The next Progress of Ideas Grant Cycle – including a brand new award for researchers making use of the Mason Gaffney Collections – will open on February 2nd. Please check back then for details of this year’s opportunities.
Sponsored Research
PPI provides support for research in areas that align with our mission and work. We generally only accept funding proposals during a predefined window of time from February through April.
Current Progress of Ideas Grantees
Learn more about our latest group of scholars who will be engaged in innovative research across a variety of different fields and disciplines related to our mission to advance Georgist ideas and thought relevant to contemporary issues and social concerns.
Luis Gallardo Rivera & Alicia Diaz
Center for Habitat Reconstruction, Inc.
“Reclaiming Spaces: Leveraging Municipal Land in Puerto Rico”
Ansel Schiavone & Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
St. John’s University
“Socioeconomic Implications of NYC Congestion Pricing”
Kurtis Lockhart & Astrid Haas
The Africa Urban Lab, a special project of the Charter Cities Institute.
“Four Case Studies of Successful Urban Land and Property Taxation in Urban Africa (Lagos, Nigeria, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Urban Tanzania, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)”
Reed Schwartz
Masters of Philosophy student, Charter Cities Institute
“Spencer Heath MacCallum, Charter Cities, and the Propertarian Reception of Henry George”
Zhou Yang
Robert Morris University
“Land Value Taxation and Urban Sprawl: What Can We Learn from the Pennsylvania Experience?”
Mi Shih & Kathe Newman
Rutgers University
“Public Benefits and Private Profits: Negotiating Public Private Land Development and Equity in New Taipei City and New York City”
Paul Forrester
University of Pennsylvania
“The Essential Henry George”
Information about the 2025 Progress of Ideas Grant is now available.
Application cycle open through April 11, 2025.
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Past Progress of Ideas Grantees
Proposition 13 and the Implicit Subsidy to Housing Prices in Los Angeles County
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Ground Rules: Land Use Incentives for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
Ph.D Candidate and Assistant Policy Analyst
Reconciling Urban Growth with Water Scarcity: Limits to Adaptation or Opportunity for Policy Innovation
School of Sustainability Arizona State
Property Taxes and Spatial Mobility: Evidence from Local Governments in the U.S.
Postdoctoral Scholar
The California Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program: Evaluating the Use of Cap-and-Trade Funds to Promote Climate Mitigation and Adaptation.
Crossways Professor Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania
Does Informality Deter Tax Progressivity? Evidence from the 'Ghost Buildings' Program
Postdoctoral Fellow University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Law, Surplus, Market Regulation, and Inequality
Professor of Law John T. Gurash Fellow in Corp. Law & Business Loyloa Law School
Speculative Real Estate Investment in Housing following COVID-19 and the influence of State and Local Tax Policy
Director, Ph.D. Program; Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning Georgia Institute of Technology
The Impact of Tax-Exempt Property on Municipalities in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Economy League
Annotated Works of Henry George
This series, which is six volumes in length, is published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing and was sponsored by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
- Volume 1: Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works
- Volume 2: Progress and Poverty
- Volume 3: Social Problems and Condition of Labor
- Volume 4: Protection or Free Trade
- Volume 5: The Science of Political Economy
- Volume 6: A Perplexed Philosopher
The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain also provides support for the publication of this series.
The Progress of Ideas grant program - separate from our Scholarship program - was created to support innovative research related to advancing Georgist ideas.
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