Institutional Challenge Grant
Funds a university research institute, school or center to build a long-term research-practice partnership with a public agency or nonprofit serving youth, including salary for mid-career fellows who lead the partnership research.
- Indicative award
- $650k (total award)$650,000 over three years covering planning, fellowship support, research costs and capacity building, with a 15% indirect cost allowance.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-09 — 26 days awayThe page lists the next deadline as September 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM EST.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a university-based research institute, school or center partnering with a public agency or nonprofit serving youth ages 5-25. The grant requires appointing mid-career fellows whose terminal degree was earned 8-20 years prior; the university must fund a third fellow's FTE year. HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions are encouraged.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- research-practice partnerships · youth inequality · institutional change · child welfare · workforce development
- Apply at
- https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding-opportunity/institutional-challenge-grant
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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