University of Chicago Center in Beijing

The opportunity:

In 2010 University leadership approached Arete to help launch the University’s Center in Beijing by fostering foundation support for planned programs and research. Building upon more than a century of collaboration between scholars from Chicago and China, the Beijing Center enables the University to expand existing activities and form new alliances and partnerships with universities, businesses, medical centers, policy groups, government agencies, and cultural organizations in China. In addition to developing a suite of foundation strategies, Arete collaborated in the design of an exchange program for North American and Chinese graduate study in the social sciences aimed to transform the ways social science research on China is done, accelerating the process by fostering direct research relationships between researchers and organizational partners in China.

What we did for them:

• Align programs and initiatives with funding opportunities
• Collaborate with other University offices
• Develop integrated and holistic funding strategy
• Engage foundations

Principal Investigator: Dali Yang

Website: www.uchicago.cn