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The William T. Grant Foundation was established in 1936, originally as the Grant Foundation, by American businessman and philanthropist William Thomas Grant.In 1938, the Foundation funded its first major research project, the Grant Study at Harvard University, in which some of the subjects were followed for over 75 years. [4]
He retired from both the W. T. Grant Company and the Grant Foundation at age 90, yet still served in an honorary capacity until his death in 1972 in Greenwich, CT at age 96. By that time his nationwide empire of W. T. Grant Co. (Grants) and Grant City stores had grown to almost 1,200, although the company failed in 1975 and was soon liquidated.
The Grant Study is an 86-year continuing longitudinal study from the Study of Adult Development at Harvard Medical School, started in 1938. [2] It has followed 268 Harvard-educated men, the majority of whom were members of the undergraduate classes of 1942, 1943 and 1944.
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.75 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
Dedoose is a web application for mixed methods research developed by academics from UCLA, with support from the William T. Grant Foundation, and is the successor to EthnoNotes. [1] Dedoose is an alternative to other qualitative data analysis software, explicitly aimed at facilitating rigorous mixed methods research. It is used by researchers ...
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In 2013 he became the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, which funds social science research meant to improve the lives of young people. [3] He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
ZANESVILLE − A celebration of Black history will take place at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, in conjunction with the Nelson T. Gant Foundation.