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Research Grants

Awarded Grants

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Can Housing Assistance Reduce Inequality Among Youth?

Does federally assisted housing lead to better outcomes for low-income youth by making housing more affordable for their parents?
Sandra Newman
Johns Hopkins University
2016 – 2019
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Tracking Policymakers’ Acquisition and Use of Research Evidence Regarding Childhood Obesity in the News Media

How does the news media influence the use of research evidence in policy deliberations and decisions regarding childhood obesity?
Itzhak Yanovitzky
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
2016 – 2018
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Education Opportunity Monitoring Project (EOMP)

The Educational Opportunity Monitoring Project (EOMP) will assemble and disseminate data and research on patterns of educational inequality.
Sean Reardon
Stanford University
2016 – 2019
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School Performance Measurement in California’s CORE School Districts: A Policy Analysis

This grant will analyze the California Office to Reform Education’s (CORE) efforts to develop a comprehensive school performance measurement system.
Thomas Toch
Georgetown University
2016 – 2017
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Mechanisms of Change in a Coping Skills-based Prevention Program for Adolescents in Low-income Urban Neighborhoods

How does a coping skills program help youth from low-income urban neighborhoods cope with stressors that are common to their communities?
Angela Clarke
West Chester University
2015 – 2019
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Intermediary Organizations and Education Policy: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Political Contexts of Research Utilization

How do intermediary organizations leverage research to drive education change across the country? How do intermediaries adapt to different political contexts?
Janelle Scott
University Of California At Berkeley
2015 – 2018
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How Black Youth Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge Social Inequalities on PWI Campuses

How do Black college students at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) seek to reduce campus inequalities?
Richard Reddick
University Of Texas At Austin
2015 – 2017
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Integrating Theoretic and Empirical Findings of Research Evidence Use: A Healthcare Systems Engineering Approach

How do state policymakers use research evidence in decisions about mental health treatment for foster care youth?
Thomas Mackie
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
2015 – 2019

Articles & More

Blog Post

Leveraging Knowledge: Taking Stock of the William T. Grant Foundation’s Use of Research Evidence Grants Portfolio

In 2009, we launched an initiative to study research use in the worlds of policy and practice. Staff assumed that knowing more about the potential users of research would improve the ...
Kim DuMont
Leveraging Knowledge: Taking Stock of the William T. Grant Foundation’s Use of Research Evidence Grants Portfolio
Blog Post

Brokering the Research-Practice Gap: A Typology

Abstract Despite widespread recognition of a research-practice gap in multiple service sectors, less is known about how pre-existing communication channels facilitate the flow of information between researchers and practitioners. In the current study, we applied an existing typology of brokerage ...
Jennifer Neal
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Zachary Neal
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Mariah Kornbluh
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Kristen J. Mills
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and Jennifer A. Lawlor
Brokering the Research-Practice Gap: A Typology

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