The Society of Family Planning is offering the Changemakers in Family Planning grant, aimed at addressing institutionalized racism in the field of family planning by providing dedicated support to scholars of color.
Donor Name: Society of Family Planning
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/20/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Institutionalized racism, past and present, is a barrier to the full participation of people of color in science. This systematic maldistribution of resources, power, and opportunity negatively affects scholars of color who enter the academic sphere and the research produced. The science of family planning is no exception; the underrepresentation of people of color inhibits the generation of research on abortion and contraception
Funding Information
Awardees will not be expected to conduct original research as part of this grant; rather, awardees will be granted support related to research interests, skills development, mentorship, and networking. Specific support includes:
- Salary support and professional development
- Salary support with a total cap of $60,000 for the 18-month award period with the condition that protected time supported by the award must exceed 10% effort. Indirect costs are permitted up to 20% of the amount requested for salary support, but the sum of both salary support and indirect costs may not exceed the total cap of $60,000 for the 18-month award period
- Up to $10,000 to pay expenses directly related to participation in research skills development opportunities (eg, program fees, travel expenses)
- Mentorship
- $6,000 to support mentorship contracts (scope of work defined by the mentee) with two mentors ($3,000 each), one scholar-identified (background in family planning not required) and one matched to the scholar by Society staff. In addition, Society staff will provide support to define these scopes of work and administer the mentorship contracts
- Networking
- Complimentary membership to the Society for two years during the award period (September 2025-2027)
- Complimentary registration, hotel, and travel to attend the 2025 and 2026 SFP Annual Meetings
- Connections with the cohort of scholars who receive the grant this year, in addition to grantee-only activities designed to build connections within and across cohorts.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are made to organizations on behalf of a named Principal Investigator (PI). A PI need not be a current Society member in order to apply. Grants are limited, without exception, to tax-exempt organizations.
- These grants are open to scholars who:
- self-identify as a person of color
- have completed a terminal degree program within ten years of submitting an application
- have never served as a PI for a family planning research project with a budget of $250,000 or greater, or have never served as a PI for family
- planning research
- reside in the US and plan to pursue a research career focused on US research (including territories of the US)
- These grants are open to scholars who:
- Scholars who are in training (eg, residency, post doc, fellowship) during the award period are not eligible to apply
- Graduates who have received research training after their terminal degree (such as through a fellowship or post doc) are eligible to apply. However, they will need to clearly demonstrate how this particular award will provide new benefits that they have not previously received
- Given the interdisciplinary nature of the research community studying abortion and contraception and the different training pathways implicit in that, they offer the time since degree as a guideline rather than a rule. If you feel that the spirit is award is aligned with your current career trajectory and you are beyond this time period, please be in touch.
For more information, visit SFP.
