New America & PIT-UN Are Excited To Announce Requests For Proposals For PIT-UN Network Members
  In 2024, the Challenge will build on this foundation by focusing on two specific areas: 

• Educational Offerings, especially those that foster cross-disciplinary perspectives,
• Career Pipeline/Placement efforts to develop the Public Interest Technology workforce in government, industry, and social impact organizations.  

Limited Submissions

  The PIT-UN Network Challenge is a limited submission funding opportunity limiting the number of applications from one institution. These “limited submission” funding opportunities must undergo an internal selection process (also known as an internal competition), which is coordinated by the institution. Please consult your institution before you develop any applications.

Each PIT-UN member has identified one point of contact for submitting all grant applications for their institutions.  Only that point of contact should be accessing this platform. If you do not know who your PIT-UN member Network Challenge point of contact is, please get in touch with your institution's PIT-UN Designee.
  

PIT-UN is inviting proposals in two funding tranches. Budgets should be inclusive of an indirect rate, set at 20% of total direct costs. 

1. Tranche 1: Up to $90,000 ($0-$90,000) for direct and indirect costs 
2. Tranche 2: Up to $145,000 ($90,001-$145,000) for direct and indirect costs  

Note: Budgets should be inclusive of an indirect rate, set at 20% of the total direct costs.
  In this sixth year of the challenge, PIT-UN will accept the following types of proposals in response to its RFP: 

• New Projects: projects that have not received prior funding from the PIT-UN Challenge (“new projects”) 
• Existing Projects: projects that have received prior funding from the PIT-UN Challenge in 2019*, 2020, 2021, or 2022 but have not received three (3) years of Network Challenge funding can apply for additional funding to expand and/or scale their project (“previously funded projects”)

Projects ineligible to apply for funding in this challenge are Network Challenge Projects of any year (Year 2-2020 & Year 3-2021 & Year 4-2022, Year 5-2023) that have not submitted their project's final reports (narrative and budget reconciliation) to New Ventures Fund using the grant management system Submittable.
Limits

There is a limit to the number of proposals a PIT-UN Network university can submit:

Current network members can submit the following:

• Proposals for new projects, adding up to a total of three. Only one of these can fall within the funding Tranche 2- $145,000.Budgets should be inclusive of an indirect rate, set at 20% of the total direct cost
• Proposals to expand/scale previously awarded projects, outlined in Eligibility section ii, can fall into either funding Tranche 1- $90,000, or Tranche 2 - $145,000. Budgets should be inclusive of an indirect rate, set at 20% of the total direct costs. *Proposals requesting Tranche 2 funding must include at least 50% in-kind contribution funding from the primary institution for this grant

Note: If the required institutional in-kind funding is less than 50%, the proposal will not be considered.