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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...

Foundation Staff

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

Findings from research studies can provide decision-makers direction on how to enhance student mental health; create high-quality, inclusive learning environments; and transition students into and...

Kim DuMont

Grant

Facilitating Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Legal Advocates to Improve Uses of Research in Justice-Oriented Court Cases

How can collaboration between social science researchers and legal advocates be facilitated to produce research evidence that can be used if/when the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Plyler v. Doe...

Megan Hopkins

University of California at San Diego

2025
$49,678.00

Webinar

Webinar for Applicants: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (December 2024)

Research grants on improving the use of research evidence support studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. In this webinar from December 2024, Program...

Foundation Staff

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Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field

Evidence-informed policies have significant potential to improve population health outcomes, but despite efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of timely, credible, and relevant...

Itzhak Yanovitzky, Daniel Crowley and J. Taylor Scott

12/19/2024

Blog Post

Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers

One of the biggest threats to youth and family policy is growing pessimism among scholars that engaging policymakers is worth their time and effort (Bogenschneider, Corbett, & Parrott, 2019). New...

Karen Bogenschneider

12/9/2024

Blog Post

Research Alliances: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting District Improvement

Over the past decades, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have proliferated across the United States. In one common RPP design, the research alliance (RA), a group of researchers—typically...

Megan Duff, Joshua Glazer and Matthew Shirrell

11/11/2024

Grant

States as Laboratories: Experimental Trial of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration to Improve State’s Use of Evidence to Benefit Youth

Does the research-to-policy collaboration model improve policymakers’ use of prevention science research at the state level?

Daniel Crowley

Pennsylvania State University

2024 – 2025
$200,000.00

Blog Post

No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Introduction Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) involve long-term partnerships aimed at improving or transforming a wide-range of outcomes through collaboration and research inquiry across a...

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice and The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships

10/3/2024

Grant

Utilizing Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to Improve the Use and Relevance of Research Evidence to Inform School Mental Health Services

Does utilizing a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model improve the local relevance and use of research evidence for school-based mental health decision-making?

Nathaniel von der Embse

University of South Florida

2024 – 2027
$950,000.00

Grant

Child Policy Connect

This grant will enable the Society for Research in Child Development to establish Child Policy Connect, a program to improve evidence-based policymaking by building reliable and trusted relationships...

Lindsay Trammell

Society for Research in Child Development

2024 – 2025
$80,000.00

Grant

Exploring the Role of Youth Advocacy in State Policymakers’ Use of Research Evidence for Eating Disorders Prevention

Does youth-led legislative advocacy improve evidence use in eating disorder prevention policy?

Amanda Raffoul

University of Toronto

2024 – 2029
$349,749.00

Grant

Strategies And Conditions Facilitating And Hindering Education Law Attorneys’ Use of Research Evidence

How do professional networks shape evidence use among lawyers engaged in holistic legal youth advocacy?

Raquel Muñiz Castro

Boston College

2024 – 2029
$349,880.40

Grant

Microecological Influences of Supervision on URE in Children’s Mental Health: Secondary Analysis of the Child STEPs in California Randomized Effectiveness Trial

How do clinical supervisory decisions improve the use of research evidence in mental health treatment activities and youth mental health outcomes?

Bruce Chorpita

University of California, Los Angeles

2024 – 2026
$379,984.00

Grant

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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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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Dates for the 2025 competition will be posted in the spring.

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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

Grant

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

Grant

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

Grant

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

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

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

Facilitating Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Legal Advocates to Improve Uses of Research in Justice-Oriented Court Cases

Webinar for Applicants: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence (December 2024)

Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field

Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers

Research Alliances: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting District Improvement

States as Laboratories: Experimental Trial of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration to Improve State’s Use of Evidence to Benefit Youth

No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Utilizing Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to Improve the Use and Relevance of Research Evidence to Inform School Mental Health Services

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Exploring the Role of Youth Advocacy in State Policymakers’ Use of Research Evidence for Eating Disorders Prevention

Strategies And Conditions Facilitating And Hindering Education Law Attorneys’ Use of Research Evidence

Microecological Influences of Supervision on URE in Children’s Mental Health: Secondary Analysis of the Child STEPs in California Randomized Effectiveness Trial

Supporting Health and Learning for Research-Practice Partnerships

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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

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

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