1.   A generation ago, great challenge grants from private and public sources went out across the land.

2.   Administrators are preparing to take on a challenge grant from the city.

3.   Family foundations and challenge grants have been proliferating, even as giving by the hugely rich has declined somewhat.

4.   Ms. Derfner said Shaver was instrumental in developing some fund-raising techniques, like challenge grants and matching funds, that are commonplace today.

5.   She appealed to the foundation for help and was awarded the challenge grant.

6.   The Moody Foundation put up a challenge grant to help raise more money.

7.   Then last week, the results of a new study of classroom computer use appeared to support the new emphasis of the challenge grants.

8.   To collect a challenge grant, an institution must raise three times the grant money on its own.