Spencer Foundation funding opportunities upcoming deadlines

Small Research Grants 

• Proposal deadline: Tuesday, April 30

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. 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. Please view the proposal guidelines for complete details.

Racial Equity Research Grants

• Intent to apply deadline: Wednesday, May 29
• Proposal deadline: Thursday, June 27

The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. The Spencer Foundation is interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education. Thus, Spencer is interested in research projects that seek to envision 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.Please view the guidelines to learn more about this opportunity.

Please contact the Office of Research and Graduate Education pre-award team if you are interested in pursuing either of these opportunities.