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The launch of the Center for Land Economics Fellowship, PPI's 2026 Progress of Ideas grant, and Henry George Foundation of Great Britain grant.

Regular readers may recall our previous post about the frontier of LVT research. Today, we’re happy to announce three ways to get funding for your research.

1) CLE’s Land Economics Fellowship

GREG:
At the Center for Land Economics, we’re excited to launch the Land Economics Fellowship, a new program designed to support focused, high-impact research on land value, land speculation, and land value taxation.

The fellowship is built for individuals who want to produce substantive, public-facing work without committing to a multi-year academic process. We’re interested in empirical, descriptive, and investigative projects that help clarify how land markets actually work—and how land-based policy reforms play out in practice.

What Fellows receive:

• A $3,000 stipend to support 4–6 months of time-blocked research

• Access to CLE resources, including data, tools, and institutional support where feasible

• Direct access to CLE leadership (Greg and Lars) for feedback, research guidance, and strategic input

• A public platform for your findings, with editorial and dissemination support to help your work reach an engaged audience

The fellowship is open to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, including students, independent scholars, journalists, and practitioners. This work may be a continuation of a thesis, or other project engaged in by the applicant. No formal credentials or institutional affiliation are required.

Why we are launching this fellowship

We believe many of the most important questions in land economics—especially around land value and LVT—don’t require years of academic work to generate insight. Well-scoped, time-limited projects can meaningfully advance the data, narratives, and case studies that shape how land policy is understood and debated.

There is no shortage of smart, curious people interested in land. What’s often missing is time, modest funding, and a platform that takes this work seriously. This fellowship exists to fill that gap and to help surface research that pushes the conversation on land value forward.

Applications for the 2026 Land Economics Fellowship are now open and due March 1st at midnight.

More information and the application can be found here: https://landeconomics.org/fellows

2) PPI’s Progress of Ideas Grants

STEVE:
Over at the Progress and Poverty Institute, we operate an annual cycle for grant funding of research topics relevant to our mission. We are excited to announce that this year’s shortlist of topics is even more concentrated on topics relevant to Georgist advocacy: land valuation, impacts of LVT shifts, and political and legal barriers to LVT implementation.

The first seeks proposals for research or applied projects that can help expand the successful adoption of Land Value Tax. We welcome proposals from academic researchers, public policy institutes, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups and cross-sector collaborations. Projects may be theoretical, empirical, legal, computational, or strategic in nature. Grants of up to $10,000 will be considered.

This time around, we are especially interested in the following topics relevant to LVT:

• Methods of land valuation

• Modeling the fiscal and distributional impacts of LVT in reform scenarios

• Polling, messaging, and political economy of LVT

• Legal and institutional constraints on LVT

• Public policy design that maximizes LVT’s probability of adoption and retention, e.g., tax deferrals, assessment frequency

• Comparison of LVT to related policies like vacancy taxes and community land trusts, in e.g., viability and impact

The second seeks proposals utilizing our new Mason Gaffney Digital Collection. We welcome proposals in support of work to be disseminated in either traditional academic venues (e.g., journal papers) or popular ones (e.g., podcasts).

The application deadline is April 6, 2026. You can find full more information about on eligibility criteria and the grant application here.

Unfortunately, these grants are only available to researchers working for a US-based non-profit (501c3). If that excludes you, make sure to keep reading, as you may qualify for the programs below!

3) Research Grants from the Henry George Foundation of Great Britain

GREG & STEVE:

While the above programs are aimed at US-based researchers, we are excited to partner with our friends over at the Henry George Foundation of Great Britain, who have generously indicated that they have funds available to support research relevant to their mission to “explore and promote principles of economic freedom and justice”.

They are eager to hear from anyone with research questions related to “the 21st century political and ethical implications of the work of Henry George”, and especially those which might have an international, European, or UK-focus.

If that sounds like you, check out the HGF website and send them an email with a short introduction to yourself and your research interest: office@henrygeorgefoundation.org

Land Research Network

Regardless of whether you apply for any of the above programs, we are super eager to build and connect a network of researchers with an interest in topics relevant to Georgism. If you are a researcher interested in any of the topics mentioned above, please fill out this form so we can connect you with likeminded folks and keep in touch with any future opportunities.