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ICYMI: Four Takeaways from Our Institutional Challenge Grant Informational Webinar

The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit...

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5/20/2026

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Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service 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...

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Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in Our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce five new research grants, totaling over $2.7 million, in support of four studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the...

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Announcing the 2026 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

We are delighted to announce that this year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Spencer Foundation have joined us to award $2.6 million in funding for...

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A Living Evidence Map: What Works to Strengthen Evidence Use in Decision-Making

Evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) is a critical pathway to more effective policies, programmes, and practices. EIPM is supported through interventions such as capacity-building, evidence...

Zafeer Ravat

4/27/2026

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Grantee Voices

What Higher Education Leaders are Doing in Times of Escalating Immigration Enforcement: Study Insights and Directions for Research

Federal actions in the second Trump administration have placed higher education institutions at a critical crossroads as they navigate how best to support undocumented and international students...

H. Kenny Nienhusser, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Jillian Ives, Adam McCready and Franklin Tuitt

4/23/2026

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Franklin Tuitt

University of Connecticut

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Adam McCready

University of Connecticut

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Jillian Ives

University of Connecticut

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Milagros Castillo-Montoya

University of Connecticut

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Seven Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2031

The Foundation is delighted to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Tolani Britton, in the school of education at the University of California, Berkeley James Chu,in the department...

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President’s Comment: New Visions for Education Research at AERA 2026

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the 2026 Meeting of the American Education Research Association. Over the course of the week, staff and grantees of the Foundation will participate...

Adam Gamoran

4/1/2026

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Catherine Carter

University of Colorado

Grantee Voices

“We Want People to Thrive in the Academy”: Communities of Practice to Support Faculty Career Development

Career development is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to grantmaking. One way we do this is through investing in efforts that foster supportive environments for scholars from groups...

Natalie De Rosa

3/9/2026

From the Field

Scaffolding for Change: How Two RPPs Approach Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Photo courtesy of San Francisco Unified School District-UC Berkeley RPP Improving outcomes for students, families, and communities increasingly depends on new forms of collaboration that bring...

Caitlin Farrell, Paula Arce-Trigatti, Emily Ozer, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Devin Corrigan, Brian Villa and Allison Firestone

3/9/2026

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ICYMI: Four Takeaways from Our Institutional Challenge Grant Informational Webinar

Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in Our Focus Areas

Announcing the 2026 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

A Living Evidence Map: What Works to Strengthen Evidence Use in Decision-Making

Zafeer Ravat

What Higher Education Leaders are Doing in Times of Escalating Immigration Enforcement: Study Insights and Directions for Research

Franklin Tuitt

Adam McCready

Jillian Ives

Milagros Castillo-Montoya

Seven Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2031

President’s Comment: New Visions for Education Research at AERA 2026

Catherine Carter

“We Want People to Thrive in the Academy”: Communities of Practice to Support Faculty Career Development

Scaffolding for Change: How Two RPPs Approach Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Allison Firestone

Brian Villa

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