Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

REACH India

Many children in India still do not have access to a quality basic education that allows them to gain necessary literacy, numerous and life skills. If at risk children are to benefit for schooling, the education they receive must to relevant to their lives and the circumstance in which their families and community exist. In response to this need, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has developed The Reaching & Educating At-risk Children (REACH) India project. The project seeks to attract out-of-school children to the classroom, while enhancing the quality of basic education so that it provides real and valuable incentive for vulnerable children to continue in school. To achieve this, REACH India is strengthening the capacity of Indian NGOs in urban and rural areas of India: Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and parts of Jhakhand, Chhatisgarh and Karnataka.

The project is jointly carried out by AIR, the lead partner, Juarez and Associates, Michigan State University and World Education. Dennis Gallagher, AIR’s chief of party in India, leads a small team of professionals drawn from the fields of education, training, monitoring and evaluation, finance and communications. Dennis and the team not only provide grants to NGOs providing educational services for at-risk children, but they also aid the NGOs by supporting their endeavor to share knowledge and mentor and build the capacities of other organizations working to educate these vulnerable children.

REACH India provides two types of grants: Direct Service Delivery Grants that provide funds and technical assistance to NGOs for direct delivery of educational services, and Capacity Building Support Grants that provide funds to enable larger NGOs to mentor and support grassroots NGOs in providing basic education services. Dennis and the team develop the guidelines for the proposal process and conduct workshops to introduce NGOs to the program. After grants are awarded, the project staff helps the NGOs implement the programs and interact more effectively with government agencies. The project also advocates the NGOs to mobilize communities to send their children, especially girls, to school.

REACH India looks to devise alternative school solutions by promoting the adoption of best practices within the NGO and the educational community, and by providing the necessary resources and support for the NGOs to expand successful programs.