Capacity-Building and Communications

This grant will support the participation of five undergraduate students and one doctoral fellow in MDRC’s Gueron Scholars Program.

This grant will support the reconvening of a group of education scholars, research organization leaders, free expression experts, and civil rights experts to coordinate a collective strategy to protect the freedom and right to learn in U.S. public schools.

This grant will support three cohorts of early-career scholars from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the country to attend the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute (IQRMI). The IQRMI is a week-long training program for early-career faculty launched in 2015. It aims to ...

Alliance (KA), to highlight the importance of and elevate the use of education research in federal policymaking. KA is a nonprofit based in Washington D.C., that is committed to improving education outcomes through informed policymaking. Motivated by a thorough ...

With this award, the Foundation will support the Council for Education Development and Research (CEDR) to develop and implement a strategic communications initiative to reinforce public understanding of the value of education research in improving student outcomes.

This grant supports the Foundation’s 2025 membership in the Council on Foundations.

This grant will provide an additional five years of funding to the Reducing Inequality Network, which supports sociology and social work doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds whose research focuses on reducing inequality.

This award will support the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). Founded nearly 50 years ago, the MFP fosters a diverse pipeline of sociology researchers by supporting cohorts of predoctoral graduate students from minoritized backgrounds with financial...

This grant will enable the Society for Research in Child Development to establish Child Policy Connect, a program to improve evidence-based policymaking by building reliable and trusted relationships between researchers and policymakers in the United States.

This grant will enable The Learning Agenda to lead planning and meeting facilitation of the Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant Convening and the Reducing Inequality Grantee Convening.