post_year

2021

Awarded Grants

Grant

Making Black Reparations in America

This grant will support research and outreach to address questions about the feasibility of paying reparations to Black American descendants of persons who were enslaved in what is now the United States.
William Darity
Duke University
2021 – 2023
$300,000
Grant

Racial Equity in Discipline for Black Students

Can an intervention that cultivates elementary school teachers’ critical race consciousness and empathy for Black students reduce the racial discipline gap?
Dorinda Carter Andrews
Michigan State University
2021 – 2025
$767,185.89
Grant

Using a Facilitated Collaborative to Build Equity in Higher Education Institutions

How can post-secondary institutions implement organizational change to better support Black and Latinx students?
Joy Zacharia
National Opinion Research Center
2021 – 2025
$539,998
Grant

Enhancing Nursing Capacity to Understand and Address the Needs of Native American Youth on the Fort Belknap Reservation

Johns Hopkins University and the Fort Belknap Indian Community will conduct and use research to develop a culturally-responsive intervention for preventing suicide among adolescents and young adults of the Nakoda and Aaniih Nations.
Teresa Brockie
Johns Hopkins University
2021 – 2026
$1,000,000
Grant

Addressing Inequality in Prek-12 STEM Education

How can educators and policymakers confront and respond to systemic inequality in pre-K–12 STEM education and promote success for all students?
Heidi Schweingruber
National Academy Of Sciences
2021 – 2024
$50,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

How We Can Engage with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis

Race is a key dimension of inequality in youth outcomes. For researchers who seek to study ways to reduce racial inequality, the starting point is a well-conceived research question grounded in a rich understanding of what racial categories mean and ...
Dina Okamoto
How We Can Engage with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis
Webinars

Webinar: The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. To do so, research institutions will need to...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Blog Post

Engaging Policymakers: A New Era of Research and Theory That Builds on the Basics

Engaging policymakers encompasses far more than crafting a catchy message: It depends three basic elements of community dissonance theory.
Karen Bogenschneider
Engaging Policymakers: A New Era of Research and Theory That Builds on the Basics
News
  •  Apr 26, 2021

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2026

We are pleased to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the ...
Foundation Staff
Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2026
Blog Post

Expanding the Definition of Evidence in Studies on the Use of Research Evidence in Policy

During the COVID pandemic, policy debates about how to address the crisis have often been portrayed as scientific knowledge in competition with political rhetoric for public attention. Yet even in this unprecedented case, rarely has evidence of only a single ...
Lorraine McDonnell
 and M. Stephen Weatherford
Expanding the Definition of Evidence in Studies on the Use of Research Evidence in Policy

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