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Institutional Challenge Grant

Awarded Grants

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Strengthening a Holistic, Community-Based Pre-Collegiate and Collegiate Support System to Enhance College Matriculation, Persistence, and Success among Latinx Students in East San José, California: Preparing Racially Minoritized Students for College During Uncertain Times

This grant will strengthen the partnership between Santa Clara University, the Latino Education Advancement Foundation, and The Foundation for Hispanic Education.
Pedro Nava
Santa Clara University
2024 – 2027
$650,000
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
$649,956
Grant

Strategic Partnership for Advancing Research Knowledge and Leadership for Equity (SPARKLE)

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.
Decoteau Irby
University Of Illinois
2023 – 2027
$649,715

Articles & More

Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant

As our grant comes to a close, we are reflecting on the evolution of our research-practice partnership and our plans for engaged research to continue even after the grant ends.
Laura Tach
 and Anna Steinkraus
Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant
Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?

“Collaborating with our partners, we’ve crafted a vision of the world where marginalized and disadvantaged members of society feel seen, heard, understood, and prioritized.”
Foundation Staff
Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?
Digest, Issue 09: Winter 2023-24

Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant

“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
Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant
News
  •  Jan 16, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

The William T. Grant Foundation is very pleased to announce six finalists for the 2024 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2024 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists
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

Selection Committee – 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

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