post_year

2024

Awarded Grants

Grant

2025 Annual Membership

This grant supports the Foundation’s 2025 membership in the Council on Foundations.
Kathleen Enright
Council On Foundations
2025 – 2025
$19,000
Grant

Facilitating Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Legal Advocates to Improve Uses of Research in Justice-Oriented Court Cases

How can collaboration between social science researchers and legal advocates be facilitated to produce research evidence that can be used if/when the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Plyler v. Doe (1982) is challenged? How does participation in research co-design ...
Megan Hopkins
University Of California At San Diego
2025 – 2025
$49,678

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Webinars

Webinar for Applicants: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (December 2024)

Research grants on improving the use of research evidence support studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. In this webinar from December 2024, Program Officer Anupreet ...
Foundation Staff
Webinar for Applicants: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (December 2024)
News
  •  Dec 19, 2024

Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2030. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 58 applicants after a rigorous review by our staff and Selection Committee. The ten finalists will ...
Foundation Staff
Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030
Blog Post

Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field

Evidence-informed policies have significant potential to improve population health outcomes, but despite efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of timely, credible, and relevant research to policymakers, use of research in health policymaking remains inconsistent and selective. A...
Itzhak Yanovitzky
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Daniel Crowley
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and J. Taylor Scott
Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field
News
  •  Dec 19, 2024

Welcoming Geetanjali Gupta to the William T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees

The Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Geetanjali Gupta, Chief Investment Officer at The New York Public Library, to the Board of Trustees, effective October 2024. She will also serve as a member of the Board’s Finance and ...
Foundation Staff
Welcoming Geetanjali Gupta to the William T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees
News
  •  Dec 19, 2024

Bolstering our Commitment to the William T. Grant Scholars Program

The Foundation is bolstering its commitment to the William T. Grant Scholars program. Beginning in 2025, the William T. Grant Scholars award will increase from $350,000 to $425,000 for new awards. The new award is inclusive of 7.5% indirect costs. This increase reflects the ...
Foundation Staff
Bolstering our Commitment to the William T. Grant Scholars Program
News
  •  Dec 9, 2024

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

We are proud to announce six new research grants, totaling over $3 million, in support of five studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
Blog Post

Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers

One of the biggest threats to youth and family policy is growing pessimism among scholars that engaging policymakers is worth their time and effort (Bogenschneider, Corbett, & Parrott, 2019). New studies ...
Karen Bogenschneider
Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers
Blog Post

“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program harbors ...
Natalie De Rosa
“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

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