post_year

2024

Awarded Grants

Grant

Youth Programs in Mott Haven – Incorporating Socio-Emotional Learning

Mercy Center’s improvement project will center socio-emotional learning in the development of a new after-school curriculum to address these students’ challenges.
Ron Zak
Mercy Center, Inc.
2024 – 2025
Grant

How do Mixed-Income Neighborhood Initiatives Reduce Educational Inequality for Low-Income Black Youth?

How do mixed-income neighborhood initiatives improve educational opportunities and outcomes for Black youth from low-income families
Sarah Lenhoff
Wayne State University
2024 – 2027
$600,000
Grant

How State Policy Affects Racial/Ethnic and Gender Equity in Advanced Course-taking

Do state high school course-level graduation requirements reduce racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities in students’ advanced course-taking?
Jamie Carroll
Tulane University
2024 – 2027
$340,757
Grant

Making a Difference Today for Tomorrow: Campaign for the ASA MFP

This award will support the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). Founded nearly 50 years ago, the MFP fosters a diverse pipeline of sociology researchers by supporting cohorts of predoctoral graduate students from minoritized backgrounds with financial...
Heather Washington
American Sociological Association
2024 – 2024
$25,000
Grant

Reducing Administrative Burdens in Special Education and Re-Imagining Engagement of Im/migrant Multilingual Families to Enhance Equity for Students with Disabilities

How do special education policies and practices contribute to patterns of administrative burden faced by immigrant and migrant multilingual families and their children with disabilities?
Adai Tefera
University Of Arizona
2024 – 2027
$50,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Santagata and Fuentes Acevedo

With this award, Santagta will develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships.
Rossella Santagata
University Of California At Irvine
2024 – 2026
$60,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

Resource Spotlight: Annotated Proposals for the Institutional Challenge Grant

The Institutional Challenge Grant requires that universities shift their policies and practices to value research conducted in collaboration with non-profit organizations or public agencies. The program challenges universities to identify and address barriers to the success of partnership-engaged...
Foundation Staff
Resource Spotlight: Annotated Proposals for the Institutional Challenge Grant
Blog Post

President’s Comment: Foundation Grantees at ASA 2024

This year’s meeting of the American Sociological Association centers on the theme “Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy.” Noting the motivations of many sociologists to “use sociology to make more just communities and societies,” ASA President ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Foundation Grantees at ASA 2024
News
  •  Jul 15, 2024

Announcing $1.4 Million in Continuation Funding for Four Institutional Challenge Grantees

The Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation have approved continuation grants for four research-practice partnerships currently funded under the Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant program: Northeastern University and the City of Boston’s Office of Youth Employment and Opportunity ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing $1.4 Million in Continuation Funding for Four Institutional Challenge Grantees
News
  •  Jul 2, 2024

Welcoming Anne Gregory to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

The Foundation is delighted to welcome Anne Gregory, Professor of School Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee, effective July 1, 2024. Launched in 1982, the William T. Grant Scholars Program supports the ...
Foundation Staff
Welcoming Anne Gregory to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

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