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Keeping the ‘Great Equalizer’ Fed: SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement

Would making SNAP benefits available to young adults with limited income improve their post-secondary educational attainment?
Sarah Hamersma
Syracuse University
2020 – 2022
$140,058
Grant

Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?
Olga Rodriguez
Public Policy Institute Of California
2020 – 2021
$420,778
Grant

Building Teachers’ Race-Related Competencies to Promote Youth Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Academic Inequalities

How might teachers’ abilities to promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development be increased to ultimately reduce academic disparities?
Adriana Umana-Taylor
Harvard University
2019 – 2022
$299,996

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Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence

This program funds studies that examine ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
2025 application dates will be posted in November 2024.
Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Funding / Reducing Inequality

Applicant Resources – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

The following resources address three critical considerations in proposals for research on reducing inequality: 1) rich conceptualizations of what it means to reduce inequality, 2) robust methods for studying efforts to reduce inequality, and 3) research agendas that propose ways to reduce...
Applicant Resources – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
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  •  May 1, 2020

Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020
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Fresh Insights on Measuring Research Use: Policymaker Perspectives on How Theory Falls Short

Empirical understanding of the “how” of policymakers’ research use can inform our theoretical explanations of the “why”.
Karen Bogenschneider
Fresh Insights on Measuring Research Use: Policymaker Perspectives on How Theory Falls Short
News
  •  Jan 28, 2020

Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the Foundation’s fall board ...
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
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  •  Sep 19, 2019

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce four new grants to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one new grant to support research on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the Foundation’s summer board meeting, these ...
Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
Blog Post

Social Movement Research to Reduce Inequality for Young People

The Foundation is interested in funding studies that examine social movements as a strategy to target macro-structural inequalities that affect youth outcomes. Such studies might focus on youth-led movements or on adult-led movements that affect youth, but the central focus ...
Jenny Irons
 and Vivian Tseng
Social Movement Research to Reduce Inequality for Young People

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