Columbia University National Center For Children In Poverty

As the nation’s leading public policy center on low-income families, NCCP has over 20 years of experience in transforming research into real progress through generating, integrating and evaluating the timeliest and most significant findings related to this most-important concern. Through publications and unique web-based tools NCCP puts critical information in the hands of the policymakers, service providers, and funders who have the power to make a difference in children’s lives. Though a financially separate entity, NCCP is housed at Columbia University’s world-renowned Mailman School of Public Health, and benefits from the School’s marvelous research resources as well as the Ivy League’s tradition of groundbreaking academic, professional, and research achievement.