In its third year of implementation, the Leonetti/ O’Connell Family Foundation’s emergency aid programs at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) have continued to provide direct cash assistance to students experiencing financial hardships.
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.
Offices of Strategic Partnerships: Helping Philanthropy and Government Work Better Together
The Foundation Review
Year: 2014
Historically, non-profits and gov worked together to address public problems. Recent research indicates that new public-private partnerships are effective models to deliver social impact. Read more here:
Evaluating the Academic and Behavioral Impact of School in the Park
USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2014
This brief summarizes estimates of the impact of School in the Park, a museum-based educational program for low-income students that takes place within the cultural institutions and museums of San Diego’s Balboa Park. The study evaluates the impact of participation … Continue reading
Identifying high risk youth for secondary gang prevention
Journal of Crime & Justice
Year: 2014
Efforts to reduce gang violence by deterring youth from joining street gangs are of major interest in cities across the United States. Current thinking supports a comprehensive gang reduction approach that includes concurrent efforts that prevent joining, encourage leaving, and … Continue reading
Building Organizations to Change Communities: Educational Entrepreneurs in Poor Urban Areas
In K. Golden-Biddle and J. Dutton (eds.), Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations.
Year: 2012
This chapter focuses on charter schools in poor urban areas. Charter schools are an organizational form that emerged in the early 1990s as one potential solution to failing public schools. Rather than address the performance of charter schools relative to … Continue reading
Transforming the urban food desert from the grassroots up: A model for community change
Journal of Family and Community Health
Year: 2011
Confronted by continuing health disparities in vulnerable communities, Community Health Councils (CHC), a nonprofit community-based organization in South Los Angeles, worked with the African Americans Building a Legacy of Health Coalition and research partners to develop a community change model … Continue reading