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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.
Jenny Irons
Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems
Webinars

2024 Webinar: Institutional Challenge Grant, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar from May 2024, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program, as well as provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Jenny ...
Foundation Staff
2024 Webinar: Institutional Challenge Grant, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Webinars

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program and provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Jenny ...
Foundation Staff
The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Webinars

Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, from February 2023, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the program, provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, ...
Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Blog Post

Letters of Inquiry to Propose Research on Reducing Inequality: Identifying the Lever for Change

As you prepare your LOI, ask yourself: what strategy might reduce unequal outcomes among youth ages 5-25 in the United States? Simply, put, what can be changed to make things ...
Jenny Irons
Letters of Inquiry to Propose Research on Reducing Inequality: Identifying the Lever for Change
Blog Post

Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Is Your Study a Fit?

If you are considering applying for a major grant or Officers’ research award in our reducing inequality focus area, we encourage you to closely evaluate whether your proposed study is a fit with our funding interests.
Jenny Irons
Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Is Your Study a Fit?
Webinars

Funder to Funder Webinar: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ Youth and Families

LGBTQ youth face disproportionate levels of harassment, bullying, depression, and substance abuse compared to non-LBGTQ peers. What is the current evidence on ways to reduce these inequalities and how might new research inform how grantmakers and service providers respond? In ...
Foundation Staff
Funder to Funder Webinar: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ Youth and Families
Webinars

Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality

In this webinar, recorded on November 9, 2020, Program Officer Jenny Irons discusses the Foundation’s focus on reducing inequality and shares guidance for prospective applicants interested in studying strategies to address inequality’s structural roots. Irons is joined by grantees...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives that inequality is inevitable or explained by individual differences.
Jenny Irons
Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality
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
Blog Post

Letters of Inquiry to Propose Research on Reducing Inequality: Identifying the Lever for Change

As you prepare your LOI, ask yourself: what strategy will I test, build, improve, or identify through this project that might reduce unequal outcomes among youth ages 5-25 in the ...
Jenny Irons
Letters of Inquiry to Propose Research on Reducing Inequality: Identifying the Lever for Change

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