With the support of the Ford Foundation and guided by CSD, the Livable Lives Initiative awarded eight grants to faculty across Washington University in November 2009, following a competitive RFP process. True to the Initiative’s multi-disciplinary focus, the selected projects represent a range of academic approaches, including anthropology, economics, education, political science, and social work. The projects also represent a diversity of topics, ranging from restorative environments to literacy to the making of the middle class.
Please click on the links below to read an abstract of each project:
- Livable Lives for People with Aphasia: Uncovering Barriers and Facilitators to Participation
- Literacy and Social Development among Latino Youth in St. Louis
- Measuring the Extent of Economic Hardship across the American Life Course
- Optimal “Moving to Opportunity” and Livable Lives
- Paradoxes in Public Health: Identifying Protective Factors in the Relationship between Social Inequality and Well-Being
- Restorative Environments in Low-Income, Predominantly African American Neighborhoods
- St. Louis Intentional Communities: An Ethnographic Study of Livable Lives
- The Role of the Middle Class in Sustainable Economic Growth