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Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program harbors ...

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 ...

Over the past decades, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have proliferated across the United States. In one common RPP design, the research alliance (RA), a group of researchers—typically situated within a research university—enters into a long-term partnership with a practice-focused ...

Introduction Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) involve long-term partnerships aimed at improving or transforming a wide-range of outcomes through collaboration and research inquiry across a diversity of partner groups. As RPPs proliferate, ...

“There’s a long way to go to providing agency and power to communities who are immigrant newcomers,” grantee Adriana Villavicencio told me during a recent conversation we had on ...

The Institutional Challenge Grant requires that universities shift their policies and practices to value research conducted in collaboration with non-profit organizations or public agencies. The program challenges universities to identify and address barriers to the success of partnership-engaged...

This year’s meeting of the American Sociological Association centers on the theme “Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy.” Noting the motivations of many sociologists to “use sociology to make more just communities and societies,” ASA President ...

The US Government has a long and deeply harmful legacy of removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. This practice, initially devised as a settler colonial strategy ...

I recently had the pleasure to spend a few days with scholars and staff from the William T. Grant Mentoring Grant program. Melissa Wooten and I collaborated on a retreat program intended to create brave and visionary spaces for mentors (...

I’m drafting this post in January, which has been National Mentoring Month since 2002. It’s as good a time as any to reflect on the developmental networks that have advanced our professional and personal growth. Often, we think about ...