The Winant Fellowship endowment is administered by the Institute. It provides income for grants to encourage student interest in careers that involve policy and public service. Internship agencies have included Dover Children's Home, Victims Assistance Program, The Chase Home, Nashua Children's Center and the New Hampshire State Senate. The Institute manages an exchange that allows faculty to teach and and students study in Budapest, Hungary at the Budapest University for Economic Sciences. This exchange exchange offers students the unique opportunity to study overseas while taking English-language courses that offer full credit in their degrees.
Housing is provided to participating students and faculty in a dorm on the central campus.
In return, Hungarian faculty and students are enabled to visit the University of New Hampshire for a semester of study. This program is open to students at any American university. The Center's mission is to conduct research on public policy matters affecting New Hampshire, develop options, inform policy makers and citizens about policy issues, and advise leaders on choices for action. In order to carry out this mission, the Center identifies issues, collects and analyzes data, publishes reports and special papers, holds briefing sessions for elected and appointed policy-makers and stake holders, and participates in public discussion of policy topics through the print and electronic media. Douglas E. Hall is the Executive Director of the Center.