post_year

2024

Awarded Grants

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

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

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

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

Child Policy Connect

This grant will enable the Society for Research in Child Development to establish Child Policy Connect, a program to improve evidence-based policymaking by building reliable and trusted relationships between researchers and policymakers in the United States.
Lindsay Trammell
Society For Research In Child Development
2024 – 2025
$80,000
Grant

Scholars Retreat and Meeting on Mentoring and Career Development through Fiscal Sponsor Philanthropy New York

This grant will enable Meeting Logistics to assist with the organization and implementation of the annual William T. Grant Scholars retreat and mentoring meeting.
Catherine Mullen
Philanthropy New York
2024 – 2025
$410,006
Grant

Institutional Challenge Grant Convening 2024 and Reducing Inequality Convening 2025 – Grantee Meeting and Support

This grant will enable The Learning Agenda to lead planning and meeting facilitation of the Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant Convening and the Reducing Inequality Grantee Convening.
Hillary Oravec
National Summer Learning Association
2024 – 2025
$360,000
Grant

Assessing the Effect on Inequality of a Childless EITC Expansion for Young Adults

Would a permanent expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit to young adults without children reduce racial and ethnic income inequality?
Laura Wheaton
The Urban Institute
2024 – 2026
$326,365

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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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