About the Grants Program

PRRAC's Small Grants Program for Research/Advocacy funds social science research tied directly to ongoing advocacy projects. Our purpose is to support, encourage, and disseminate action-oriented research; to make connections between and among those who engage in action, advocacy, organizing and research; and to build public awareness about the various dimensions of and challenges faced by those at the intersections of race and poverty.

Thanks to another generous grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, we are pleased to announce the following Small Grants for 2007:

2007 Grants

The Current State of Union Organizing at the Turn of the Millennium: Unionization as an Anti-Poverty Strategy and Successful Strategies for Organizing Workers of Color: Asst. Prof. Dorian T. Warren, Columbia Univ. Political Science & Public Affair & Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research, Cornell Univ. School of Industrial & Labor Relations.

Indicators of School Re-Segregation in Response to United States Supreme Court Decisions Concerning Consideration of Race in School Assignment: Cedar Grove Inst. for Sustainable Communities, North Carolina.

Resisting the Raids: A Community Documentation, Action Research and Advocacy Project: Community Writing & Research Project, PRAIRIE Group, College of Education, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago & The Telpochcalli Community Education Project-Chicago.

Technology of Mobilization Project: National Center for Schools and Communities, Fordham University, with the Bronx-based Sistas and Brothas United (SBU)

Zoning Barriers to Fair Housing & Educational Equity in Metropolitan Boston: Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston.

Moving Forward: Supporting Voucher Portability in Illinois: John Bouman, Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law & Housing Action Illinois

Empowering Poverty Advocates: Support for Hands-On Training for Legal Services Advocates in GIS Race Mapping: Legal Services of Northern California.

2006 Grants

General Information

• Maximum grant is $10,000
• Two threshold criteria:
  1. Proposals must be for research on an intersection of poverty and race
  2. The proposed research must be designed from the outset to support a planned and specified advocacy agenda (i.e., litigation, community organizing, public education, legislation, etc.)
• Grant funds the research and dissemination (generally, dissertations and books will not be funded unless they clearly meet the required advocacy link; PRRAC grant funds may not be used to cover overhead)
• Eligibility criteria - Applications are welcome from the following:
  1. Advocate/social science research teams
  2. Advocacy groups - either with the capacity to carry out the research themselves or that need outside research assistance
  3. Social science researchers at colleges, universities, research centers, etc.
• Grantee must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3)s or have a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor
• Through our network, we can put advocacy groups in contact with appropriate researchers who can assist them, and put researchers in contact with advocacy groups that can make use of their work.
• In this grant cycle, we gave preference to work in the areas of housing, education and health, as well as to work carried out in the cities where the Casey Foundation has its Making Connections sites: Denver, Des Moines, Hartford, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Oakland, Providence, San Antonio, and Seattle.

• Advocate/social science research teams; 
• Advocacy groups - those with the capacity to carry out the research themselves, as well as those that need outside research help; 
• Social science researchers at colleges, universities, research centers, etc.

We can, through our network, put advocacy groups in contact with appropriate researchers who can assist them, and put researchers in contact with advocacy groups that can make use of their work.

Guidelines for Submitting Grant Proposals

Reports on Grants

How to Apply for Grants