America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth 
Together with Search Institute, America’s Promise is documenting the presence or absence of the “five promises” of America’s Promise in the lives of children and adolescents in the United States, and conducting community-level surveys in selected U.S. cities.
americaspromise.org
Best Buy Children’s Foundation
Best Buy Children’s Foundation and Search Institute are partnering to conduct a national study of the interests and passions of 14- to 16-year-olds. More information can be found at www.search-institute.org/at15research.
bestbuy.com
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Search Institute works with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to help determine how Boys and Girls Clubs affect and enhance the development for Club members, and develop a fuller understanding of the nature of their impact, focusing on how clubs positively influence members’ attitudes, skills, values, and behaviors.
bgca.org
Capital One
Search Institute and Capital One are exploring how Search Institute’s approach to youth development can be utilized to enhance financial literacy and competence among teenagers and their families.
capitalone.com
Coors Brewing Company
As part of its corporate social responsibility efforts to reduce underage drinking, Coors Brewing Company sponsors Search Institute’s resource for parents, MVParents.com, a Web site created to identify positive activities and approaches for parents to raise strong and healthy children and young people. For more information on the relationship between Coors Brewing Company and Search Institute, see the FAQ.
coors.com
Corporation for National and Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service, through its Learn and Serve America community-based grants program, supports a pilot project to build the capacity of faith communities to engage in interfaith service-learning titled Inspired to Serve: Youth-Led Interfaith Action. Search Institute’s national partner in this project is Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago. Pilot cities are Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and St. Paul.
nationalservice.org
Holthouse Foundation for Kids
Holthouse Foundation for Kids developed Prepared-4-Life, a model for supporting after-school programs that includes a standards-based character education—life skills curriculum, customized training workshops, job-embedded staff development strategies, continuous-improvement tools, and an impact evaluation study design.
prepared4life.org
Houston Endowment, Inc
Houston Endowment provides scholarships to teams of students and adults from low-income Houston area high schools so they can attend Search Institute’s annual Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth Conference.
houstonendowment.org
I. A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation
O’Shaughnessy has partnered with Search Institute in order to apply the Developmental Assets framework to strengthen early childhood education with families on Native American reservations.
iaoshaughnessyfdn.org
John Templeton Foundation
John Templeton Foundation is the lead supporter of Search Institute’s Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.
templeton.org
Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Lilly Endowment has a long history of supporting Search Institute’s efforts to build bridges between youth development research and practice. Among many other projects, it has most recently supported:
- Search Institute Insights & Evidence
- The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Communities and Society
- Is There Common Ground? An Exploratory Study of the Interests and Needs of Community-Based and Faith-Based Youth Workers
Otto Bremer Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation’s partnership with Search Institute is to support the work of the Fund for Innovations in Human Development and support and deepen the network of Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiatives in areas where Bremer’s financial institutions are represented.
ottobremer.org
Philip Morris USA, an Altria Company
As part of its efforts to help prevent underage tobacco use, Philip Morris USA supports Search Institute’s efforts to reach and engage parents as asset builders through ParentFurther.com and related strategies. For more information on the relationships between PM USA and Search Institute, see our frequently asked questions document.
philipmorris.com
Thrive Foundation for Youth
In collaboration with scholars at Stanford University and Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Psychology, Thrive Foundation is working to define and measure the concept of thriving during adolescence, and to promote a national dialogue about the importance of thriving as a focus for youth development.
thrivefoundation.org
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
In an effort to inform the Kellogg Foundation’s Leadership for Community Change initiative, the Kellogg Foundation seeks to assess the youth work field and young people’s role in community change. The assessment integrated knowledge from the youth work literature across fields of practice, youth and young adults’ experiences with adult partners and community change, and activist leaders’ views on the meaning of their change pathway efforts.
wkkf.org
YMCA of the USA
The purpose of Search Institute’s partnership with YMCA of the USA is to develop and pilot a measurement system to help local YMCAs assess key goals around strengthening the spiritual, mental, and physical well-being of children and youth, families, and members.
ymca.net
