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How Federal K-12 Education Programs May Reduce Inequality and Improve Student Outcomes

The Education Law Center, Research for Action, and Evidence Use in Action will partner to examine what role the U.S. Department of Education has played in the delivery of education opportunity.

Robert Kim and Danielle Farrie

Education Law Center

2025 – 2026
$149,763.00

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Assessing the Impacts of Plyler v. Doe on Immigrant Students

Sophia Rodriguez will partner with the National Immigration Law Center to examine the consequences of undoing the constitutional rights protected by Plyler v. Doe for undocumented students.

Sophia Rodriguez and Subha Varadarajan

National Immigration Law Center

2025 – 2026
$149,552.00

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Uninterrupted Higher Education: Identifying Approaches to Supporting Students with Precarious Immigration Statuses

A team at the University of Connecticut will collaborate with the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration to identify institutional policies and practices to mitigate disruptions in...

H. Kenny Nienhusser and Milagros Castillo-Montoya

University of Connecticut

2025 – 2026
$150,000.00

Grant Announcements

Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

The Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation have approved $2.6 million in funding for the winners of the 2025 Institutional...

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Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded 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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Improving Outcomes for English Learners and Students with Disabilities in Indiana

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the Wheelock Education Policy Center at Boston University and the Indiana Department of Education.

Marcus Winters and Anna Shults

Boston University

2025 – 2028
$650,000.00

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The Gueron Scholars Program

This grant will support the participation of five undergraduate students and one doctoral fellow in MDRC’s Gueron Scholars Program.

Crystal Byndloss

MDRC

2025
$25,000.00

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Urgent research and action strategies for protecting the freedom to learn in the United States

This grant will support the reconvening of a group of education scholars, research organization leaders, free expression experts, and civil rights experts to coordinate a collective strategy to...

Mica Pollock

University of California at San Diego

2025 – 2026
$50,000.00

Grant Announcements

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

The Foundation is proud to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Farzana Adjah, in the graduate school of education at Stanford University, will examine whether an intervention that...

Foundation Staff

Applicant Guidance

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)

The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit...

Foundation Staff

Applicant Guidance

Applying to the William T. Grant Scholars Program: Proposing a Study on the Use of Research Evidence

One of the Foundation’s primary interests is improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to get...

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IQRMI – Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute

This grant will support three cohorts of early-career scholars from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the country to attend the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute...

Ange-Marie Hancock and Ruth Zambrana

Ohio State University

2025 – 2027
$150,000.00

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Can More Wealth-Conscious Financial Aid Policy Narrow Racial Inequality in Student Borrowing?

Does the emphasis of the current federal student aid system on income over wealth reinforce Black-White inequality in student borrowing and debt? Does a more wealth-conscious policy have the...

Christian Smith

University of Georgia

2025 – 2027
$50,000.00

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Multilevel Influences on HIV and Substance Use in a YMSM cohort

This grant will support archiving and preliminary analyses of data collected through the RADAR study, a longitudinal project launched in 2014 to understand factors contributing to the health and...

Brian Mustanski

Northwestern University

2025
$50,000.00

Staff Perspectives

President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025

Next week, education researchers will convene at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Denver. We come together at a critical moment. The research...

Adam Gamoran

4/17/2025

Applicant Guidance

Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

We encourage researchers studying ways to improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth within family, school, state, and other contexts to apply for our funding.

Maddie Scavotto

4/16/2025

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The Building Resilience Project

Are mindfulness and meditation interventions promising strategies for improving the mental health of students in Puerto Rico who have experienced trauma?

Victor Carrion

Stanford University

2025 – 2028
$600,000.00

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Mobilizing Research Evidence in Policy Making

Alliance (KA), to highlight the importance of and elevate the use of education research in federal policymaking. KA is a nonprofit based in Washington D.C., that is committed to improving education...

Rachel Dinkes

Council for Educational Development and Research

2025 – 2026
$112,000.00

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The effects of state-level SNAP expansions during COVID-19 on food insecurity inequalities among children of immigrants

How did expansions to state-level Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) programs during the pandemic impact food insecurity for children of immigrants? How did outcomes vary by state and by...

Yingying Zeng

University of Georgia

2025 – 2027
$49,995.00

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

From the point of application through the post-award review process, we seek to ensure that all who interact with the Foundation receive guidance and feedback that will move their research forward.

Melissa Wooten

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How Federal K-12 Education Programs May Reduce Inequality and Improve Student Outcomes

Assessing the Impacts of Plyler v. Doe on Immigrant Students

Uninterrupted Higher Education: Identifying Approaches to Supporting Students with Precarious Immigration Statuses

Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Capacity-Building Grants

Improving Outcomes for English Learners and Students with Disabilities in Indiana

The Gueron Scholars Program

Urgent research and action strategies for protecting the freedom to learn in the United States

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)

Applying to the William T. Grant Scholars Program: Proposing a Study on the Use of Research Evidence

IQRMI – Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute

Can More Wealth-Conscious Financial Aid Policy Narrow Racial Inequality in Student Borrowing?

Multilevel Influences on HIV and Substance Use in a YMSM cohort

President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025

Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

The Building Resilience Project

Mobilizing Research Evidence in Policy Making

The effects of state-level SNAP expansions during COVID-19 on food insecurity inequalities among children of immigrants

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

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