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Institutional Challenge Grant

Awarded Grants

Grant

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
Grant

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 ...
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 ...
Teresa Brockie
Johns Hopkins University
2021 – 2026
$1,000,000

Articles & More

News
  •  Apr 12, 2022

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Three Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

These grants leverage the power and networks of universities to reduce inequality in youth outcomes, a persisting challenge that has become even more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Foundation Staff
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Three Partnerships Addressing Social Issues
Blog Post

Toward equitable collaboration: Community partners’ strategic perspectives on community-engaged research

True equity-oriented research must upend traditional power dynamics where university researchers are viewed as apex knowledge producers. Democratizing the knowledge production process to recognize the valued and essential contributions of ...
Rebecca London
 and Ronald David Glass
Toward equitable collaboration: Community partners’ strategic perspectives on community-engaged research
News
  •  Jan 10, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

We are very pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in...
Foundation Staff
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

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