post_year

2023

Awarded Grants

Grant

The Intergenerational Impacts of Reparations on Youth Outcomes: Evidence from the Eastern Cherokees

What are the short- and long-term effects of cash reparations on recipients, their dependent children, and future generations?
Achyuta Adhvaryu
University Of California At San Diego
2023 – 2026
$239,817
Grant

The Effects of Alternative Staffing Models for Instructing Students with Disabilities

What is the relative effectiveness of different classroom staffing models for improving academic outcomes for students with disabilities, with a particular focus on Black and Hispanic students?
Marcus Winters
Boston University
2023 – 2025
$207,733
Grant

Restoring Justice and Reimaging Research: Building Community to Disrupt the Cycle of Violence and Enhance Research-Practice Partnerships

This grant will support a partnership between the University of Texas at Austin, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, the Excellence and Advancement Foundation, the Amala Foundation, and Youth Rise Texas to divert young people from the system and ...
Becky Pettit
University Of Texas
2023 – 2026
$649,996

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Webinars

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

In this webinar, William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program and provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Jenny ...
Foundation Staff
The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
News
  •  Apr 3, 2023

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2028

We’re 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 2028
Publication

Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research

Research is core to the William T. Grant Foundation, as is the use of the knowledge that results from high-quality, community-based empirical investigations. We are committed to funding the study of 1) programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequalities in the ...
Kim DuMont
Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research
Blog Post

Toward lasting change: Supporting school district central offices’ use of research to address systemic educational inequities

Researchers and reformers in education and likely other arenas would do well to recognize how they are implicitly or explicitly defining “systemic” in their equity approaches and to understand some ...
Meredith Honig
Webinars

Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, from February 2023, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the program, provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, ...
Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Blog Post

President’s Comment: Advancing Research on Racial Equity in a Time of Polarization

Research has a critical role to play in challenging damaging narratives and establishing different perspectives. In supporting the project “Public Learning in a Multiracial Democracy,” we hope to help change the environment for antiracist education in ways that foster greater ...
Adam Gamoran
Digest, Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science

The fields of implementation science and the study of research use in policy and practice travel on many of the same roads and share similar goals, chief among which is ...
Lauren Supplee
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Allison Metz
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and Annette Boaz
Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science

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