2019 Annual Report 2019 Annual Report

Contents

01 The Rhymes of Research and Policy

Chair’s Letter, 02 President’s Letter, 03

05 Our Work

Focus Areas, 06 Funding Programs, 07

09 2019 By the Numbers

12 Financial Summary

Highlights, 13 Statement of Financial Position, 14 Statement of Activities, 15

16 New and Active Grants in 2019

Research Grants, 17 Rapid Response Research Grants, 24 Institutional Challenge Grant, 24 William T. Grant Scholars, 25 Mentoring Grants, 27 Capacity-Building and Communications Grants, 28 Youth Service Improvement Grants, 31

32 Who We Are

Staff, 33 Board of Trustees, 35 William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee, 37 Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee, 39 Reviewers, 41 2019 Annual Report The Rhymes of Research and Policy

01 The Rhymes of Research and Policy | Chair’s Letter

Chair’s Letter

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often Institutional Challenge Grant program, the rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said Foundation awarded substantial grants to many years ago. I was reminded of this apho- encourage research institutions to build sus- rism when I sat down to write this letter just tained research-practice partnerships with a few days after the violent death of George public agencies or nonprofit organizations Floyd. I came of age in the 1960s and attended working to reduce inequality. It is heartening college in the early 1970s, times that were that this, our latest program, has attracted also marked by the idealism and inspiration the interest of other funders, allowing us to of protests, the shock and numbness of assas- expand it well beyond what we could do with sinations, and the nihilism and terror of civil our own resources. unrest.

The history of the William T. Grant “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often Foundation extends back even further, to rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have the late 1930s. Since then its focus has been said many years ago. to support research to improve the lives of young people. Perhaps history’s rhymes tell us that progress toward this goal is ephemeral None of this would have been possible with- or even an illusion. Yet I am heartened by a out the efforts of our talented staff, led so ably favorite saying of Robert Kennedy’s from by Adam Gamoran for the past seven years. another dark time: “Some men see things as I should also thank my fellow trustees whose they are and ask why. I dream of things that perspectives and wisdom have informed never were, and ask why not.” so much of the Foundation’s activities and 2019 was a busy year for the Foundation. The have deepened my own understanding of the staff initiated a systematic examination of the rhymes of research and policy. Foundation’s initiative to support research

on reducing inequality in youth outcomes, a Russell P. Pennoyer review that continues today. Findings from Chair of the Board of Trustees a previous stocktaking of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants gave way to the launch of two programs with an explicit emphasis on addressing resource inequities and building the capacity of youth-serving nonprofits in New York City. And, through the 02 The Rhymes of Research and Policy | President’s Letter

President’s Letter

In the midst of a crisis, it’s difficult to tear our federal funds for lead hazard reduction, they eyes away from the present and cast our view not only improved children’s health, but also back over to the preceding year. But looking improved student achievement and reduced backward, as we do every year in our annual achievement gaps between Latinx and White report, reminds us that our work is not for students. Another study revealed that a sum- naught, as the accomplishments of the past mer youth employment program improved strengthen our resolve to forge ahead in the academic outcomes and reduced criminal future. justice involvement, with the largest benefits going to African American and Latinx youth. The William T. Grant Foundation supports Other studies are illuminating the pathways research on ways to reduce inequality in through which future programs can challenge youth outcomes and on strategies to improve the constraints of inequality. For instance, a the use of research evidence in policy and study of Black student leaders on a college practice. We believe, as President Barack campus shows how combining advocacy for Obama stated in 2013, that inequality is “the structural change with building solidarity defining challenge of our time.” We further around a common cause yields access to the assert that learning how to reduce inequality knowledge and power needed for change. requires not only producing high-quality evi- These are but a few examples of an increas- dence, but getting that evidence used in policy ingly rich body of knowledge. and practice. The research grants we funded through 2019 are enabling real progress on Without a strategy to connect evidence to both fronts. action, these research findings, however insightful, may fail to help bring about change. Fortunately, grantees in our use of research ...learning how to reduce inequality evidence portfolio are studying, developing, requires not only producing high-quality and testing approaches to get evidence used. evidence, but getting that evidence used Some have already shown the central role of in policy and practice. intermediary organizations like advocates and knowledge brokers in bringing research findings to the hands of decision makers in Studies in our reducing inequality portfolio policy and practice. Additional research has are beginning to provide causal evidence of shown how structured, ongoing relationships programs and policies that reduce inequality between researchers and policy staff can in youth outcomes. For example, one study infuse policy deliberations with research showed that when states and counties took evidence. Another study reveals that a 03 The Rhymes of Research and Policy | President’s Letter

coordinated knowledge system—a tool to get efforts to do so in our Institutional Challenge well-targeted evidence into the hands of prac- Grants and our Rapid Response Research titioners at the right moment—can improve grants, which call on partnerships between not only evidence use but youth outcomes. researchers and actors in policy or practice Still other studies focus on the challenge of to connect research findings with research making evidence use a routine part of profes- use. The more pervasive such partnerships sional practice. become across the full landscape of research, the greater the chances that evidence-based Ultimately, we need to bring these two dis- insights will bring us closer to the day that the tinct areas of work together. We need to apply inequality that afflicts our nation, so terribly lessons from studies on the use of research magnified in the present moment, will not evidence to findings about programs, policies, represent our future. and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The Foundation has made explicit Adam Gamoran President

04 2019 Annual Report Our Work

05 Our Work | Focus Areas

Focus Areas

The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We pursue this mission by building bodies of useful research within two focus areas:

Reducing Inequality

Our focus on reducing inequality in youth encourage investigations into various sys- outcomes grew out of our view that research tems, including justice, housing, child welfare, can do more than help us understand the mental health, and education. The common problem of inequality—it can point us toward thread across all of this work, however, is effective responses. Although there is mount- a distinct and explicit focus on reducing ing research evidence about the scope, causes, inequality—one that goes beyond describ- and consequences of inequality in the United ing the causes or consequences of unequal States, we need stronger bodies of knowledge outcomes and, instead, aims to build, test, on ways to reduce it. To address this complex or understand policy, program, or practice challenge, we support research from a range responses. of disciplines and methodologies, and we

Improving the Use of Research Evidence

Over the past decade, a growing body of research that is relevant, facilitate delibera- research has illuminated the conditions that tion, and help repurpose resources, redirect facilitate the use of research evidence in politics, and reshape routines to use research policy and practice. The literature suggests evidence. Still, there remain unanswered that for research to be used it needs to address questions that are critical to understanding issues that are relevant to decision makers—it how to improve the production and use of needs to be deliberated, and it needs to be relevant research evidence to improve youth supported by the values, routines, and tools of outcomes. users. Trusting relationships can help develop

06 Our Work | Funding Programs

Funding Programs

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality Research grants on reducing inequality support 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, especially on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence Research grants on improving the use of research evidence support studies to identify, build, and test strategies to ensure that research evidence is used in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improv- ing the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries.

William T. Grant Scholars Program 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’ expertise in new disci- plines, methods, and content areas.

07 Our Work | Funding Programs

Institutional Challenge Grant The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university- based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sus- tained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. To do so, research institutions must shift their policies and incentives to value collaborative work and help build the capacity of the partner organization to use evidence from research in its decision making.

Youth Service Improvement Grants Youth Service Improvement Grants support 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 is to reduce inequality in youth outcomes by help- ing youth-serving nonprofit organizations strengthen their existing programming at the point of service, where staff and youth interact.

Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants support activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25. Over time, we hope to help build stronger, more stable youth-serving organizations that will ultimately reduce inequality and improve the lives of young people.

08 2019 Annual Report 2019 By the Numbers

09 2019 By the Numbers

69active research grants on reducing inequality in youth outcomes, including 12 new major research grants awarded in 2019

active23 research grants on improving the use of research evidence, including 4 new major research grants awarded in 2019

active30 William T. Grant Scholars awards to help early-career researchers develop new expertise, including four new awards in 2019

active grants12 to support and improve youth service programs in New York City, including 6 new grants in 2019

10 2019 By the Numbers $1.3m In the second year of our Institutional Challenge Grant program, we partnered with the Spencer Foundation to jointly commit $1.3-million to research- practice partnerships seeking to advance institutional change and reduce inequalities in academic achievement

unique59 institutions are represented in the cohort of 2019 grantees $469k Nearly half a million dollars went toward supporting mentoring relationships and career development for faculty and young scholars of color 11 2019 Annual Report Financial Summary

12 Financial Summary

Highlights $351m The Foundation’s net assets reached a five-year high of $351,417,888 in 2019 % Net assets9 grew 9% over the year $17.6 m The Foundation spent $17,607,198 on grantmaking and program services in 2019

13 Financial Summary | Statement of Financial Position

Statement of Financial Position Year Ended December 31

2019 2018

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,027,512 $ 4,470,927

Accrued investment income and other receivables 141,630 166,473

Prepaid Federal excise tax 422,852 73,849

Investments 345,736,418 316,223,585

Prepaid expenses and other assets 89,476 167,052

$ 351,417,888 $ 321,101,886

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 619,459 $ 316,786

Grants payable 12,813,816 12,347,354

Postretirement benefit obligation 3,644,615 2,627,777

Deferred Federal excise tax 1,115,000 1,191,000

Deferred rent 711,595 281,289

Total liabilities 18,904,485 16,764,206

Net assets without donor restrictions 332,513,403 304,337,680

$ 351,417,888 $ 321,101,886

14 Financial Summary | Statement of Activities

Statement of Activities Year Ended December 31

2019 2018

REVENUE

Investment return

Interest and dividends $ 6,070,033 $ 5,042,213

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments 42,808,526 (14,483,527)

48,878,559 (9,441,314)

Less direct investment expenses 815,822 826,106

Investment return 48,062,737 (10,267,420)

Rental income - 102,883

Total Revenue 48,062,737 -10,164,537

EXPENSES

Program services 17,607,198 17,319,164

Operations and governance 1,332,095 1,453,573

Federal excise tax 111,608 864,757

Deferred excise tax benefit (75,937) (950,000)

Unrelated business income tax 2,500 1,582

Total expenses 18,977,464 18,689,076

Change in net assets before postretirement benefit

Obligation adjustment 29,085,273 (28,853,613)

Postretirement benefit obligation adjustment (909,550) 316,286

Change in net assets 28,175,723 (28,537,327)

NET ASSETS WITHOUT DONOR RESTRICTIONS

Beginning of year 304,337,680 332,875,007

End of year $ 332,513,403 $ 304,337,680

15 2019 Annual Report New and Active Grants in 2019

16 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Research Grants

Reducing Inequality

Developing Indicators of Educational The Color of Emotion: Teachers’ Understanding the Experience of Equity Racialized Interpretations of Majority and Minority Status through Constance Citro Children’s Emotion and Student Photovoice Judith Koenig Outcomes Margarita Alegría Natalie Nielsen Amy Halberstadt Massachusetts General Hospital National Academy of Sciences North Carolina State University Kiara Alvarez $100,000, 2015-2019 Sherick Hughes President and Fellows of Harvard University of North Carolina at College Understanding the Relationship Chapel Hill $549,518, 2016-2020 Between Extended Foster Care and Pamela Garner Transitions to Adulthood from Care George Mason University Focused Classroom Coaching and Mark Courtney $349,980, 2016-2019 Widespread Racial Equity in School Harold Pollack Discipline University of Chicago The Connection Project: A Social Anne Gregory $282,462, 2015-2019 Intervention to Reduce Drivers of Rutgers, the State University of New Disparity for Disadvantaged Youth Jersey Understanding For Whom and Under Joseph Allen Joseph Allen What Conditions Growth Mindset University of Virginia Erik Ruzek Interventions Reduce Educational Karen Guskin University of Virginia Inequalities: A Nationally- Wyman Center Christopher Hafen Representative Experiment $709,611, 2016-2020 Northern Virginia Community David Yeager College Chandra Muller System/Policy Determinants of Amori Mikami Robert Crosnoe Inequalities in Child Welfare: The Case University of British Columbia University of Texas at Austin of Running Away From Foster Care $180,000, 2016-2019 $580,478, 2015-2019 Fred Wulczyn Amy Dworsky Subsidized Housing and Children’s Mechanisms of Change in a Coping Chapin Hall at the University of School Outcomes: Evidence from Skills-Based Prevention Program for Chicago Housing Lotteries Adolescents in Low-Income Urban $268,453, 2016-2019 Ingrid Ellen Neighborhoods New York University Angela Clarke Can Housing Assistance Reduce Jeanne Brooks-Gunn West Chester University Inequality Among Youth? Columbia University $23,200, 2015-2019 Sandra Newman Elyzabeth Gaumer C. Scott Holupka NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation & Johns Hopkins University Development $384,424, 2016-2019 $400,000, 2016-2020

17 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Increasing the Reach of Promising Closing the Achievement Gap for Fathers and Low-Income Children’s Dropout Prevention Programs: Long-Term and Late-Arriving English Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: Examining the Tradeoffs Between Learners The Role of Social and Economic Scale and Effectiveness Laura Hill Policies Jens Ludwig Public Policy Institute of California Daniel Miller University of Chicago Julian Betts Boston University Jonathan Guryan University of California, San Diego Maureen Waller Northwestern University $584,478, 2016-2019 Cornell University Kelly Hallberg Lenna Nepomnyaschy University of Chicago Urban Labs Reducing Inequalities through Student Rutgers, The State University of New $530,507, 2016-2020 Networks: Social Network Influences Jersey on Academic Engagement and $450,000, 2017-2020 Building Grit Achievement Lauren Eskreis-Winkler Patrick Tolan Cultures of Care: Exploring Angela Duckworth Joanna Williams Inequalities in Mental Health Services Trustees of the University of Lauren Molloy Elreda Among Mexican American Youth Pennsylvania University of Virginia Rebecca Seligman $124,435, 2016-2019 $600,000, 2016-2021 Rebecca Ford-Paz Northwestern University Improving the Effectiveness of Digital Under Construction: Rise, Spread, and $102,361, 2017-2020 Educational Tools in Increasing Consequences of the Common Core Student Achievement and Reducing State Standards Initiative in the U.S. Talking Justice: Identifying Achievement Gaps Education Sector Interactional Practices to Improve the Carolyn Heinrich Brian Rowan Quality of Police-Civilian Encounters Vanderbilt University David Cohen Nikki Jones Annalee Good University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin, Madison Sean Reardon Geoffrey Raymond $597,569, 2016-2021 Stanford University University of California, Santa Susan Moffitt Barbara Making Community Colleges Engines Brown University $404,101, 2017-2020 for Social Mobility: A Century $600,000, 2016-2020 Foundation Working Group on Youth Organizing Trajectories: Financial Resources Immigration Status and Higher Critical Consciousness, Developmental Richard Kahlenberg Education: Evidence from a Large Competencies, and School Engagement The Century Foundation Urban University David Kirkland $345,000, 2016-2019 Amy Hsin New York University Holly Reed Matthew Diemer The Racial Marriage Gap and Student Queens College, City University of Michigan State University Achievement: A New Look at an Old New York Sara McAlister Conundrum Sofya Aptekar Brown University Elizabeth Ananat University of Massachusetts, Boston $600,000, 2017-2020 Anna Gassman-Pines Thomas DiPrete Christina Gibson-Davis Columbia University Duke University $600,000, 2017-2020 $229,922, 2016-2019

18 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Course Corrections: Assessing the Putting Immigration and Education An Investigation of the Language Value of Prison-Based Education for in Conversation Everyday: Supporting Demands in Standards, Assessments, Incarcerated Youth in Washington Immigrant Students in a Changing and Curricular Materials for English State Policy Environment Learners Dan Goldhaber Rebecca Lowenhaupt Mikyung Wolf University of Washington Boston College Educational Testing Service James Cowan Dafney Dabach Alison Bailey American Institutes for Research University of Washington University of California, Los Angeles $526,782, 2017-2020 Roberto Gonzales $580,485, 2018-2021 Harvard University A Multi-Year Evaluation of the Boston Ariana Mangual Figueroa Implementing State-Level Policy Youth Summer Employment Program The Graduate Center, CUNY Reform to Eliminate School Discipline and Features to Reduce Inequality $50,000, 2017-2019 Disparities: A Mixed-Methods Across Groups Examination Alicia Modestino Connected Scholars: A Mixed-Methods Jessika Bottiani Northeastern University Investigation of a Social Capital Catherine Bradshaw Trinh Nguyen Intervention for First-Generation University of Virginia Boston Mayor’s Office of Workforce College Students $150,403, 2018-2021 Development Sarah Schwartz $280,714, 2017-2020 Suffolk University Crossroads: Reducing Inequality Jean Rhodes and Promoting Positive Youth Improving Experiences and Outcomes University of Massachusetts, Boston Development by Understanding of Immigrant Youth: An Examination Renee Spencer Juvenile Justice Processing of the Internationals Network for Boston University Elizabeth Cauffman Public Schools $58,2150, 2018-2020 University of California, Irvine Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng $598,937, 2018-2020 Adriana Villavicencio Effects of Legal Status Change (DACA) New York University on Individuals, Within Families, and Do School-Based Health Services University of California, Irvine Across Local Ecosystems Reduce Academic and Behavioral Reva Jaffe-Walter Robert Smith Inequalities Among Youth? Montclair State University Baruch College Michel Boudreaux $588,189, 2017-2020 $599,999, 2018-2021 University of Maryland, College Park Brandy Lipton Reducing Child Poverty Can Food Scholarships Reduce San Diego State University Natacha Blain Inequality by Improving College $282,879, 2018-2021 National Academy of Sciences Persistence Among Community $200,000, 2017-2019 College Students? Reducing Youth Mental Health Daphne Hernandez Inequalities through Peer Practices: A Which Low-Income Students Beat Daniel O’Connor Daily Diary Study of Ethnic/Racial the Odds to Get College Success University of Houston Peer Interactions and Payoffs, and What Advice do Sara Goldrick-Rab Yijie Wang Counselors Give Them? Temple University Michigan State University James Rosenbaum $557,691, 2018-2020 $50,000, 2018-2020 Northwestern University $25,000, 2017-2019

19 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Trauma Responsive Educational Rikers Island Longitudinal Study Social-Emotional Learning, School Practices: CPS-TREP Project Bruce Western Outcomes, and Civic Engagement Collaborative Columbia University Equity: Leveraging Family and Micere Keels Emily Wang Community Influences Shanette Porter Yale University School of Medicine Deborah Rivas-Drake University of Chicago $599,899, 2018-2021 Enid Rosario-Ramos $597,128, 2018-2021 University of Michigan School Climate: Responding to Latino $565,882, 2019-2022 Tackling SES Gaps in Child Cognitive Youth’s Educational and Socio- Development Emotional Inequality Does Subsidized Public Health Jane Waldfogel Melissa Delgado Insurance for Parents Improve Trustees of Columbia University in University of Arizona Children’s Human Capital and Close the City of New York $49,995, 2018-2020 Achievement Gaps? $50,000, 2018-2019 Anuj Gangopadhyaya FRRM: A Father-Son Intervention to The Urban Institute Expanding the National Evaluation of Reduce Teen Fatherhood and Long- Jeffrey Schiman the LEAP Initiative Term Inequality Among Black and Georgia Southern University Patrice Cromwell Latino Male Youth $131,701, 2019-2021 Jeffrey Poirier Vincent Guilamo-Ramos The Annie E. Casey Foundation New York University Subjectivity and Bias in College John Martinez $600,000, 2018-2021 Admissions: Can Letters of Louisa Treskon Recommendation Promote Fairer MDRC IES-Men of Color College Achievement Decisions? $250,000, 2018-2019 (MoCCA) Project Jesse Rothstein Lashawn Richburg-Hayes Regents of the University of How Do State Social Assistance Crystal Byndloss California, Berkeley Policies and Practices Impact Virginia Knox $265,223, 2019-2021 Utilization and Outcomes Among Rashida Welbeck Hispanic Low-Income Youth? Gordon Berlin Using Design Thinking with Black Lisa Gennetian MDRC Youth in the Juvenile Justice System to Duke University $599,112, 2019-2021 Address Mental Health Inequities $274,912, 2018-2021 Susan Rivers Educator Practices in Immigrant- iThrive Games Foundation Examining the Impact of Variations in Serving Schools: Responses to Shifting Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann Performance-Based Funding Policies Immigration Policies Across Contexts EdTogether, Inc. on Reducing Inequality in Student of Reception Susan Jane Outcomes Rebecca Lowenhaupt Navigators Consulting Justin Ortagus Boston College $394,133, 2019-2021 University of Florida Dafney Dabach Robert Kelchen University of Washington The Effect of Requiring Structured Seton Hall University Ariana Mangual Figueroa English Immersion Training for Kelly Rosinger The Graduate Center, City University General Education Teachers on Pennsylvania State University of New York Student Achievement $204,528, 2018-2020 Roberto Gonzales Marcus Winters President and Fellows of Harvard Yasuko Kanno College Nathan Jones $574,488, 2019-2021 Boston University $157,510, 2019-2021

20 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Rhode to College: Evaluation of Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Embedded Counseling for Community a Program to Increase College Low Expectations: How Counseling College Students in ESL Programs: A Enrollment Among Low-Income Activities Predict College Undermatch Case Study at an Immigrant-Serving Students James Rosenbaum Institution Justine Hastings Northwestern University Federick Ngo Innovative Policy Lab $50,000, 2019-2020 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Seth Zimmerman Robert Teranishi Chapin Hall at the University of Do Relative or Absolute Spending University of California, Los Angeles Chicago Levels Matter More? Progressive $49,978, 2019-2021 $510,204, 2019-2021 Funding Allocations and Low-Income Student Achievement Reducing Racial Educational and Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Match Nathan Favero Behavioral Disparities Through and Student Outcomes in Large Urban American University Teacher Unconscious Bias Training School Districts: Evidence from New $43,085, 2019-2021 Colleen Halliday-Boykins York City Medical University of South Carolina Matthew Shirrell Building Teachers’ Race-Related $599,059, 2020-2023 George Washington University Competencies to Promote Youth Travis Bristol Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Improving Teacher-Student University of California, Berkeley Academic Inequalities Relationships to Help Close the Racial $45,960, 2019-2020 Adriana Umana-Taylor Discipline Gap for Young Students President and Fellows of Harvard Amanda Williford Closing the Gap: Addressing the College Jessica Whittaker Learning Needs of English Language $299,996, 2019-2022 Robert Pianta Learners in Mainstream Classroom University of Virginia Miao Li Integrated Data to Reduce $539,983, 2020-2021 University of Houston Disproportionality in School $46,229, 2019-2020 Discipline Referrals and Increase The Impact of Summer Pell Grants on Access to Supports Academic and Labor Market Outcomes The Dynamics of Disconnection in the Shereen Naser of Disadvantaged Youth Work, School, and Family Lives for Cleveland State University Jordan Matsudaira Youth from Lower Income Families $49,630, 2019-2021 Yuen Ting Liu Ajay Chaudry Columbia University New York University School Resources, Student Outcomes, $50,000, 2020-2021 $200,000, 2019-2021 and Equality of Opportunity? An Examination of the New Literature The Theories of Race and Indigeneity Mindset and Socioeconomic Clement Jackson that Inform Research on Reducing Disparities in College Readiness Northwestern University Inequality David Yeager $49,999, 2019-2020 Eve Tuck Robert Crosnoe University of Toronto Chandra Muller Creating Moves to Opportunity: Using $50,000, 2020-2021 University of Texas at Austin Mixed Methods to Understand Policy $499,656, 2019-2022 Mechanisms Stefanie DeLuca Johns Hopkins University $49,077, 2019-2020

21 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Use of Research Evidence

Comparative Effectiveness of The Education Doctorate: A Impact of the Research-to-Policy Narratives to Promote Provider Promising Strategy to Promote Collaboration Model: Testing an Adoption of Evidence Related to Smart Use of Research Evidence? Approach to Improve the Use of Antipsychotics Use for High-Risk Jill Perry Evidence Youth William Firestone Daniel Crowley David Rubin University of Pittsburgh J. Taylor Scott Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia $511,360, 2017-2020 Pennsylvania State University Zachary Meisel Lauren Supplee Trustees of the University of A Cost-Utility Framework to Child Trends Incorporated Pennsylvania Facilitate Evidence-Based Decision Kathryn Oliver $598,892, 2014-2020 Making in Schools London School of Hygiene and Fiona Hollands Tropical Medicine Integrating Theoretic and Empirical Teachers College, Columbia $553,028, 2018-2021 Findings of Research Evidence Use: University A Healthcare Systems Engineering Henry Levin Community Academic Partnership Approach Columbia University for Translational Use of Research Thomas Mackie $839,616, 2017-2020 Evidence (CAPTURE) in Policy and Rutgers, the State University of New Practice Jersey Coordinated Knowledge Systems: Gregory Aarons Laurel Leslie Connecting Evidence to Action to Danielle Fettes Tufts Medical Center Engage Students in School-Based Amy Green Christopher Sheldrick Mental Health University of California, San Diego Tufts University School of Medicine Bruce Chorpita Cathleen Willging James Benneyan University of California, Los Angeles Pacific Institute for Research and Northwestern University Kimberly Becker Evaluation (PIRE) $549,509, 2015-2019 University of South Carolina $948,079, 2018-2022 $1,209,897, 2017-2021 Investigating How Research-Practice Building the Evidence that Research Partnerships Build the “Absorptive Diffusing Research Evidence in Evidence Matters Capacity” of Districts to Use Educational Systems Fred Wulczyn Research Knowledge Kara Finnigan Lily Alpert Joshua Glazer University of Rochester Kerry Monahan-Price Matt Shirrell Alan Daly Chapin Hall at the University of George Washington University University of California, San Diego Chicago $549,412, 2015-2019 $339,982, 2018-2020 $605,656, 2018-2022

Mixed-Methods Study of From Add-on to Add-in Approaches Organizational Supports Used by to Supporting Research Use: The Private Child Welfare Agencies to Case of Educational Leadership for Facilitate Evidence Use Equity Emmeline Chuang Meredith Honig University of California, Los Angeles Lydia Rainey Bowen McBeath University of Washington Portland State University $600,000, 2018-2020 Crystal Collins-Camargo University of Louisville $363,711, 2016-2019 22 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Research Grants

Towards Democratizing What’s Not the Matter with Kansas? The Impacts of Internal and External Evidence: Assessing Engagement Lessons from Kansas for the Future Validity on Education Policy of Community-Based Groups in of State School Finance Reform Decisions Research/Practice Partnerships Bruce Baker David Deming Ira Lit Rutgers University Foundation President and Fellows of Harvard Stanford University $35,000, 2019-2019 College $25,000, 2018-2019 $50,000, 2020-2020 Active Surveillance of Policy Technical Assistance and Uses of Ecosystems and Networks to Research Evidence in Child Welfare: Enhance Brokering of Research Understanding Youth What Do We Know and Where Do We Evidence into State Policymaking Social Settings Need to Go? Itzhak Yanovitzky Allison Metz Matthew Weber Beginning Elementary Teachers’ University of North Carolina at Rutgers University Foundation Social Networks Affect Ambitious Chapel Hill $955,012, 2019-2022 Math Instruction in the Current $50,000, 2018-2020 Evaluation Climate Measuring the Effectiveness of Ken Frank Research-Practice Partnerships Research-Practice Partnerships in Kristen Bieda White Paper 2.0 Education Michigan State University Caitlin Farrell Caitlin Farrell Serena Salloum University of Colorado at Boulder Paula Arce-Trigatti Ball State University $50,000, 2018-2020 William Penuel Peter Youngs Regents of the University of The Rector and Visitors of the Optimizing the Impact of Public- Colorado University of Virginia Academic Partnerships in Fostering James Soland $599,996, 2014-2019 Policymakers’ Use of Research NWEA Evidence $635,337, 2019-2021 Mentor Families: Setting-Level Christina Kang-Yi Component to Improve Mentoring Trustees of the University of Education Policy, Politics, and Outcomes for At-Risk Youth Pennsylvania Evidence Shelley Haddock $49,733, 2018-2020 M. Stephen Weatherford Colorado State University Lorraine McDonnell Lindsey Weiler How Much Can Evidence from University of California, Santa University of Minnesota National Studies Improve Local Barbara Lise Youngblade Policy Decisions that Affect Youth? $49,956, 2019-2020 Rachel Lucas-Thompson Elizabeth Stuart Colorado State University Johns Hopkins University Who is Hearing “Youth Voice” $599,784, 2015-2019 Robert Olsen Research? Strengthening the Use of WESTAT Research Evidence from YPAR Bright Stars: Technology-Mediated Stephen Bell Emily Ozer Settings for Urban Youth as $595,785, 2019-2022 University of California, Berkeley Pathways for Engaged Learning Adam Voight Cassandra Scharber Cleveland State University University of Minnesota, Twin Ben Kirshner Cities University of Colorado Cynthia Lewis $544,640, 2020-2022 University of California, Santa Cruz $599,905, 2015-2019

23 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Rapid Response Research Grants, Instututional Challenge Grant

Rapid Response Research Grants

Stories and Numbers: Creating Safe Evidence-Based Interventions for Connecting Puerto Rican Youth to Schools for LGBT Youth in Texas Adolescent Opioid Use Disorder— Employment: Leveraging Disaster Stephen Russell What Might Work for High-Risk Recovery as a Pathyway to Economic University of Texas at Austin Ohio Counties? Security $99,806, 2018-2019 Lisa Clemans-Cope John Martinez The Urban Institute MDRC Immigration, Deportation, and Child $91,512, 2018-2019 $100,000, 2018-2019 Welfare: Advancing Knowledge to Improve Practice Mark Greenberg Migration Policy Institute Randy Capps Migration Policy Institute $70,000, 2018-2019

Institutional Challenge Grant

Protecting Vulnerable Families Raising Academic Achievement in Mind the Gap: Partnering to Narrow and Children in the Crosshairs of Under-Performing Schools through Denver’s Achievement Gaps by the Opioid Epidemic: A Research- Improved Management: A Research- Retaining Top Teachers Practice Partnership Practice Partnership Mimi Engel Rachel Dunifon Gustavo Bobonis Katherine Schultz Anna Steinkraus University of Toronto Allison Atteberry Cornell Cooperative Extension María Christian Herrero University of Colorado $650,000, 2018-2021 Puerto Rico Department of Sarah Almy Education Tina Scheppe $350,000, 2019-2022 Denver Public Schools $350,000, 2019-2022

24 New and Active Grants in 2019 | William T. Grant Scholars

William T. Grant Scholars

Class of 2018 Toward a Sociological, Contextual Transiciones: Examining the Latino Perspective on Psychological Transition to College in Support of Adolescents and the Social Contexts Interventions Academic Equality of American Schools David Yeager Leah Doane Aprile Benner University of Texas at Austin Arizona State University University of Texas at Austin $350,000, 2014-2020 $350,000, 2015-2020 $350,000, 2013-2019 Benefits and Challenges of Ethnic Deferred Action and Postsecondary Neighborhood Social Capital and Diversity in Middle Schools: The Outcomes: The Role of Migrant Youth Oral Health for Publicly-Insured Mediating Role of Peer Groups Settings in Effective and Equitable Adolescents Joanna Williams Policy Donald Chi The Rector and Visitors of the Eve Tuck University of Washington University of Virginia University of Toronto $350,000, 2013-2019 $350,000, 2014-2020 $350,000, 2015-2020

Class of 2019 Children in Limbo: A Transactional Using Unified School Enrollment Model of Foster Care Placement Systems to Improve Access to A New Look at Neighborhood Instability Effective Schools and for Research Ethnic Concentration: Implications Michael MacKenzie and Evaluation for Mexican-Origin Adolescents’ Rutgers University Foundation Parag Pathak Cultural Adaptation and Adjustment $350,000, 2014-2019 Massachusetts Institute of Rebecca White Technology Arizona State University Class of 2020 $350,000, 2015-2020 $350,000, 2014-2020 Adolescent Well-Being in an Era of Critical Contexts for the Family Complexity Class of 2021 Formation of Natural Mentoring Laura Tach Understanding the American Child Relationships Among Economically Cornell University Welfare System Disadvantaged African American $350,000, 2015-2020 Matthew Desmond Adolescents: A Focus on Families and Princeton University Neighborhoods Teacher Effects on Students’ $350,000, 2016-2021 Noelle Hurd Non-Cognitive Competencies: A $350,000, 2014-2020 Study of Impacts, Instruction, and Healthy Pathways towards Academic Improvement Achievement and Social Mobility for Matthew Kraft Low-SES Youth Brown University Mesmin Destin $350,000, 2015-2020 Northwestern University $350,000, 2016-2021

25 New and Active Grants in 2019 | William T. Grant Scholars

Supporting Young Students’ Class of 2023 Class of 2024 Special Needs in New Immigrant Destinations Reducing Digital Inequality by How Does Working While Enrolled Jacob Hibel Empowering At-Risk Youth to be Affect the Academic and Labor- Regents of the University of Resilient Against Online Sexual Market Outcomes of Low-Income California, Davis Predation Risks College Students? $350,000, 2016-2021 Pamela Wisniewski Adela Soliz University of Central Florida Vanderbilt University How Does Institutional Context $350,000, 2018-2023 $350,000, 2019-2024 Matter? Shaping Success for Disadvantaged College Students Evaluating Structural Strategies for School Engagement and Avoidance Laura Hamilton Reducing Homophobic Bullying Among System-Involved Parents Regents of the University of Mark Hatzenbuehler with Young Children California, Merced Trustees of Columbia University in Anna Haskins $350,000, 2016-2021 the City of New York Cornell University $350,000, 2018-2023 $350,000, 2019-2024 The Unequal Intergenerational Consequences of Paternal Unstable and Unpredictable Work Place-Based Opportunity: Housing Incarceration: Considering Sensitive Schedules and Child Development: Models to Reduce Inequality in Periods, Resiliency, and Mechanisms Descriptive and Quasi-Experimental Children’s Contexts Kristin Turney Evidence Ann Owens Regents of the University of Daniel Schneider University of Southern California California, Irvine Regents of the University of $350,000, 2019-2024 $350,000, 2016-2021 California, Berkeley $350,000, 2018-2023 How Politics, Poverty, and Social Class of 2022 Policy Implementation Shape Racial Do School Disciplinary Structures Inequality in Child Development in Unequally ‘Hispanic’: Intersectional Ameliorate or Exacerbate Inequality? the Rural South Inequalities and Resiliency among Anjali Adukia Carolyn Barnes Indigenous ‘Hispanic’ Youth Chapin Hall at the University of Duke University Seth Holmes Chicago $350,000, 2019-2024 Regents of the University of $350,000, 2018-2023 California, Berkeley $350,000, 2017-2022 Creating More Equitable and Developmentally Attuned Preventing Unintended Repeat Disciplinary Environments for Births to Hispanic Adolescents Adolescent Students Julie Maslowsky Simone Ispa-Landa University of Texas at Austin Northwestern University $350,000, 2017-2022 $350,000, 2018-2023

Can an Informational Intervention Reducing Harm of Discrimination Reduce Race- and Class-Based Gaps Among Diverse Adolescents with in AP Course-Taking? LGBTQ Parents: How do Family, Awilda Rodriguez Peers, and Community Matter Regents of The University of Rachel Farr Michigan University of Kentucky Research $350,000, 2017-2022 Foundation $350,000, 2018-2023 26 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Mentoring Grants

Grants to Researchers and William T. Grant Scholars to Mentor Junior Researchers of Color

2016 White and Pasco 2018 Hibel, Prim, and Ivey 2019 Wisniewski and Rebecca White Jacob Hibel Badillo-Urquiola Michelle Pasco Asia Ivey Pamela Wisniewski Arizona State University Foundation Jeremy Prim Karla Badillo-Urquiola $60,000, 2016-2019 Regents of the University of University of Central Florida California, Davis Research Foundation 2017 Hamilton and Lerma $59,892, 2018-2020 $60,000, 2019-2021 Laura Hamilton Veronica Lerma 2018 Doane and Park 2019 Ispa-Landa and Leatherwood Regents of the University of Leah Doane Simone Ispa-Landa California, Merced HyeJung Park Christopher Leatherwood $60,000, 2017-2019 Arizona State University Foundation Northwestern University $60,000, 2018-2021 $59,985, 2019-2021 2017 Turney and Muñiz Kristin Turney 2018 Destin and Debrosse 2019 Bottiani and Henderson Janet Muñiz Mesmin Destin Jessika Bottiani Regents of the University of Régine Debrosse Lora Henderson California, Irvine Northwestern University The Rector and Visitors of the $59,988, 2017-2020 $109,993, 2018-2020 University of Virginia $109,912, 2019-2021 2017 Tuck and Wemigwase 2018 Hernandez and Kamdar Eve Tuck Daphne Hernandez 2019 Holmes, Fernández, and Sandi Wemigwase Nipa P. Kamdar Martinez University of Toronto University of Houston Seth Holmes $60,000, 2017-2019 $110,000, 2018-2020 Fabián Fernández Carlos Martinez 2017 Yeager and Netter 2018 Cauffman and Kan Regents of the University of David Yeager Elizabeth Cauffman California, Berkeley Melanie Netter Emily Kan $59,996, 2019-2021 University of Texas at Austin Regents of the University of $59,999, 2017-2019 California, Irvine 2019 Smith and Besserer $60,000, 2018-2020 Robert Smith 2018 Kraft and West Andrés Besserer Matthew Kraft 2019 Farr and Simon Baruch College Benjamin West Rachel Farr $59,625, 2019-2021 Brown University Kyle Simon $51,285, 2018-2020 University of Kentucky Research 2019 Modestino and Paul Foundation Alicia Modestino $60,000, 2019-2021 Urbashee Paul Northeastern University 27 $59,493, 2019-2021 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Capacity-Building and Communications Grants

Capacity-Building and Communications Grants

Support for the Samuel Halperin Learning about Research Evidence Federal Evaluation Forum: Lecture and Youth Public Service Use in Education Expanding the Capacity to Use Award Loretta Goodwin Research Evidence in Decision Betsy Brand American Youth Policy Forum Making American Youth Policy Forum $299,964, 2017-2020 Demetra Nightingale $25,000, 2015-2019 The Urban Institute NPR’s Coverage of Disadvantaged $49,908, 2018-2020 Our Kids Broadcast & Media Project Children, Youth and Families Hosted by Robert Putnam Blair Greenbaum Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Harry Wiland National Public Radio Research Capacity Building Media Policy Center Foundation of $300,000, 2017-2019 Timothy Guetterman CA Regents of The University of $250,000, 2016-2020 Investigating Researcher- Michigan Practitioner Collaboration in $99,313, 2019-2020 Young Adult Justice Learning Real-Life Problems of Practice with Community English Learners Collaborative Research: Broadening Bruce Western Susan Pimentel Participation and Perspective in the Vincent Schiraldi Julie Greenberg Study of Crime and Justice Trustees of Columbia University in StandardsWork, Inc. Jody Miller the City of New York $120,000, 2017-2019 Rutgers University Foundation $443,438, 2016-2020 $49,970, 2018-2020 Support for the Committee on Law Society for Research in Child and Justice Leadership Activities Establishing the Enabling Development Congressional Natacha Blain Infrastructure for the Use of Research Fellowship Program National Academy of Sciences Evidence in Government Martha Zaslow $300,000, 2018-2021 Nicholas Hart Lonnie Sherrod Bipartisan Policy Center Society for Research in Child Helping Districts Create Fair and $150,000, 2018-2019 Development Equitable School Choice Matching $285,538, 2017-2019 Systems Building Capacity and Bridging Ulrich Boser Research, Policy, and Practice Psychology Summer Institute for Center for American Progress Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom Early Career Researchers $50,000, 2017-2019 The Forum for Youth Investment Andrew Dailey $355,823, 2018-2019 American Psychological Association The New York City Reducing Kyra Kissam Inequality Network $74,937, 2017-2020 Michael Lindsey New York University $50,000, 2017-2022

28 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Capacity-Building and Communications Grants

Understanding and Reducing Racial Standing Committee on Advancing NYCDOE Forum on Connecting and Ethnic Disparities in the Kings Science Communication Research Research, Policy, and Practice County District Attorney’s Office and Practice Lauren Goldenberg Michael Jacobson Holly Rhodes Fund for Public Schools, Inc. Research Foundation of the City National Academy of Sciences $12,000, 2019-2019 University of New York $50,000, 2019-2020 Eric Gonzalez National Public Radio’s Coverage of Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Travel Awards to the RC28 Children, Youth and Families $299,905, 2018-2020 Princeton University Meeting Blair Greenbaum for Underrepresented Student National Public Radio AEFP: Deepening Connections Populations $300,000, 2019-2021 Between Research and Policy Yu Xie Angela Hull Princeton University Society for Research on Adolescence Association for Education Finance $11,500, 2019-2019 (SRA) Undergraduate Scholars and Policy Program Carrie Conaway AERA Institute on Diversity, Equity, Robert Crosnoe Massachusetts Department and Inclusion in Education Research Society for Research on Adolescence of Elementary and Secondary George Wimberly $25,786, 2019-2020 Education American Educational Research $24,915, 2018-2019 Association Developing a Research Methods $15,000, 2019-2020 Protocol Repository for Studies of Knowledge Brokerage and Evidence- Understanding Research Evidence Informed Policymaking and The Pew Charitable Trusts, Research Phase I Practitioner Decision Making to Partnership Proposal to the William Drew Gitomer Improve Youth Outcomes T. Grant Foundation Rutgers University Foundation Matthew Weber Angela Bednarek $50,000, 2019-2020 The Regents of the University of The Pew Charitable Trusts Minnesota $50,000, 2019-2020 Strengthening Evidence Use in New Zachary Neal York City’s Education Ecosystem Michigan State University Education Funder Strategy Group James Kemple Jennifer Neal Cyrus Driver New York University Michigan State University National Public Education Support $150,000, 2020-2022 $48,899, 2019-2020 Fund $50,000, 2019-2021 2019 Philanthropy New York Community Foundation Opportunity Membership Network Creating Online Training for PLATO Ronna Brown Amy Daly-Donovan Pam Grossman Philanthropy New York New Hampshire Charitable Trustees of the University of $17,350, 2019-2019 Foundation Pennsylvania $5,000, 2019-2020 $28,911, 2019-2020 Promoting Evidence-Based Policymaking Society for Research in Child 2019 ASA Sociology of Education Robert Hahn Development Preconference Spirit of Mentoring Technology Policy Institute 2044 Jacob Hibel $50,000, 2019-2020 Christia Brown Regents of the University of University of Kentucky Research California, Davis Foundation $6,507, 2019-2019 $13,869, 2019-2019

29 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Capacity-Building and Communications Grants

Building Capacity and Bridging NPR’s Collaborative Journalism 2019 Grantmakers Concerned Research, Policy, and Practice Network with Immigrants and Refugees Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom Blair Greenbaum Membership The Forum for Youth Investment National Public Radio Daranee Petsod $373,888, 2019-2020 $25,000, 2020-2021 Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees Institute in Advanced Critical SRCD Special Topics Meeting: $5,000, 2019-2020 Quantitative and Computational Construction of the Other: Methodologies Development, Consequences, and Education Opportunity Monitoring Ezekiel Dixon-Roman Applied Implications of Prejudice Project (EOMP) Trustees of the University of Lisa Lopez Sean Reardon Pennsylvania University of South Florida, Tampa Board of Trustees of the Leland $399,999, 2020-2022 $17,250, 2020-2020 Stanford Junior University $34,9979, 2016-2019 The Project Evident–Brookings Next Family First Act Policy Research Generation of Evidence Conference Harold Briggs Reducing Inequality Grantee Kelly Fitzsimmons The University of Georgia Research Convening 2018 Tamar Bauer Foundation, Inc. Kristin Romens Tides Center $50,000, 2020-2021 MANY $24,750, 2019-2020 $200,000, 2018-2019 2020 Conference Sponsorship Federal Evaluation Forum 2020 Julie Brite The Educational Opportunity Demetra Nightingale Child Welfare League of America Monitoring Project Archive: Joint The Urban Institute $5,000, 2020-2021 Small Grants Competition $48,071, 2020-2020 Leana Chatrath Training Education Journalists Russell Sage Foundation SRCD Special Topic Workshop: to Use Research Accurately, $100,000, 2018-2021 Addressing and Reducing Inequality Appropriately, and Fairly Through Developmental Science Caroline Hendrie Coaching and Mentoring to Help Laura Elenbaas Education Writers Association Researchers Increase the Likelihood University of Rochester $50,000, 2020-2021 that Research is Used to Inform Margaret Echelbarger Policy Chapin Hall at the University of Elevating the Conversation on Avi Green Chicago Research Evidence Creation and Use Scholars Strategy Network Rashmita Mistry in the Research Community $244,838, 2018-2020 University of California, Los Angeles Ellen Weiss Matthew Diemer Ruth Neild Reducing Inequality Initiative – University of Michigan Society for Research on Educational 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support $17,301, 2020-2021 Effectiveness Hillary Oravec $22,000, 2020-2020 Youth Collaboratory All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for $218,375, 2019-2020 Justice Conference AAPIP Institutional Membership for Chris Benner William T. Grant Foundation National Network of Education Steve McKay Patricia Eng Research-Practice Partnerships University of California, Santa Cruz Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders Ruth Turley $10,000, 2019-2021 in Philanthropy William Marsh Rice University $2,500, 2020-2020 Paula Arce-Trigatti $300,000, 2019-2022

30 New and Active Grants in 2019 | Youth Service Improvement Grants

Youth Service Improvement Grants

Organizational Capacity-Building Volunteers/Judge Training Program Improving LGBTQ Youth Services in Youth Trauma: Implementing Erik Fogel Curriculum to Adapt to a Younger an Improved Model and Training The New York City Urban Debate Teenage Youth Constituency Pool Approach League Thomas Krever Gabrielle Horowitz-Prisco $25,000, 2018-2019 Hetrick-Martin Institute Lineage Project $25,000, 2019-2021 $25,000, 2018-2020 Program Assistant Training Adam Green The SBU Academy: Preparing South Internship Program Curriculum Rocking the Boat Bronx Student Athletes for College Update $25,000, 2019-2021 Andrew So Patricia Machir South Bronx United Futures and Options Curriculum Improvement Plan for $25,000, 2019-2021 $25,000, 2018-2021 NYOT’s Tech Flex Leaders Jessica Santana Partnerships in Literacy Through Brooklyn on Tech DBA: New York Dance and Creativity on Tech Mark DeGarmo $25,000, 2019-2021 Dynamic Forms $25,000, 2018-2019 Developing an LGBTQ Substance Treatment Curriculum for Young Improving Outcomes for People Traumatized Youth Glennda Testone Jenny Kronenfeld The Lesbian and Gay Community Esperanza NY Services Center $25,000, 2018-2020 $25,000, 2019-2021

Formalize High School College Access Coach Support and Training Program Improvement Plan Jeanne DuPont Vivian Santora Rockaway Waterfront Alliance PowerPlay NYC $25,000, 2018-2020 $25,000, 2019-2021

31 2019 Annual Report Who We Are

32 Who We Are | Staff

Staff

L to R: Vicente Malave, Cristina Fernandez, Fabienne Doucet, Nancy Rivera-Torres, Billy Hunter, Lenore Neier, Kimberly DuMont, Adam Gamoran, Rosanna Aybar, Sandy Owen, Joseph Ferra, Vivian Tseng, Zanella Jarvis, Ruth G. Nolan, Tricia Denton, Jenny Irons; Not pictured: Margarita Alegría, Sharon Brewster, James Lui, Richard Murnane, Irene Williams

33 Who We Are | Staff

Staff

Margarita Alegría Zanella Jarvis Senior Program Associate Accounting and Office Assistant Rosanna Aybar Vice President, Finance James Lui and Administration Coordinator, Human Resources and Administration Sharon Brewster Grants Administrator, Richard Murnane Discretionary Grants Senior Program Associate

Tricia Denton Lenore Neier Director, Grantmaking Manager, Communications Operations Ruth G. Nolan Fabienne Doucet Assistant to the President Program Officer and Board of Trustees

Kimberly DuMont Sandy Owen Senior Program Officer Receptionist/Administrative Assistant Cristina Fernandez Research Assistant Nancy Rivera-Torres Grants Administrator, Joseph Ferra Major Grants Senior Accountant Vivian Tseng Adam Gamoran Senior Vice President, President Program

Billy Hunter Irene A. Williams Content Editor Grants Administrator, William T. Grant Scholars Jenny Irons Program Officer

34 Who We Are | Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

L to R, back: Judson Reis, Andrés A. Alonso, Russell P. Pennoyer, Scott Evans, Greg Duncan, Noah Walley, Mary Pattillo; L to R, front: Kenji Hakuta, Margaret R. Burchinal, Adam Gamoran, Mark Soler, Estelle B. Richman; Not pictured: Prudence L. Carter

35 Who We Are | Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Andrés A. Alonso Kenji Hakuta Visiting Professor of Practice Lee L. Jacks Professor in Education Emeritus Harvard Graduate School of Graduate School of Education Education Stanford University

Margaret R. Burchinal Mary Pattillo Senior Research Scientist Harold Washington Professor Director, Data Management of Sociology and African and Analysis Center American Studies FPG Child Development Northwestern University Institute University of North Carolina, Russell P. Pennoyer Chapel Hill Board Chair Senior Advisor Prudence L. Carter Brittany Capital Group, Inc. Dean Graduate School of Education Judson Reis University of California, President Berkeley Sire Management Corporation

Greg Duncan Estelle B. Richman Distinguished Professor Former Chief Operating School of Education Officer University of California, Irvine U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Scott Evans Former Deputy Comptroller Mark Soler for Asset Management and Executive Director Chief Investment Officer Center for Children’s Law and City of New York Pension Policy Systems Noah Walley Adam Gamoran Head of North American President Investing and President, William T. Grant Foundation Investor Growth Capital Patricia Industries, a part of Investor AB 36 Who We Are | William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

L to R, back: Elizabeth Birr Moje, Lawrence Palinkas, Sandra Graham, Karolyn Tyson, Margaret R. Burchinal, Nikki Jones, Adam Gamoran; L to R, front: Bruce Western, Nonie K. Lesaux, Edith Chen, Roberto Lewis- Fernández; Not pictured: David Figlio, Stephen Russell

37 Who We Are | William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

Elizabeth Birr Moje Adam Gamoran Lawrence Palinkas Selection Committee Chair President, William T. Grant Albert G. and Frances Lomas Dean, School of Education Foundation Feldman Professor of Social George Herbert Mead Policy and Health Collegiate Professor of Sandra Graham School of Social Work Education Professor and Presidential University of Southern Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Chair in Diversity California of Language, Literacy, and Department of Education Culture University of California, Los Stephen Russell University of Michigan Angeles Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Margaret R. Burchinal Nikki Jones Development Senior Scientist and Director, Professor Department Chair, Human Data Management and Department of African Development and Family Analysis Center American Studies Sciences in FPG Child Development University of California, the College of Natural Sciences Institute Berkeley The University of Texas at University of North Carolina Austin Nonie K. Lesaux Edith Chen Academic Dean Karolyn Tyson Professor of Clinical Juliana W. and William Foss Professor and Associate Chair Psychology Thompson Professor of Department of Sociology Faculty Fellow, Institute for Education and Society University of North Carolina at Policy Research Graduate School of Education Chapel Hill Northwestern University Harvard University Bruce Western David Figlio Roberto Lewis-Fernández Professor of Sociology Orrington Lunt Professor of Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Department of Sociology Education and Social Policy Columbia College of Physicians Co-Director, Justice Lab and of Economics and Surgeons Columbia University Dean of the School of Director of the New York Education and Social Policy State Center of Excellence for Northwestern University Cultural Competence and the Hispanic Treatment Program, and Co-Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic New York State Psychiatric Institute 38 Who We Are | Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee

Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee

L to R: Pedro Reyes, Adam Gamoran, Allison Blake, Maria Cancian, Robert Sellers, Elaine Allensworth, Sumie Okazaki, Mark Soler, Marc Atkins; Not pictured: Ritu Khanna, Rumeli Banik

39 Who We Are | Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee

Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee

Sumie Okazaki Adam Gamoran Selection Committee Chair President Professor of Counseling William T. Grant Foundation Psychology New York University Ritu Khanna Chief of Research, Planning, Elaine Allensworth and Assessment Lewis-Sebring Director of San Francisco Unified School the Consortium on School District Research University of Chicago Pedro Reyes Ashbel Smith Professor of Marc Atkins Education Policy Professor of Psychiatry and University of Texas at Austin Psychology and Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research Robert Sellers University of Illinois at Vice Provost for Equity and Chicago Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer, and Charles D. Moody Rumeli Banik Collegiate Professor of Program Officer Child Psychology and Education Well-being University of Michigan Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Mark Soler Executive Director Allison Blake Center for Children’s Law and Chief Executive Officer Policy Child and Family Agency of Southeast Connecticut

40 Who We Are | Reviewers

Reviewers

Atila Abdulkadiroglu Scott Carrell Dorothy Espelage Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Deborah Carter Christian Faltis Ignacio Acevedo-Polakovich Angelina Castagno Elizabeth Farley-Ripple Debra Ackerman Bruce Chorpita Thomas Farmer Steven Adelsheim Susan Clampet-Lundquist John Fink Thomas Akiva Deborah Clawson Kara Finnigan Sarah Almy Paul Cobb Mary Fischer Sara Anderson Sarah Cohodes Barry Fishman Joshua Angrist Linda M. Collins Jason Fletcher Mariella Arredondo Carrie Conaway Erica Frankenberg Diane August Noshir Contractor Jeremy Freese Katherine Barghaus Daniel Crowley Denisa Gandara Jessica Barnes Jerome D’Agostino Anna Gassman-Pines Miya Barnett Dafney Dabach Jochebed Gayles Jean Bartunek Alan Daly John Geldhof Ana Baumann Lindsay Daugherty Scott Gest James Bell Huw Davies Juan Gilbert Marianne Bertrand Lisa De La Rue Drew Gitomer Eric Bettinger Cati de los Rios Joshua Glazer Chase Billingham Elizabeth DeBray Margaret Goertz Kendra Bischoff Regina Deil-Amen Claude Goldenberg Erica Blom Lee Ann DeShong-Cook Lauren Goldenberg Howard Bloom Alan Dettlaff Thalia Gonzalez Annette Boaz Elizabeth Devaney Manuel Gonzalez Canche Stephen Borgatti Matthew Diemer Annalee Good Jessika Bottiani Adrienne Dixson Loretta Goodwin Michel Boudreaux Lisa Dodson Goren Gordon Renee Boynton-Jarrett Jonathan Dolle Nyasha Grayman Henry Braun Brett Drake Anne Gregory Derek Briggs John Easton Eric Grodsky Thomas Brock Donald Easton-Brooks Craig Gundersen Gayle Buck Julie Edmunds Elizabeth Gunderson Leopoldo Cabassa Maurice Elias Rochelle Gutiérrez Angela Calabrese Barton Ingrid Ellen Amy Halberstadt Avary Carhill-Poza John Engberg Judith Harackiewicz 41 Who We Are | Reviewers

David Harding Michael Krezmien Samuel Museus Douglas Harris Aaron Kupchik Brian Mustanski Daniel Hart Michal Kurlaender Angela Narayan Anna Haskins Patrick Kyllonen Sarah Narendorf Justine Hastings Joan LaFrance Sabina Neugebauer James Hearn Reed Larson Sandra Newman Carolyn Heinrich Maria LaRusso Dina Okamoto Steven Hemelt Carol Lee Robert Olsen Daphne Hernandez Jennifer Lee Amado Padilla Nicholas Hillman Tama Leventhal Marianne Page Amy Hirschy Peter Levine Francisco Palermo C. Scott Holupka Cynthia Lewis C.J. Pascoe Elan Hope Angel Mei Yi Lin Manuel Pastor Stacey Horn Taryn Lindhorst Parag Pathak Sonya Horsford Mark Lipsey Allison Payne Kimberly Howard Lorena Llosa Jennifer Peck Amy Hsin K. Tsianina Lomawaima Laura Peck Noelle Hurd Rebecca Lowenhaupt Jill Perry Hokyu Hwang Samuel Lucas George Pesta Gina Ikemoto Julie Lucero Anthony Petrosino Matthew Irvin Susan Maciolek Meredith Phillips Brian Jacob Thomas Mackie Lawrence Picus Robin Jacob Ariana Mangual Figueroa Karen Pittman Roger Jarjoura Melvin Mark Vicki Plano Clark Minjeong Jeon Amy Marks Morgan Polikoff Eric Johnson Jose Felipe Martinez Lincoln Quillian Michelle Rebecca Maynard Geetha Ramani Johnson-Motoyama Chris Mazzeo Elizabeth Raposa Margaret Jones Brian McCall Stephen Raudenbush Nikki Jones Jennifer McCombs Sean Reardon Pamela Joshi Lorraine McDonnell Allison Redlich Anna Kaatz Daniel McFarland Cleve Redmond Richard Kahlenberg Mary McKay Maryse Richards Micere Keels Clark McKown Catherine Riegle-Crumb Benjamin Kelcey Amori Mikami Rosa Rivera-McCutchen Nancy Kendall Norma Ming Caryn Rodgers Alexandra Killewald Paul Morgan Awilda Rodriguez Robert Kim Stephen Morgan Nancy Rodriguez David Kirk Ernest Morrell Olga Rodriguez Mariah Kornbluh Velma Murry John Roman 42 Who We Are | Reviewers

Ann Rosebery Carla Stevens Rachel Rosen Mitchell Stevens James Rosenbaum Jordan Stockdale Jesse Rothstein David Stovall Stephanie Rowley Elizabeth Stuart Heather Royer Tamara Sumner Vasile Rus Tracy Sweet Jennifer Russell Bryan Sykes Elizabeth Rutschow William Tate Bruce Sacerdote Veronica Terriquez Lisa Saldana William Tierney Jennifer Samson Russell Toomey Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh Allison Tracy Mavis Sanders Audrey Trainor William Sandoval Monica Tsethlikai Mandy Savitz-Romer Ruth Turley David Schaefer Erin Turner Diane Schanzenbach Fatih Unlu Barbara Schneider Annemarie Vaccaro Craig Schwalbe Nitya Venkateswaran Sarah Schwartz Malia Villegas Janelle Scott Nancy Vye Walter Secada Chezare Warren Rebecca Seligman Patricia Warren Jeanne (Jae) Sevelius Tyler Watts Luke Shaefer Douglas Webber Trina Shanks Jeffrey Weinstein Patrick Sharkey Beth Weitzman R. Sheldrick Rebecca White Sujie Shin Brian Wilcox Russell Skiba Irene Williams John Skvoretz Maisha Winn Timothy Smeeding John Worrall Emilie Smith Claire Wyatt-Smith Thomas Smith Itzhak Yanovitzky Michael Sorum Feifei Ye William Sousa David Yeager Dogulas Sovde Nicole Yohalem John Yun

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