Join us for a presentation from Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation. He will be speaking about why “The Future of Higher Education is Still Social Impact.” […]

How early intervention in Boston is stabilizing families and improving student success rates.

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

We are proud to announce five new research grants, totaling over $2.7 million, in support of four studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the u...

We are delighted to announce that this year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Spencer Foundation have joined us to award $2.6 million in funding for f...

The Foundation is delighted to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Tolani Britton, in the school of education at the University of California, Berkeley James Chu,in the department ...

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 in seve...

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers...

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 educato...

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers...

In this issue of the Digest, Cecilia Menjívar highlights the role civil society organizations play in protecting immigrant youth and shares opportunities for researchers to investigate how these organ...

"Collaborations between research and policy partners—like the ones forged by these grantees—have a critical role to play in advancing policies that can reduce inequality in youth outcomes."

"Community-engaged scholarship can illuminate strategies to confront some of the most critical issues facing youth today, and we are excited by the number of institutions across the nation that are re...

"A they carry out their work to provide critical services to youth across New York City, we look forward to witnessing how they grow over the grant period."

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers...

We are proud to announce six new research grants, totaling over $2.9 million, in support of five studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young peo...

We are delighted to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2031. Eleven early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 153 applicants after a rigorous review ...

Whether you are looking to form, grow, or support an RPP, you need to know where to start and what to expect. We’ve gathered guiding tips, work samples, and resources from successful partnerships that...

The Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Trustees: Donna Bullock is CEO of Project HOME, a nationally recognized nonprofit that empowers adults, children, and families to break...

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 Universit...

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 And...

We are proud to announce five new research grants, totaling over $2.8 million, in support of three studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and two studies on strategies for improving th...

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

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

GLR Learning Tuesdays affirms CGLR's commitment to get better at getting better by learning with and from each other. We are using these webinars as a portal through which to access and explore the be...

For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so research...

“How does it feel to be a problem?” W.E.B DuBois asked this famous question in the seminal Souls of Black Folk in 1903. While Du Bois was specifically speaking to the experiences of Black Americans in...

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 ...

We are delighted to welcome Alexes Harris, Presidential Term Professor and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee, effective July…

A partnership between The University of New Mexico and the State of New Mexico's First Judicial District Attorney’s Office was selected as one of this year’s Institutional Challenge Grants by the…

We are proud to announce seven new research grants, totaling over $2.8 million, in support of five studies on ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes and two studies on strategies for improving…

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

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute has been awarded a three-year, $650,000 Institutional Challenge Grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to strengthen research-practice partnerships…

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute has been awarded a three-year, $650,000 Institutional Challenge Grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to strengthen research-practice partnerships…

The William T Grant Foundation receives hundreds of letters of inquiry every year from individuals pursuing funding for their research. But we decline between a third to a half of submitted letters…

The Institutional Challenge Grant requires that universities shift their policies and practices to value research conducted in collaboration with non-profit organizations or public agencies. The…

Foundation grants support field-initiated research studies in our focus areas, career development and mentoring for early career scholars, research-practice partnerships between universities and…

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…

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

As the expectations for kindergarten have risen, the changes have put boys, who tend to mature later, at a disadvantage.

Some foundations are offering much-needed stopgaps for researchers. But that’s not a permanent fix, scientists and advocates say.

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…

Foundation grants support field-initiated research studies in our focus areas, career development and mentoring for early career scholars, research-practice partnerships between universities and…

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…