Research & Reports
The Fox Program has released four reports and prepared a proposal requesting continuing support for a community service project that the Fox students want to complete. Have Faith in the Big Easy examines the role that faith-based organizations have played in the post-Katrina recovery and how they can continue to effectively contribute to the rebuilding effort in New Orleans. Making Food Stamps Work: A Report on the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger's Food Stamp and Enrollment Campaign 2003-2006 highlights actual enrollment barriers for those eligible for food stamp benefits and offers strategies to improve screening for food stamp clients. Don't Hold Your Breath: Greater Philadelphia Faces the Threat of Bioterrorism examines the region's readiness to respond to a chemical or biological attack. Transforming Probation through Leadership: The Broken Windows Model discusses the importance of probation in protecting the community, describes a new model for effective probation work, outlines accountability measures and presents the structural issues that must be addressed in re-thinking probation. The Think Big Initiative: Fox Students Take on Poverty in Paraguay is the Program's effort to aid the children and youth of Tobati through a series of community service projects.
Have Faith in the Big Easy: A Survey of Faith-Based Initiatives and Leadership in Post-Katrina New Orleans
The following report is the culmination of research conducted as part of a University of Pennsylvania "Ideas in Action" seminar with Professor John J. DiIulio Jr. The course, entitled Religion and US Public Policy: The Case of Post-Katrina New Orleans, gathered a group of 19 students from various religious, cultural, and political backgrounds and perspectives to address important issues regarding religion and its relation to the government.
The cornerstone of the seminar was a research trip to the city of New Orleans. The goal of the trip was to investigate what faith-based organizations are doing to aid in the recovery and how they can continue to effectively contribute to the rebuilding effort. While in New Orleans, the class interviewed a wide variety of sources including representatives from large national faith-based organizations, local ministers and priests, and staff members of the Louisiana Recovery Agency. The results of these interviews and the classes' conclusions follow in this report.
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Making Food Stamps Work: A Report on the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger's Food Stamp Enrollment Campaign 2003-2006
Fox Senior Fellow Mary Summers’ report found that only 53 percent of eligible clients are successfully applying for the program and only 40 percent successfully enroll. Ms. Summers found that significant barriers, like having to collect as many as 11 documents and enduring long waits at the county assistance office, keep people from applying. In the first 18 months of the enrollment campaign almost $5 million in additional benefits was received by eligible adults and children. Ms. Summers and the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger are working closely with the Rendell administration to implement several of the report’s recommendations.
Thinking Big: Fox Leadership Students Take on Poverty in Paraguay
A group of students from the Fox Leadership Program are seeking to put their leadership skills to work to affect change in an impoverished community in Paraguay. The “Think Big Initiative” will bring 25 students to the town of Tobati to carry out a range of projects designed to improve the health and quality of life of people throughout the region...
Don’t Hold Your Breath: Greater Philadelphia Faces the Threat of Bioterrorism in 2002
The report provides civic leaders with an overview of the challenges facing the Philadelphia region as it prepares for a possible attack employing chemical or biological weapons. Don’t Hold Your Breath recommends that local governments should 1) focus on consequence management rather than prevention 2) build systems that fail smartly and 3) acknowledge the pre-September 11, 2001 context that continues to shape much of what the governments face today...
Transforming Probation Through Leadership: The Broken Windows Model
This report represents the work of over a dozen veteran probation executives including several present or former leaders of the National Association of Probation Executives (NAPE) and the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), who met and deliberated over a two-year period. The focus of the deliberations was on the systemic deficiencies of probation, and what strategies needed to be developed to revitalize probation as a critical and valued component of the criminal justice system...
