Our Clients

We’ve helped a wide-range of foundations, nonprofits and government agencies advance their causes and do more good work with the resources on-hand.

Our Client List

Barr Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bush Foundation
CareQuest Institute (formerly known as the Dentaquest Partnership)
C. S. Mott Foundation
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
The de Beaumont Foundation
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Fannie Mae Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
M. S. Eisenhower Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John D. & Catherine T. McArthur Foundation
Mellon Foundation
New Venture Fund – National Collaborative for Health Equity
Obama Foundation
Pew Charitable Trusts
Prince George’s County Community Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Telluride Foundation
The Colorado Trust
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
William Penn Foundation

Active Voice
American Geophysical Union
Center for Community Change
Center for Community Progress
CFLeads
Changemakers
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Fair Food Network
FoodCorps
Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing
The Harwood Institute
Institute for Nonprofit Practice
Interaction Institute for Social Change
Living Cities
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Low income Investment Fund
National Academy of Sciences
National Arts Strategies
National Coalition Building Institute
National Crime Prevention Council
National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention
National Minority AIDS Council
National Neighborhood Coalition
UnidosUS
Wholesome Wave
Winrock International

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers (MD)
Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative AWBI (GA)
The Central Valley Community Foundation (CA)
Citizens Committee for New York City (New York, NY)
Community Development Support Collaborative (Washington, DC)
Community IMPACT! (Washington, DC)
Community Ministries of Montgomery County (Montgomery County, MD)
Crime Victim Services (Allen and Putnam Counties, Ohio)
DC Agenda (Washington, DC)
Foreign Born Information and Referral Network (Howard County, MD)
Institute for Public Health Innovation
Northwest Pennsylvania Job Connect (PA)
Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal (LA)
Washington Area Partnership for New Citizens (Washington, DC)
Women’s Community Revitalization Project (Philadelphia, PA)

Bureau of Primary Health Care, Department of Health and Human Services
Center for Mental Health Services/HHS
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Corporation for National and Community Service
Department of Housing and Urban Development
FoodCorps
Indian Health Service
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Department of Justice)
Office of Minority Health
Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President
Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Department of Health, Office of Minority Health, New York State
Montgomery County (Collaboration Council on Children, Youth, and Families), Maryland
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (MD)
Office of the Governor, State of Colorado
Office of the Governor, State of Mississippi
Office of Systems Management, Fairfax County (Virginia)
Port of Portland (OR)
Philadelphia Empowerment Zone (Philadelphia, PA)
Queen Anne’s County, Community Partnership for Children (Maryland)

Institute for Policy Studies, John Hopkins University
Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
George Mason University
University of Maryland
Workgroup on Health Promotion and Community Development, University of Kansas

American Evaluation Association
American Psychological Association

Banyan Communications
Battelle Institute
Westat

Children International
Habitat for Humanity International
The World Bank Group

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary’s Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities included a priority to assess and heighten the impact of all HHS policies, programs, processes, and resource decisions to reduce health disparities. An action to support this priority is the recommendation that HHS program grantees submit health disparity impact statements as part of their grant applications. In response, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Office of Behavioral Health Equity developed a strategy to reduce behavioral health disparities, which included the requirement of a Disparity Impact Statement (DIS) from grantees. In their statements, grantees are expected to describe how they would determine, analyze, and ensure access to, use of, and outcomes from behavioral healthcare services and activities for disparate subpopulations (i.e., vulnerable groups of people within larger populations of focus who experience disparities). Community Science was engaged by SAMHSA to assist with advancing the implementation of the agency’s policy of requiring a DIS from grantees by: Developing an approach to determining the problem and solutions for addressing behavioral health disparities and eventually, elimination of such disparities. The approach is aimed at assisting service providers, technical assistance providers, state and local agencies, and other types of organizations to consider how to go about analyzing the nature of the behavioral health disparities affecting the people they serve, the contributing factors, and the appropriate solutions that are sustainable and meet the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards. Developing, testing, and implementing a framework and strategy for assessing a sample of DISs in order for the agency to have baseline data about how the DIS requirement was understood and operationalized by grantees during the pilot phase. Based on findings from the assessment, Community Science will design a searchable database for SAMHSA to support future standard and ad hoc analyses to continue to monitor and inform the policy’s implementation. This project provides Community Science with the opportunity to reflect on how service providers and state agencies understand the individual, organizational, and systemic factors that affect behavioral health outcomes of people and communities that experience a disproportionate amount of barriers and bias, and use data to inform their interventions.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary’s Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities included a priority to assess and heighten the impact of all HHS policies, programs, processes, and resource decisions to reduce health ...
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Foundation for Louisiana
Co-Designing a Data-Driven Evaluation of the New Orleans Youth Master Plan with the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board and its Partners
The New Orleans Youth Master Plan is a network of youth-serving organizations, young people, and other community stakeholders who are working on building out a 10-year multisector plan to improve the lives of children and youth in New Orleans. Community ...
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Foundation for Louisiana
Investigating The Black Wealth Gap in Atlanta
According to data from the United States Census Bureau, Atlanta Georgia has the highest income inequality among large US cities. The city’s entrenched racial disparities have been attributed to driving much of Atlanta’s income and wealth inequality. The Atlanta Wealth ...
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The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative
Richland County Ohio Seeks Plan for Affordable and Equitably Attainable Housing
This project's aim was to work with the county’s Housing Development Steering Committee (comprising representatives from the public, private, and non-profit sectors) to develop a Housing Needs and Action Plan for Richland County. The process and products were intended to ...
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Richland County
Evaluating Progress: The Just Imperative’s Journey Toward A Just Verdant, and Peaceful World
The Just Imperative, established in 2018, is a vital way the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (MacArthur Foundation) works towards its goal of making the world fairer, greener, and more peaceful. It’s based on the Foundation’s values—empathy, integrity, ...
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ohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
CCP Leadership program in The Dakotas Seeks to Create a Network of Leaders
The NAS Change Network program engagement launched in July of 2021 centers around continuous learning and evaluation process to understand the local and regional impact or “the network effect” of multiple cohorts of leaders’ social change efforts centering equity. The ...
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National Arts Strategies

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