Sponsor: Spencer Foundation (US)
Sponsor program link: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/how-to-apply
Value: Small grants ($0-40,000): Major grants ($40,001-$500,000). *An overhead rate of 15% will only be paid on grant requests above $50,000.
Objectives: Spencer Foundation supports high-quality investigation of education and aims to strengthen connections among education research, policy and practice. Applications can be made to address one of the following Areas of Inquiry:
Education and Social Opportunities
Organizational Learning
Purposes and Values of Education
Teaching, Learning and Institutional Resources
Field-initiated Proposals
Applications must only identify one Primary Area of Inquiry regardless of whether it covers other areas.
Application deadline(s):
February 6: Small grants.
March 14: Major grants preliminary proposals. Full proposals (by invitation only).
Special notes: The Spencer Foundation is in the process of redesigning the Major Grants program for the coming year. Read more about this change and how it affects the current program