The William T. Grant Foundation is seeking applications for its Research Grants to support research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
Donor Name: William T. Grant Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/04/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000 to $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
This program funds research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
The foundation invites studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and they encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education. Previous studies have drawn on conceptual and empirical work from political science, communication science, knowledge mobilization, implementation science, and organizational psychology, among other areas.
Proposed studies must pursue one of the following aims:
- Building, identifying, or testing ways to improve the use of existing research evidence.
- Building, identifying, or testing ways to facilitate the production of new research evidence that responds to decision-maker needs.
- Testing whether and under what conditions using research evidence improves decision-making and youth outcomes.
Funding Information
- Major research grants: $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
- Officers’ research grants: $25,000–$50,000 over 1-2 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- The Foundation makes grants only to tax-exempt organizations. They do not make grants to individuals.
- They encourage proposals from organizations that are under-represented among grantee institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-Serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs).
- Eligible Principal Investigators
- The Foundation refers to the applying organization’s criteria for who is eligible to act as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on a grant. In general, they expect that all investigators will have the experience and skills to carry out the proposed work.
- They strive to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and seniority, and they encourage research projects led by Black or African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian or Pacific Islander American researchers.
- Eligible Studies
- Only studies that 1) align with the stated research interests of this program and 2) relate to the outcomes of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States are eligible for consideration.
- They do not support non-research activities such as program implementation and operational costs or make contributions to building funds, fundraising drives, endowment funds, general operating budgets, or scholarships.
For more information, visit Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence.
