Capacity-Building and Communications

With this award, the Foundation will support the Council for Education Development and Research (CEDR) to develop and implement a strategic communications initiative to reinforce public understanding of the value of education research in improving student outcomes.

This grant supports the Foundation’s 2025 membership in the Council on Foundations.

This grant will provide an additional five years of funding to the Reducing Inequality Network, which supports sociology and social work doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds whose research focuses on reducing inequality.

This award will support the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). Founded nearly 50 years ago, the MFP fosters a diverse pipeline of sociology researchers by supporting cohorts of predoctoral graduate students from minoritized backgrounds with financial...

This grant will enable the Society for Research in Child Development to establish Child Policy Connect, a program to improve evidence-based policymaking by building reliable and trusted relationships between researchers and policymakers in the United States.

This grant will enable The Learning Agenda to lead planning and meeting facilitation of the Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant Convening and the Reducing Inequality Grantee Convening.

This grant will enable Meeting Logistics to assist with the organization and implementation of the annual William T. Grant Scholars retreat and mentoring meeting.

This grant will support a series of activities led by Caitlin Farrell and Paula Arce-Trigatti to share resources and nurture best practices for current grantees working in research-practice partnerships (RPPs). The Foundation previously funded Farrell and Arce-Trigatti, through their work ...

This grant will provide continued core operating support for the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, support the Alliance’s efforts to center equity and racial justice in their work, and leverage their partnerships to improve the use of ...

This award provided support for a two-day conference held at the University of Chicago to increase underrepresented scholars in STEM research.