Deadline: 11-Apr-25
The Progress and Poverty Institute (PPI) is currently accepting applications to support 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.
Focus Topics
- 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, NYMBYism, 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
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $10,000 will be considered.
Deliverables
- Upon completion of the funded research, grant recipient(s) will participate in a one hour interview on Zoom, which will be recorded and shared as part of the PPI’s video catalog.
- Upon completion of funded research, grant recipients will participate in the creation of 2-3 YouTube shorts summarizing the research process.
- Upon completion of the funded research, grant recipient(s) will provide an 800-1500 word essay, suitable for publication on the PPI website and promotion on social media, summarizing their research question(s), methodology/ies, and findings and recommendations/next steps
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.
For more information, visit PPI.
