2026

Since 2014, the Foundation has called on social scientists to shift their orientation from understanding the causes and consequences of inequality to examining ways to reduce it. And we provide research funding to help investigators to meet this challenge. We make ...

Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images U.S. immigration policies and their enforcement disproportionately affect Latinx families, consequently impacting the mental health of Latinx adults, adolescents, and children, whether they are immigrant or native born. Detention and deportation have myriad ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on June 27, 1876, visionary entrepreneur and retailer William T. Grant was born in Stevensville, Pennsylvania. Grant opened his first department store, Grants, in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1906. Over the following decades, he transformed his ...

Immigrant-origin youth in the United States are being targeted in today’s hostile political climate. But supportive responses exist at multiple levels, from federal, to state, to local, to institutional. Studies that examine such strategies can illuminate those that are ...

When staff present at conferences or talk with interested applicants, we sometimes encounter the misperception that the William T. Grant Foundation funds only quantitative intervention studies. While we do value—and fund—research that tests hypotheses about whether programs, policies, ...

Amid the 2020 racial reckoning following George Floyd’s murder, school districts nationwide ushered in new policies to implement inclusive, antiracist curriculum. In the following years, however, political backlash mounted against these efforts, with dozens of states passing legislation barring...