The Youth Service Improvement Grants support community-based organizations in New York City to enhance their services for children and youth, ages 5 to 25.
How do differences in the implementation of Common Core State Standards across school districts affect mathematics instruction and student achievement?
This grant will support the participation of policymakers and practitioners serving as speakers or discussants at the 7th Annual Science of Dissemination and Implementation Conference.
The Society for Research in Child Development wants to create mechanisms to promote collaborative research that cuts across disciplines, epistemologies, and domains in order to reduce inequality.
My recent six-year stint at the Ford Foundation gave me a chance to support and co-lead a very ambitious project that convened dozens of esteemed scholars, media professionals, and activists to study how scholarly knowledge could confront and help remedy ...
Talk of inequality, particularly economic inequality, in the public sphere is commonplace in twenty-first century America. Indeed, various aspects of social inequality—race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and immigrant status—have been the subject of protest, debate, legislation, and...
Inequality is a fundamental challenge facing our nation. At the William T. Grant Foundation, we believe that responses to inequality can mitigate its effects, and, moreover, that there is a pressing need for new research to identify effective responses. To ...
After reviewing nearly 400 letters of inquiry, we share some thoughts about the research we want to support, along with recommendations for future applicants.
How do local, community-based programs for dropouts work? Do they make a difference for their participants? Programs developed and managed locally serve large numbers of youth, and their innovations are often the foundation for major national initiatives, including YouthBuild, STRIVE, ...
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.
