The William T. Grant Foundation announces a grants competition to support intervention research to improve youth-serving organizations, such as schools and community-based organizations, or their subunits, such as classrooms and after-school program sites. Consistent with our mission, we are interested in organizations that seek to improve the lives of youth ages 8 to 25. We conceptualize these organizations and their subunits as "social settings": proximal contexts for youth’s experiences. Improving these social settings entails intervening to alter important aspects of the social setting, including the social processes, resources, and/or social, spatial, and structural arrangements within settings. Examples of these aspects of settings include, but are not limited to, physical arrangements of organizational space; social norms regarding aggression in classrooms; the quality, content, and structure of interactions between youth and adults in youth programs; and the availability of significant and meaningful roles for youth within schools and community-based organizations.
The Foundation anticipates supporting a small group of projects with award amounts ranging from $250,000 to $1,500,000 for the two-to-four-year duration of the project, including direct and indirect costs. We are interested in setting-level experiments, wherein settings are assigned randomly to condition, and very strong setting-level quasi-experiments. Individual-level experiments that randomly assign individuals to condition are ineligible for this RFP, as are individual-level quasi-experiments. Our total budget for these projects is $3 to 4 million per year. We made the first cohort of awards in June 2006, and anticipate making awards again in June 2007 and June 2008. We then will take stock of the work and decide whether to continue issuing an annual RFP. Given the scope of these studies, we anticipate that applicants may need (or already have) support from other sources, such as in-kind support from schools or community-based organizations for the intervention and/or additional intervention and research support from other funders.
We anticipate receiving two types of proposals: requests for add-ons to existing studies and newly initiated intervention studies. Existing setting-level intervention studies might propose to add or expand a setting-level assessment or analysis component to their studies. We anticipate that such studies likely will have budgets toward the lower end of our announced award range. Newly initiated studies likely will have larger budgets.
Review will take place in two stages: the deadline for Letters of Inquiry is October 30, 2006, and the deadline for Invited Full Proposals is February 22, 2007.
The Foundation anticipates supporting a small group of projects with award amounts ranging from $250,000 to $1,500,000 for the two-to-four-year duration of the project, including direct and indirect costs. We are interested in setting-level experiments, wherein settings are assigned randomly to condition, and very strong setting-level quasi-experiments. Individual-level experiments that randomly assign individuals to condition are ineligible for this RFP, as are individual-level quasi-experiments. Our total budget for these projects is $3 to 4 million per year. We made the first cohort of awards in June 2006, and anticipate making awards again in June 2007 and June 2008. We then will take stock of the work and decide whether to continue issuing an annual RFP. Given the scope of these studies, we anticipate that applicants may need (or already have) support from other sources, such as in-kind support from schools or community-based organizations for the intervention and/or additional intervention and research support from other funders.
We anticipate receiving two types of proposals: requests for add-ons to existing studies and newly initiated intervention studies. Existing setting-level intervention studies might propose to add or expand a setting-level assessment or analysis component to their studies. We anticipate that such studies likely will have budgets toward the lower end of our announced award range. Newly initiated studies likely will have larger budgets.
Review will take place in two stages: the deadline for Letters of Inquiry is October 30, 2006, and the deadline for Invited Full Proposals is February 22, 2007.
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