Spencer Foundation: Vision Grant

From Spencer Foundation

The Spencer Foundation invests in educational research aimed at improving education with a broad focus on equity. It emphasizes innovative, interdisciplinary, and large-scale projects designed to transform educational systems toward greater equity.

Type of Support

Overview

The Vision Grants program is designed to support the field in producing research that disrupts long-standing inequities toward more just and equitable systems. The program will provide planning funds for teams to develop proposals for research projects that:

Are focused on key challenges and opportunities that have the potential for increasing equity in education
Engage multiple PIs across distinct disciplinary and/or research methods approaches towards the planning of a large-scale, rigorous research study
Collaborate equitably with practitioners, policymakers, and communities (and other partners)
Have clear sightlines to transformational change at a systemic level