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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

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Rethinking School Budgets: Principals’ Resource Allocation Decisions and the Promise of Equity

Can a financing system structured to provide students with the greatest educational need the highest distribution of resources improve test-based student achievement for English language learners, economically disadvantaged students, and ...
Christopher Candelaria
Vanderbilt University
2021 – 2022
$44,471
Grant

Math Tracking and Motivation in Black Students: Feedback Experiences and Racial Diversity as Levers of Change

How does math tracking influence Black students’ academic motivation and achievement?
Sharon Zumbrunn
Virginia Commonwealth University
2021 – 2024
$49,625
Grant

Using a Virtual, Culturally Based Parenting Program to Reduce American Indian/Alaska Native Child Welfare Inequality

Does a culturally-based parenting program that provides training in how to parent children from birth to age 13 help reduce child welfare inequalities for American Indian/Alaska Native communities?
Puneet Sahota
National Indian Child Welfare Association
2021 – 2025
$65,000
Grant

Going Home for the First Time: Indigenous Migrant Youth and Experiences of Binationality

How do Indigenous Triqui youth make meaning of their lives, their families, their experiences at school, the discrimination they face, as well as how they want to be portrayed, perceived, and treated?
Seth Holmes
University Of California At Berkeley
2021 – 2021
$5,749
Grant

Research for Reimagining Community Safety

In collaboration with the City of Oakland’s Reimagining Safety Taskforce, a UC Berkeley working group will identify alternatives to law enforcement that are responsive to community needs and address the root causes of violence and crime.
Nikki Jones
University Of California At Berkeley
2020 – 2022
$125,000
Grant

An Investigation of a Cultural Humility & Social Justice Training and Support Intervention for Mentors of Youth of Color

Does a program to train youth mentors in cultural humility and social justice improve their relationships with and outcomes for low-income youth of color
Bernadette Sanchez
University Of Illinois At Urbana
2020 – 2026
$570,000
Grant

Addressing LGBTQ Youth Inequalities through Reducing Social Isolation

What programs, policies, and practices can reduce inequalities for LGBTQ youth, especially LGBTQ youth of color?
Natacha Blain
National Academy Of Sciences
2020 – 2022
$120,000

Articles & More

Webinars

Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality

In this webinar, recorded on November 9, 2020, Program Officer Jenny Irons discusses the Foundation’s focus on reducing inequality and shares guidance for prospective applicants interested in studying strategies to address inequality’s structural roots. Irons is joined by grantees...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality
News
  •  Oct 22, 2020

Announcing Three New Rapid Response Research Grants to Combat Youth Inequality Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations today announced three new Rapid Response Research grants to support collaborations between researchers and policymakers, with the central goal of reducing inequality in ...
Foundation Staff
Blog Post

President’s Comment: Anti-Racist Education is Essential for Research Universities

In early September, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget issued a directive that barred federal agencies from providing staff training on concepts including critical race theory and White privilege. This directive, which characterized such training as “un-American propaganda” ...
Foundation Staff
President’s Comment: Anti-Racist Education is Essential for Research Universities

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