The Foundation is currently accepting Research Project (RP) proposals and Existing Program Evaluation (EPE) proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.
Donor Name: Brady Education Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2023
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Mission
The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity, and family income. The Foundation pursues its mission by promoting collaboration among researchers, educators, and other stakeholders via the funding of research projects and program evaluations that have the potential of informing private funders and public policy.
Research Projects
The Foundation supports research projects that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income for children from birth through age 18. The Foundation is particularly focused on supporting research that is consistent with a strength-based perspective (i.e., recognizes the challenges and trauma historically and currently experienced by different communities as well as each community’s strengths and cultural wealth) and has the potential to inform practice, major philanthropic giving, and/or public policy.
Existing Program Evaluations
The Foundation supports the evaluation of programs that are feasible and sustainable (i.e., can work and be maintained in the real world of educational settings and systems), accessible (i.e., are available to and attainable by the families that need them), and strength-based (i.e., recognize not only the challenges that minoritzed families and those with low economic resources face but also the strengths that are developed and supported through cultural wealth that children and families bring to the learning environment that can be capitalized upon to promote strong academic outcomes).
Aims
Existing Program Evaluation (EPE proposals)
- Primary aim:
- What works: The primary aim must concern evaluating the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) with the goal of informing ways to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity, and income.
- Secondary aims may also focus on one or more of the following:
- What works for whom, under what conditions: Investigate variations in program effects; that is, test for moderation effects that inform whether effects are stronger for certain groups and/or under certain conditions than other groups or conditions.
- Reasons for effects: Investigate mechanisms through which effects occur; that is, test for mediation effects that inform why the program is effective.
- Cost-benefit analyses: Compare the total costs of the program (start-up and ongoing operational costs) with its estimated monetary benefits to determine the net cost or benefit associated with the program.
Research Project (RP) proposals
- Primary and secondary aims:
- The Primary and any secondary aims must concern obtaining information that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and/or family income.
Duration
The proposed project may span up to three years
Eligibility Criteria
Universities and Colleges (public or private):
- As described above, indirect costs are administrative or other expenses that are not directly attributable to the specific project being proposed and are instead expenses that support the entire operations of the grantee organization and are incurred as a result of common or shared activities. Examples include general administrative support (including salary and fringe benefits for administrative personnel, grants management and accounting, general finance management, human resources, and IT support personnel); rent; utilities; phones; internet; general office equipment (including personal computers) and supplies not directly attributable to the project; word processing and spreadsheet programs; statistical software typically used to analyze data that is made available across projects; computer network charges and utilities; insurance; accounting/bookkeeping fees; and audit fees. Proposals from universities or colleges (public or private) that include any of these indirect cost items as direct costs will be disqualified and will not be reviewed by the Board.
- Indirect cost rates for grants to universities and colleges:
- Indirect costs may not be charged on grants that have a total project budget (including all years of the grant) of $50,000 or less (i.e., the indirect costs rate on grants $50,000 or less is 0%).
- For grants that have a total project budget (including all years of the grant) over $50,000, the Foundation caps indirect costs for both primary institutions and subcontracts at 10% of the direct costs of the project.
- Primary institution may NOT charge additional indirect costs on subcontract funds.
Non-profit Research Organizations:
- As described above, indirect costs are administrative or other expenses that are not directly attributable to the specific project being proposed and are instead expenses that support the entire operations of the grantee organization and are incurred as a result of common or shared activities. Examples include personnel costs associated with general administrative support, travel not directly related to the project, and supplies not directly attributable to the project. Items that may generally be considered indirect costs (e.g., grants management and accounting, rent, utilities) may be listed as direct costs in the amount that can be demonstrated to be required and allocable to the project to meet its specific aims.
- For example, certain personnel (e.g., accountants, IT support personnel) may conduct activities that support the central organization (e.g., manage the bookkeeping and costs for the organization); these would be considered indirect costs. These same personnel may also have duties that support the specific project being proposed (e.g., manage the bookkeeping and cost for the proposed project); the percentage of their time managing and supporting the specific project may be considered direct costs.
- For example, facility expenses (e.g., rent, utilities) are generally considered to be indirect costs, but facility expenses that can be demonstrated to be directly attributable and allocable to key personnel working on the specific project may be included as direct costs.
- Indirect cost rate for grants to non-profit research organizations:
- The Foundation caps indirect costs for both primary institutions and subcontracts at 10% of the direct costs of the project.
- In the budget justification, organizations should provide a general description of what is covered by the indirect costs requested.
Other Funding Policies:
- Funding must be through the Principal Investigator’s home institution (i.e., the home institution of the PI of the team conducting the evaluation).
- Proposals that include individuals that identify as belonging to one or more communities of color in the study sample must have at least one researcher of color on the leadership team (at the PI / co-PI level) of the project (the leadership team can also include researchers who identify as white: co-PI leadership structures are permitted). This applies to all applications (Existing Program Evaluations and Research Projects).
- Grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations only.
- The Foundation will support up to two key personnel to attend one conference in the last (or only) year of the project, with an allowable cost of $1,500 per person. For Existing Program Evaluations, the Foundation will support one practitioner or service provider from the program to attend the conference as well at the same rate.
- The Foundation follows National Institutes of Health guidelines for salary caps.
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