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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2020 Schneider and Logan

With this grant, Schneider will learn to grow mentoring relationships that foster the development of students’ independent research agendas.
Daniel Schneider
Harvard University
2020 – 2022
$59,985
Grant

Evaluation of Alternative Programming for the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program during the COVID19 Pandemic

What are effective and feasible summer youth employment options in the context of COVID-19?
Alicia Modestino
Northeastern University
2020 – 2021
$48,393
Grant

New York Hall of Science Summer Interns-Elmhurst Corona Recovery Collaboration and Census 2020 in undercounted areas.

This award supports two summer internships organized by the New York Hall of Science.
Andres Henriquez
New York Hall Of Science
2020 – 2020
$4,600
Grant

R3: Expanding food benefits in response to a crisis: lessons for the covid-19 pandemic

The Urban Food Policy Institute and Hunger-Free America will partner to assist state and local policymakers and advocates with the implementation of these policy expansions to reduce food insecurity.
Nicholas Freudenberg
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York
2020 – 2021
$83,332
Grant

Prosecutorial Reform Initiative

What is the viability of prosecutorial reform as a way to reduce inequality in the justice system?
Anna Harvey
New York University
2020 – 2024
$539,589
Grant

The Northwestern-Evanston Education Research Alliance (NEERA): Designing for Equity and Excellence in Education

Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy will partner with the Evanston Township High School District 202 and Evanston/Skokie District 65 to provide more equitable school experiences for low-income students and students of color.
Bryan Brayboy
Northwestern University
2020 – 2026
$650,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

Fostering Equitable and Effective Use of Digital Tools in K-12 Classrooms

Digital educational tools are touted for their promise in increasing equitable access to enhanced learning opportunities and improving educational outcomes for K-12 students. Yet there is a growing consensus that the thorniest challenges schools and educators face in integrating educational ...
Carolyn Heinrich
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Jennifer Darling-Aduana
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and Annalee Good
Fostering Equitable and Effective Use of Digital Tools in K-12 Classrooms
Blog Post

President’s Comment: Research Can Help us Chart the Path to Racial Justice

As we make our way through this terrible time, with the health and economic devastation of the pandemic disproportionately manifested in communities of color compounded by searing examples of racial injustice, we reflect on what more we, as a funder ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Research Can Help us Chart the Path to Racial Justice
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  •  Jun 1, 2020

William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations Award Rapid Response Research Grants to Combat Youth Inequality Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic

The swift, systematic review of existing research is jointly designed by both partners to ensure that the questions guiding the synthesis are responsive to real information needs of decision makers.
Foundation Staff
Funding / Reducing Inequality

Applicant Resources – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

The following resources address three critical considerations in proposals for research on reducing inequality: 1) rich conceptualizations of what it means to reduce inequality, 2) robust methods for studying efforts to reduce inequality, and 3) research agendas that propose ways to reduce...
Applicant Resources – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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