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 31 projects since 2010 averaging $4,200 per award; over $130,000 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.
Funding Support
The Detroit URC’s Small Planning Grant Program is supported by funds from the following sources: William T. Grant Foundation, University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions, School of Social Work (SSW), and School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS).
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, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR), 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 beginning April 1, 2023. Between seven to eight awards may be made for round 13. The number and amount of awarded grants is based on the quantity and quality of the submitted proposals.
Selection Criteria
Grant applications are reviewed by a committee of faculty, board, and staff from the Detroit URC, University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions, School of Social Work (SSW), and School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), composed of both community and academic partners with extensive experience in and understanding of community-based participatory research. The Detroit URC seeks proposals with the potential for creating new or developing existing effective collaborative research efforts that will address the social and physical environmental factors that contribute to health inequities of relevance to Detroit communities. Selection criteria specific to each proposal type is included under each grant heading, above.
Planning Grant Program Round 13 Timeline
- Planning Grant Announcement: December 7, 2022
- Proposal Submission Deadline: February 20, 2023
- Anticipated Notice of Awards: Week of March 20, 2023
- Anticipated Award Start: April 1, 2023
Planning Grant Program Round 13 Documents
The Detroit URC’s Small Planning Grant Program is supported by funds from the following sources: William T. Grant Foundation, University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions, School of Social Work (SSW), and School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS).