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The Jacobs Foundation has awarded over US$200,000 for systematic reviews to inform better policy and practice to improve child and youth development. Systematic reviews summarise the best high quality evidence about what works. The reviews will be published in the Campbell Library of systematic reviews.

The 2015 Annual Report of the Jacobs Foundation provides detailed information on the Foundation and its worldwide activities in the field of child and youth development.

The new Medium Term Plan 2016 – 2020 shows the seven strategic goals, which the Foundation has set for the coming five years, and the key performance indicators.

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and well-being of children and youth, while state and local budgets have devoted almost double that amount. The potential returns on these investments may not only be substantial but also have long-lasting effects for individuals and succeeding generations of their families.

In fall 2015 the first-ever Jacobs Fellows started their Entrepreneurship Career Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Claire Markham is one the Jacobs Fellows. She graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, with a Major in Finance and prior to her studies at UC Berkeley Markham worked in Kenya. She has […]

In 2011, the Swiss organization “Ideenbüro.ch” received the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize for its “Children Helping Children Solve Problems ” project, which encourages children to take responsibility, learn to work together and view problems as a challenge.

Two anthropologists and fathers ask, “How deeply does a man’s culture influence his fatherly biology, and what does it mean for his family?” To find answers, they travel to the forests of the Republic of the Congo where two cultures with dramatically different ideas on fathering live side-by-side. Text: Adam Howell Boyette, Duke University Lee […]

The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to announce the 2016 call for applications for its Research Fellowship Program. The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is an internationally open, competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers focusing on child and youth development.

Nine months after Jacobs Foundation announced a USD 52 million commitment to create TRECC: “Transforming Education in Cocoa Communities,” the program has become a growing coalition of public and private stakeholders aligning capital and knowledge to improve the quality of education in Côte d’Ivoire. TRECC will be officially launched on February 17th in Abidjan with the backing of the Ivorian government, the cocoa and chocolate industry, and additional committed partners.