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Announcing Four New Mentoring Grants

The Foundation is pleased to announce two William T. Grant Scholars and two research grantees have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color: Riana...

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From the Field

Radical Care, Real Consequences: Why Mentorship Still Matters

"The rapidity, constancy, and mean-spiritedness of the moment is demoralizing. We would be well advised to look to history for guidance."

Richard Reddick

7/30/2025

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Mentoring and Career Development

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Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Anderson and Pham

With this award, Anderson will pursue formal mentorship training, implement a networked model of mentorship, and develop skills to prioritize slower paced productivity that supports healthy...

Riana Anderson

Columbia University

2025 – 2027
$110,000.00

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Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Lenhoff and Spindle-Jackson

With this award, Lenhoff will expand her toolkit of structures to support scholarly writing, develop process models for training her research team, and strengthen her cultural competence to discuss...

Sarah Lenhoff

Wayne State University

2025 – 2027
$110,000.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Samari and Albahsahli

With this award, Samari to obtain formal training in the mentorship of underrepresented junior scholars, develop practices to support skills-based mentorship in analysis and writing, cultivate...

Goleen Samari

University of Southern California

2025 – 2027
$59,997.00

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Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Ferguson and Barnes

With this award, Ferguson strengthen her ability to lead multiracial teams in ethnic-socialization research, mentor immigrant and native-born Black students, and support female graduate students of...

Gail Ferguson

University of Minnesota

2025 – 2027
$59,866.00

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

From the point of application through the post-award review process, we seek to ensure that all who interact with the Foundation receive guidance and feedback that will move their research forward.

Melissa Wooten

Grantee Voices

“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program...

Natalie De Rosa

12/9/2024

Grant Announcements

Announcing Four Grants to Support Mentoring for Junior Researchers of Color

The Foundation is pleased to announce that three research grantees and one William T. Grant Scholar have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color:...

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Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Weitzman and Turcios-Villalta

With this award, Weitzman will strengthen her ability to effectively mentor junior researchers of color, expand her instructional toolkit to better support student writing goals, and create routines...

Abigail Weitzman

University of Texas at Austin

2024 – 2026
$60,000.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Santagata and Fuentes Acevedo

With this award, Santagta will develop strategies to help junior scholars cope with the challenges of building research careers while pursuing research-practice partnerships.

Rossella Santagata

University of California at Irvine

2024 – 2026
$60,000.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Jamil and Hochstetter

With this award, Jamil will develop the intercultural competence necessary to mentor first-generation Latinx scholars.

Faiza Jamil

Clemson University

2024 – 2026
$59,857.00

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Kho and Pardo

With this award, Kho will engage in the process of co-discovery, whereby he and his mentee will learn a body of literature and its associated methodologies together.

Adam Kho

University of Kentucky

2024 – 2026
$60,000.00

From the Field

Ending Well: Bringing Mentoring Relationships to a Close

I recently had the pleasure to spend a few days with scholars and staff from the William T. Grant Mentoring Grant program. Melissa Wooten and I collaborated on a retreat program intended to create...

Richard Reddick

5/29/2024

From the Field

The Power of Networks: Mentoring Beyond the Dyad

I’m drafting this post in January, which has been National Mentoring Month since 2002. It’s as good a time as any to reflect on the developmental networks that have advanced our...

Richard Reddick

4/25/2024

Mentoring Grants

Applicant Resources

Resources on this page include applicant guidance, Research-Practice Partnerships, and additional resources geared toward applicants of the Foundation’s research grants on reducing inequality, as...

Funding

Mentoring Grants

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Closed

Open date:

December 11, 2025

Next Deadline:

February 11, 2026 3:00 pm EST

Staff Perspectives

The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy

Mentoring is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to supporting the career development of junior researchers. For instance, while applicants of the William T. Grant Scholars program must...

Foundation Staff

10/25/2023

Grant Announcements

2023 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

The Foundation is pleased to announce that three research grantees and three William T. Grant Scholars have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color....

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Announcing Four New Mentoring Grants

Radical Care, Real Consequences: Why Mentorship Still Matters

Mentoring and Career Development

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Anderson and Pham

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Lenhoff and Spindle-Jackson

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Samari and Albahsahli

Mentoring and Career Development: 2025 Ferguson and Barnes

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

Announcing Four Grants to Support Mentoring for Junior Researchers of Color

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Weitzman and Turcios-Villalta

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Santagata and Fuentes Acevedo

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Jamil and Hochstetter

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Kho and Pardo

Ending Well: Bringing Mentoring Relationships to a Close

The Power of Networks: Mentoring Beyond the Dyad

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Mentoring Grants

The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy

2023 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

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