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Institutional Challenge Grant

Awarded Grants

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Mind the Gap: Partnering to Narrow Denver’s Achievement Gaps by Retaining Top Teachers

The University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and the Denver Public Schools will partner to reduce racial achievement gaps by improving teacher quality.
Mimi Engel
University Of Colorado
2019 – 2025
$700,000
Grant

Raising Academic Achievement in Under-Performing Schools through Improved Management: A Research-Practice Partnership

The University of Toronto and the Puerto Rico Department of Education will partner to produce and use evidence to improve school performance for youth in Puerto Rico.
Gustavo Bobonis
University Of Toronto
2019 – 2025
$649,999.05
Grant

Protecting Vulnerable Families and Children in the Crosshairs of the Opioid Epidemic: A Research-Practice Partnership

The partnership will respond to increasing rates of opioid abuse and child maltreatment in low-income, rural communities in upstate New York.
Rachel Dunifon
Cornell University
2018 – 2023
$992,533

Articles & More

News
  •  Jan 15, 2020

Four Finalists Selected for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant

We are very pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant. Launched in 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant program encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce...
Four Finalists Selected for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant
Blog Post

Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change: Key Considerations for Institutional Challenge Grant Applicants

The bottom line: universities can incentivize faculty to become engaged in responding to real-world problems and having a social impact. Join us in figuring out how to make this happen.
Kim DuMont
Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change: Key Considerations for Institutional Challenge Grant Applicants
Webinars

Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change

In April 2019, the Foundation held a webinar, hosted by Institutional Challenge Grant selection committee members Adam Gamoran and Michael Gottfredson and senior program officer Kim DuMont, for a discussion of ...
Foundation Staff
Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change
News
  •  Apr 5, 2019

Two New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities and Public Organizations

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant competition.
Foundation Staff
Two New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities and Public Organizations
Blog Post

President’s Comment: Producing Credible Knowledge in an Incredible Era

How can researchers find the motivation to continue to produce knowledge worth considering? And how can we, as supporters of research, best sustain our mission to support them?
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Producing Credible Knowledge in an Incredible Era
News
  •  Jan 8, 2019

William T. Grant Foundation 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

The William T. Grant Foundation is very pleased to announce the finalists for its Institutional Challenge Grant program. Launched in March of 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit...
Foundation Staff
William T. Grant Foundation 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists
News
  •  Apr 9, 2018

Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

This grant challenges universities to reward faculty members whose research is directed to public service. The inaugural grantees will support research on one of our most vexing social problems, the opioid crisis, in a partnership that is poised to take ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

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