Please review the attached list of criteria carefully BEFORE preparing your proposal.

All projects must:

• Be strategically useful in their proposed advocacy and/or organizing context.
• Produce scholarship that meets academic standards.
• Have a realistic workflow, budget, and timeframe.

The selection committee will also favor proposals that:

• Address issues of disparate impact on communities on the basis of race, class, gender, ethnicity, age or other identity/status category.
• Build capacity—skills, tools, experience, access to data sets—within the "user" organization and/or community.
• Have a clear plan for the dissemination of the research to target audiences.
• Have uses outside the immediate intended context.
• Use methods or models of research that have proved effective in similar contexts.
• Reflect diversity in the staff or group involved with the project.

Bonus points for proposals that:

• Involve collaboration between two or more advocacy/community groups in the project design and the plan of use for the research.
• Use participatory methods to engage community and/or advocacy group members in framing the questions, data collection, and/or analysis.
• Map the people, institutions, and writings associated with the project topic into the online Resource Database of the Media Research Hub -- to reflect a clear understanding of relevant existing research on the topic