of Boston. The program provides young job seekers with counseling and support during the jobhunting period.

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To determine the nature and direction of the connection between unemployment and crime, the Vera Institute of Justice in New York received support for the collection of data on the employment status and criminal activities of youths living in three poor Brooklyn neighborhoods. Vera is also analyzing the effects of its Neighborhood Work Project, which provides immediate, transitional employment to prisoners who are released from jail with no resources and little prospect of finding jobs. More than 5,000 ex-offenders have participated in the program, which is supported by the Foundation and by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Other grants this year went to:

• Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Corporation in San Diego, for an adaptation of the basic skills and job-related instruction programs used by the U.S. military to train disadvantaged youths and for the development of a program to prepare youths for jobs in the electronics field.

• Corporation for Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia, to work with four states in refining education, employment training, and other services for at-risk youth. These state-level planning initiatives will ultimately result in pilot projects, to be funded by state and local sources, that enlist the cooperation of local businesses, community organizations, and educational institutions in youth employment projects. The corporationalso received funds for a study of the California Conservation Corps, the country's largest state-run employment program for youth.

• Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Szanton, for a study of various national service models as a potential solution to problems of youth alienation and unemployment (see also page 63).

• Columbia University, for an analysis of the impact of changing computer and communications technologies on jobs in manufacturing, service industries, and government, particularly as these changes may affect the employment of minorities, youth, and the poor.

Overseas, the Undugu Society of Kenya, a community development organization that aids Nairobi's squatters, received $100,000 to develop skills-training courses and income-generating projects for youth and women. The American ort Federation received $134,000 for a training course in architectural drafting and industrial design in Senegal for females who left high school before graduating and for a study of vocational training for women in the Senegalese construction trades.