The Office Foundation Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
UCSC Contact: Sarah Carle | sacarle@ucsc.edu
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Opportunity: Data Visualization of Structural Racism and Place
Proposal Deadline: June 2, 2023 (3 p.m. ET)
Optional Webinar: May 9, 2023 (4 p.m. ET) Registration is required through this link
Overview
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), its grantees, and partners have demonstrated the impact of using data to communicate and increase understanding of how the conditions of place impact community health. Data visualization, or tools that make it easy to visualize complex measures, can be a powerful means to communicate data showing structural racism’s impact on communities and to contextualize the legacy of racism.
This Call for Proposals will fund up to eight interdisciplinary teams that each consist of researchers/data producers, data scientists, communications experts, designers, and national social change networks/alliances or national-level social change organizations. Funding will support the creation of data visualizations as tools to provide an understanding of structural racism’s impact on place, health, and wellbeing.
Because organizations in individual sectors may find it difficult on their own to communicate an effective understanding of the impact of structural racism to diverse audiences (e.g., policymakers, advocates, funders and investors, or the media), collaboration is needed across organizations and/or disciplines such as academia, design, media, policy, public health, and social services. Together, these sectors can combine their relevant expertise to design new ways to understand and communicate the impacts of structural racism.
Please find the complete funding opportunity guidelines here.
Award Amount & Terms
- Individual grants will typically range from $100,000 to $250,000; however, higher requests will be considered. The size of the budget will be weighed in relation to the proposed activities and the likely contribution of the proposed project.
- Award Duration: One year with no further commitments planned at this time
Eligibility
- A collaboration of multiple organizations or parties is required. The collaboration must include at least one individual or organization in each of the following sectors: (1) researcher/data producer; (2) communications expert (e.g., generalist, creative lead, or graphic designer); and (3) national-level social change organization, network, or alliance committed to advancing racial and health equity, who have relationships and/or reach to engage aligned community organizations or affiliates.
- While each collaborating organization must be described in detail in the proposal, only one organization may represent the collaboration and be the lead contact in the application process.
- Awards will be made to organizations, not individuals.
- Lead organizations may only submit one proposal.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
- Data resources with national coverage and the ability to scale down to smaller units of analysis, like county, city, and/or census tract and that can provide disaggregated data will be preferred. However, data resources that have wide coverage of multiple cities, rural areas, or regions will also be considered. Single state, county, or city datasets do not qualify.
Timeline
- May 9, 2023 (4 p.m. ET) Optional applicant webinar
- June 2, 2023 (3 p.m. ET) Deadline for receipt of full proposals
- Mid-July 2023 Award notifications
- September 1, 2023 Grant award start date
Special Instructions
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). Please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. For support developing your LOI, 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: May 2, 2023
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