The Workplace Innovation Now (WIN) Culture & Practices Challenge aims to deliver forward-looking innovation in the workplace that helps everyone—especially women—thrive today and into the future.
Donor Name: Workplace Innovation Now Challenge
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 12/11/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This initiative will source innovations that open opportunities for women’s careers while improving workplaces for everyone and expanding prosperity for communities across the country. The workplace is where life barriers thread together, and it’s quickly transforming. Lifting these barriers and better equipping everyone to thrive in the workplace of the future can have a multiplier effect on women’s lives, their families, their communities, and the overall economy.
The WIN Culture & Practices Challenge is seeking a wide range of trailblazing approaches to drive scaled adoption of evidence-based solutions and advance new processes, standards, and norms that allow people at all career levels—especially women—to thrive as workplaces are rapidly transforming.
The WIN Culture & Practices Challenge seeks solutions that lead to lasting impact through workplace policies, practices, and culture. (The WIN Challenge is not focused on government policy.) Solutions will address one or more of the following barriers specific to culture and practice in the workplace.
- Caregiving Responsibilities. The systems and workplaces in this country are not set up to support households responsible for caregiving such as childcare or elder care.
- The Broken Rung. Workplace practices force women into tradeoffs and competing priorities that impact their promotion and retention rates, which widen the gender pay gap.
- Inflexible Workplaces. The most powerful positions or increases in responsibility often come with the most inflexible hours and expectations. The structure of these roles can make them less attractive because they make it more difficult to balance career and other priorities.
- Violence and Sexual Harassment. Harmful acts of sexual harassment and mistreatment continue to impact women across the course of their careers and can prevent them from succeeding at work.
- Bias and Toxic Workplace Culture. Issues from burnout to unfair practices and negative assumptions can create unhealthy or hostile workplaces that hinder everyone’s success.
- Salary Discrepancy. From the initial salary offer to subsequent promotions and raises, women often see less pay for their work. Industry context and intersectional barriers compound this issue and require creative solutions to break through this shortfall and deliver lasting impact.
Funding Information
Each of the following three WIN Challenge pillars has $20 million to support up to eight applicants who will receive a grant of either $2.5 million or $5 million each.
Eligibility Criteria
The Workplace Innovation Now Challenge (WIN Challenge) welcomes applications from the following eligible entities:
- Nonprofit organizations based in the United States and/or U.S. territories that have received a tax determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) confirming that they are described under section 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) or (2) of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”), provided such tax determination letter remains in effect
- Private foundations based in the United States and/or U.S. territories that have received a tax determination letter from the IRS confirming that they are described under section 501(c)(3) of the IRC, provided such tax determination letter remains in effect
- Fiscally-sponsored projects of nonprofit organizations based in the United States and/or U.S. territories that have received a tax determination letter from the IRS confirming that they are described under section 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) or (2) of the IRC, provided such tax determination letter remains in effect
- A U.S. tribal government treated as a State pursuant to IRC Section 7871.
For more information, visit WIN.
