post_year

2020

Awarded Grants

Grant

Tailoring and Expanding Wellness Supports for OppNet Fellows: Improved Check-Ins and Resource Sharing for Our Students

Wants to improve its Fellows program, which provides services to New York City youth from the summer after 10th-grade through college graduation.
AiLun Ku
The Opportunity Network
2020 – 2021
$25,000
Grant

Bridging the ELA and Math Gap

Kids Creative wants to improve its Rock 2 The Bronx after-school program, which serves students from three elementary schools in community district 9.
DJ Rouzeau
Kids Creative
2020 – 2021
$25,000
Grant

BioBus for Spanish Speakers

BioBus wants to improve its introductory Discover programs and its Explore Lab courses, which provide hands-on science education to K-12 students in New York City.
Ben Dubin-Thaler
Biobus Inc
2020 – 2021
$25,000
Grant

LGBTQ Inclusivity Project

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center wants to improve its Teen Center, which serves Bronx high school students ages 13-21.
Margaret Della
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
2020 – 2021
$25,000
Grant

Developing an Effective White Bystander Intervention to Reduce Racial Inequality in Higher Education

Does an online intervention increase the willingness of White students to publicly confront online racial discrimination?
Noelle Hurd
University Of Virginia
2020 – 2026
$446,869

Articles & More

News
  •  Aug 10, 2020

Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Summer 2020

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Summer 2020
News
  •  Aug 10, 2020

New Capacity-Building Grant to Support Methods Repository for Studies on Improving the Use of Research Evidence

The Foundation occasionally supplements its support for empirical research with targeted capacity-building grants. One such award, approved at the Foundation’s summer board meeting, will support the launch of a ...
Foundation Staff
News
  •  Aug 10, 2020

2020 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

Two research grantees and two William T. Grant Scholars have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The awardees will mentor promising doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in enhancing their methodological skills, publication ...
Foundation Staff
2020 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color
Blog Post

Connection as Empowerment: How Social Bonds can Reduce the Effects of Poverty and Racism on Youth

As evidence continues to mount regarding the central role of close human connection to everything from our mental health to how long we live, the idea that we can use ...
Joseph Allen
Blog Post

President’s Comment: It’s Time for Universities to Fulfill their Promise as Engines of Social Change

By institutionalizing collaborative research and building sustained knowledge-building partnerships with local service providers, universities can lead the way towards a more prosperous and equitable future.
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: It’s Time for Universities to Fulfill their Promise as Engines of Social Change

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