National Institute on Out-of-School Time on behalf of the Robert Bowne Foundation is pleased to announce the 2012 National Afterschool Matters Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grants. With generous funding from the Robert Bowne Foundation, it is distributing four $10,000 grants for research in the Out-of-School Time. The grant has the following goals:
1. Generate and disseminate research about community-based organizations serving youth during the out-of-school hours;
2. Build a network of scholars studying community based-organizations serving youth; and
3. Contribute to basic knowledge and the improvement of practice and policy in the area of youth programs during the out-of-school hours.
This is a national grant competition. Applicants do not have to be located in New York City, nor do they have to conduct research in or about New York City programs.