About CIVIC
The Civic Innovation Challenge is a multi-agency, federal government research and action competition that aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on community-identified priorities. It aims to flip the community-university dynamic, inviting communities to identify civic priorities ripe for innovation and to then partner with researchers to address those priorities.
U.S. National Science Foundation Team
For questions about the solicitation or applying for an award, contact civic@nsf.gov
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Alexandra Medina-Borja
Program Director, NSF
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Barbara Ransom
Program Director
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Christopher Balakrishnan
Program Director
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Ralph Wachter
Program Director
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Wenda K. Bauchspies
Program Director, NSF
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Oleg V. Sokolsky
Program Director
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Andrea Henle
AAAS STPF Fellow, NSF
MetroLab Network
MetroLab Network is a non-profit that brings together local governments, universities, and key stakeholders to ensure civic research is actionable and brings catalytic impact into communities. MetroLab Network has been a CIVIC partner since its inception—contributing to program design (award #1833054), leading programmatic elements during the first two iterations (award #2223449) and continuing this role in partnership with NSF for CIVIC 3.0 (award #2513329). MetroLab fosters the CIVIC community of practice through in-person and virtual activities, aimed at enhancing the teams’ capacity-building, networking, impact, and ability to create methods and solutions transferable to other communities.
MetroLab Network Team
To express interest in promoting or partnering with the Civic Innovation Challenge, contact the MetroLab Team at Innovate@MetroLabNetwork.org.
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Kate Garman Burns
Director, State and Local Innovation
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Rose Mische Commins
Senior Manager, State and Local Innovation
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Andy Gordon
Associate Director, State and Local Innovation
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Stefania Di Mauro-Nava
Program Manager, State and Local Innovation