The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has awarded a three-year grant to support the efforts of the West Coast Poverty Center to create a regional research collaborative focused on reducing poverty. Activities to be funded under the new award include grants to help launch collaborative academic-practitioner research projects and working groups that bring together academic researchers and practitioners around issues such as asset-building and housing.
Prior Foundation funding has helped support related WCPC activities to bridge gaps between social policy research and practice. As an example of one of the projects funded under a previous award, Social Welfare doctoral student Maria Rodriguez is working in collaboration with El Centro de la Raza and WCPC Faculty Affiliate Lynne Manzo to understand the impact of the nationwide foreclosure crisis on Latino families in the Seattle area.
With this new funding, the WCPC will increase its efforts to engage researchers and practitioners in creating and sharing knowledge that could help address the challenges facing low-income families in the Puget Sound region.
For more information, contact Shannon Harper, the research director for the West Coast Poverty Center at 206-685-7727 or at shannonh@uw.edu.
About The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Launched by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen in 1988, the Allen family’s philanthropy is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities by fostering innovation, creating knowledge and promoting social progress. Since inception, the Foundation has awarded over $494 million to more than 1,400 nonprofit groups to support and advance their critical charitable endeavors in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The Foundation’s funding programs nurture the arts, engage children in learning, address the needs of vulnerable populations, and advance scientific and technological discoveries.