Sponsor: The Spencer Foundation
Sponsor program link: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/midcareer-grant-program
Value: Up to $150,000 USD
Objectives: This targeted program provides support for those who are interested in advancing their understanding of a compelling problem of education by acquiring new skills, substantive knowledge, theoretical perspectives or methodological tools. It is not intended to encourage researchers to abandon their existing area of expertise, but rather to build on, enrich, and extend that training with the acquisition of new methodological tools and/or perspectives about a subject to which they have been deeply committed throughout their academic career. In developing this program of additive scholarly learning, the Foundation intends to heighten the potential for midcareer productivity and contribution by operationalizing through its grant making an understanding about scholarship that we believe has merit: that reaching beyond familiar ways of thinking about education puzzles and problems has the potential to bring innovative ideas to the work and, by extension, to lines of inquiry in the field.
Application deadlines:
- Monday August 17th: OGPR internal review (optional). Email Heather frost a copy of your application
- Friday September 4th: OGPR deadline for faculty-level signature. Email Heather frost a copy of your application and completed RPIF.
- Tuesday September 8th: ORS deadline for institutional RPIF sign-off.
- Thursday September 10th: Spencer foundation deadline (2 pm PST).
Special notes:
- Please contact Heather Frost if you are considering applying.
- Proposals should be submitted electronically through the Spencer Foundation online system. The Spencer Foundation specifies that budgets of less than $50,000 may not include indirect costs. Also, it is important that applicants review the Foundation’s Midcareer Program FAQ page.