Research

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Foundation	Program	Description	Award Amount	Deadline
William T. Grant Foundation	Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence - Major Research Grants	Must Coordinate with Foundation Relations 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. We welcome impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. We also welcome descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, we welcome measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use. We are particularly interested in research on ways to improve the use of research evidence by state and local policymakers, mid-level managers, community organizers, and intermediaries. These decision-makers play important roles in deciding which programs, practices, and tools to adopt; deliberating ways to improve existing services; shaping the conditions for implementation; and making resource allocation decisions. We invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we 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. Finally, we welcome critical perspectives that inform studies’ research questions, methods, and interpretation of findings. Online Application: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/research-grants-on-improving-use-of-research-evidence	$100,000- $1,000,000	5/7/2025
Hudson Webber Foundation	Grants	Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Hudson-Webber Foundation invests in the success of community initiatives across our four mission areas: Community Economic Development Safe & Just Communities Built Environment Arts & Culture. Online application: https://hudson-webber.org/how-to-apply/	$10,000 - $2,000,000	Rolling

William T. Grant Foundation

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence - Major Research Grants

Must Coordinate with Foundation Relations

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. We welcome impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. We also welcome descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, we welcome measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use.

We are particularly interested in research on ways to improve the use of research evidence by state and local policymakers, mid-level managers, community organizers, and intermediaries. These decision-makers play important roles in deciding which programs, practices, and tools to adopt; deliberating ways to improve existing services; shaping the conditions for implementation; and making resource allocation decisions.
We invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we 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.

Finally, we welcome critical perspectives that inform studies’ research questions, methods, and interpretation of findings.

Online Application: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/research-grants-on-improving-use-of-research-evidence

$100,000- $1,000,000

5/7/2025

Hudson Webber Foundation

Grants

Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Hudson-Webber Foundation invests in the success of community initiatives across our four mission areas:

Community
Economic Development
Safe & Just Communities
Built Environment
Arts & Culture.

Online application: https://hudson-webber.org/how-to-apply/

$10,000 - $2,000,000

Rolling