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Institutional Challenge Grant

Awarded Grants

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Focus: Mental Health: A Stress and Workforce Development Intervention Promoting Racial and Economic Justice Among Youth

The University of Michigan School of Public Health and Focus: HOPE will conduct and use research to understand how mental health-enhanced workforce development programs may benefit employment, economic, and mental ...
Enrique Neblett
University Of Michigan
2022 – 2027
$999,999
Grant

University Research Partnerships to Reduce Educational Disparity in College Towns: Building a Model in Tallahassee, FL

Florida State University, Leon County Schools, and Florida A&M University are conducting and using research to improve reading instruction and address educational disparities.
Nicole Patton-Terry
Florida State University Research Foundation
2022 – 2027
$999,999
Grant

Reducing Inequities in Postsecondary Debt and Repayment through a Multi-Sector Research-Practice Partnership

Georgia State University and Achieve Atlanta will conduct and use research to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in how new college students finance their education in order to reduce ...
Thomas Vicino
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc
2022 – 2027
$1,000,000
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

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Webinars

Webinar: Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: The Dean’s Role in Institutional Change

In this webinar, deans from two current Institutional Challenge Grant teams join us to discuss the changes they intend for their respective schools, the concrete steps they are taking to ...
Foundation Staff
Webinar: Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: The Dean’s Role in Institutional Change
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

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