Search Institute is a nonprofit organization that depends on support from a wide range of philanthropic and strategic partners to accomplish its mission. Below are major current partners. We welcome opportunities to explore additional collaborations that are aligned with our strategic priorities.
Altria Group, to support ParentFurther, a Search Institute resource for families.
Blandin Foundation, to support Search Institute’s partnership with the Itasca Area Initiative for Student Success.
Capital One, to support Bank It, an online resource that integrates youth development and financial literacy to help teenagers and families talk about and manage their money.
Cargill Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
nFocus Solutions, to develop the complete, online service to measure young people’s strengths, supports, and non-cognitive skills using the Developmental Assets Profile.
Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, to provide making support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
John Templeton Foundation, to support the Roots of Engaged Citizenship project (in collaboration with Claremont Graduate University and West Virginia State University) and the 2012 Laws of Life Youth Summit.
Minneapolis Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
Otto Bremer Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
RAND Corporation, to partner in the Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets in Maine, which was made possible with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Rural School and Community Trust, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
The Salvation Army, to integrate and measure asset-based youth development in its network of Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers across the United States.
Save the Children Canada, with support from the MasterCard Foundation, to partner in Youth in Action: Creating Pathways to Opportunity. This partnership uses the Developmental Assets Profile and other measures to examine how experiential and non-formal learning opportunities contribute to improving the socio-economic status of vulnerable, rural youth in five African countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.
Student Conservation Association, to build SCA’s system-wide capacity to intentionally and consistently produce and measure priority youth development outcomes.
Target Corporation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to co-convene a design lab with Twin Cities allies to explore community engagement in K-12 educational improvement and reform.
U. S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (I3), to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
World Vision International, to use Search Institute’s Developmental Assets Profile as a key measure of subjective child well-being around the world and to advance a positive approach the development with vulnerable children, youth, and families around the world.
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