The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is seeking applications for the Tribal Early Childhood and Family Economic Well-Being Research Center (TRC).
Donor Name: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Tribal Early Childhood and Family Economic Well-Being Research Center (TRC) is a collaborative effort that supports the following three service programs:
- Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
- Head Start
- Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Goals and Activities
The TRC will support relevant and actionable research, evaluation, and measurement of ACF-funded early childhood and family economic well-being programs that serve Native American communities.
By “relevant” and “actionable,” they mean they align with community practices, honor tribal data sovereignty, and are useful for decision-making and improvement.
The primary goals of the TRC are to:
- Conduct relevant and actionable research, evaluation, and measurement of relevance across ACF-funded early childhood and family economic well-being programs.
- Serve as a hub for information and peer exchange, to promote this research, evaluation, and measurement.
To achieve this, the TRC will:
- Further explore and increase the usefulness of community grounded or adapted measures relevant to TRC program areas.
- Engage in and facilitate secondary analyses of data from across TRC program areas (e.g., administrative data, accessible national datasets) to better understand community characteristics, program design, implementation processes, and outcomes.
- Conduct other research responsive to the needs of tribal program administrators, policy makers and providers, tribal leaders, and researchers from the three TRC program areas.
- Summarize information on existing measures of meaningful inputs, processes, and outcomes across TRC program areas.
- Summarize promising practices and provide research-backed frameworks for programs wishing to adapt, enhance, or develop:
- Curricula
- Child assessments
- Staffing qualifications/credentialing that align with the needs of their communities
- Organize forums (e.g., trainings) to share Native American research methodologies, research planning tools (e.g., logic models), and approaches to honoring tribal data sovereignty.
- Honor tribal data sovereignty and ethically disseminate findings to practitioners, policymakers, and the public.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding: $1,000,000
- Minimum award amount for the first budget period (award floor): $750,000
- Maximum award amount for the first budget period (award ceiling): $1,000,000
- They plan to fund a five-year project period. The project period has five one-year budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is unrestricted.
- Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are not eligible.
Other Eligibility Criteria
- Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements may apply for this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
