Sumie Okazaki, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, will immerse herself in two vastly different organizations to observe how they limit and facilitate opportunities for Asian American youth.
Lisa Chamberlain, assistant professor and co-founder and director of the Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Rotation and the Pediatric Residency Stanford Advocacy track, will immerse herself in the office of California State Assembly member Richard Pan, M.D. She will work ...
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Fellowship Program allows researchers to learn first-hand about the federal policymaking process and context, and the role of research within it.
This grant will support the Society for Research in Child Development’s (SRCD) conference on “Strengthening Connections among Child and Family Research, Policy, and Practice.”
Funds will be used for Judith Gueron’s speaking and writing engagements for foundation leaders, federal agency and congressional staff, research and policy organizations, and academics in public policy schools and economics departments to promote evidence-based policy.
The primary goal of Kaczorowski’s Distinguished Fellowship is to better understand how researchers evaluate program fidelity and outcomes in violence prevention programs for children and youth.
Funding will allow the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy to continue advancing reforms in federal programs affecting youth by promoting rigorous impact evaluations.
In this brief essay, Vivian Tseng introduces the Foundation’s learning community of research-practice partnerships, writing, “Successful partnerships enable researchers to develop stronger knowledge of practitioners’ challenges, their contexts, and the opportunities and limitations for...
The prevailing research-to-practice model suggests a one-way street of moving research to practice. To strengthen research-practice connections, however, we need to build a two-way street with reciprocal exchanges.
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.
