Deadline: 28-Feb-22
Applications are now open for the 2022 Knowledge Challenge to support projects that generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision-making and create systems changes needed to ensure individuals have the opportunity to achieve economic security, mobility, and prosperity.
The 2022 Knowledge Challenge RFP is intended to support activities that improve their understanding of entrepreneurship and generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision making and change systems.
The Kauffman Foundation seeks to support research projects that generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision making and create systems change.
Focus Areas
- Systems and structures to support inclusive prosperity: This area will explore the infrastructure needed to support entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs live within communities that are shaped by many interrelated systems and structures — communities where access to financial capital, health care, childcare, education, food, and transportation are often unequally distributed and COVID-19 has fundamentally altered the business landscape.
- Equitable opportunities and the future of work: This area will explore how entrepreneurial activity might be structured as the economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. How they work, what they do for work, and where they work are changing.
Funding Information
Applicants may request funding up to $200,000 for projects led by a single PI and up to $400,000 for projects led by a team of collaborating PIs (interdisciplinary teams and research-practice collaborations) over 36 months. Applicants with smaller project budgets and scopes are also encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open to PIs who are affiliated with organizations that are either institutes of higher education or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Eligible applicants must be located in the United States.
Restrictions
They will not consider funding for:
- Indirect/overhead expenses associated with the ongoing operations of the organization.
- Proposed project duration longer than 36 months.
- More than one application per primary investigator (only one proposal allowed).
For more information, visit https://rfp.kauffman.org/prog/2022_knowledge_challenge/