CORE at SMU

09/02/2026

Trellis Foundation provides context to consider when examining trends in postsecondary enrollment and persistence.

09/02/2026

The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) has announced its FY27 grantmaking plan.

In this blog, IES announces its plans for Fiscal Year 2027 research grantmaking.

09/01/2026

CORE team members attended The Allstate Foundation Youth Empowerment Breakfast, where they had the opportunity to connect with other leaders and practitioners working across youth development. The event focused on the important nationwide efforts to foster positive youth development through community service. The Allstate Foundation shared highlights from its recent report with Gallup, The Power of Youth Service, and featured The Allstate Foundation’s Youth Changemakers, who shared how community service has positively impacted their lives.
Pictured from left to right are Noadiah William, Celeste Fernandez, and Tim Lindsey. The Allstate Foundation

https://www.gallup.com/analytics/702254/youth-service.aspx

08/28/2026

Welcome back to the Hilltop, SMU students! Our team at CORE hopes you have an amazing and successful academic year. Pony up!

08/27/2026

Meet Team Member Meshezabel Din, Undergraduate Research Assistant at CORE.

08/25/2026

As his time with CORE nears its end, Advancing Evaluation in Philanthropy (AEP) Fellow Tim Lindsey has spent the past few months engaging in conferences focused on the cradle-to-career continuum. In June, he attended the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s inaugural Every Child Thrives Festival at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. In July, he attended CFLeads’ inaugural Economic Mobility Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, where he reconnected with his former superintendent, Dr. Russell Booker, CEO of the Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) and board chair of StriveTogether.

08/20/2026

Thank you to and College for creating a space where nonprofit professionals and funders could create meaningful connections. It was wonderful to get the chance to reconnect with old friends and foster new connections within the DFW Metroplex. We look forward to seeing where these conversations lead and how we can all continue to support each other in this work! Pictured is CORE's Advancing Evaluation in Philanthropy (AEP) Fellow Noadiah William.

08/18/2026

Meet team member Dylan Farmer Clement, Senior Evaluation and Research Consultant at CORE!

08/14/2026

Four centers within the Simmons School of Education and Human Development are working with LancasterISD to serve families and PreK-12 students. Research in Mathematics is delivering math interventions for grades 6-8, CORE is stewarding Active Playful Learning for teachers, College Access supports the Upward Bound Math and Science Center, and The Budd Center provides Parent Zone and Parent University. Pictured from left to right are Simmons center directors: Dr. Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Dr. Annie Wright, Dr. LaChelle Cunningham, Dr. Karen Pierce.

08/12/2026

Meet team member Elisa Gallegos, Data Operations Lead & Evaluation Coordinator at CORE!