Grant Highlights
The organization provides a continuum of services, ranging from housing placement and vocational training to substance-abuse treatment and therapy. This challenge grant provides funding to purchase and renovate a building in Garfield Park to create a LEED-rated facility with accommodations for additional clients.
Established in response to the 1986 worldwide farm crisis, the institute works locally and globally to develop policies and best practices that ensure food, farm, and trade systems are fair and sustainable. A two-year grant advances the institute’s efforts to reform the nation’s food system by developing and promoting a more equitable and healthy model.
Established in response to the 1986 worldwide farm crisis, the institute works locally and globally to develop policies and best practices that ensure food, farm, and trade systems are fair and sustainable. Funding supports a comprehensive analysis of the current food system and its impacts on people’s health and the physical environment.
Since its founding in 1977 by noted futurist Alvin Toffler, the institute has developed reports on the future of public health, education, climate change, the information revolution, and many other subject areas. Funding enables the institute to focus on the future of primary care by creating forecasts for key factors, gathering expert opinions, holding workshops, and developing alternative scenarios.
Since its founding in 1977 by noted futurist Alvin Toffler, the institute has developed reports on the future of public health, education, climate change, the information revolution, and many other subject areas. Funding supports a review and assessment of how community health centers address the social determinants of health and advances new forecasting models for leveraging these key factors in the future.
The nonpartisan organization works to make higher education more accessible and affordable for all students through policy research, educational outreach, and advocacy. Grant funding allows the institute to encourage, track, and analyze diverse public comments on the Department of Education’s proposed regulatory changes to federal student aid, and ensure the needs of students, families, and taxpayers are well-represented.
The independent, nonpartisan organization conducts policy research and analysis on programs and practices that increase student access and success in postsecondary education. This grant funds a national scan of the postsecondary landscape, an assessment of existing policy and program needs, and recommendations for geographically based educational grantmaking with the goal of increasing postsecondary achievement nationwide.
The nonprofit IHEP seeks to use research and direct service to increase access and success in postsecondary education. This three-year grant expands, in Michigan, the Project Win Win pilot, through which community colleges award associate degrees to eligible students who qualified for degrees but left the system without receiving them, and re-engage students who could complete their associate degrees relatively quickly.
The institute seeks to improve energy efficiency in the built environment through research, education, policy change, program initiatives, and building-code regulations. This grant supports the implementation of energy-rating and disclosure policies for buildings in Washington and New York City while improving the standardization in data collection and sharing of best practices.
The institute seeks to improve energy efficiency in the built environment through research, education, policy change, program initiatives, and building-code regulations. This two-year grant advances its efforts to facilitate energy rating and disclosure of commercial-building performance, revamp financing, promote stronger energy codes and enforcement, and increase energy efficiency in federal buildings.