The mission of the funder is not explicitly detailed in the provided information.
The William T. Grant Scholars Program is designed to support the career development of promising early-career researchers by funding five-year research and mentoring plans. These plans should foster significant expansion of the researchers' expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. A primary goal is to encourage applicants to take measured risks in their work, thereby enriching their research trajectories with innovative perspectives. The program seeks applications that articulate a cohesive strategy for broadening the applicant's expertise, with a strong mentoring component to facilitate this growth. Applicants are expected to propose research plans that address relevant questions to policy and practice within the Foundation's focus areas: Reducing Inequality and Improving the Use of Research Evidence. Projects should aim to reduce inequality in youth outcomes or improve the ways in which research evidence is used to benefit youth, with particular interest in strategies that benefit state and local decision-makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries.