Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Special Research Grants upcoming deadlines

• Intent to apply deadline (required): Wednesday, June 2
• Full proposal deadline: Wednesday, June 30

In honor of the Spencer Foundation’s 50th anniversary, the 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. We are also interested in research projects aimed at 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. 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 the Office of Research and Graduate Education pre-award team if you are interested in pursuing these funds.