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Institutional Challenge Grant Convening 2024 and Reducing Inequality Convening 2025 – Grantee Meeting and Support

This grant will enable The Learning Agenda to lead planning and meeting facilitation of the Foundation's Institutional Challenge Grant Convening and the Reducing Inequality Grantee Convening.

Hillary Oravec

National Summer Learning Association

2024 – 2025
$360,000.00

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Scholars Retreat and Meeting on Mentoring and Career Development through Fiscal Sponsor Philanthropy New York

This grant will enable Meeting Logistics to assist with the organization and implementation of the annual William T. Grant Scholars retreat and mentoring meeting.

Catherine Mullen

Philanthropy New York

2024 – 2025
$410,006.00

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Supporting Health and Learning for Research-Practice Partnerships

This grant will support a series of activities led by Caitlin Farrell and Paula Arce-Trigatti to share resources and nurture best practices for current grantees working in research-practice...

Caitlin Farrell and Paula Arce-Trigatti

University of Colorado

2024 – 2025
$15,000.00

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Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Kho and Pardo

With this award, Kho will engage in the process of co-discovery, whereby he and his mentee will learn a body of literature and its associated methodologies together.

Adam Kho

University of Kentucky

2024 – 2026
$60,000.00

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Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Maltreatment

Psychosocial interventions have proven effective in reducing child abuse, but they have been less effective at reducing child neglect. These disparate impacts may be because neglect is primarily...

William Schneider

University of Illinois at Urbana

2024 – 2027
$598,687.00

Grantee Voices

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

The US Government has a long and deeply harmful legacy of removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. This practice, initially devised as a settler colonial strategy to...

Frank Edwards

6/5/2024

Grant Announcements

Announcing the Newest Institutional Challenge Grantees: $2.6 Million for Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

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 2024 Institutional...

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Applicant Guidance

2024 Webinar: Institutional Challenge Grant, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar from May 2024, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program, as well as provide an...

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Early-Career Reviewer Program

The early-career reviewer program recruits early-career researchers to serve as peer-reviewers of grant proposals submitted to the William T. Grant Foundation for studies on improving the use of...

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The 2025 application cycle is now closed. The next cycle will open in May 2026.

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Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision analysis tool

Does using a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) process with varying levels of support improve decision-makers’ use of research evidence as they allocate opioid settlement funds to benefit youth?

Leah Frerichs

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2024 – 2028
$965,366.00

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Using Implementation Science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: A University-Federally Qualified Health Center partnership

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Cherokee Health Systems

Kristina Gordon

University of Tennessee

2024 – 2027
$650,000.00

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Centering Equity and Improving Evidence Use in NYC’s Education Ecosystem

This grant will provide continued core operating support for the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, support the Alliance’s efforts to center equity and racial justice in their work, and...

Cheri Fancsali

New York University

2024 – 2027
$180,000.00

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State-Level Interrupted Time Series of the Family Impact Seminars: A National Infrastructure for Improving the Use of Research Evidence

What has been the impact of Family Impact Seminars on the use of research evidence by state legislatures for policies related to children and families?

Jennifer Taylor Scott

Pennsylvania State University

2024 – 2026
$449,840.00

Grant

Examining the Influence of Teacher Leader Diversity on Outcomes for Teachers and Students of Color

To what extent is the presence of teacher leaders of color associated with positive perceptions of school climate by students of color?

Luis Rodriguez

New York University

2024 – 2026
$50,000.00

Grant Announcements

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2029

The William T. Grant Foundation is delighted to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Raquel Muñiz Castro, in the department of educational leadership and higher education at...

Foundation Staff

Applicant Guidance

2024 Webinar: William T. Grant Scholars Program, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

Hosted by Program Officer Melissa Wooten on May 20, 2024, this webinar provides an overview of the William T. Grant Scholars Program. Melissa an overview of the program’s background and goals...

Foundation Staff

From the Field

Ending Well: Bringing Mentoring Relationships to a Close

I recently had the pleasure to spend a few days with scholars and staff from the William T. Grant Mentoring Grant program. Melissa Wooten and I collaborated on a retreat program intended to create...

Richard Reddick

5/29/2024

Grant Announcements

Announcing New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce eleven new research grants, totaling nearly $5.5 million, in support of six studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and five studies on strategies for...

Foundation Staff

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Community-driven, technology-guided school rezoning to reduce economic segregation

Can technology help engage families in examining and redrawing school attendance boundaries to foster more economically integrated schools?

Nabeel Gillani

Northeastern University

2024 – 2026
$323,150.00

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How can state governments most effectively use research evidence when deciding how to spend tax dollars?

How can routines, tools, and practices improve the use of research evidence in state budgeting practices relevant to children?

David Yokum

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2024 – 2026
$400,000.00

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Scholars Retreat and Meeting on Mentoring and Career Development through Fiscal Sponsor Philanthropy New York

Supporting Health and Learning for Research-Practice Partnerships

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Kho and Pardo

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Maltreatment

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

Announcing the Newest Institutional Challenge Grantees: $2.6 Million for Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

2024 Webinar: Institutional Challenge Grant, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

Early-Career Reviewer Program

Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision analysis tool

Using Implementation Science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: A University-Federally Qualified Health Center partnership

Centering Equity and Improving Evidence Use in NYC’s Education Ecosystem

State-Level Interrupted Time Series of the Family Impact Seminars: A National Infrastructure for Improving the Use of Research Evidence

Examining the Influence of Teacher Leader Diversity on Outcomes for Teachers and Students of Color

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2029

2024 Webinar: William T. Grant Scholars Program, An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

Ending Well: Bringing Mentoring Relationships to a Close

Announcing New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

Community-driven, technology-guided school rezoning to reduce economic segregation

How can state governments most effectively use research evidence when deciding how to spend tax dollars?

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