Evans School faculty members and research centers were awarded more than $1 million total in grants since February. Grant recipients include C. Leigh Anderson, Joaquin Herranz, Jr., Rachel Garshick Kleit, Richard Brandon, and Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
C. Leigh Anderson was awarded a $302,511 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for continuing the Evans Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) of faculty, staff, and students contributing to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Agricultural Policy and Statistics Division.
Joaquin Herranz, Jr. was awarded a $30,240 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through Columbia University for an 18-month study of systems change in juvenile justice services in Washington state as part of a larger four-state “Models for Change” study led by Kim Isett of Columbia University.
The Human Services Policy Center with principal investigator Richard Brandon was awarded a $79,500 grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to contribute a chapter to a study of the economic value of the child care sector that extends previous work on estimating the size and characteristics of the child care workforce, both paid and unpaid, for children age birth through five.
Rachel Garshick Kleit was awarded a $346,439 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through the City of Bremerton to assess and evaluate the long-term effects of the Westpark redevelopment on resident families and the surrounding neighborhood.
The Benefit-Cost Analysis Center with principal investigator Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. was awarded a $600,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to hold three annual conferences for benefit-cost analysis experts, practitioners, and policymakers.
Published on March 18, 2009
