in Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees: Challenges and Recommended Support

This report is part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation (FaMLE) Cross-Site Project, led by OPRE in collaboration with OFA. ACF has partnered with Mathematica to conduct the FaMLE Cross-Site project.

Regional Collaboration to Create a High-Skilled Workforce: Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants

This report presents lessons learned from two initiatives aimed at creating high-wage jobs and innovation in various geographical regions.

Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants: Interim Findings on Multiagency Collaboration and Cluster Progress

This interim report presents early findings on the implementation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (JIAC) and Advanced Manufacturing JIAC grants through summer 2014.

Improvement Efforts in Rural Schools: Experience of Nine Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants

Low-performing schools in rural settings can face challenges common to all struggling schools, such as low student motivation and maintaining a qualified teaching staff.

Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program

This report presents findings from an evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program.