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Evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) is a critical pathway to more effective policies, programmes, and practices. EIPM is supported through interventions such as capacity-building, evidence...

Federal actions in the second Trump administration have placed higher education institutions at a critical crossroads as they navigate how best to support undocumented and international students...

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the 2026 Meeting of the American Education Research Association. Over the course of the week, staff and grantees of the Foundation will participate...

Career development is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to grantmaking. One way we do this is through investing in efforts that foster supportive environments for scholars from groups...

Photo courtesy of San Francisco Unified School District-UC Berkeley RPP Improving outcomes for students, families, and communities increasingly depends on new forms of collaboration that bring...

In the face of organized efforts to silence research, the Foundation will continue to leverage our funding to strengthen the field and advance institutional reforms that value community-engaged...

Local students celebrating the end of the Starr Hill Pathways summer camp. Photo courtesy of the UVA Center for Community Partnerships. Photo credit: Sydney Shuler. As an R1 institution, the...

Photo courtesy of Brave House. Credit: @just_a_spectator Finding a sanctuary to feel safe, seen, and supported can be life-changing. This is especially true for young immigrant women navigating...

The deadline for our Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program, which supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in New York City...

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

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...

We encourage researchers studying ways to improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth within family, school, state, and other contexts to apply for our funding.

How do we repair the relationships that hold together urban communities?

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...

Can improving families’ material conditions through cash transfers help prevent instances of child maltreatment?

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...

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...

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...

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, many U.S. school districts remain divided by race and class. Segregation is often particularly prevalent in large, urban school districts like New...

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...