program

Institutional Challenge Grant

Awarded Grants

Grant

New Orleans Youth Equity Collaborative: As Research Practice Partnership to Reduce Youth Firearm Violence

This grant will strengthen the partnership between Tulane University’s Violence Prevention Institution in the School of Public Health, the Center for Restorative Approaches (CRA), and New Orleans Public Schools.
Katherine Theall
The Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Promoting Innovative and Vital Opportunities for Transformation (PIVOT): A Prosecutor-Led Community Based Diversion Program for Youth and Young Adults To Reduce Ethnoracial Inequality

This grant will strengthen the partnership between The University of New Mexico and the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Santa Fe.
Jennifer Perillo
University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Improving Postsecondary Educational Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care

This grant will strengthen the partnership between Pennsylvania State University Social Science Research Institute Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and the Pennsylvania Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF).
Deborah Ehrenthal
Pennsylvania State University
2025 – 2028
$650,000
Grant

Improving Outcomes for English Learners and Students with Disabilities in Indiana

This grant will strengthen the partnership between the Wheelock Education Policy Center at Boston University and the Indiana Department of Education.
Marcus Winters
Boston University
2025 – 2028
$650,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

Scaffolding for Change: How Two RPPs Approach Partnership Health and Effectiveness

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...
Caitlin Farrell
,
Paula Arce-Trigatti
,
Emily Ozer
,
Elizabeth Farley-Ripple
,
Devin Corrigan
,
Brian Villa
,
and Allison Firestone
Scaffolding for Change: How Two RPPs Approach Partnership Health and Effectiveness
News
  •  Jan 22, 2026

Announcing the 2026 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

“Community-engaged scholarship can illuminate strategies to confront some of the most critical issues facing youth today, and we are excited by the number of institutions across the nation that are recognizing the value of this work”
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2026 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists
News
  •  Dec 3, 2025

Announcing $1.05 Million in Continuation Funding for Three Institutional Challenge Grantees

Continuation funding will bolster these partnerships’ efforts to improve reading achievement outcomes, increase college access and success, and understand impacts of mental health-enhanced workforce development programs.
Foundation Staff
Announcing $1.05 Million in Continuation Funding for Three Institutional Challenge Grantees
Blog Post

Building Bridges: Supporting University-Community Partnerships at the University of Virginia

Local students celebrating the end of the Starr Hill Pathways summer camp. Photo courtesy of the UVA Center for Community Partnerships. Photo credit: Sydney Shuler. As an R1 institution, the ...
Nina Schoonover
,
Jessica Harris
,
Ben Allen
,
Michele Claibourn
,
and Sherica Jones-Lewis
Building Bridges: Supporting University-Community Partnerships at the University of Virginia
News
  •  Jun 30, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships

The Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation have approved $2.6 million in funding for the winners of the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grant ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships
Webinars

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)

The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. ...
Foundation Staff
The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply (Spring 2025)
  • 1
  • 2
  • …
  • 8

Subscribe for Updates

The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
Contact Us
60 E. 42nd Street, 43rd Fl. New York, NY  10165
info@wtgrantfdn.org
Privacy Policy Plagiarism Policy Transparency Statement
© 2026 William T. Grant Foundation