Supporting research
to improve the lives
of young people

For more than 80 years, the William T. Grant Foundation has been committed to investing in high-quality research that responds to the changing needs of young people in the United States.

Our Work

We enable researchers to investigate questions that address the most pressing challenges facing youth today. Currently, we focus our support in two distinct areas:

Digest

Digest, Issue 6: Winter 2020-21

Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses

Fabienne Doucet
Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses
Digest, Issue 2: Spring 2017

Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Research: Three Questions

Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Research: Three Questions
Digest, Issue 1: Summer 2016

Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy

Adam Gamoran
Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy
Digest, Issue 2: Spring 2017

Meditations on Language and Learning: ESSA in Policy and Practice

Kenji Hakuta
Meditations on Language and Learning: ESSA in Policy and Practice
Digest, Issue 7: Winter 2021-22

Strengthening Methods and Improving Collaboration: The Use of Research Evidence Methods Repository

Strengthening Methods and Improving Collaboration: The Use of Research Evidence Methods Repository
Digest, Issue 1: Summer 2016

Why Qualitative Research?

Vivian Louie
Why Qualitative Research?
Digest, Issue 1: Summer 2016

Using Data to Produce Useful Research Evidence

Kim DuMont
 and Timothy M. Smeeding
Using Data to Produce Useful Research Evidence

Recent Grants

Grant

Reducing Structural Barriers in a School-based System of Food Assistance to Reduce Inequality in Food Security and Child Outcomes

Can reducing administrative barriers increase participation in a school-based food assistance program, thereby reducing food insecurity and improving outcomes among low-income and Latinx families?
Rebecca Ryan
Georgetown University
2024 – 2026
$599,869
Grant

Increasing Teacher Diversity, Supply, and Retention through Grow Your Own Programs

Are programs that recruit local teachers from underrepresented backgrounds an effective way to build and retain teacher diversity and serve students of color?
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
2023 – 2026
$525,000
Grant

Bridging Institutions to Close Youth Opportunity Gaps

This grant will strengthen an emerging partnership between the University of Virginia and Albemarle County Public Schools.
Ben Allen
University Of Virginia
2023 – 2026
$162,489
Grant

Child Poverty Impacts of Safety Net Responses to COVID-19

Do policies that reduce administrative burden in social safety net programs reduce child poverty rates and narrow racial and ethnic disparities in benefit participation?
Jeremy Barofsky
Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc. (dba Ideas42)
2023 – 2025
$326,708
Grant

Representation Matters: Compiling the Data to Measure the Effect of Teacher Workforce Diversity Policies on Reducing Ethnoracial Inequalities in Academic Outcomes

How do state teacher diversity policies vary and what is the potential of teacher diversity to reduce ethnoracial inequalities in district academic outcomes?
Faiza Jamil
Clemson University
2023 – 2025
$199,193
Grant

Interrogating Successive School Discipline Reforms as Levers for Promoting Racial Equity

Do state laws limiting or prohibiting school expulsion reduce schools’ use of expulsion and racial disparities in expulsion rates?
Katherine Zinsser
University Of Illinois, Chicago
2023 – 2026
$599,977
Grant

C2-Principal Preparation

This grant will strengthen an existing partnership between the Center for Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools.
Shelby Cosner
University Of Illinois, Chicago
2023 – 2026
$162,511
Grant

A Networked Improvement Community Approach to Equitable Literacy in Urban Schools

How can a networked improvement community facilitate the creation of school-based solutions to improve literacy outcomes for Black and Latinx students?
Hardin Coleman
Trustees Of Boston University
2023 – 2025
$600,000
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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