Elfenworks Foundation - In Harmony with Stanford University - the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality

Elfenworks Foundation
In Harmony with
Stanford University

The Collaboration for Poverty Research

Stanford University and Harvard Kennedy School and Elfenworks Foundation A new collaborative effort, bringing together faculty and scholars from Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Universities, is being launched to develop and evaluate national policy on poverty and inequality in America. The Collaboration for Poverty Research (CPR) will tap the vast intellectual resources of both institutions, leveraging their combined convening power to focus attention and garner public support for new measures to attack and solve one of the most significant public problems of our time.

CPR will link Harvard Kennedy School’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, based at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. The partnership will offer a national stage for renewed awareness and action in hopes of improving the lives of the 37 million people living below the poverty line in the United States.

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, online at www.inequality.com, publishes and distributes Pathways, a new magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy. The Center serves as a clearing house for inequality scholarship and data, supports graduate and undergraduate training programs in poverty and inequality analysis, and fosters innovative interdisciplinary research on poverty and inequality.

The Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, based at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, emerged from the conviction that certain research puzzles may be particularly suited to an interdisciplinary approach. In its graduate training activities, the program aims to produce scholars who will be grounded in the recognized disciplines of their home departments, but who also understand the models, methods, and findings of scholars in adjacent fields. For more information, visit http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/.

The multi–faceted, creative and hardworking team at The Elfenworks Foundation uses its wide–ranging expertise to heal, empower, and transform, fostering a world ‘In Harmony With Hope.’ In bringing about this historic partnership, TEF is working to uplift the lives of the poor and marginalized for the greater good of all.

Stanford University - Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality

Elfenworks in Harmony with the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University

A web-based center for trend and other breaking research data on poverty could offer journalists, politicians, and policy makers at all levels immediate access to a wealth of information, making it possible to monitor poverty and inequality just as easily as monitoring economic output. Professor David Grusky, Director of the Stanford Center, believes this access is crucial. Without it, every American loses, not just those afflicted. In addition to seeing the existence of poverty and inequality as moral problems, Grusky argues that they create huge externalities through raising crime rates and increasing the national health care bill, among other things. In other words, they affect the bottom line and should be treated accordingly. Grusky hopes that his work can help prepare the next generation to face the looming spectre of poverty and remove this social blight. [article] [inequality.com] .

The Stanford University Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality
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Visiting Scholars: The Elfenworks Foundation Visiting Scholars Program brings leading scholars and practitioners to Stanford University to carry out research, teach classes and inform public debate on poverty and inequality policy. Each year, the Elfenworks Foundation funds two visitors: a distinguished scholar who spends one or two semesters in residence delivering several public lectures and writing a book for the Controversies in Inequality book series, and a visiting lecturer who contributes to graduate and undergraduate programs in poverty and inequality.

Website: We continue to assist the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality with their website, inequality.com. The launch of the site was celebrated at the Center's official opening celebration, A Concert for Hope on Thursday, September 6, 2007. The development work has begun on Release 2.0 of the website, and Stanford Center faculty, staff and graduate students are busily working to maintain the database which powers the site. Members of the press please contact our for information regarding the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, or poverty awareness events.

Poverty, Inequality and Policy Magazine: As part of its continuing involvement with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, our foundation will help the Center develop its Poverty, Inequality and Policy magazine. The Elfenworks Visiting Scholars will be among many distinguished contributors to this magazine, which will provide a forum for top scholars to disseminate their research and to provide the facts and cogent analysis that will inform crucial policy decisions on poverty and inequality.