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Submission Criteria

by admin last modified 2008-11-04 16:46

The collaborative grants selection committee takes into account several primary and secondary criteria in its decisions.  No new grant rounds are scheduled.


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 research relevant to the project into the online Resource Database of the Media Research Hub.