post_year

2025

Awarded Grants

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

Understanding Educational Gender- and Sexual-Diversity Reforms and the Use of Evidence in Politically Divisive Contexts

How do district administrators use gender- and sexual-diversity educational reform research to influence LGBTQ+ student outcomes?
Mollie McQuillan
University Of Wisconsin, Madison
2025 – 2030
$424,957
Grant

Developing a School-Based Care Coordination Service Model to Support Youth with Asthma: A Systems Approach

Can a technology-enabled platform that coordinates care across medical and educational settings improve health and academic outcomes for Black youth with asthma?
Kelly Harris
Washington University In St. Louis
2025 – 2030
$425,000
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 educational pathways of undocumented and international college students.
H. Kenny Nienhusser
University Of Connecticut
2025 – 2026
$150,000
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 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
Grant

The Gueron Scholars Program

This grant will support the participation of five undergraduate students and one doctoral fellow in MDRC’s Gueron Scholars Program.
Crystal Byndloss
Mdrc
2025 – 2025
$25,000
Grant

Urgent research and action strategies for protecting the freedom to learn in the United States

This grant will support the reconvening of a group of education scholars, research organization leaders, free expression experts, and civil rights experts to coordinate a collective strategy to protect the freedom and right to learn in U.S. public schools.
Mica Pollock
University Of California At San Diego
2025 – 2026
$50,000

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News
  •  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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