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Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

The goal may be to fund high-quality research, but we should never lose sight of the people carrying out the work and how securing funding fits within the larger context of their careers.

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change

Research that works to identify youth social movement participation and understand its connection to social movement outcomes has the chance to bring great research gains that may 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

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

Findings from research studies can provide decision-makers direction on how to enhance student mental health; create high-quality, inclusive learning environments; and transition students into and beyond post-secondary settings.

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

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.

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

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Studying the use of research evidence: In conversation with Program Officer Anupreet Sidhu

“I think all researchers who produce research to improve youth outcomes should think about the ways that their research can be taken up and used. Who are these findings meant for and who are the decision-makers that would benefit from ...

Studying the use of research evidence: In conversation with Program Officer Anupreet Sidhu

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant

“As our grant comes to a close, we are reflecting on the evolution of our research-practice partnership and our plans for the future. We have launched efforts to broaden our networks of engaged researchers and research-informed practitioners within our respective ...

and Anna Steinkraus

Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?

“Collaborating with our partners, we’ve crafted a vision of the world where marginalized and disadvantaged members of society feel seen, heard, understood, and prioritized.”

Foundation Staff

Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Doing better by children: Studying ways to fully leverage ideas and findings from research

“Research can contribute to better child outcomes, but waiting for ideas and findings from research to make their way onto the desks of decision-makers is a flawed approach. We need strategies that intentionally nurture conditions that support the use of ...

Doing better by children: Studying ways to fully leverage ideas and findings from research

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant

“Our goal as a grantmaker is not merely to fund high-quality research studies, but to shape the environment for research and its relationship to policy and practice. The Institutional Challenge Grant is central to this strategy.”

Institutional Challenge Grant Task Force

and Adam Gamoran

Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant

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Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality

The William T. Grant Foundation encourages research on reducing inequality that is grounded in well-theorized, rich conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity (as well as other dimensions of inequality like immigrant origin and economic standing). In keeping with this interest, ...

Foundation Staff

Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality

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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.

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