Margot L. Pritzker Fund has generously provided a gift of $10,000,000 over five years to the University of Chicago to support the continued growth and impact of the Inclusive Economy Lab, accelerating its efforts to generate the rigorous evidence needed to create greater economic opportunity for communities harmed by discrimination, disinvestment, and segregation.
The gift builds on The Pritzker Foundation’s transformative investment in 2015 to establish a network of five urban labs, including the Inclusive Economy Lab (formerly known as the Poverty Lab). Housed at the Harris School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago Urban Labs – spanning issues of crime, education, health, energy and environment, and economic opportunity – advance an innovative, partnership-based approach to designing and testing promising policies and programs that generate large-scale positive social change in Chicago and beyond.
“Harris is deeply appreciative of the Pritzkers’ enduring commitment to the urban labs and the future growth and impact of the Inclusive Economy Lab,” said Katherine Baicker, dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at Harris Public Policy. “Since its founding, the Inclusive Economy Lab has grown to become a trusted partner to policymakers, nonprofit organizations, and communities, bringing scientific rigor to community-informed, partner-driven research into how to create an economy in which all Chicagoans can thrive.”
