With this award, Walker aims to develop her skills and confidence to support mentees when they encounter challenges related to their racial or cultural identity, normalize discussions about race within her mentee relationships, and help mentees explore the multiple career ...
With this award, Crowley will continue his journey of learning to help his mentees process professional experiences that stem from the intersection of their gender and racial identities.
The Education Trust will partner with Jean Grossman and Matthew Kraft to tackle two pressing policy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic: unfinished instruction and recession-induced layoffs.
The Forum for Youth Investment will advance grantees’ capacities to conduct and share research by connecting them with policymakers and by organizing grantee learning communities.
We recently analyzed the applications we received over the last two years for research grants on improving the use of research evidence. One of the top three reasons applications were ...
For many years, the William T. Grant Foundation has funded research on ways to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. Initially, this work focused on building theory. Investigators ...
It’s one thing to know how research is used in policy and practice—to understand the conditions that enable thoughtful deliberation and sense-making of the evidence and the infrastructure that supports those conditions. It’s another thing altogether to ...
The question of how to improve the use of research (URE) in policy and practice can be approached from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles. For many who study research use, ...
Research can play a vital role in pointing policymakers, civil society, and communities toward a stronger, more sustainable, and just world. But getting there means building on what we know about what it takes for research to be useful, used, ...
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
