Publications
Reports & Papers
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Pell Implementation for Incarcerated Students
An Evaluation of Regulations and Recommendations for Metrics to Inform Higher Education in Prison Programs.
2023
Read the Collaborative Memorandum with the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network →
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Motivations & Barriers to Justice-Impacted Voting
Justice Votes New York
2021
As part of the #JusticeVotesNY campaign, CCF sought to find out what brings justice-impacted individuals to the polls. One in three Americans has a criminal conviction, and they could be one of the most powerful voting blocs in the nation. However, only 10% of justice-impacted individuals vote.
We created a curriculum, utilized a train-the-trainer model, and conducted surveys to understand what stopped people from voting and what motivated people to vote.
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State of the Field
Two-Generation Approaches to Family Well-Being
2021
This report analyzes the accomplishments, lessons learned, and opportunities ahead with unprecedented federal expenditures in social policy.
The report comes at a time when Americans are more fully recognizing that a system that tolerates social, racial, gender, and economic inequities is on unstable ground.
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Boxed Out
Criminal History Screening & College Application Attrition
2015
Boxed Out helps explain how the criminal history box on college applications and the supplemental requirements and procedures that follow checking the box create barriers to higher education for otherwise qualified applicants.
This study found that almost two out of every three applicants who disclosed a felony conviction were denied access to higher education because they were driven out of the application process.
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Home-Grown Social Capital
How Higher Education for Formerly Incarcerated Women Facilitates Family and Community Transformation
2015
Access to social capital proves particularly critical (and often in short supply) for the educational success of people living in poor communities with struggling schools, low levels of educational achievement, and high incarceration rates. Changing these entrenched mobility patterns requires an understanding of how and why families and communities play such a pivotal role in educational success or failure.
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