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Franklin County's Children: A look at their lives in and out of the classroom

Community Research Partners
February 2012

Issue(s): Education and Literacy; Children and Youth

In order to design strategies that support the success of children, it is important to understand the characteristics of our children and schools, as well as the challenges they face. This new report brings that information together in one place, including data and research on Franklin County youth, Franklin County school districts, and obstacles to academic success....more

Exciting News!

IssueLab has become a part of the Foundation Center, an organization with 50+ years of experience in collecting, indexing and sharing data about the work of the third sector. This is an important step towards better managing and mobilizing the knowledge of the third sector and enabling us to better serve you!

Read a joint letter from both the Foundation Center and IssueLab about why this is such a good thing.

Special Research Collections

Increasingly IssueLab is being asked to host and disseminate collections of research that are either especially relevant to particular communities of practice or that comprise a single organization's publication history. Although we have just started doing this kind of work we have already gathered some incredible, and hard to find, research.

NEW! Volunteering Resource Library
VolunteerMatch, IdeaEncore and IssueLab collaborate on a joint collection.

Feeding America's National Hunger Study

Special Collection on Foreclosures

Committee for Economic Development Library

NeighborWorks America - Reports and Studies

Open Educational Resources Repository

Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy's Research and Publications

Special Collection on Evaluating Communications Efforts

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