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Urban Institute, The

Washington, DC 20037

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Total Grants to Urban Institute, The
Total $ Granted:	$ 2,860,355
For Years:	2004 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1992 1991 1990 1986
# Grants:	23

Grants to Urban Institute, The

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Date	Amount	Purpose	Funder
12-30-2004	191,914	Studies in Federal Budgeting Rudolph Penner and Eugene Steuerle will examine how the U.S. government's budget process can be reformed to improve budget policy choices. They will commission research, host conferences, and develop policy prescriptions to reform the rules and accounting methods used in the budget process and identify strategies to address the challenge of budgeting for health care costs. The project's findings will appear in a series of papers, monographs, and policy briefs.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-30-2004	91,572	The Costs, Benefits, and Effects of Collective Bargaining in Education Jane Hannaway and Andrew Rotherham will commission research and convene a conference on how collective bargaining agreements between teacher unions and school districts affect school reform initiatives. The project will trace the evolution of collective bargaining agreements in education and examine their impact on school productivity, school finance, and teacher quality. The project's findings will appear in an edited volume.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2002	100,000	No purpose given.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2002	250,000	No purpose given.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2001	50,000	Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2001	92,950	Coping Outside the Safety Net	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2001	154,470	Constraints on the Responsiveness of the Federal Budget to the Nation's Needs	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2001	50,000	Systematic Reviews for Social Welfare Policy	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-2000	150,000	Systematic Reviews for Social Welfare Policy Matt Stagner will direct an effort to conduct systematic reviews in four areas of social policy. He will organize searches of the relevant literature and assess the methodological rigor of the research.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1999	161,610	Social Policy and the Tax System: Tax Subsidies for Low-Income Families and Children Eric Toder will assess whether the trend toward making social policy through the tax code leads to effective public policies. He will examine whether tapolicies designed to assist low-income families and children, such as child tax credits and deductions for childcare, are an effective means of achieving public policy goals.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1999	49,232	Crime's Decline: Why Did It Happen? Will It Continue? Jeremy Travis will convene a one-day conference that will review and synthesize the finings of existing research on the decline in crime rates and offer a set of prescriptions for fur combating crime for state and local policy makers.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1999	132,237	Budgeting in an Era of Surpluses Rudolph Penner will prepare a monograph on how policy makers at the federal level should respond to a fiscal environment in which budget surpluses are forecast for the foreseeable future. He will assess the accuracy of surplus projections, evaluate proposals for spending the surplus, and consider whether the budget process should be reformed in light of the federal government's fiscal situation.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1998	203,000	Social Security and the American Family Eugene Steuerle will direct a project to examine how changes in the make up of American families have affected Social Security. He will commission a series of papers and convene two conferences in orderto address a range of key issues such as how benefits are shared by spouses and the benefits given to divorced and widowed spouses.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1998	225,000	Governing for Results and Accountability in the States Blaine Liner and Harry Hatry will conduct research on the use of results-based public management at the state level. They will examine the implementation of results-based policies in a sample of states and assess the effectiveness of those policies.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1998	150,000	To support the Wisconsin phase of the "Assessing the New Federalism" project	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
12-31-1997	225,000	Governing for Results and Accountability in the States This grant supports research on the use of results-based public management at the state level. Blaine Liner and Harry Hatry will examine the implementation of results-based policies in a sample of states and measure the effectiveness of those policies. The project's findings will be published as a two-volume guide for state-level policy makers.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1996	175,000	Consumer Choice in the Provision of Public Services: Vouchers and Related Delivery Mechanisms This grant supports research on the effect of consumer choice provisions on the delivery of public services. The project will examine existing studies of government aid programs, such as housing assistance vouchers, food stamps, and child care vouchers, in order to inform policy makers who are considering using consumer choice provisions to deliver other services, such as elementary and secondary school education and medical care. Papers commissioned for a conference will be published as a book.	Smith Richardson Foundation
12-31-1996	171,545	Building Hope and Opportunity: Restructuring the U.S. School-to-Career System This grant supports research on school-to-career programs that seek to prepare young people for entrance into the workforce. The project will examine local approaches and analyze national data on youth movement from school to work. The research will produce a book and several articles.	Smith Richardson Foundation
5-17-1992	40,000	To support a research project entitled The Elderly and the Budget under the direction of Rudolph Penner	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
11-14-1991	40,000	To support Rudolph Penner's project, The Elderly and the Budget.	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
5-14-1991	40,000	To support a research project The Elderly and the Budget by Rudolph Penner.	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
11-14-1990	41,825	To support a research project The Elderly and the Budget by Rudolph Penner.	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
12-28-1986	75,000	Continuous research on various public policy issues.	The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.

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