The O&P Foundation’s Microgrant Program is designed to spark clinically relevant scholarly work in the field of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P).
Donor Name: The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/06/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
These microgrants aim to empower health professionals, researchers, students, and residents to pursue projects and activities that may contribute to clinical care in O&P, such as investigator-initiated research, development opportunities, or quality assurance and/or improvement projects. The Microgrant Program is awarded biannually, once in the spring and once in the fall, and awards are based on the scholarly merit and clinical relevance of the proposed activity/project.
Some suggestions for types of projects that could be funded are:
- Education, advocacy, clinical quality improvement projects.
- Small pilot funding for a research project.
- Proof of concept research to generate power analysis.
- Statistical assistance for a research project.
- Training courses to expand research-related skillsets
- Supplies to explore a new area of research.
- Support for an evidence-based practice project or development of secondary knowledge materials.
Funding Information
This program awards one-year grants of $2,000 to support activities and projects.
Eligibility Criteria
The Principal Investigator must be:
- A currently enrolled masters or doctoral student,
- A current orthotics and/or prosthetics resident,
- A practicing orthotics and prosthetics clinician, or
- A researcher engaged in clinically relevant orthotics and prosthetics research
- If the PI is a trainee (student or resident), the project must include a faculty mentor from the trainee’s academic program or residency site.
- The proposed research must include a clinician trained and certified in O&P as a member of the project team.
- The primary project site must be in the United States.
- The proposed project must be clinically relevant to the O&P profession in the United States.
For more information, visit OPFER.
