Knowledge Center

Farm to Families: Increasing access to healthy, local foods through Community Supported Agriculture in food insecure neighborhoods

With the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among young people living in low-income neighborhoods, fostering healthy living through and environmental and policy changes have become high public health priorities. 
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Infill Philadelphia: The Community Design Collaborative’s New Approach to Collaboration

On October 11th, Vivian Figueredo presented findings from the Philadelphia-based Community Design Collaborative’s Infill Philadelphia initiative at the Design in Action 2011 conference co-sponsored by the Association for Community Design, the Association of Architecture Organizations, and the Architecture + Design Education Network. 
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Pathways to Completion Report

The OMG Center in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Office of the Mayor recently released a report looking at the college access and success trajectory of Philadelphia students using data from 20 area higher education institutions.  
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Hartford Community Schools: Lessons from Whole-School and Whole-Community Reform

Julie Tarr and the Hartford Community Schools (HCS) team presented key findings, lessons learned, and preliminary student impacts from OMG’s two-and-a-half year evaluation of HCS, during a session at the Children’s Aid Society’s Community Schools Practicum.
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Impacting College-Going & Completion Rates in Your Community: Taking a Systems Approach

In 2011, Sarah Singer Quast presented at the National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA) conference in Atlanta, GA.  Her presentation "Impacting College-Going and Completion Rates in Your Community: Taking a Systems Approach" drew on OMG’s research over the past decade, offering lessons for direct service providers from OMG’s work with community efforts to increase college access and completion. 
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RWJF Evaluation Fellowship Program’s Progress Report

This report, published in May of 2011, looks at the Evaluation Fellowship Program’s background and purpose, and discusses its most significant results to date, as well as challenges the program has faced, and lessons learned along the way.  
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Evaluation report on the Gates Foundation's Communities Learning in Partnership Planning Phase

A report describing the lessons learned from the first phase of the CLIP initiative, which is a project to improve local postsecondary systems through community partnerships.
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Miami College Access and Success Landscape

This presentation provides the landscape for systems-level work in helping Miami students access and succeed in postsecondary education. The research was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Philadelphia College Access and Success Landscape

This presentation provides the landscape for systems-level work in helping Philadelphia students access and succeed in postsecondary education. The research was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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College Access and Success Landscape - Miami and Philadelphia

A study prepared for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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