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Reducing Socioeconomic Inequality in Pathways from College to Work

How can four-year colleges better support low-income students’ school-to-work transition?

Natasha Quadlin

University Of California, Los Angeles

2024 – 2029
$350,000

Grant

Detecting Preventable Childhood Vision Loss and Barriers to Care in the Navajo Nation to Reduce Vision Health Disparities

Will assessing preventable childhood vision loss in the Navajo nation reveal inequalities that are amenable to targeted screening interventions?

Julius Oatts

University Of California, San Francisco

2024 – 2029
$350,000

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

The Delaware Early Literacy Research-Practice Partnership: Catalyzing Educational Equality

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the University of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Education.

Elizabeth Farley-Ripple

University Of Delaware

2024 – 2027
$650,000

Grant

State-Level Interrupted Time Series of the Family Impact Seminars: A National Infrastructure for Improving the Use of Research Evidence

What has been the impact of Family Impact Seminars on the use of research evidence by state legislatures for policies related to children and families?

Jennifer Taylor Scott

Pennsylvania State University

2024 – 2026
$449,840

Grant

Using Implementation Science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: A University-Federally Qualified Health Center partnership

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Cherokee Health Systems

Kristina Gordon

University Of Tennessee

2024 – 2027
$650,000

Grant

Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision analysis tool

Does using a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) process with varying levels of support improve decision-makers’ use of research evidence as they allocate opioid settlement funds to benefit youth?

Leah Frerichs

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

2024 – 2028
$965,366

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Blog Post

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

The US Government has a long and deeply harmful legacy of removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. This practice, initially devised as a settler colonial strategy ...

Frank Edwards

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

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• Jun 5, 2024

Announcing the Newest Institutional Challenge Grantees: $2.6 Million for Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation have approved $2.6 million in funding for the winners of the 2024 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. ...

Foundation Staff

Announcing the Newest Institutional Challenge Grantees: $2.6 Million for Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

Webinars

2024 Webinar: Institutional Challenge Grant, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar from May 2024, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program, as well as provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Jenny ...

Foundation Staff

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