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Federal Evaluation Forum: Expanding the Capacity to Use Research Evidence in Decision Making

This grant will support an effort to expand the use of research evidence in federal decision making.

2018 – 2021
$49,908.00

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American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality

This grant will enable graduate students of color to attend the American Sociological Association Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality organized by the Sociology of Education...

Jacob Hibel

University of California, Davis

2018
$14,893.00

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Demetra Nightingale

Rutgers University and The Urban Institute

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“Democratizing Evidence in Education,” from Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement

In this chapter, Vivian Tseng, Steve Fleischman, and Esther Quintero explore what a more democratic evidence movement might look like in the years ahead. Discussing both efforts to build and use...

Vivian Tseng, Steve Fleischman and Esther Quintero

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Six Early Career Researchers Selected for 2018 Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the...

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Grant Announcements

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

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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

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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...

Foundation Staff

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...

Foundation Staff

3/15/2018

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Amy Dworsky

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and Chapin Hall Center for Children

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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

Child Trends Incorporated

2018 – 2021

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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

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE)

2018 – 2023

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Federal Evaluation Forum: Expanding the Capacity to Use Research Evidence in Decision Making

American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality

Demetra Nightingale

“Democratizing Evidence in Education,” from Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement

Steve Fleischman

Six Early Career Researchers Selected for 2018 Scholars Program

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

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