The John Gardner Center for Youth at Stanford University

The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research, and effect change to improve the lives of youth.

Launch of the John Gardner Center For Youth Blog

The Gardner Center at Stanford University blog launch

Communication is one of the great challenges for service organizations.  In our case, we are very focused on taking an analytical and research-oriented focus to understanding youth development.  Our partnership with Stanford University has been a great boon in this effort and it’s not a stretch to say that we’ve identified numerous data that informs ways in which policy makers and community leaders in particular, can make informed choices about how to support our nation’s youth.

The complement to the research effort is to spread awareness of these findings.  We think that is best accomplished by discussing the findings and our work in a variety of mediums and formats.  We are eager to supplement the academic language of research papers and policy briefs with higher level discussions of the findings.  This blog is part of that effort.