External Funding = $13,915,946 since 2014
2025
Principal Investigator (with Lynn Sanders). “NU Boston Summer Scholars Program.” City of Boston, Total=$518,015, June 2024-August 2024.
Principal Investigator. “Scaling Summer Youth Employment Programs.” Arnold Ventures. Total=$166,141, January 2025-August 2025.
2024
Principal Investigator. “Evaluating Boston’s Tuition Free Community College Program.” Department of Labor, Total=$199,430, Jan 2025-Dec 2026.
Principal Investigator. “Building a More Holistic and Inclusive Workforce Development System for Boston's Youth.” William T. Grant Foundation, Total=$350,000, July 2024-June 2026.
Principal Investigator (with Lynn Sanders). “NU Boston Summer Scholars Program.” City of Boston, Total=$642,624, June 2024-August 2024.
Principal Investigator. “Summer 2024 Immigrant Youth Advancement Program.” City of Boston, Total=$4,620, June 2024-August 2024.
Principal Investigator. “Labor Market Analysis of Chapter 74 Programs.” City of Boston, Total=$51,000, February 2024-August 2024.
2023
Co-Principal Investigator (with Ozlem Ergun (PI), David Kaeli, Gino Lim, and Joyce Shirazi. “Platforms for Exchange and Allocation of Resources (PEAR).” National Science Foundation, NRT-FW-HTF-HDR, Total=$3,000,000, Co-PI share ($600,000 (20%), July 2023-June 2028.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Joan Fitzgerald). “Green New Deal Workforce Needs Assessment Study.” City of Boston, Total=$200,000, Co-PI share = $100,000 (50%), September 2023-August 2024.
Principal Investigator. “NU Boston Summer Scholars Program.” City of Boston, Total=$497,103, June 2023-August 2023.
Principal Investigator. “Care Can’t Wait.” National Domestic Workers Alliance. Total=$132,049, April 2023-January 2024.
Principal Investigator. “Measuring the Economic Impact of the Job Quality Benchmarking Index.” The Boston Foundation. Total=$25,000, April 2023-October 2023.
2022
Principal Investigator. “The Long-Term Impacts of Summer Youth Employment Programs on Outcomes.” Arnold Foundation, Total=$273,667, January 2022-August 2023.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Jared Auclair). “BioConnects New England.” Economic Development Agency, Build Back Better Regional Challenge, Total=$500,000, Co-PI share = $250,000 (50%), January 2022-December 2023.
2021
Principal Investigator. “Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for Boston's Youth.” William T. Grant Foundation, Total=$649,557, July 2021-June 2024.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Mohsen Moghaddam, Kemi Jona, Stacy Marsella, and Nick Wilson). “FW-HTF-P: Training an Agile, Adaptive Workforce for the Future of Manufacturing with Intelligent Augmented Reality (IAR).” National Science Foundation, Total=$2,000,000, Co-PI share=$420,000 (20%), September 2021-August, 2024.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Gary Young and Md Noor E Alam). “Strategies to Improve Adherence for Treatment with Buprenorphine/Naloxone” Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Total=$194,100, Co-PI share=$64,053 (33%), January 2021-August 2021.
2020
Co-Principal Investigator (with Mohsen Moghaddam, Kemi Jona, Stacy Marsella, and Nick Wilson). “FW-HTF-P: Training an Agile, Adaptive Workforce for the Future of Manufacturing with Intelligent Augmented Reality (IAR).” National Science Foundation, Total=$150,000, Co-PI share=$37,500 (25%), September 2020-August, 2021.
Principal Investigator (with Taskin Padir and Kemi Jona).“RAPID: Accelerating the Future of Work? Understanding Future Shifts in Technology Adoption in the Seafood Industry in Response to the COVID19 Pandemic.” National Science Foundation, Total= $199,651, Co-PI share = $67,881 (34%), July 2020-June, 2021.
Principal Investigator. “Evaluation of Alternative Programming for the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program during the COVID19 Pandemic.” William T. Grant Foundation, Officer’s Grant, Total=$48,393, June 2020-December, 2021.
Principal Investigator. “Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth during the COVID19 Pandemic.” Spencer Foundation, Total=$19,968, June 2020- September, 2020.
Principal Investigator. “Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner-City Youth during the COVID19 Pandemic.” William T. Grant Foundation, R3 Rapid Grant, Total=$34, 937, May 2020- August, 2020.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Gary Young and Md Noor E Alam). “Exploring Patterns of Prescribing, Adherence, and Clinical Outcomes Associated with Suboxone.” Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Total= $139,906, Co-PI share=47,567 (34%), January 15, 2020-August 30, 2020.
2019
Co-Principal Investigator (with Taskin Padir, Kristian Kloeckl, John Basl, and Kemi Jona). “Collaborative Robots to Impact Seafood Processing (CRISP): Designs, Tools and Methods for Enhanced Worker Experience.” National Science Foundation, Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier program, Total=$2,500,000, Co-PI share=$256,177 (10%), September 2019-August 2023.
Co-Principal Investigator (lead, with Urbashee Paul). “Mentoring and Career Development: 2019 Modestino and Paul.” William T. Grant Foundation, Total=$59,493, Co-PI share=$300 (1%), August 2019-July 2021.
Principal Investigator. “The 2020 Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$75,543, October 2019-August 2020.
Principal Investigator. “From High School to Jobs: Exploring the Power of Varying Community College Pathways with Linked Wage Record Data.” MassInc, Total=$50,000, October 2019-May 2021.
Co-Principal Investigator (lead, with Gary Young and Md. Noor-E-Alam). “A Community Health Center Buyback Program to Reduce the Supply of Opioids to Secondary Users.” Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Total=$48,552, Co-PI share=$41,065 (85%), February 2019-December 2022.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Gary Young and Md. Noor-E-Alam). “Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Prescribing Patterns.” Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Total=$113,638, Co-PI share=$23,200 (20%), January 2019-June 2019.
2018
Principal Investigator. “An Evaluation of Boston’s Tuition-Free Community College Program.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$6,350, January 2019-December 2019.
Principal Investigator. “The Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$77,284, September 2018-June 2019.
Principal Investigator. “The Return on Investment to English Language Learning Programs.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$65,213, September 2018-August 2019.
Principal Investigator. “Building Boston’s Talent Pool.” Neighborhood Jobs Trust, Total=$30,929, May 2018-September 2018.
2017
Principal Investigator. “A Multi-Year Evaluation of Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Features to Reduce Inequality Across Groups.” William T. Grant Foundation, Total=$280,714, July 2017-June 2019.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Agnes Chan). “Increasing Qualified Cybersecurity Educators: Market Study on Shortages of Educators.” National Security Administration, Total=$150,000, Co-PI share=$48,400 (32%), May 2017-December 2017.
2016
Co-Principal Investigator (with Trinh Nguyen). “Technical Assistance for Social Innovation Fund Pay for Success Project for the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program.” Third Sector Partners, Total=$250,000, Co-PI share=$57,000 (23%), December 2016-August 2017.
Co-Principal Investigator (lead, with Daniel Shoag). “Upskilling: Why Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?” Russell Sage Foundation, Total =$34,477, Co-PI share=$11,000 (31%), January 2016-December 2017.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Trinh Nguyen). “Citi Community Development Concept Proposal: Youth Credit Building Initiative.” Citi Community Development Foundation, Total=$260,750, Co-PI share=$28,800 (11%), January 2016-December 2017.
2015
Principal Investigator. “Reducing Economic Inequality by Increasing Equality of Opportunity. Policy Options: College and Career Readiness.” Partners Healthcare, Total=$5,000, January 2015-April 2015.
2014
Co-Principal Investigator (with Barry Bluestone). “Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$75,000, Co-PI share=$18,750 (25%), August 2014-July 2015.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Daniel Shoag). “Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?” Russell Sage Foundation, Project #85-14-05, Total=$49,424, Co-PI share=$25,000 (51%), August 2014-July 2016.
2000
Principal Investigator. “Gender Differences in Physician Pay: Tradeoffs Between Career and Family.” National Science Foundation, Grant for Improving Doctoral Research, Total=$5,000, September 2000-August 2001.
