Pulte Institute for Global Development, University of Notre Dame

Name

Pulte Institute for Global Development, University of Notre Dame

Legal name

Pulte Institute for Global Development, University of Notre Dame

Website

https://pulte.nd.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Global Development Research and Policy

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Educational Support Services (6117), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) (BPADAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Research, Evaluation & Program Effectiveness Reporting (EDADAIAM), International Development & Donor-Funded Education Programs (EDADALAB), Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

Keywords

• Global development research
• Poverty alleviation research
• Sustainability policy research
• Humanitarian response studies
• International affairs education

Headquarters

HQ city

Notre Dame

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Partnership: The institute is primarily funded through a landmark $111 million partnership gift from the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation (November 2019), the largest gift of its kind at Notre Dame. This endowment supports the institute's operations, faculty positions, and programmatic work.
2. Research Grants and Contracts: The institute receives competitive research funding from government agencies, foundations, and international organizations for specific research projects. Recent examples include a $2.6 million award for AIM for Scale to scale agricultural innovations in Africa.
3. Platform for Policy Funding: The Pulte Platform for Policy, established by a 2022 Foundation gift, supports three senior faculty positions to advance the school's international impact in academic and policymaking spaces on issues related to integral human development, poverty alleviation, and peacebuilding.

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Core offering

The Pulte Institute conducts evidence-based research on global poverty, sustainability, humanitarian response, and effective governance, translating findings into actionable policy for governments, NGOs, and international organizations. It complements this research with student experiential learning programs, fellowships, and professional development tools, operating across more than 70 countries through a network of hundreds of institutional partners.

Product overview

The Pulte Institute for Global Development operates as an academic research institute within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, working in over 70 countries. Rather than offering a traditional commercial product, the institute provides a portfolio of research initiatives, educational programs, and professional development tools. Key offerings include the Competencies for Researching and Advancing Human Flourishing Self-Assessment Tool (a web-based assessment platform for anti-poverty work skills), the Global Poverty Scholars Program, the Integration Lab experiential learning practicum, and research initiatives such as FLARE (Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research and Engagement), CARA (Central America Research Alliance), the Pulte Platform for Policy, and IGPP (Innovating Green Pathways to Prosperity). The institute also offers the Pulte Institute Student Fellowship for internships, a Data for Development Course, and the Pulte Pulse Newsletter for communications. These products and programs are interconnected through the institute's mission to address global poverty while ensuring sustainability.

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Brands

• IGPP (Innovating Green Pathways to Prosperity): A research project tackling interlinked social-ecological challenges through research in Ghana, India, and Peru, aiming to balance poverty alleviation with environmental protection in rural areas of the Global South.
• FLARE (Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research and Engagement)
• CARA (Central America Research Alliance)
• Global Poverty Scholars Program

Products and services

• Competencies for Researching and Advancing Human Flourishing Self-Assessment Tool A self-assessment tool that maps current strengths and weaknesses in essential skills for anti-poverty work and provides a roadmap for continuous improvement, covering technical skills and soft skills such as teamwork, cross-cultural communication, accompaniment, and servant leadership. Designed for students, faculty, and partners engaged in poverty alleviation work.
• Global Poverty Scholars Program A student formation program providing undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame with mentorship, training, and hands-on engagement with poverty-related projects through the lens of Integral Human Development.
• Pulte Institute Student Fellowship A summer funding program that supports Notre Dame students of all majors to spend 8 weeks interning with world-class development organizations and social entrepreneurship programs such as the Social Entrepreneurship Corps in Guatemala and Ecuador.
• Integration Lab (I-Lab) A student experiential learning practicum that provides hands-on opportunities for Notre Dame students to engage in global development work through project-based learning.
• FLARE (Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research and Engagement) A global sustainability expert network focused on research and policy at the intersection of forests and livelihoods, co-convened by the Pulte Institute with partners in Peru, Ghana, India, and the United States.
• CARA (Central America Research Alliance) A research alliance focused on migration, governance, and poverty issues in Central America, including work on reintegration challenges in Northern Central America.
• Pulte Platform for Policy A platform supporting three senior faculty positions to advance international impact in academic and policymaking spaces on issues related to integral human development, poverty alleviation, and peacebuilding.
• Innovating Green Pathways to Prosperity (IGPP) A multi-country research project tackling interlinked social-ecological challenges through research in Ghana, India, and Peru, aiming to generate evidence on interventions balancing poverty alleviation with environmental protection in rural areas of the Global South.
• Data for Development Course An educational course providing training in data skills for development work, offered through the Pulte Institute.

Quantifiable outcome

• Every 1°C increase in anthropogenic temperature anomalies is linked to a 3.45 percent rise in childhood stunting in 34 African countries
• +2 more outcomes

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Laudato Si' Center for Higher Education (Vatican)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026Notre Dame's Just Transformations to Sustainability (JTS) Initiative partnered with the Vatican's Laudato Si' Center to establish the Global Alliance for Laudato Si', an international network dedicated to integral ecology and global sustainability, inspired by Pope Francis's encyclical.
• Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey research partner for the Innovating Green Pathways to Prosperity (IGPP) project in Peru. CIFOR-ICRAF provides deep local knowledge and institutional capacity for context-appropriate research on forest-poverty linkages.
• Indian School of Business (ISB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner for IGPP project in India, contributing expertise in business and development to understand interventions capable of balancing poverty alleviation with environmental protection.
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIGPP research partner in Ghana providing local expertise and institutional capacity for research on poverty-environment linkages in Ghanaian forest landscapes.
• Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner supporting IGPP project activities, contributing to understanding of forest-poverty dynamics in Kenya.
• Social Entrepreneurship CorpsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerExperiential learning internship partner offering opportunities for students to engage in community development through social entrepreneurship in Guatemala and Ecuador. Students are trained as social entrepreneurs through experiential learning on the front lines of development work.
• AIM for Scale Initiative PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed by Paul Winters, AIM for Scale was awarded $2.6 million to scale agricultural innovations in Africa and beyond, with partner nations including India, Colombia, and Bangladesh.
• Central America Research Alliance (CARA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCARA conducts research on migration, governance, and poverty in Central America, including work on reintegration challenges in Northern Central America. Research outputs inform policy on migration and development.
• FLARE - Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research and EngagementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA global sustainability expert network co-convened by the institute, bringing together researchers and practitioners focused on forest landscapes and livelihoods. The institute organized a partner workshop with FLARE 2025 Conference participants from Peru, Ghana, India, and the U.S.
• National Sustainability SocietyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Pulte Institute served as a lead sponsor of the 2nd Annual National Sustainability Society Conference (October 2025) at Notre Dame, convening nearly 400 sustainability professionals.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• World Resources Institute (WRI): Global research organization spanning climate, energy, food, forests, water, and sustainable cities. Broader incumbent: overlapping sustainability research focus, but covers a much wider portfolio than the Pulte Institute.
• RAND Corporation: Large, established research institution providing policy analysis across defense, education, health, and international development. Broader incumbent: comparable research-to-policy translation model but with a much larger and more diversified portfolio.

Direct peers

• Center for Global Development: Independent policy research organization focused on international development, poverty reduction, and aid effectiveness. Direct peer: both conduct evidence-based research translated into actionable policy recommendations for governments and multilaterals working on global development.
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Research institute providing policy solutions to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in developing countries. Direct peer: comparable research-policy translation work in agricultural development, food security, and rural poverty — overlapping with AIM for Scale.
• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL): MIT-based global research center focused on reducing poverty through rigorous experimental evaluation. Direct peer: shared use of randomized controlled trials and field experiments to study anti-poverty interventions and inform policy.
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI): UK-based think tank working on international development and humanitarian policy. Direct peer: both produce research to inform development policy and practice, with thematic overlap in humanitarian response, governance, and sustainable development.
• Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA): Research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems using randomized evaluations. Direct peer: comparable evidence-based development research methodology and policy translation mission.
• Harvard Center for International Development: University-based research center generating evidence on how to improve lives in developing countries through economic growth and governance. Direct peer: comparable academic-anchored development research and student formation programs.
• Results for Development Institute: Global nonprofit focused on research, innovation, and partnerships to improve health, education, and equity outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Direct peer: comparable research-to-policy model targeting development outcomes.
• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF): Research organization focused on forests and sustainable landscapes in developing countries. Direct peer: existing IGPP research partnership; both conduct research on forest-poverty linkages and environmental sustainability.

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Key highlights7 records

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