Institutional Challenge Grant Archives - William T. Grant Foundation

Awarded Grants

Grant

Bridging Institutions to Close Youth Opportunity Gaps

This grant will strengthen an emerging partnership between the University of Virginia and Albemarle County Public Schools.

Ben Allen

University Of Virginia

2023 – 2026
$162,489

Grant

C2-Principal Preparation

This grant will strengthen an existing partnership between the Center for Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools.

Shelby Cosner

University Of Illinois, Chicago

2023 – 2026
$162,511

Grant

Disrupting Inequalities Along the Path to College and Career: A Partnership between Metro Nashville Public Schools and Vanderbilt University

This grant will strengthen the Nashville Partnership for Educational Equity Research, a partnership between Vanderbilt University and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, in understanding and addressing disparities in early postsecondary opportunities.

Sean Corcoran

New York University

2023 – 2026
$162,500

Grant

Restoring Justice and Reimaging Research: Building Community to Disrupt the Cycle of Violence and Enhance Research-Practice Partnerships

This grant will support a partnership between the University of Texas at Austin, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, the Excellence and Advancement Foundation, the Amala Foundation, and Youth Rise Texas to divert young people from the system and ...

Becky Pettit

University Of Texas

2023 – 2026
$162,500

Articles & More

Blog Post

University Reforms that Reward Engaged Research: What Does Change Look Like?

Commissioned by the Transforming Evidence Funders Network and facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts, a new report describes the growing momentum behind university reforms that encourage faculty to conduct collaborative research with community partners and decision-makers outside the university...

Adam Gamoran

University Reforms that Reward Engaged Research: What Does Change Look Like?

Funding / Institutional Challenge Grant

Institutional Challenge Grant Selection Committee – Institutional Challenge Grant

Blog Post

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

Puerto Rico’s public school system was facing a daunting process of reconstruction even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2017, the devastating force of Hurricane María destabilized the entirety ...

Gustavo Bobonis

Emily Goldman

Orlando Sotomayor

and Damarys Varela-Vélez

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

News

• Jun 5, 2023

Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Four Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

The William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and the Bezos Family Foundation are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. The Institutional Challenge ...

Webinars

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program and provide an overview of eligibility details, required materials, and review criteria. Jenny ...

Foundation Staff

News

• Jan 18, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

This year’s proposals include partnerships that will examine programs, policies, or practices that seek to reduce racial and economic disparities in K-12 educational outcomes; improve college enrollment, attendance, and completion among youth of color and youth from low-income families; ...