Spencer Foundation Vision Grant program intent to apply forms due Aug. 12

• Intent to apply deadline: Wednesday, Aug. 12 at noon CT
• Full proposal deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 16 at noon CT

The Spencer Foundation invests in research to improve education, broadly conceived. The Vision Grants are designed for teams to plan multi-method and/or interdisciplinary, collaborative studies that address a clear opportunity or challenge to transform educational systems toward equity.

The Vision Grants allow teams to generate ideas for collaborative scholarship that develops a new vision of what equitable educational systems can look like, consider which disciplines have taken up these issues previously (and why they have fallen short or encountered limitations), and foreground important ideas that will allow new and ambitious research to emerge.

Unlike many of Spencer’s other programs, the Vision Grant proposal should not be a fully fleshed out research plan. Instead, this is an invitation to think forward about what research we need to transform education systems toward equity and then to envision how that systems-change will happen, utilizing research evidence. Vision Grant proposals should identify the system(s) targeted for transformation, and the specific levers the team thinks need to be engaged.

Vision Grants are $75,000 total for a period of 12-18 months. Please review the program and proposal preparation details. If you are planning to submit to this opportunity, please complete a project submission form.