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About The William T. Grant Foundation has been dedicated to supporting research in the social sciences since 1936. Our Work
Found results All Articles Filters Grant Can Housing Assistance Reduce Inequality Among Youth? ...assistance improves children’s individual outcomes by reducing families’ housing cost burden. The PIs will also examine... Sandra Newman and C. Scott Holupka Johns Hopkins University 2016 – 2019 Grant Education Opportunity Monitoring Project (EOMP) ...research that can identify promising strategies for reducing educational inequality. Reardon will develop a data... Sean Reardon Stanford University 2016 – 2019 Staff Perspectives President’s Comment: To Reduce Inequality, We Need More Answers ...we know which programs and services go farthest in reducing inequality? And what combination of efforts is likely to provide... Adam Gamoran 11/5/2015 Grantee Voices Catching up with Science: Rethinking How our Criminal Justice System Responds to Young Adults ...ages 18 to 24. We are hardly alone in our focus on reducing criminal justice inequalities, especially among young... Bruce Western and Vincent Schiraldi 10/9/2015 Applicant Guidance Webinar: Applying for Research Grants on Reducing Inequality (2015) ...strong letters of inquiry for research grants in our reducing inequality focus area. Grant Reducing Inequality In Between-Neighborhood Disparity Through Youth Civic Empowerment and Participation Does civic participation and collective efficacy reduce disparities in educational, economic, and social outcomes for youth? Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg Tufts University 2015 – 2018 From the Field Q&A with John Laub: Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response ...institutions, especially the police. If we are serious about reducing the tendency of the criminal justice system to exacerbate... Foundation Staff 12/3/2014 Grant Reducing Inequality: What American Scholarship Can Learn from the European Experience ...existing scholarship can tell us about strategies for reducing inequality in Europe and the U.S., and useful lessons from the... Thomas DiPrete Columbia University 2014 – 2016 Grant Generating and Communicating the Most Effective Policy Responses to the Opportunity Gap ...include early-childhood education and development, reducing class gaps in the K–12 years, connections and mentoring,... Robert Putnam 2014 – 2015$256,306.00 Applicant Guidance Changing the Conversation About Inequality—The First Step: Writing the Letter of Inquiry ...applicants about developing a letter of inquiry for our reducing inequality focus area, the critical first step in the grant application... Vivian Louie Grantee Voices Inequality Matters: Framing a Strategic Inequality Research Agenda ...are difficult to observe. Part of the challenge in reducing inequality is that many forms of inequality come to be seen as... Prudence Carter and Sean Reardon Applicant Guidance Changing the Conversation About Inequality: Applying for Research Grants ...to reduce inequality. The Foundation introduced the reducing inequality initiative because research can do more than help... Vivian Louie and Staff Perspectives Inequality is the Problem: Prioritizing Research on Reducing Inequality ...build, understand, and assess promising approaches to reducing inequality. In these ways, we hope our work will make a meaningful... Adam Gamoran Staff Perspectives President’s Comment: Our Work ...Foundation studies set the stage for our new focus area: reducing inequality. Reducing inequality, to be clear, is not a new idea... Adam Gamoran First Prev 1 ... 9 10 11