- 2026 Application Guidelines (Updated March 2026)
- Institutional Challenge Grant Mid-Career Fellows: Budgeting Information
- ICYMI: Four Takeaways from the 2026 Institutional Challenge Grant Informational Webinar
- 2025 Webinar: An Overview of the Institutional Challenge Grant Program and How to Apply
- Annotated Excerpts from a Plan for Institutional Change: Cornell University and the Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County (CCE)
- Annotated Excerpts from a Plan for Institutional Change: University of Delaware and the Delaware State Department of Education (DDOE)
- Annotated Excerpts from a Plan for Institutional Change: Northeastern University and the City of Boston’s Office of Youth Engagement and Employment (OYEO)
- Annotated Excerpts from a Research Plan: University of California – Santa Cruz and United Way Santa Cruz County
- Annotated Excerpts from a Research Plan: University of Toronto and Puerto Rico Department of Education
- Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant
- Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?
Research-Practice Partnerships
Photo courtesy of San Francisco Unified School District-UC Berkeley RPP Improving outcomes for students, families, and communities increasingly depends on new forms of collaboration that bring educators, researchers, policymakers, community members, and youth into shared work. Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are …
Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24
“Our goal as a grantmaker is not merely to fund high-quality research studies, but to shape the environment for research and its relationship to policy and practice. The Institutional Challenge Grant is central to this strategy.”
Institutional Challenge Grant Task Force
and Adam Gamoran
Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: The State of the Field expands on the 2013 white paper Research-Practice Partnerships: A Strategy for Leveraging Research for Educational Improvement in School Districts by scanning the current landscape of partnerships, identifying points of variation, and outlining …
Reducing Inequality
These resources are geared toward applicants of the Foundation’s research grants on reducing inequality, but may also be helpful to Institutional Challenge Grant applicants as they develop research agendas.
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20
To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives that inequality is inevitable or explained by individual differences.
