Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago (director, Community Leadership Center and Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy, CFAS) is the principal investigator on a one-year, $100,000 grant from the John E. Morgan Foundation in support of the John S. and James L. Knight Early Learning Research Academy at Rutgers–Camden.

Nyeema Watson (administrative director, CFAS-Center for Children and Childhood Studies) is the principal investigator on a $25,000 grant from Susquehanna Bank in support of the Rutgers Futures Scholars program in Camden.

Dr. Cyril Reade (director, CFAS-Center for the Arts and associate professor, CFAS-art) is the principal investigator on a one-year, $11,025 grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in support of the Arts Literacy Partnership.  The Center for the Arts also received a $30,000 grant from the Campbell Soup Foundation to support the Camden City Education and Community Arts Program.

Dr. Gwendolyn Harris (director, CFAS-Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs) is the principal investigator on an $8,032 grant from the State of New Jersey–Department of Law and Public Safety/Juvenile Justice Commission in support of the Rand Institute’s project “High-Risk Youth Offender Reentry and Family Strengthening Initiatives.”