The Office of Foundation Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the WT Grant Foundation.
UCSC Contact: Foundation Relations, Caroline Rodriguez | caroline@ucsc.edu
Funder: William T. Grant Foundation
Programs:
Research Grants on Improving Use of Research Evidence (LOI)
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality (LOI)
LOI Deadline: May 1, 2024 (12:00 PM PDT)
(1) Research Grants on Improving Use of Research Evidence Overview
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.
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-makers’ needs.
- Testing whether and under what conditions using research evidence improves decision-making and youth outcomes.
This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. WTGF welcomes impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. WTGF also welcomes descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, WTGF welcomes measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use.
Please review past grant awardees here.
Please see opportunity guidelines here.
Please see the link to the webinar here.
Funding
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Major research grants: $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, including up to 15%
indirect costs.
To see data about funding rates, please click here.
(2) Research Grants on Reducing Inequality Overview
This program funds research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Applications for research grants on reducing inequality must:
- identify a specific inequality in youth outcomes
- make a convincing case for the dimension(s) of inequality the study will address
- articulate how the findings will help build, test, or increase understanding of a specific program, policy, or practice to reduce the specific inequality that you have identified.
See here for detailed opportunity guidelines.
The research interests of the William T. Grant Foundation center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, we welcome studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.
Funding
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Major Research Grants: $100,000 to $600,000 over 2-3 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
Eligibility
- The Foundation defers 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, we expect that all investigators will have the experience and skills to carry out the proposed work.
- WT Grant strives to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and seniority, and we encourage research projects led by Black or African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian or Pacific Islander American researchers.
- William T Grant encourages proposals from organizations that are under-represented among grantee institutions, including Hispanic-serving Institutions.
Eligible Studies
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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.
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WTGF does 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. Applications for ineligible projects are screened out without further review.
Timeline
May 1, 2024 (12:00PM PST) Letter of Inquiries Due
Letters of inquiry are accepted on three deadlines each year.
Successful letters of inquiry for major research grants will result in invitations to submit full proposals.
Please see Frequently Asked Questions here.
Special Instructions
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (fr@ucsc.edu). For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu), and within the Arts, please contact Hannah Jasper (hannahjasper@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.
The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Advancement. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits. For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding