The Progress & Poverty Institute is accepting applications for the 2025 Progress of Ideas Grants.
Donor Name: Progress & Poverty Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
PPI supports the conduct of original research into a wide array of topics related to the works, policy solutions, and political and ethical implications of Henry George, including land value taxation, economic justice, free trade, and contributing to the public good with exacerbating inequality.
Funding Information
Grants of up to $10,000 each will be awarded.
A non-exhaustive list of implicated topics includes:
- Sprawl and suburbanization
- Infrastructure spending
- Climate change, including adaptation/mitigation, impacts, related human migration, related insurance practices, carbon markets, land rights issues related to carbon sequestration
- Equity in taxation and public finance
- Public investment and value capture
- Trends in property assessment practice, including implications of AI, energy efficiency investments
- Push/pull factors affecting migration and residential location
- Strategies for addressing territorial conflicts, including how tariffs may be related
- Progressive Era history and politics, influence of Henry George
- Housing affordability, including gentrification and displacement, NIMBYism, land trusts
- Native American and indigenous land rights
- Tariffs as they relate to progressivity/regressivity
- Other commons like water, electromagnetic spectrum, orbital rights, severance taxes, resource rents, airport landing slots, congestion pricing, dynamic parking, railway right-of-way
- Political economy, opinion polling, message testing, etc. of Georgist policies
- Other related topics.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be U.S.-based nonprofit organizations classified as 501(c)(3) organizations by the Internal Revenue Service.
- Research timelines of up to two years will be considered.
- No more than 10% of a grant may go to indirect costs.
- Grants will not be made for capital or endowment programs, sectarian religious purposes, lobbying, or other partisan purposes.
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