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Found results All Articles Filters Grantee Voices Integrating research evidence and equity concerns in the policy implementation process: Challenges and future directions The role of research evidence in improving policy and practice outcomes... Jennifer Mosley 4/20/2023 Applicant Guidance Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply ...inequality—it can generate effective responses. Our program of research grants on reducing inequality supports studies to build,... Issue 08: Winter 2022-23 Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science Recent publications by implementation researchers underscore promising new directions in implementation... Lauren Supplee, Allison Metz and Annette Boaz Around the Foundation Welcoming Our New Program Officer, Anupreet Sidhu ...will review letters of inquiry and full proposals for research grants, enhance the Foundation’s existing research initiatives,... Foundation Staff Grant Announcements Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas We are proud to announce four new research grants, including three to support studies on reducing inequality... Grantee Voices Tips for Researchers: Navigating the Gaps Between Research and Policy ...policymakers. What are some practical steps that academic researchers can take to build research teams with external... Alicia Modestino 12/6/2022 Applicant Guidance Letters of Inquiry to Propose Research on Reducing Inequality: Identifying the Lever for Change ...reasons we decline letters of inquiry submitted for research grants on reducing inequality is that the applicant does... Jenny Irons 11/30/2022 Grantee Voices How Universities Can Support Faculty of Color to Engage with Policymakers and Practitioners ...processes privilege peer-reviewed journal publications and research grants. Participants also noted that some forms of external... Denisa Gandara and Victoria Kim 11/6/2022 Grant Announcements Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence on Ways to Reduce Inequality in Youth Outcomes We are pleased to announce four new research grants for studies in our reducing inequality focus area.... Foundation Staff Grant Announcements 2022 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color The Foundation is pleased to announce that three research grantees have been awarded grants to support their... Foundation Staff Applicant Guidance Advancing Engaged Research: How Two Deans are Fostering Change through the Institutional Challenge Grant ...Challenge Grant is creating structural changes within research institutions in ways that value research-practice... Foundation Staff 8/23/2022 Staff Perspectives The How and Why Behind Funders’ Decisions When it comes to improving the use of research evidence, we talk a lot about forging connections... Vivian Tseng 7/14/2022 Grant University Research Partnerships to Reduce Educational Disparity in College Towns: Building a Model in Tallahassee, FL This grant extends an existing research-practice partnership that has already informed programming... Nicole Patton-Terry and Michelle Gayle Florida State University Research Foundation 2022 – 2027$999,999.00 Applicant Guidance Studying Ways to Improve the Use of Research Evidence: Distinguishing Data from Research Evidence ...applications we received over the last two years for research grants on improving the use of research evidence. One of... Lauren Supplee 6/13/2022 Grant Announcements Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Three Partnerships Addressing Social Issues ...Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to grow existing... Foundation Staff Issue 07: Winter 2021-22 Research on Research Use: Building Theory, Empirical Evidence, and a Global Field When the William T. Grant Foundation began exploring research on the use of research evidence in 2007 (Tseng, 2008),... Issue 07: Winter 2021-22 Contending with Complexity: How Two Grantees are Approaching Studies of Mechanisms ...2014, the William T. Grant Foundation has called for research to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. While taking... Issue 07: Winter 2021-22 Opening the Black Box: Overcoming Obstacles to Studying Causal Mechanisms in Research on Reducing Inequality ...explicitly calls out innovation in its review criteria for research grants, noting “Where appropriate, we value projects that... Around the Foundation The William T. Grant Foundation and the National Science Foundation Partner to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research ...for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; and Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence at the William... Foundation Staff Around the Foundation Welcoming Two New Staff Members to the Foundation ...reviewing letters of inquiry and full proposals for major research grants, enhancing the Foundation’s existing research initiatives,... Foundation Staff First Prev ... 2 3 4 ... Next Last