December 2, 2008
	Available Funding Opportunities

Research The Foundation supports high quality research focusing on young people ages 8-25. Our current research priorities focus on understanding and improving social settings (i.e., families, schools, peer groups, programs), their effects on youth, and the use of scientific evidence. Communications / Advocacy Most communications funding is aligned around our Action Topic of improving the quality of after-school programs. We fund a limited number of communications activities meant to leverage all of our grantmaking by enhancing the Foundation’s image and visibility. William T. Grant Scholars Formerly known as the Faculty Scholars Program Program supports promising early career scholars from different disciplines, whose research deepens and broadens the knowledge base in areas that contribute to creating a society that values young people as a resource and helps them live up to their potential. Intervention Research Program supports intervention research to improve youth-serving organizations, such as schools and community-based organizations. The goal of this program is to improve youth-serving organizations and build a greater capacity for the field of intervention research focused on such organizations. Distinguished Fellows Program This program supports mid-career influential researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. The goal of the program is to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth outcomes. Youth Service Improvement Supports activities conducted by community-based organizations in the New York metropolitan area to improve the quality of services for young people ages 8 to 25.