Capacity Building Grant Program (United States)

Deadline: 1-Apr-25

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is pleased to announce the Capacity Building Grant Program to build the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER).

Focus Areas

• This funding announcement offers the chance to build capacity and skills for patient-centered CER. Capacity building to support patient-centered CER refers to projects that:
  • Help patients, families, caregivers and individuals within the broader healthcare community who are not researchers to engage as partners in patient-centered CER. These stakeholders may have expertise in, connection to or lived experience in the project’s focus area. These projects will help communities partner in a meaningful way with researchers throughout the patient-centered CER process. For example, projects might:
    • Educate and train patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community on patient-centered CER.
    • Establish a learning community or collaborative.
    • Help patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community identify patientcentered outcomes, prioritize patient-centered CER topics or themes and/or develop a patientcentered CER agenda.
  • Strengthen the skills of researchers to be better partners with patients, families, caregivers and other members of the broader healthcare community involved in patient-centered CER. Activities might include, but are not limited to:
    • Educating and training researchers on meaningful engagement strategies.
    • Developing and integrating stakeholder engagement training within curricula for researchers.
    • Establishing a sustainable mechanism for ongoing collaboration between researchers and patients, families, caregivers and individuals within the broader healthcare community.
  • Support prior Engagement Award Program awardees returning as applicants to grow the impact of their capacity-building work. Projects must accomplish at least one of the following:
    • Scale up existing initiatives (i.e., going from statewide focus to a national focus).
    • Adapt successful initiatives to serve new populations, such as extending from adult to youth focus or reaching a specific underserved population).
    • Advance the work of an existing collaborative to address priorities determined through the prior project (i.e., shifting focus from collaborative building and topic prioritization to specific research question and partnership development).

Funding Information

• Award total costs may not exceed $300,000. The maximum budget includes all direct and indirect costs.
• Maximum Project Period: Two years

Eligibility Criteria

• Nonprofit and for-profit organizations may apply.
• U.S.-based applicants must have a Federal Employer Identification Number. This
• is assigned by the Internal Revenue Service.
• Applicants must demonstrate the capability to comply with the terms of the
• standard agreement associated with each PFA. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to review the standard agreement prior to application.
• Individuals may not apply.

For more information, visit PCORI.