The Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment is a competitive grant program that fosters public engagement and the advancement of the Wisconsin Idea, the principle that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom.

The Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment supports the development of:

• New and innovative projects
• New dimensions to community-engaged projects
• Public engagement activities
• Community-engaged research

Priority will be given to projects for which other funding sources (such as research grants, corporate support) are not available or are limited.

Funds are not intended to:

• Duplicate existing outreach or community-engaged projects
• Provide bridge funding for established programs
• Replace activities that are a part of a unit’s normal operation
• Support the development of new undergraduate or graduate courses, unless the new courses have a substantial community engagement component

Learn more on the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant website.