Bard College

Bard Early College increases success in and access to postsecondary education for high school students by offering a tuition-free college program of study embedded in public high schools. This grant will support Bard Early College in partnership with the Bard Center for Civic Engagement to create a new academic concentration at the intersection of deeper learning and civic engagement. The program will be developed in deep collaboration with public high school students in the early college program and will be informed by their lived experiences, applying academic themes and competencies to challenges in the community. (Substrategy: Student and Community Voice)

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College’s Gender Equality and the Economy program generates rigorous evidence on how economic processes and policies affect gender equality and examines the influence of gender inequalities on economic outcomes. Over the next few years, the program aims to conduct economic analyses on gender disparities in employment security and welfare outcomes in Ghana and South Africa, host regional policy dialogues, and organize its annual gender and macroeconomics workshop. This grant will enable the Gender Equality and the Economy program to deepen these focal areas. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)

This grant will support the Levy Economics Institute’s Gender Equality and the Economy program to generate new knowledge on the determinants of women’s time and poverty in five African countries that can be used to inform gendered economic analysis and related policy goals. The project’s multicountry, multilevel research design is strengthened through new partnerships with in-country researchers to produce contextually relevant evidence for regional and national policymakers, activists, and scholars working to advance social and economic investments that allow for greater gender equality in paid and unpaid work. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)