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Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

This grant challenges universities to reward faculty members whose research is directed to public service. The inaugural grantees will support research on one of our most vexing social problems, the...

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Grant Announcements

Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants, Spring 2018

The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded three community-based organizations in New York City $25,000 grants to improve the quality of their youth programs. The...

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Implementing State-Level Policy Reform to Eliminate School Discipline Disparities: A Mixed Methods Examination

Can a state-level policy initiative that targets school discipline disparities on the basis of race reduce inequality in student outcomes?

Jessika Bottiani and Catherine Bradshaw

University of Virginia

2018 – 2023
$150,403.00

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Technical Assistance and Uses of Research Evidence in Child Welfare: What do we know and where do we need to go?

What technical assistance strategies support locally-relevant and sustained uses of research evidence among child welfare providers?

Allison Metz

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2018 – 2021
$50,000.00

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Reducing Inequality Initiative – 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support

This grant will support the third annual convening of grantees in the Foundation’s focus area on reducing inequality, which was launched in February 2014.

Hillary Oravec

Youth Collaboratory

2018 – 2020
$218,375.00

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Catherine Bradshaw

Johns Hopkins University, The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia and University of Virginia

Grant Announcements

New Rapid Response Research Grants Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded six Rapid Response Research Grants that will leverage research to address major challenges facing young people in the United States. These awards, the...

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From the Field

What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?

By expanding and equalizing youth civic engagement, we can begin improve youth outcomes. Research helps by making diagnoses and solutions more rigorous and precise, but youth must be part of the...

Peter Levine

3/15/2018

Grantee Voices

Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?

Fred Wulczyn and Amy Dworsky are investigating how the outcomes of youth in congregate care settings vary by state, and whether and how this variability contributes to racial and ethnic differences...

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3/15/2018

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Amy Dworsky

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

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Peter Levine

Tufts University

Applicant Guidance

Webinar: Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content

Improving achievement for English learners by strengthening educational policy and practice would contribute meaningfully to reducing inequality in the outcomes of young people in the United States....

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Impact of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Model: Testing an Approach to Improve the Use of Evidence

Can structured collaboration between researchers and policymakers improve federal legislators’ use of research pertaining to children and families?

Daniel Crowley, Lauren Supplee, Kathryn Oliver and Jennifer Taylor Scott

Pennsylvania State University

2018 – 2021
$553,028.00

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Community Academic Partnership for Translational Use of Research Evidence (CAPTURE) in Policy and Practice

What strategies enable research-practice partnerships to improve the use of research evidence by child welfare agencies?

Gregory Aarons, Amy Green, Danielle Fettes and Cathleen Willging

University of California at San Diego

2018 – 2023
$948,079.00

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Organizational Capacity-Building in Youth Trauma: Implementing an Improved Model & Training Approach

This grant will support the creation of a trauma-informed curriculum for Lineage Project.

Gabrielle Prisco

Lineage Project, Inc.

2018 – 2020
$25,000.00

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Internship Program Curriculum Update

This grant will support the inclusion of digital productivity skills in Futures and Options’ training for youth.

Carolyn Silver

Futures and Options

2018 – 2022
$25,000.00

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Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity

This grant will support the creation of a curriculum and trauma-informed training program. Dynamic Forms

Mark DeGarmo

Dynamic Forms, Inc

2018 – 2019
$25,000.00

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School Climate: Responding to Latino Youth’s Educational and Socio-emotional Inequality

Which aspects of school climate hold promise for responding to educational and socio-emotional inequalities experienced by Latino youth?

Melissa Delgado

University of Arizona

2018 – 2020
$49,995.00

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Patricia Machir

Futures and Options

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Gregory Aarons

University of California at San Diego and University of California, San Diego

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Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants, Spring 2018

Implementing State-Level Policy Reform to Eliminate School Discipline Disparities: A Mixed Methods Examination

Technical Assistance and Uses of Research Evidence in Child Welfare: What do we know and where do we need to go?

Reducing Inequality Initiative – 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support

Catherine Bradshaw

New Rapid Response Research Grants Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.

What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?

Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?

Amy Dworsky

Peter Levine

Webinar: Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content

Impact of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Model: Testing an Approach to Improve the Use of Evidence

Community Academic Partnership for Translational Use of Research Evidence (CAPTURE) in Policy and Practice

Organizational Capacity-Building in Youth Trauma: Implementing an Improved Model & Training Approach

Internship Program Curriculum Update

Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity

School Climate: Responding to Latino Youth’s Educational and Socio-emotional Inequality

Patricia Machir

Gregory Aarons

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