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The Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation have approved $2.6 million in funding for the winners of the 2025 Institutional...

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Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Capacity-Building Grants

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded three community-based organizations in New York City $60,000 to address a capacity-building need. This year’s Youth Service...

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Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

The Foundation is proud to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Farzana Adjah, in the graduate school of education at Stanford University, will examine whether an intervention that...

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The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)

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

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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...

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President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025

Next week, education researchers will convene at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Denver. We come together at a critical moment. The research...

Adam Gamoran

4/17/2025

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Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

Since launching our reducing inequality focus area in 2014, the Foundation has prioritized research that examines ways to reduce inequalities by race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority...

Maddie Scavotto

4/16/2025

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

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

The goal may be to fund high-quality research, but we should never lose sight of the people carrying out the work and how securing funding fits within the larger context of their careers.

Melissa Wooten

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change

Research that works to identify youth social movement participation and understand its connection to social movement outcomes has the chance to bring great research gains that may help address some...

Jennifer Earl

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

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems

As we face increasing restrictions on our society’s most vulnerable youth, including youth of color, undocumented and immigrant youth, and LGBTQ+ youth, social movement research holds significant...

Jenny Irons

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2/24/2025

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Empowering Latinx and Black Youth with School Discipline Referrals as Peer Coaches

Empowering Latinx and Black Youth with School Discipline Referrals as Peer Coaches

Empowering Latinx and Black Youth with School Discipline Referrals as Peer Coaches

Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

Three New York City Nonprofits Awarded Capacity-Building Grants

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)

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

President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025

Expanding our Research Interests: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ+ Youth

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

Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems

Melissa Wooten Promoted to Senior Program Officer

Youth Service Improvement Grants: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (February 2025)

Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

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President’s Comment: Steadfast in Our Mission in Turbulent Times

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“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

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