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Found results All Articles Filters Institutional Challenge Grant FAQ ...agency’s ability to use research. Research Agenda on Reducing InequalityWhat does it mean to specify the dimension of inequality... Funding Institutional Challenge Grant ...test, and increase understanding of approaches to reducing inequality in youth outcomes, especially on the basis of race,... Status: Closed The 2026 competition is now closed. Dates for the next competition will be posted in spring 2027. Funding William T. Grant Scholars Program ...T. Grant Scholars Award must select one focus area: Reducing Inequality In this focus area, we support studies that aim to... Status: Closed The 2026 competition is now closed. Dates for the next competition will be posted in January 2027. Grant Announcements Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...research grants, including three to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving... Foundation Staff Grant Announcements William T. Grant Foundation 2021 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists ...addressing healthcare needs of Native American youth, reducing discipline disparities, advancing youth workforce... Foundation Staff Issue 06: Winter 2020-21 Forging Connections: Grantee Experiences Reaching Audiences Beyond the Academic World ...took stock of our initiative to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes. We wanted to understand, in part,... Lenore Neier Issue 06: Winter 2020-21 Can Policy Interventions Reduce Inequality? Looking Beyond Test Scores for Evidence ...complete picture of the success of interventions aimed at reducing inequality in youth outcomes. Summing Up Given the history of... Richard Murnane Issue 06: Winter 2020-21 Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses ...focus on a specific issue in a school district, like reducing inequality in mathematics achievement, and co-produce antiracist... Fabienne Doucet Grant Reducing Inequality through School Finance Reforms: Understanding the Mechanisms and Outcomes How and why does school finance reform reduce inequality in educational resources for students of color and youth living in low-income families? Min Sun, David Knight, Margaret Plecki and Christopher Candelaria University of Washington 2021 – 2023$324,967.00 Grantee Voices Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality ...Officer Jenny Irons discusses the Foundation's focus on reducing inequality and shares guidance for prospective applicants interested... Foundation Staff Grant Announcements Announcing Three New Rapid Response Research Grants to Combat Youth Inequality Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic ...researchers and policymakers, with the central goal of reducing inequality in youth outcomes in the United States. These grants... Foundation Staff Grant School Rezoning and Educational Inequality: Narratives, Processes, and Outcomes ...rezoning actually reduces educational inequality by reducing racial and/or economic school segregation and by improving... Andrene Castro, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Kim Bridges Virginia Commonwealth University 2020 – 2023$49,972.00 Grant Reducing Racial Disparities in Bail Decisions: An Experiment on Public Accountability and Feedback in Texas Can measures that increase accountability and transparency reduce racial inequality in bail judges’ pretrial decisions? Will Dobbie Harvard University 2020 – 2021$49,897.00 Grant R3-Including Children of Immigrants in the Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Efforts and Safety Net. ...the recent National Academies report A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, and the national reckoning on racial... Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Charles Kamasaki Brandeis University 2020 – 2022$83,332.00 Grant Announcements Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Summer 2020 ...research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving... Foundation Staff Grantee Voices Connection as Empowerment: How Social Bonds can Reduce the Effects of Poverty and Racism on Youth ...enhance students’ social supports could play a part in reducing racial and socioeconomic inequalities in academic,... Joseph Allen 8/6/2020 Staff Perspectives President’s Comment: It’s Time for Universities to Fulfill their Promise as Engines of Social Change ...pursue research aimed at answering questions aimed at reducing inequality in youth outcomes. The idea behind the awards is to... Adam Gamoran 8/6/2020 Grant Reducing Inequality through Improved Outcomes for Children Receiving SSI Benefits Can an intervention that informs parents about their child’s likelihood of being removed from disability benefits improve child outcomes? Manasi Deshpande The University of Chicago 2020 – 2027 Grant Reducing Ethnoracial Inequality: A Prosecutor-Led Community Based Diversion Program for Juveniles and Young Adults ...justice system, which is not only an indicator of inequality but a contributor to long-term inequalities in health,... Jennifer Padgett Macias, Linda Freeman and Noah Painter Davis First Judicial District Attorney's Office 2020 – 2026$450,000.00 Grant A Lever for More Equitable Access to Schools? Evidence from San Francisco ...assumed to be both highly effective and capable of reducing inequality in educational attainment. SFUSD gives priority at... Damon Clark, Matthew Wiswall and Adriana Villavicencio External Reviewers 2020 – 2026$519,868.00 First Prev ... 6 7 8 ... Next Last
