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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

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Reducing Inequality Initiative – 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support

This grant will support the third annual convening of grantees in the Foundation’s focus area on reducing inequality, which was launched in February 2014.
Hillary Oravec
National Summer Learning Association
2018 – 2020
$218,375
Grant

School Climate: Responding to Latino Youth’s Educational and Socio-emotional Inequality

Which aspects of school climate hold promise for responding to educational and socio-emotional inequalities experienced by Latino youth?
Melissa Delgado
University Of Arizona
2018 – 2020
Grant

R3: Evidence-based Interventions for Adolescent Opioid Use Disorder—What Might Work for High-Risk Ohio Counties?

Clemans-Cope and her team at the Urban Institute will partner with the Addiction Policy Forum to promote the use of evidence-based interventions to target adolescent opioid use.
Lisa Clemans-Cope
Rutgers University
2018 – 2019
$91,512
Grant

Connected Scholars: A Mixed Methods Investigation of a Social Capital Intervention for First-Generation College Students

Does a mentoring intervention improve academic outcomes for racial/ethnic minority and low-income college students whose parents did not graduate from college?
Sarah Schwartz
Suffolk University
2018 – 2021
Grant

Can Food Scholarships Reduce Inequality by Improving College Persistence Among Community College Students?

Do food scholarships improve academic performance and persistence among low-income community college students?
Daphne Hernandez
University Of Houston
2018 – 2021
Grant

Reducing Youth Mental Health Inequalities through Peer Practices: A Daily Diary Study of Ethnic/Racial Peer Interactions

How can peer interactions improve mental health disparities in ethnic and racial minority youth?
Yijie Wang
Michigan State University
2018 – 2020

Articles & More

Blog Post

What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?

By expanding and equalizing youth civic engagement, we can begin improve youth outcomes. Research helps by making diagnoses and solutions more rigorous and precise, but youth must be part of the conversation.
Peter Levine
What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?
Blog Post

Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?

Fred Wulczyn and Amy Dworsky are investigating how the outcomes of youth in congregate care settings vary by state, and whether and how this variability contributes to racial and ethnic ...
Foundation Staff
Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?
News
  •  Mar 14, 2018

Webinar: Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content

Improving achievement for English learners by strengthening educational policy and practice would contribute meaningfully to reducing inequality in the outcomes of young people in the United States. In this webinar, Foundation president Adam Gamoran outlines lessons from the literature on ...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content
News
  •  Jan 11, 2018

Announcing the 2018 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

The William T. Grant Foundation is very pleased to announce the finalists for its new grant program, the Institutional Challenge Grant. Launched in March of 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2018 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

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