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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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Melissa Wooten Promoted to Senior Program Officer

We are delighted to announce that Melissa Wooten has been promoted to Senior Program Officer. In her new role, Melissa will guide the Foundation’s overarching career development philosophy and...

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

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...

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

“People should not come out of [Rikers] more harmed than they were when they went in,” Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the incoming president of the...

Natalie De Rosa

2/24/2025

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Rebecca Quick

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Stanley Huey

University of Southern California

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Matthew Mizel

Behavioral Ideas Lab, inc. (DBA ideas42)

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Yvette Lopez Brooks

University of California, Santa Cruz

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

Despite the turbulence around us, the William T. Grant Foundation will remain steadfast in our mission to support research to improve the lives of young people. We will continue to pursue our two...

Adam Gamoran

2/20/2025

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Five New York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded five community-based organizations in New York City $25,000 to improve the quality of their youth programs. This year’s Youth Service...

Foundation Staff

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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

Is poverty a root cause of child welfare system involvement? Researchers have long held this hypothesis, but rarely had an opportunity to test whether giving cash to poor families reduces their...

Natalie De Rosa

1/10/2025

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