Deadline: December 11, 2025
Applications are open for the Workplace Innovation Now (WIN) Culture & Practices Challenge 2026. The WIN Culture & Practices Challenge is seeking a wide range of trailblazing approaches to drive scaled adoption of evidence-based solutions and advance new processes, standards, and norms that allow people at all career levels—especially women—to thrive as workplaces are rapidly transforming.
When women succeed in the workplace, the benefits are shared—across families, communities, and the economy at large. Successful applicants will put forward a plan to scale their solution and its benefits, backed with evidence-based practices and compelling reasons why those innovations can be replicated.
The WIN Culture & Practices Challenge seeks solutions that lead to lasting impact through workplace policies, practices, and culture. (The WIN Challenge is not focused on government policy.) Solutions will address one or more of the following barriers specific to culture and practice in the workplace.
Benefits
- Each of the following three WIN Challenge pillars has $20 million to support up to eight applicants who will receive a grant of either $2.5 million or $5 million each.
Eligibility
- The WIN Culture & Practices Challenge welcomes applications from eligible organizations, such as nonprofits located within the United States and U.S. territories.
- For-profit companies, government agencies, individuals, and others are encouraged to participate as part of application teams under an eligible Lead Organization. Potential participants are also allowed to start a nonprofit organization then apply as a lead.
- All proposed projects must serve, and impact communities, audiences, and/or organizations located within the United States and U.S. territories.
Selection Criteria
Strong applications will focus on solutions that help everyone, especially women, thrive in a rapidly changing workplace — and meet the four criteria outlined in the scoring rubric:
- Innovative: Inventive approach to build or expand an influential model that can shape other efforts, and a strategic vision and plan to efficiently scale and accelerate how everyone, especially women, thrive in a range of workplaces.
- Feasible: Team delivers seasoned experts and key networks with robust experience and past results. Activates rigorous evidence-based strategies and flexible plans to sustain remarkable change.
- Transformative: Powerful solution to transform workplace practices and culture. Proven-effective approach to break down barriers, deliver benefits, and achieve lasting systemic change.
- Aligned: Comprehensive and impressive stakeholder alignment and thorough analysis of barriers, broader efforts, and on-the-ground conditions. Highly responsive solution well-positioned for success with authenticity, deep community roots, and buy-in.
Application
For more information, visit WIN Culture & Practices Challenge.
