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Panel Discussion: Power, Possibility, and Equity in Research Practice Partnerships

In partnership with the Spencer Foundation and the Forum for Youth Investment, on June 10, we hosted a 90 minute panel discussion, “Power, Possibility, and Equity in Research Practice...

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Around the Foundation

The Foundation Welcomes Scott Evans as our New Board Chair

We are pleased to announce the election of Scott Evans as the new Chair of our Board of Trustees. Mr. Evans joined the Foundation’s Board in 2013 and has served as the chair of the Finance and...

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Doing Research to Reduce Inequality

Special Collection: Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality

Since 2014, the Foundation has focused much of its grantmaking toward supporting studies that examine programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Subtle as it is, the...

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Grant Announcements

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

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded three Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants to New York City nonprofit organizations that provide services to young people in the five...

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Grant Announcements

A New Rapid Response Research Grant to Support the Work of Oakland’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Taskforce

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations have awarded a Rapid Response Research grant to the University of California, Berkeley in partnership with James Burch, policy director of the Anti...

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Applicant Guidance

Studying Ways to Improve the Use of Research Evidence: Is Your Proposal a Good Fit?

The William T Grant Foundation receives hundreds of letters of inquiry every year from individuals pursuing funding for their research. But we decline between a third to a half of submitted letters...

Lauren Supplee

6/9/2021

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Nikki Jones

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Grant Announcements

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas – Spring 2021

We are proud to announce five new research grants, including four to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use of research evidence....

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Racial Equity in Discipline for Black Students

Can an intervention that cultivates elementary school teachers’ critical race consciousness and empathy for Black students reduce the racial discipline gap?

Dorinda Carter Andrews, kenneth Frank and Chezare Warren

Michigan State University

2021 – 2025
$767,185.89

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Making Black Reparations in America

This grant will support research and outreach to address questions about the feasibility of paying reparations to Black American descendants of persons who were enslaved in what is now the United...

William Darity and Lisa Gennetian

Duke University

2021 – 2023
$300,000.00

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Ken Frank

Michigan State University

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Dorinda Carter Andrews

Michigan State University

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Chezare Warren

Michigan State University and Vanderbilt University

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kenneth Frank

Michigan State University

Grantee Voices

How We Can Engage with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis

Race is a key dimension of inequality in youth outcomes. For researchers who seek to study ways to reduce racial inequality, the starting point is a well-conceived research question grounded in a...

Dina Okamoto

5/26/2021

Applicant Guidance

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

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

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