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Awarded Grants

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The Building Resilience Project

Are mindfulness and meditation interventions promising strategies for improving the mental health of students in Puerto Rico who have experienced trauma?

Victor Carrion

Stanford University

2025 – 2028
$600,000

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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 Research Foundation, Inc

2025 – 2027
$49,995

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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

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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

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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

Blog Post

Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

We encourage researchers studying ways to improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth within family, school, state, and other contexts to apply for our funding.

Maddie Scavotto

Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

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