post_year

2021

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Becker and Chu

Becker will use this award to make intentional space for reflection about how her and her mentees’ racial identities shape their experiences in academia.
Kimberly Becker
University Of South Carolina
2021 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Yeager and Dobson

Yeager will use this award to continue his journey of learning and growing with respect to inequality, privilege, and positionality, and to learn how to move toward more institutional change in his department and college.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2021 – 2023
$110,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

How We Embraced the Challenge of Institutional Change to Pave the Way for Community-Engaged Research

At UC-Berkeley, where I trained in clinical-community psychology and have served as a professor for almost two decades, our recent strategic plan framed our public mission as: …a commitment to ...
Emily Ozer
How We Embraced the Challenge of Institutional Change to Pave the Way for Community-Engaged Research
Webinars

Panel Discussion: Power, Possibility, and Equity in Research Practice Partnerships

In partnership with the Spencer Foundation and the Forum for Youth Investment, on June 10, we hosted a 90 minute panel discussion, “Power, Possibility, and Equity in Research Practice Partnerships.” RPPs have been an important approach to research that seeks to center ...
Foundation Staff
Panel Discussion: Power, Possibility, and Equity in Research Practice Partnerships
News
  •  Jun 17, 2021

The Foundation Welcomes Scott Evans as our New Board Chair

We are pleased to announce the election of Scott Evans as the new Chair of our Board of Trustees. Mr. Evans joined the Foundation’s Board in 2013 and has served as the chair of the Finance and Investment Committee since 2018. ...
Foundation Staff
The Foundation Welcomes Scott Evans as our New Board Chair
Publication

Special Collection: Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality

Since 2014, the Foundation has focused much of its grantmaking toward supporting studies that examine programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Subtle as it is, the nuance here—calling for researchers to investigate specific strategies that can ...
Foundation Staff
Special Collection: Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality
News
  •  Jun 9, 2021

Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded three Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants to New York City nonprofit organizations that provide services to young people in the five boroughs. Part of a new program, these grants provide up ...
Foundation Staff
Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants
News
  •  Jun 9, 2021

A New Rapid Response Research Grant to Support the Work of Oakland’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Taskforce

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations have awarded a Rapid Response Research grant to the University of California, Berkeley in partnership with James Burch, policy director of the Anti ...
Foundation Staff
A New Rapid Response Research Grant to Support the Work of Oakland’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Taskforce
Blog Post

Studying Ways to Improve the Use of Research Evidence: Is Your Proposal a Good Fit?

The William T Grant Foundation receives hundreds of letters of inquiry every year from individuals pursuing funding for their research. But we decline between a third to a half of submitted letters of inquiry because they are not a fit ...
Lauren Supplee
Studying Ways to Improve the Use of Research Evidence: Is Your Proposal a Good Fit?
News
  •  Jun 8, 2021

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Spring 2021

We are proud to announce five new research grants, including four to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the Foundation’s March Board ...
Foundation Staff
Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Spring 2021

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