All Projects

We collaborate with St. Louis criminal justice entities to research, design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based policies and practices to reduce the incarcerated population.

Our research informs development of asset-building policies at the state level and is designed to include traditionally marginalized groups. 

We explore the nature of service and citizenship in the National Youth Service Corps program in Nigeria and how political forces have affected the program. 

We explore how black youth draw on personal and cultural resources to thrive despite challenges to their identities from institutional racism.

We explore the impact of participation in a service-learning program at the college level on participants’ civic engagement following graduation.

We investigate the potential of youth civic service programs to serve as effective development tools for transitional countries through focusing on Mongolia. 

The Support4Families program is designed to assist families who struggle with the emotional strain of providing support to loved ones releasing from prison.

Our project assisted the Taipei City government with policy and research design for its Taipei Family Development Account pilot program.

We investigate corporate volunteering and its association with various dimensions of corporate philanthropy. 

We work to expand the audience of testimonies from youth and children affected by the cycle of incarceration, violence and disenfranchisement.  

We test a theoretical model that examines poor health behaviors as coping mechanisms for the stress of social disadvantage.  

We use the Social Network Analysis as a tool to measure the community-level impacts of the work accomplished by AmeriCorps volunteers in three U.S. cities. 

We investigate the Technical Aids Corps Scheme in Nigeria to examine participation, its effects on servers’ civic nationalism and its impact on communities. 

We examine whether Nepal’s National Development Volunteer Service enhances civic engagement, especially among the nation’s youth. 

We examine the scope and nature of service learning in urban and suburban schools and across socio-economic levels.

Our project with the United Way of Greater St. Louis implemented an IDA Pilot Program to explore a way to build assets in low-income households and communities. 

We investigate the characteristics and motivations of youth who serve in Germany’s voluntary cultural year. 

We explore organizational factors promoting long-term civic service engagement at Habitat for Humanity International programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

We use our expertise to assess and test innovations that remove barriers to voting and enhance voter participation.

We research asset development in rural America with a focus on underserved populations

We test the role of state welfare asset limits on low-income households’ ability to build assets. 

We investigate youth civic service worldwide and measure its impact on volunteers and the individuals and communities they serve.

We assess the status of youth volunteer service in Latin America and the Caribbean and its potential to serve as a strategy for social and economic development.

This initiative in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal was to understand conditions for delivery of savings products and services to improve the lives of low-income youth.