Below is a list of university research centers and institutes that focus on research related to poverty and opportunity in America. We encourage you to submit suggestions to Spotlight of other university research centers. You can send your suggestions to Tamanna Mansury at tamanna@thehatchergroup.com.

• The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire
• Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, University of Minnesota
• Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
  
• Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina
• Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke University
  
• Center for Poverty Research, University of Kentucky
• Center for Poverty Research, University of California-Davis*
• Center for Social Development, Washington University, Saint Louis
  
• Center for Study on Urban Poverty, University of California- Los Angeles
• Center on Business and Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School
  
• Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Case Western Reserve University
• Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
  
• Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, Loyola University-New Orleans
• Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, Brandeis University
• Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University
• Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison*
• Institute on Assets and Social Policy, The Heller School, Brandeis University
  
• Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago and Northwestern University
• Lab for Economic Opportunities, University of Notre Dame and Catholic Charities USA
  
• National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
• The National Poverty Center, University of Michigan
• Poverty Education Center, Seattle University
• Rural Policy Research Institute, Iowa State University, University of Missouri, & University of Nebraska
• Shepherd Poverty Program, Washington & Lee University
• The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University*
• The West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington

• Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America, The University of Rhode Island
• Texas Hunger Initiative/Texas Hunger Research Project, Baylor University