“People should not come out of [Rikers] more harmed than they were when they went in,” Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the incoming president of ...
Is poverty a root cause of child welfare system involvement? Researchers have long held this hypothesis, but rarely had an opportunity to test whether giving cash to poor families reduces ...
Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program harbors ...
“There’s a long way to go to providing agency and power to communities who are immigrant newcomers,” grantee Adriana Villavicencio told me during a recent conversation we had on ...
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.
