February 2024

Project

To learn more about the projects IPI has worked on this month please click through the project tabs.

Proposal Stage

• Municipal Government as a Democratic and Functional Space (Sponsor, Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) Program, NSF)

Pending

• Ada County Community Survey (sponsor, Ada County Sheriff’s Office)
• Alive at 25 Program Evaluation (sponsor, Idaho Department of Transportation)

Ongoing Sponsored

• Communities of Excellence Charter School Program Grant Evaluation (sponsor, Bluum)
• COMPLEAT Grant Evaluation (sponsor, National Science Foundation)Effect of County Form of Government on Fiscal Performance (sponsor, School of Public Service Research Committee)
• A Foundation for Research into Webcams as Tools in Informal STEM Learning (sponsor, National Science Foundation)
• Housing Innovations Pilot Analysis (sponsor, City of Boise)
• HUD Eviction Protection Grant Program (sponsor, Idaho Legal Aid Services/HUD)
• New Path Community Housing Evaluation (sponsor, City of Boise)
• PNW Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Study (sponsor, Idaho Nonprofit Center)
• Resource Nexus for Sustainability Phase II (sponsor, Boise State Division of Research and Economic Development)
• SAMHSA Treatment and Transitions Evaluation (sponsor, Idaho Health and Welfare)

Ongoing Unsponsored

• City Go Annual Awareness Survey
• Contract Management Strategies of Government CEOs by Contractor Form: A Survey Experiment
• ESG White Paper
• Idaho Eviction Prevention Resources Needs Assessment (community partner, Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy)
• Institutional Arrangements of Government and Municipal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic manuscript
• Leveraging the White House National Strategy on Hunger and Participatory Research Theory to Establish a Statewide Food Security Research Agenda (Follow up to Idaho Hunger Summit)
• Performance of Public Libraries by Governance Structure (follow-up on Digital Access for All Idahoans)
• Policymaking and service delivery in remote areas (follow-up to Digital Access for All Idahoans)
• Prevalence and knowledge of substance use disorder in Idaho (follow-up to IDHW Media Campaign Evaluations)
• Publication – Dragons at the Edges: Shifting Landscapes and Emerging Challenges for Public Engagement
• SPS 8th Annual Idaho Public Policy Survey
• Voting Rights Act Bilingual Ballots and Voter Turnout

Student Projects

MPA Capstone

• Campus transportation mode shift (community partner, Boise State Transportation and Parking/Office of Sustainability)
• Goathead mitigation strategic planning (community partner, City of Boise Parks and Recreation)
• Historical site strategic planning (community partner, City of Victor)
• Impacts from the loss of public spaces used by people experiencing homelessness (community partner, Our Path Home)
• Food security policy best practices (community partner, Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force
• Models of independent living (community partner, Living Independence Network Corporation)
• Zoning code evaluation qualitative research pilot (community partner, City of Boise Office of the Mayor)