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Youth and Undergraduate Transformation to Harness Community Change (YOUTH-C2)

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the United Way of Santa Cruz will partner to reduce inequalities for low-income, Latinx middle and high school youth and first-generation Latinx UCSC undergraduates.

Regina Langhout

University Of California, Santa Cruz

2021 – 2026
$1,000,000

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Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for Boston’s Youth

Northeastern University is partnering with The City of Boston’s Department of Youth Engagement and Employment to reduce inequality among young people through the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program and other year-round workforce development programs that aim to improve long-term ...

Alicia Modestino

Northeastern University

2021 – 2026
$999,557

Grant

Enhancing Nursing Capacity to Understand and Address the Needs of Native American Youth on the Fort Belknap Reservation

Johns Hopkins University and the Fort Belknap Indian Community will conduct and use research to develop a culturally-responsive intervention for preventing suicide among adolescents and young adults of the Nakoda and Aaniih Nations.

Teresa Brockie

Johns Hopkins University

2021 – 2026
$1,000,000

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Blog Post

Engaged Research and Lasting Change: Lessons from an Institutional Challenge Grantee

Community-engaged research is not the norm for social scientists. When it comes to faculty career advancement criteria, research institutions typically value studies that advance the field and generate publications more than collaborative knowledge-building that advances the public good. But...

Foundation Staff

Engaged Research and Lasting Change: Lessons from an Institutional Challenge Grantee

Blog Post

Responding to Complexity: Co-producing Knowledge and Interventions to Improve the Well-being of Youth and Families

Almost immediately after being awarded the grant, it was clear that the compound impacts of COVID-19 and the multiplying complexity of the lives of families and youth had eclipsed our ...

Gautam Yadama

Responding to Complexity: Co-producing Knowledge and Interventions to Improve the Well-being of Youth and Families

Blog Post

How We Embraced the Challenge of Institutional Change to Pave the Way for Community-Engaged Research

At UC-Berkeley, where I trained in clinical-community psychology and have served as a professor for almost two decades, our recent strategic plan framed our public mission as: …a commitment to ...

Emily Ozer

How We Embraced the Challenge of Institutional Change to Pave the Way for Community-Engaged Research

Webinars

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

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. To do so, research institutions will need to...

Foundation Staff

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

News

• Apr 20, 2021

Three New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships, Spur Community-Engaged Research, and Reduce Inequality

The newest grants, amounting to nearly $2,000,000, are being awarded to Johns Hopkins University, Northeastern University, and the University of California Santa Cruz. These institutions will work in partnership with local ...

Foundation Staff

Three New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships, Spur Community-Engaged Research, and Reduce Inequality

Funding / Institutional Challenge Grant

Applicant Resources – Institutional Challenge Grant

Resources on this page include applicant guidance, Research-Practice Partnerships, and additional resources geared toward applicants of the Foundation’s research grants on reducing inequality, as well as Institutional Challenge Grant applicants, as they develop research agendas.

Funding

Institutional Challenge Grant

The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.

Status:

Closed

Next Deadline:

TBD

Dates for the 2025 competition will be announced in early 2025

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