Overview
The Detroit URC's Small Planning Grant Program facilitates new community-academic research partnerships and new collaborative research efforts aimed at promoting health in Detroit. The program has funded 44 projects since 2010 and over $195,000 has been allocated overall.
The Small Planning Grant Program invites proposals that, for example:
- Build equitable relationships between partners
- Explore shared research interests and identify capacity building needs
- Develop partnership infrastructure and collaborative operating procedures
- Conduct community assessment(s) to inform new collaborative research efforts
- Analyze existing data to help inform future collaborative research
- Disseminate and translate research findings
- Evaluate the partnership process
The program aims to foster the establishment of new community-academic research partnerships and new collaborative health research efforts in Detroit.
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Funding Support
The Detroit URC’s Small Planning Grant Program is supported by funds from the following sources: William T. Grant Foundation, School of Social Work (SSW), School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), and Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research (MICHR).
Past funding sources include the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, University of Michigan Poverty Solutions, and the University of Michigan Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs.
Eligibility
The Detroit URC Community-Academic Research Network (CAR-Net), as well as academic researchers and community entities who are not CAR-Net members but are committed to engage in collaborative research, are eligible to apply.
Funding Level and Project Period
Grants may be funded up to a maximum amount of $5,000, with a grant duration period of up to one year.