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Awarded Grants

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Developing Training Curriculum on Intersections Between Race and Immigration

NYSYLC will use this grant to train staff on the intersection of race and immigration.

Angy Rivera

New York State Youth Leadership Council Inc.

2023 – 2024
$25,000

Grant

A Networked Improvement Community Approach to Equitable Literacy in Urban Schools

How can a networked improvement community facilitate the creation of school-based solutions to improve literacy outcomes for Black and Latinx students?

Hardin Coleman

Boston University

2023 – 2025
$600,000

Grant

Interrogating Successive School Discipline Reforms as Levers for Promoting Racial Equity

Do state laws limiting or prohibiting school expulsion reduce schools’ use of expulsion and racial disparities in expulsion rates?

Katherine Zinsser

University Of Illinois

2023 – 2026
$599,977

Grant

C2-Principal Preparation

This grant will strengthen an existing partnership between the Center for Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools.

Decoteau Irby

University Of Illinois

2023 – 2026
$649,715

Grant

Representation Matters: Compiling the Data to Measure the Effect of Teacher Workforce Diversity Policies on Reducing Ethnoracial Inequalities in Academic Outcomes

How do state teacher diversity policies vary and what is the potential of teacher diversity to reduce ethnoracial inequalities in district academic outcomes?

Faiza Jamil

Clemson University

2023 – 2025
$199,193

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Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25. These grants provide general operating support ...

Foundation Staff

News

• Jul 17, 2023

Announcing Karolyn Tyson as Chair of the Scholars Selection Committee

The Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Karolyn Tyson, Chair of Sociology at Georgetown University, as Chair of the Scholars Selection Committee, effective July 1, 2023. In addition to Dr. Tyson, the Foundation also named four new members of the ...

Foundation Staff

Announcing Karolyn Tyson as Chair of the Scholars Selection Committee

Blog Post

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

Puerto Rico’s public school system was facing a daunting process of reconstruction even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2017, the devastating force of Hurricane María destabilized the entirety ...

Gustavo Bobonis

Emily Goldman

Orlando Sotomayor

and Damarys Varela-Vélez

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

Blog Post

Positionality and Inclusion in Research Teams

How can applicants think about positionality and inclusion in their research teams? The academic enterprise is rife with practices, routines, and structures that replicate inequality along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, economic standing, language minority status, and immigration status...

Melissa Wooten

Positionality and Inclusion in Research Teams

Blog Post

One on One Support: An Essential Aspect of the Youth Service Capacity-Grants Program

The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25. The program provides $60,000 of general ...

Foundation Staff

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