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Weissbourd and Jones Receive Grant

Making Caring CommonLecturer Richard Weissbourd and Associate Professor Stephanie Jones recently received a four-year, $2 million grant toward their new initiative, The Making Caring Common Project.

“This grant will provide us with our primary core funding over the next four years,” Weissbourd says. “It will enable us to launch a major media campaign focused on making caring and responsibility for others — including those different from you — priorities in child-raising. We will also develop and evaluate various strategies for promoting caring, courage, and other key moral and social capacities in both schools and homes.”

The Making Caring Common Project, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offers resources to adults to promote caring, respect, and responsibility in children and teens. Recently, Weissbourd spoke more about the project’s meaning and goal in an Ed School video.

The grant will fund three primary areas:

  • The development of a media campaign that challenges the contemporary focus on happiness and achievement as the primary goals of child-raising, and elevates caring and respect for others as chief child-raising goals;
  • The dissemination of accessible, easy to implement strategies for promoting awareness of and responsibility for others to parents, educators and other community members, in collaboration with partners;
  • A pilot program with evaluation of low-burden strategies designed to improve social norms and to develop children's key moral and social capacities in 500-1,000 schools over the next three years.

For more information about The Making Caring Common Project, visit: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=making_caring_common.

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