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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Painter-Davis and Setter

Painter-Davis will use this grant to develop skills to better communicate across differences in perspectives, particularly related to racial-ethnic inequalities as they impact his students.
Noah Painter Davis
University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
2021 – 2024
$59,998.84
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Rivas-Drake and Pinetta

With this award, Rivas-Drake aims to improve her capacity to support Latinas and other women of color to develop multigenerational mentoring networks.
Deborah Rivas-Drake
University Of Michigan
2021 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Yeager and Dobson

Yeager will use this award to continue his journey of learning and growing with respect to inequality, privilege, and positionality, and to learn how to move toward more institutional change in his department and college.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2021 – 2023
$110,000
Grant

Racial Equity in Discipline for Black Students

Can an intervention that cultivates elementary school teachers’ critical race consciousness and empathy for Black students reduce the racial discipline gap?
Dorinda Carter Andrews
Michigan State University
2021 – 2025
$767,185.89
Grant

Making Black Reparations in America

This grant will support research and outreach to address questions about the feasibility of paying reparations to Black American descendants of persons who were enslaved in what is now the United States.
William Darity
Duke University
2021 – 2023
$300,000
Grant

Using a Facilitated Collaborative to Build Equity in Higher Education Institutions

How can post-secondary institutions implement organizational change to better support Black and Latinx students?
Joy Zacharia
National Opinion Research Center
2021 – 2025
$539,998
Grant

Addressing Inequality in Prek-12 STEM Education

How can educators and policymakers confront and respond to systemic inequality in pre-K–12 STEM education and promote success for all students?
Heidi Schweingruber
National Academy Of Sciences
2021 – 2024
$50,000

Articles & More

Publication

Special Collection: Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality

Since 2014, the Foundation has focused much of its grantmaking toward supporting studies that examine programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Subtle as it is, the nuance here—calling for researchers to investigate specific strategies that can ...
Foundation Staff
Special Collection: Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality
News
  •  Jun 9, 2021

A New Rapid Response Research Grant to Support the Work of Oakland’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Taskforce

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations have awarded a Rapid Response Research grant to the University of California, Berkeley in partnership with James Burch, policy director of the Anti ...
Foundation Staff
A New Rapid Response Research Grant to Support the Work of Oakland’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Taskforce
News
  •  Apr 26, 2021

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2026

We are pleased to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the ...
Foundation Staff
Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2026

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