Greetings Colleagues, 

Below are three funding opportunities from two prominent funders of educational research.  

--Iwan 

 

Spencer Foundation Large Grants 

https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant 

Intent to Apply Deadline January 26, 2022 12:00PM (Noon) CENTRAL 

Full Proposal Deadline February 23, 2022 12:00PM (Noon) CENTRAL 

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated,” meaning that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. Spencer’s goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. They seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse. 

 

Recent Awardees 

• Back to Normal? The long run effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student, educator, and school outcomes.  Sarah Fuller, Kevin Bastian, Eric Houck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
• Do Campus Contexts Make Black Women Faculty Sick? A National Study of Black Women Academics’ Health Outcomes at Historically Black and Predominantly White Postsecondary Institutions. Bridget Goosby, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner The University of Texas at Austin 
• Affirmative Action Bans and Shifting Intersectional Pathway Disparities. Timothy McKay, W. Carson Byrd University of Michigan 
• Urban Dual-Language Immersion and Linguistic Minority Students: Issues of Access and Inclusion. Lucrecia Santibanez University of California, Los Angeles 
• Disrupting Racism in Schools: A Mixed Methods Study of Educators’ Racial Dispositions and Organizational Change. Adriana Villavicencio, Shanyce Campbell University of California, Irvine 
• Intersectional Organizing: Strategies for Cross-issue Solidarity in Educational and Social Justice Movements.  Mark Warren, Veronica Terriquez, Jose Calderon, Vajra Watson University of Massachusetts Boston 

 

William T. Grant Foundation 

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality 

http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/research-grants-reducing-inequality 

Deadline for applications is January 12, 2022 at 3pm ET. 

This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. They prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. W.T. Grant Foundation’s focus on reducing inequality grew out of their view that research can do more than help us understand the problem of inequality—it can generate effective responses. They believe that it is time to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequality in the United States and to move beyond the mounting research evidence about the scope, causes, and consequences of inequality. 

 

Recent Awards 

• Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Child Poverty. Natacha Blain The National Academies 
• Tribes and Families: Fulfilling the Dual-Promise of Indian Child Welfare Reform. Frank Edwards Rutgers University Foundation 
• Racial Equity in Discipline for Black Students. Dorinda Carter Andrews Michigan State University 
• Using a Facilitated Collaborative to Build Equity in Higher Education Institutions. Shazia Miller NORC at the University of Chicago 
• A Mixed-Method Evaluation of the Impact of Social Risk Screening on Uptake of Social Assistance. Danielle Cullen Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 
• Using a Virtual, Culturally Based Parenting Program to Reduce American Indian/Alaska Native Child Welfare Inequality. Puneet Sahota National Indian Child Welfare Association 
• Reducing Inequality through School Finance Reforms: Understanding the Mechanisms and Outcomes. Min Sun University of Washington 
• Rethinking School Budgets: Principals’ Resource Allocation Decisions and the Promise of Equity. Christopher Candelaria Vanderbilt University 
• School Bonding and Low-Income Students from Immigrant Families in a Peer-Mentoring Program.  
• Melanie Gast University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. 
• The Returned Land Project. Eve Tuck University of Toronto 

 

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence 

http://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/research-grants-improving-use-research-evidence 

Deadline for applications is January 12, 2022 at 3pm ET. 

W.T. Grant Foundation invites studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and they encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education. Previous studies have drawn on conceptual and empirical work from political science, communication science, knowledge mobilization, implementation science, and organizational psychology, among other areas. In addition to studies that build and test theory, They are interested in measurement studies to develop the tools necessary to capture changes in the nature and degree of research use. Finally, they welcome critical perspectives that inform studies’ research questions, methods, and interpretation of findings. 

Studies may be proposed that pursue one of three aims: 

• Building, identifying, or testing ways to improve the use of existing research evidence 
• Building, identifying, or testing ways to facilitate the production of new research evidence that responds to decision-makers’ needs 
• Testing whether and under what conditions using research evidence improves decision-making and youth outcomes 

 

Recent Awards 

• Optimization of the RPC Model: Enhancing Effectiveness and Equity in Improving the Use of Research. Daniel Crowley Pennsylvania State University 

• Effectiveness of a Multi-System Leadership Strategy for Using Evidence During Sustainment of ASD Interventions. Aubyn Stahmer University of California, Davis 
• Measuring Conceptual Use of Research in Courts. Sarah Walker University of Washington 
• Testing Research Communication Strategies and Impact among Policymakers to Reduce Inequalities Precipitated by COVID-19. J. Taylor Scott Pennsylvania State University 
• Consistently Crucial but Invariably Ignored: Testing the Role of Coordination in The Use of Research Evidence. Kimberly Becker University of South Carolina 
• R3 Using Evidence to Increase Youth Employment in Puerto Rico: Optimizing WIOA funding through use of evidence and data. Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud 
• The Impacts of Internal and External Validity on Education Policy Decisions. David Deming President and Fellows of Harvard College 
• Who is Hearing “Youth Voice” Research? Strengthening the Use of Research Evidence from YPAR. Emily Ozer University of California, Berkeley