post_year

2025

Awarded Grants

Grant

Roca Young Women’s Programming: Reducing Inequalities in the Incidence and Impact of Involuntary Systems Involvement for Young Minoritized Women Living in Poverty

Does an intensive, multi-level intervention disrupt the structural, community, and individual factors that lead to disproportionate interaction with and impact of the child welfare and criminal legal systems for young ...
Rebecca Fauth
Tufts University
2025 – 2026
$45,015
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Lenhoff and Spindle-Jackson

With this award, Lenhoff will expand her toolkit of structures to support scholarly writing, develop process models for training her research team, and strengthen her cultural competence to discuss how identity shapes professional experiences.
Sarah Lenhoff
Wayne State University
2025 – 2027
$110,000
Grant

New Orleans Youth Equity Collaborative: As Research Practice Partnership to Reduce Youth Firearm Violence

This grant will strengthen the partnership between Tulane University’s Violence Prevention Institution in the School of Public Health, the Center for Restorative Approaches (CRA), and New Orleans Public Schools.
Katherine Theall
The Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Boundary Infrastructure and the Democratization of Research Use: The Case of Chicago Public Schools

How and under what conditions does boundary-spanning infrastructure connect researchers, practice leaders, and community leaders in ways that improve the use of research to inform equity-minded decision making?
Angel (Xiao) Bohannon
National Opinion Research Center
2025 – 2028
$600,000
Grant

Improving Postsecondary Educational Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care

This grant will strengthen the partnership between Pennsylvania State University Social Science Research Institute Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and the Pennsylvania Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF).
Deborah Ehrenthal
Pennsylvania State University
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Promoting Innovative and Vital Opportunities for Transformation (PIVOT): A Prosecutor-Led Community Based Diversion Program for Youth and Young Adults To Reduce Ethnoracial Inequality

This grant will strengthen the partnership between The University of New Mexico and the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Santa Fe.
Jennifer Perillo
University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Uninterrupted Higher Education: Identifying Approaches to Supporting Students with Precarious Immigration Statuses

A team at the University of Connecticut will collaborate with the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration to identify institutional policies and practices to mitigate disruptions in the ...
H. Kenny Nienhusser
University Of Connecticut
2025 – 2026
$150,000
Grant

Improving Outcomes for English Learners and Students with Disabilities in Indiana

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the Wheelock Education Policy Center at Boston University and the Indiana Department of Education.
Marcus Winters
Boston University
2025 – 2028
$650,000

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  •  Jun 30, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

The 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 2025 Institutional Challenge Grant ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships
News
  •  Jun 16, 2025

Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Capacity-Building Grants

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded three community-based organizations in New York City $60,000 to address a capacity-building need. This year’s Youth Service Capacity-Building Grantees are: Brave House, Inc., which supports young immigrant and refugee women, ...
Foundation Staff
Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Capacity-Building Grants

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