With this award, Weitzman will strengthen her ability to effectively mentor junior researchers of color, expand her instructional toolkit to better support student writing goals, and create routines to support timely responses to student inquiries and requests.
With this award, Santagta will develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships.
With this award, Kho will engage in the process of co-discovery, whereby he and his mentee will learn a body of literature and its associated methodologies together.
The goal may be to fund high-quality research, but we should never lose sight of the people carrying out the work and how securing funding fits within the larger context of their careers.
Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program harbors ...
I recently had the pleasure to spend a few days with scholars and staff from the William T. Grant Mentoring Grant program. Melissa Wooten and I collaborated on a retreat program intended to create brave and visionary spaces for mentors (...
I’m drafting this post in January, which has been National Mentoring Month since 2002. It’s as good a time as any to reflect on the developmental networks that have advanced our professional and personal growth. Often, we think about ...
Resources on this page include applicant guidance, Research-Practice Partnerships, and additional resources geared toward applicants of the Foundation’s research grants on reducing inequality, as well as Institutional Challenge Grant applicants, as they develop research agendas.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
