post_year

2021

Awarded Grants

Grant

Tribes and Families: Fulfilling the Dual-Promise of Indian Child Welfare Reform

Do laws and policies that enhance the sovereignty of tribal governments reduce family separation through the child welfare system?
Frank Edwards
Rutgers University, Newark
2021 – 2023
$664,796
Grant

Girl Be Heard Leadership as Ensemble Curriculum Redesign

This grant will support improvements to services for young women and gender expansive youth ages 12-21 at Girl Be Heard.
Chiwoniso Kaitano
Girl Be Heard
2021 – 2022
$25,000
Grant

Youth and Undergraduate Transformation to Harness Community Change (YOUTH-C2)

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the United Way of Santa Cruz will partner to reduce inequalities for low-income, Latinx middle and high school youth and first-generation Latinx UCSC undergraduates.
Regina Langhout
University Of California, Santa Cruz
2021 – 2026
$1,000,000
Grant

Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma-Informed Instruction in Edible Education

This grant will help Edible Schoolyard New York improve its education programming.
Shanon Morris
Edible Schoolyard New York
2021 – 2022
$25,000
Grant

A Transformative Justice Approach to Promoting Emotional Health & Healing among BIPOC Youth in Red Hook, Brooklyn

This grant will support improvements to Red Hook Initiative’s programming to better engage program participants in emotional health services.
Morgan Monaco
Red Hook Initiative
2021 – 2022
$25,000
Grant

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative

This grant will support improvements to CitySquash’s programming for youth of color in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Terence Li
Citysquash
2021 – 2022
$25,000
Grant

A Southern California Regional RPP Network for the Comparative Study of Research Use in Anti-Racist Partnerships

How can research-practice partnerships use research in ways that forward anti-racism understanding and action within K-12 schools?
June Ahn
University Of California At Irvine
2021 – 2025
$600,000

Articles & More

News
  •  Aug 23, 2021

2021 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

The Foundation is pleased to announce that four research grantees 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, ...
Foundation Staff
2021 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color
News
  •  Aug 21, 2021

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

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including four to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and two support studies on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the Foundation’s June Board meeting, these ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
Blog Post

Engaged Research and Lasting Change: Lessons from an Institutional Challenge Grantee

Community-engaged research is not the norm for social scientists. When it comes to faculty career advancement criteria, research institutions typically value studies that advance the field and generate publications more than collaborative knowledge-building that advances the public good. But...
Foundation Staff
Engaged Research and Lasting Change: Lessons from an Institutional Challenge Grantee

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