. Tammie Tm Famiiy Sm??e? PO. Box Charlo?esvilla VA 22906 CGNTAST: Mr. Richard A. Brake mam? REQEJESTES: $75,000 RECQMMENETATEQN: $75,000 PRQJECT TITLE: To support genera! operations MEMBERS AFFELEATED WETH REQUEST: STAFF: Mike Hartmann MEETENG DATE: 11/10/2015 19$: 20150763 The institute for Family Studies UPS) in Charlottesville, Va, request a 33%,000 grant award in renewed support of its general operations. Newty created two years ago by W. Bradford Wilcox, IFS is committed to strengthening marriage and the natural family and advancing the wait-being oi chiidreri through research and public education. Its commitment is rooted in the social?science fact that children are most litteiy to thrive when they are raised by their own married, biological parents. The underlying premise of its work is that families and communities, freedom and prosperity, and the political order itself -- both at home and abroad are all critically dependent upon the existence of a strong, healthy, pervasive marriage culture among the citizenry. IFS is a successor organization to the Ridge Foundation, through which Bradley and others sepported Wilcox?s Nationai Marriage Project (NMP) at the University of Virginia. (Wilcox and basically found their relationship with the University to not be worth the effort to maintain it.) Wiicox is an associate professor of sociology at the University ct Virginia (UVA), a member of the James Madison Society ot the Bradley-supported James Madison Program in American ideals and institutions at Princeton University, and a visiting scholar at the Bradley-supported American Enterprise institute He is very hetpfolly advising those creating the new Bardermsupported Family Prosperity Index of the American Conservative Union?s Center for Human Dignity. Wiicox is considered a senior fellow at the president of which is Richard A. Brake. A former political? science professor, US. army officer, and legislative staffer, Brake came to from the Bradley supported Intercollegiate Studies institute. where he was vice president for undergraduate education and directed its civic~literacy and free-enterprise initiatives. Last October, for an attentionmgetting IFS report with For Richer, For Poorer: How Famiiy Structures Economic Success in America, Wiicox and Robert l. Lerman found that median family income wouid be 44% higher today if the rate of married parenthood had remained at 1980 levels, and that married men today enjoy a ?wage premium? of $16,000 compared to their single counterparts. A followup report this coming October further examine the aiready very clear connection between higher marriage rates and higher?than-average state?byastate economic growth. . Wilcox is also writing the policy booklet on the family for the Bradleyusupported Room to Grow series. His next full-length book, with Nicholas l-i. Wottinger, of Sou! Mates: Reiigrorr, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. From Oxford University Press and drawing on both surveys and in?depth interviews, the book describes the largely positive influence churches exercise on relationships and marriage among African- Americans and Latinos. it argues that churches 'serving those communities promote a code of decency encompassing hard work, temperance, and personal responsibility that benefits families. Like For Richer; For Poorer and Soul Mates, iFS?s many various research and public~education projects: 1. explore how the system depends on a strong marriage cuitore; 2. stress the value of the intact, biological married family and discourage divorce; 3. examine global family trends and issues, including new the worldwide economic slowdown is impacting marriage and childbearing; and. using ali of the farnitiar techniques. provide family-related information and analysis to journalists, . publioopinion elites. family scholars, other educators, religious and civic feeders, and the general public. Budget information: lFS?a overall 2015 expense budget is $524,800. lte philanthropic sources of Support include several strong Bradley allies. Among them: the Achelie 8c Bodman, Chiaroscuro, Earhart, GFC, Hertog, Arthur Rupe, and Vine and Branches Foundations. ewes: RECQMMENQATEGN: With continued confidence in Wilcox and a recognition of the increasing and seemingly increasingly urgent need for the type of work is planning on continuing to do, staff recommends a $35,000 general-operations grant to are. Given this need and its urgency, if awarded, this would be $25,000 more than last year's level of support. Gram History ?m?mi ??tia {Brant Appreve? ?nd r3 sugiburt generak oaer?ti??ns ??55666 To Support general operations. ESOAMU SHWEGIB Reguiar To supper? writing. administration, and dissemi?ation of $30,900 Regu?as' research related to marriage in me United States To supper? the Mammal Marriage Pioject $20,000 $30129? i Reguiar Grand mm ?4 Etems} $350,000 ?ha?M Page of 1