Juggling Work and Family with Hedrick Smith, was underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (www.sloan.org/main.shtml), a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. In 1995, the Foundation initiated a program on Working Families aimed at creating a community of scholars who have direct knowledge of the issues faced by dual-career families as they cope with the competing demands of work and family.

In addition to numerous research grants, seven Sloan Centers on Working Families have been established, including the Employment and Family Careers Institute at Cornell University; the Center on Parents, Children, and Work at the University of Chicago; the Center on Working Families at University of California, Berkeley; the Center for Ethnography of Everyday Life at the University of Michigan; the Center on Rituals and Myths in Working Families at Emory University; the MIT Center on the Workplace; and the Center for Everyday Life of Families at the University of California-Los Angeles. Research at these Sloan Centers focuses on work-family issues across the life course, cultures of care and the experiences and socialization of children and adolescents, and the challenges and opportunities experienced in everyday life by working families.