Spencer Foundation announces Racial Equity Special Research Grants program

• Letter of intent deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 15 at noon CT
• Full proposal deadline: January 12, 2021 at noon CT

In honor of the Spencer Foundation’s 50th anniversary, the Spencer Foundation launched the Racial Equity Special Research Grants program to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality in education and which seek to remake and imagine new forms of equitable education. Thus, we are also interested in research projects that are working to reimagine educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities.

Our 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 relation to racial equity in education. As with other Spencer grant programs, this program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not required to be developed around a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or geographic location. We will be accepting applications for projects ranging from one to five years with budgets up to $75,000.

Please contact any of the pre-award team members Paul Davis, Tony Hall or Grace Thornton if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity. We look forward to assisting you with preparing and submitting your proposals!