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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

Grant

Keeping the ‘Great Equalizer’ Fed: SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement

Would making SNAP benefits available to young adults with limited income improve their post-secondary educational attainment?
Sarah Hamersma
Syracuse University
2020 – 2022
Grant

The Learning Agenda-Reducing Inequality Convening 2020

This grant will support the fourth annual convening of grantees in the Foundation’s focus area on reducing inequality
Hillary Oravec
National Summer Learning Association
2020 – 2023
Grant

Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?
Olga Rodriguez
Public Policy Institute Of California
2020 – 2021
Grant

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

This award will support the All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference.
Chris Benner
University Of California, Santa Cruz
2019 – 2022
Grant

Building Teachers’ Race-Related Competencies to Promote Youth Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Academic Inequalities

How might teachers’ abilities to promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development be increased to ultimately reduce academic disparities?
Adriana Umana-Taylor
Harvard University
2019 – 2022

Articles & More

News
  •  May 1, 2020

Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020
News
  •  Apr 16, 2020

Three New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities, School Districts, and Community Organizations

The William T. Grant, Spencer, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundations are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. The newest grants are jointly funded by the ...
Foundation Staff
Three New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities, School Districts, and Community Organizations
Blog Post

Close to the edge: Service workers and their children at the front lines of a crisis

As the shock of the current health and economic crisis takes a heavy toll on millions of Americans employed in the service sector, we must remember that millions of children are also vulnerable to dire consequences.
Daniel Schneider
 and Kristen Harknett
Close to the edge: Service workers and their children at the front lines of a crisis
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the ...
Nikki Jones
The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives that inequality is inevitable or explained by individual differences.
Jenny Irons
Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

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