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

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...

The Youth Service Improvement Grants program supports activities to improve the quality of direct services for young people ages 5 to 25 in the five boroughs of New York City. The goal of the program...

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...

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...

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...

Hosted by Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran on April 17, 2024, this webinar provides an overview of our research grants on reducing inequality. Jenny and Adam provide an...

Hosted by Program Officer Anupreet Sidhu and Vice President Kim DuMont on April 19, 2024, this webinar provides an overview of our research grants on improving the use of research evidence. Anu and...

The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that...

Research evidence can be a powerful resource for policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, and others who make high-stakes decisions that shape youth-serving systems. But only if...

In this webinar, William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program and provide an...

In this webinar, from February 2023, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the program, provide an overview of eligibility details,...

In this webinar, deans from two current Institutional Challenge Grant teams join us to discuss the changes they intend for their respective schools, the concrete steps they are taking to encourage...

The recent special collection of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World began with a question: “If research is to make a difference in reducing inequality… how?”...

In this webinar, held on March 15, 2022, Program Officer Melissa Wooten and Senior Vice President Vivian Tseng provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria, as...

“Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use” is the fourth webinar in a series focused on bringing critical race perspectives to research that examines how to improve the use of...

Science has the potential to improve important outcomes for youth. But if the science generated isn’t used, we are failing to achieve our goal. In this webinar, Senior Program Officer Lauren...

On October 28th, two panels of scholars participated in a virtual forum, From Understanding Inequality to Reducing Inequality. Exploring ways for social scientists to move beyond describing and...

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...