Track 1 Funding

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Track 1 offers research teams up to $350,000 over a period of up to two years. It supports individual research projects as well as multi-project agendas, making it well suited to both early-stage and more mature impact-focused projects.

In prior years, SIL offered a funding opportunity called Stage 1: Seed Partnerships to research teams engaged in the early work needed to deeply understand a tangible social need and prepare for designing solutions. In 2026, Stage 1 was updated and replaced by Track 1.

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Frank Wolak

Professor, Economics; Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development

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Matthew Gentzkow

Faculty Director; Professor, Economics

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Maya Rossin-Slater

Associate Professor, Health Policy

Robb Willer
Robb Willer

Professor, Sociology; Director, Politics and Social Change Lab & AI for Public Benefit Lab

Angela Lee
Angela Y. Lee

2021 PhD Fellow

Henry C. Lee
Henry C. Lee

2020 Scholar in Service; Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, University of California San Diego

Alba Huidobro
Alba Huidobro

2022-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow

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Lisa Goldman Rosas

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health; 2024-2025 Investment Advisory Council; 2019-2020 Design Fellow