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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

Grant

The effects of state-level SNAP expansions during COVID-19 on food insecurity inequalities among children of immigrants

How did expansions to state-level Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) programs during the pandemic impact food insecurity for children of immigrants? How did outcomes vary by state and by intersectional demographics?
Yingying Zeng
University Of Georgia
2025 – 2027
$49,995
Grant

An Impact and Implementation Study of Culturally Responsive Programming in the Fresno Unified School District, California

Does culturally responsive programming in schools lead to better academic outcomes for Black students?
Thomas Dee
Stanford University
2025 – 2028
$453,437
Grant

An Educational Game to Support Multilingual Learners’ Reading Comprehension and Science Learning

How can a game-based learning environment improve 5th grade Spanish-speaking students’ science learning?
John Nietfeld
North Carolina State University
2025 – 2027
$599,413
Grant

2025 Annual Membership

This grant supports the Foundation’s 2025 membership in the Council on Foundations.
Kathleen Enright
Council On Foundations
2025 – 2025
$19,000

Articles & More

Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change

Research to identify youth’s participation in social movements and understand its connection to outcomes can help address some of the most pressing inequalities facing young people today.
Jennifer Earl
Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change
Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems

As we face increasing restrictions on our society’s most vulnerable youth, including youth of color, undocumented and immigrant youth, and LGBTQ+ youth, social movement research holds significant potential to illuminate strategies to transform youth-serving systems and improve youth lives.
Jenny Irons
Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems
Blog Post

Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

How do we repair the relationships that hold together urban communities?
Natalie De Rosa
Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study
Blog Post

“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

Can improving families’ material conditions through cash transfers help prevent instances of child maltreatment?
Natalie De Rosa
“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families
News
  •  Dec 9, 2024

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

We are proud to announce six new research grants, totaling over $3 million, in support of five studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
Blog Post

Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, many U.S. school districts remain divided by race and class. Segregation is often particularly prevalent in large, urban school districts like ...
Amanda Schmidt
,
Talia Gerstle
,
and Clemence Idoux
Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

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