The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share two open calls for funding from the WT Grant Foundation for Research Grants.
UCSC Contact: Foundation Relations, Caroline Rodriguez | caroline@ucsc.edu
Funder: WT Grant Foundation
Deadline: May 3, 2023 (12:00 pm PT)
Program 1
Research Grants on Improving Use of Research Evidence
Overview
This program funds research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
Proposed studies must pursue one of the following 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.
This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. WTGF welcomes impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. WTGF also welcomes descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, WTGF welcomes measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use.
Funding
Major research grants: $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, including up to 15%
indirect costs.
To see data about funding rates, please click here.
Please review past grant awardees here.
Program 2
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality – Webinar: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply
Overview:
his 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. WTGF prioritizes studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Proposed studies must:
- identify a specific inequality in youth outcomes
- make a convincing case for the dimension(s) of inequality the study will address
- articulate how the findings will help build, test, or increase understanding of a specific program, policy, or practice to reduce the specific inequality that you have identified.
The research interests of the WT Grant Foundation center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. They welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. They also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, WT Grant welcomes studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.
Recognizing that findings about programs and practices that reduce inequality will have limited societal impact until the structures that create inequality in the first place have been transformed, the Foundation is particularly interested in research to uproot systemic racism and the structural foundations of inequality that limit the life chances of young people.
Funding
Major research grants: $100,000 to $600,000 over 2-3 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
Studies may be stand-alone projects or may build off larger projects. The budget should be appropriate for the activities proposed.
To see data about funding rates, please click here.
Please review past grant awardees here.
Eligibility (both programs)
- The Foundation defers to the applying organization’s criteria for who is eligible to act as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on a grant. In general, we expect that all investigators will have the experience and skills to carry out the proposed work.
- WT Grant strives to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and seniority, and we encourage research projects led by Black or African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian or Pacific Islander American researchers.
Eligible Studies
- Only studies that 1) align with the stated research interests of this program and 2) relate to the outcomes of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States are eligible for consideration.
- WT Grant does not support non-research activities such as program implementation and operational costs, or make contributions to building funds, fundraising drives, endowment funds, general operating budgets, or scholarships.
Timeline
Cycle 1: January 11, 2023, 3:00 pm ET
Cycle 2: May 3, 2023, 3:00 pm ET*
Cycle3: August 2, 2023, 3:00 pm ET
*Letters of inquiry for Officers’ Research Grants are not accepted in May
Please see Frequently Asked Questions here.
Special Instructions
Please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. Please let Foundation Relations (cfr@ucsc.edu) know if you are interested in applying. For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.
Call sent: March 8, 2023
The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations and corporations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits.
For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding