Funding Our grants support field-initiated research, career-development for early-career faculty, institutional change at universities, and projects to strengthen youth service nonprofits in New York City. Funding Opportunities Grantee Forms Awarded Grants
Focus Areas Our mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We pursue this mission by building bodies of useful research within two primary focus areas. Focus Areas Special Topics
About The William T. Grant Foundation has been dedicated to supporting research in the social sciences since 1936. Our Work
Found results All Articles Filters Webinar Applying to the William T. Grant Scholars Program: Proposing a Study on the Use of Research Evidence ...the Foundation’s primary interests is improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the... Foundation Staff Blog Post President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025 ...enhance the capacity of both partners to produce and use research evidence, and 4) create institutional change... Adam Gamoran 4/17/2025 Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work ...applications in the Foundation’s focus area on improving the use of research evidence. We periodically review our career development grantmaking... Melissa Wooten Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change ...schools (Kwako et al., 2023) and especially college campuses (Dixon, Tope, & Dyke 2008; Munson, 2010a; Munson,... Jennifer Earl Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education ...outcomes. Yet, we know little about how to improve the use of research evidence by decision-makers in higher education settings as... Kim DuMont Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems ...not decision-makers in an established system, and use some element of non-institutionalized tactics, or... Jenny Irons Blog Post Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study ...experiences, physical and mental health, substance abuse, and lifetime criminal legal system contact. A new... Natalie De Rosa 2/24/2025 Blog Post President’s Comment: Steadfast in Our Mission in Turbulent Times ...outcomes; and research on robust strategies to improve the use of evidence from research in policies and practices... Adam Gamoran 2/20/2025 News Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists ...the capacity of the agency and nonprofit partners to use research evidence to improve youth outcomes. Finally,... Foundation Staff News “Strengthening Social Impact through Collaborative Research”: An Invitation to Connect at Society for Social Work and Research 2025 ...grants to conduct research and measurement work on the use of research evidence and how structures, resources, and power dynamics... Kim DuMont News Adam Gamoran Continues as William T. Grant Foundation President ...long-standing effort to support research to improve the use of research evidence in programs and policies that affect young people.... Foundation Staff Grant Facilitating Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Legal Advocates to Improve Uses of Research in Justice-Oriented Court Cases ...or friends of the court. As such, this study will use an embedded case study design to examine the collaborative... Megan Hopkins University of California at San Diego 2025$49,678.00 Webinar Webinar for Applicants: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (December 2024) Research grants on improving the use of research evidence support studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms,... Foundation Staff Blog Post Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field ...selective. A significant body of theory and research on the use of research evidence (URE) in policy—specifically, regarding when, how,... Itzhak Yanovitzky, Daniel Crowley and J. Taylor Scott 12/19/2024 News Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people. Approved at the... Foundation Staff Blog Post Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers ...interviewed 123 state legislators about their research use, relationships with colleagues, and how each are affected... Karen Bogenschneider 12/9/2024 Blog Post Research Alliances: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting District Improvement ...university—enters into a long-term partnership with a practice-focused organization—often a local district central office—aimed... Megan Duff, Joshua Glazer and Matthew Shirrell 11/11/2024 Grant States as Laboratories: Experimental Trial of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration to Improve State’s Use of Evidence to Benefit Youth Substance use remains one of the most preventable sources of morbidity... Daniel Crowley Pennsylvania State University 2024 – 2025$200,000.00 News Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...outcomes and two studies on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people. Approved at the... Foundation Staff Grant Utilizing Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to Improve the Use and Relevance of Research Evidence to Inform School Mental Health Services ...the DES software and test strategies to improve the use of research evidence using the DES model. Participants will be randomly... Nathaniel von der Embse University of South Florida 2024 – 2027$950,000.00 1 2 3 ... 11 ... Next Last
