Spencer Foundation Conference Grants

The Spencer Foundation is accepting applications for the Conference Grant Program to provide support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convening important issues in education.

This program is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research.

They encourage applicants to think expansively about how convening can expand the substantive work and impact of educational research on advancing racial equity.

They invite proposals that aim to grow the current scope of research on racial equity, develop new knowledge through interdisciplinary scholarly engagement, or as a way to collaborate to increase the impact of educational research. Importantly, they welcome proposals that advance conceptualizations of strength- and resiliency-based perspectives.

Funding Information

This grant program supports proposals with budgets of $50,000 or less.

Eligibility Criteria

• Proposals to the Conference Grant program must be for small research conferences, focused symposia, or convening’s that will explore critical issues in advancing racial equity in education research as specified in the Program Statement.
• Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Conference grant must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession.While graduate students may be part of the proposal, they may not be named the PI or Co-PI.
• The PI must be affiliated with a non-profit organization that is willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded. The Spencer Foundation does not award grants directly to individuals.Examples include non-profit colleges, universities, school districts, and research facilities, as well as other non-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) determination from the IRS.
• Proposals are accepted from the U.S. and internationally, however all proposals must be submitted in English and budgets must be proposed in U.S. Dollars.

For more information: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/conference-grants