Externally Funded Projects

Ralph Bangs and Audrey Murrell, A National Study of Minority and Women Business Contracting.
June 2006 - May 2008. Funded by the Ford Foundation Fulfilling the Dream Fund.

Danny Rosen, Photovoice: A Community Based Project to Involve Older Adult Methadone Clients in the Decisions that Affect Their Lives.
May 2005 – February 2006. Funded by the Staunton Farm Foundation.

Janet Schofield, Rochelle Woods, and Leslie Hausmann, Increasing Institutional Identification of College Students as a Means of Improving Retention.
September 2004 – September 2007. Funded by the Spencer Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the University of Pittsburgh Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies.

Hide Yamatani, Ralph Bangs, Larry E. Davis, Aaron Mann, and Lambert Maguire, Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Evaluation Research: Follow-up Study of 300 Inmates.
July 2003 – December 2006. Funded by the Human Services Integration Fund and The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Ralph Bangs, Improving High School and Post-High School Outcomes for African American Youth in Allegheny County.
July 2003 – April 2005. Funded by the Heinz Endowments.

Leslie Hausmann, Evaluating the Impact of Attending a Boys and Girls Club on Urban Youth.
June - December 2003.

John Wallace, Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth.
August 2002 - July 2007. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

John Wallace, The Skillman Foundation A Call to Service Faith-Based Initiative Cluster Evaluation .
August 2002 - March 2007. Funded by the Skillman Foundation.