Institutional Challenge
Solicitation Title: Institutional Challenge
Funding Amount: $650,000/3 yrs (The award may be renewable for an additional two-year term)
Sponsor Deadline: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Solicitation Link: http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/institutional-challenge-grant
Overview
<p>The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The purpose of this award is to encourage research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. To achieve this purpose, research institutions will need to address four important goals:<br>1) Build a sustained institutional partnership with a public agency or nonprofit organization that serves young people in the United States.<br>2) Pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.<br>3) Develop the capacity of the partners to collaborate and use research evidence.<br>4) Create institutional change to value the partnership and its work.<br>Outcome: At the end of a five-year grant, we expect the following results: The research institution has established a set of strategies that facilitate sustained research collaborations with public agencies or private nonprofit organizations. The public agency or private nonprofit organization has increased its capacity to use research evidence. Participating researchers have improved partnership skills. The research generated has been used in decision making and is likely to lead to improved outcomes for youth.</p>
Other Information:<p>We encourage proposals from teams with African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles. The partnership leadership team includes the project’s principal investigator and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization. To be an eligible partner non-profit: Nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations are eligible if they are open to the general public and provide services for youth ages 5 to 25 in the United States. Eligible agencies and organizations engage in work relevant to youth in the areas of education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, or workforce development and have the resources needed to implement and optimize the award. Research-practice partnerships are defined as long-term, mutually beneficial collaborations that promote the production and use of rigorous and relevant research evidence. These partnerships take a long view and should extend beyond the life of any one grant, project, or leader. While the competition is open to partnerships at different stages of maturity, applicants will need to convince reviewers that the grant adds significant value to what already exists. We anticipate that it will be difficult for a well-established partnership with strong institutional support to make a convincing case that the award adds value. For younger partnerships, reviewers will seek promising initial evidence that the partners have successfully worked together in the past and have the potential to sustain a long-term collaboration.</p>Last Updated:
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