Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support Funding Opportunity (US)

Deadline: 26-Sep-2024

The Engagement Award Program is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support funding opportunity.

This opportunity supports projects that include multi-stakeholder convenings, meetings and conferences. These must align with PCORI’s mission and help expand patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER).

PCORI seeks to fund projects that allow patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community to hold convenings, meetings and conferences that:

Promote focused discussion of patient-centered CER.
Share patient-centered CER engagement methods.
Disseminate PCORI-funded research results.
Plan for future patient-centered CER (except the funds cannot be used to develop funding proposals, grant applications or similar requests for project or research funding.)

Projects must bring stakeholders together around a shared focus. This can include geography, a health condition or population. The convening(s) should explore patient-centered CER issues or communicate PCORI-funded research findings to targeted audiences who will use the results. PCORI welcomes applications on a range of health topics. These projects must have a focus on, and commitment to, supporting collaboration around patient-centered CER.

This funding opportunity is not intended to support more complex and lengthy capacity building projects that may include a series of convenings as a part of the project’s activities. PCORI does not consider webinars or focus groups to be a convening.

Funding Tracks

For this funding opportunity, organizations must propose one of the following:
- Convening Around Patient-Centered CER.
  - Convening Around Patient-Centered CER projects are intended to facilitate discussion with patients, families, caregivers, and the broader health and health care community related to developing topics, questions and engagement plans for patient-centered CER. Projects must detail which communities will be engaged in the convening(s).
  - The convenings may result in improved approaches to address key issues relating to patientcentered CER or help create new engagement approaches for patient-centered CER.
  - All convenings under this funding track, no matter the health topic, should include one or more of the following focus areas:
    - Facilitating Discussion Around Development of Topics, Questions and/or Engagement Plans for Patient-Centered CER. − Focuses on better understanding and/or raising awareness of key issues in patientcentered CER engagement in the proposed topic area. − Develops new engagement approaches for patient-centered CER in the proposed topic area. − Explores potential topics for patient-centered CER with patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community.
    - Sharing Engagement Methods and Fostering Partnerships. − Shares knowledge of effective and/or evidence-based engagement methods in patientcentered CER with wider audiences. − Fosters multi-stakeholder collaborations by developing partnerships for future engagement in patient-centered CER.
    - Explores new opportunities for knowledge transfer, dissemination and/or implementation of patient-centered CER.
    - Convening Around the Life Cycle of Patient-Centered CER, Including Strategies for Dissemination. − Shares information about population or condition specific areas in the PCORI-funded research portfolio (active or completed) of relevance to the target audience to solicit feedback and suggestions for future patient-centered CER. − Identifies PCORI-funded research findings of interest for dissemination and developing strategies for future targeted dissemination with and/or through the targeted audience. This may include activities with the targeted audience to further identify additional gaps in research uncovered from the review of current findings.
- Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Findings
  - PCORI intends for Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-funded Research Findings projects to communicate results from one or more eligible PCORI-funded studies on its own or as part of the body of existing evidence relevant to the research findings external to PCORI to targeted audiences who will use the results. Convening organizers must demonstrate how the proposed convening activities and audiences are part of an essential strategy for increasing the uptake of findings that have important potential impact on clinical practice.
  - Unlike the dissemination opportunity offered under the Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative funding announcement, the activities under the Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support funding announcement are focused principally on a convening or series of convenings as the primary method for actively disseminating the eligible research findings.
  - Evidence Eligible for Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Findings Projects
    - The intent of a Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Finding project is to disseminate PCORI-funded research findings. Only the following sources of PCORI-funded research findings may be proposed as the basis for convening around dissemination of research findings under this award. All evidence proposed from the sources below will be considered by reviewers in the context of the proposed project concept. Not all evidence proposed may be found acceptable by reviewers.
      - PCORI-funded patient-centered CER results. Papers published in a peer-reviewed journal resulting from PCORI-funded research studies that present primary patient-centered CER results. These results must be published by the LOI submission deadline to be eligible. − Note: This link goes to a pre-filtered list of published primary patient-centered CER results. Only those publications already listed on the page with the “CER Results” filter in place are eligible. Please do not reset the filter on the results.
      - PCORI-funded Systematic Reviews and Systematic Review Updates. These reviews provide answers to specific clinical questions by analyzing results from all relevant studies on a given topic. Only completed Systematic Reviews and Systematic Review Updates are eligible.
      - PCORI Evidence Updates. Briefs highlighting some of the important findings from PCORIfunded research studies in a plain-language format for patients and other stakeholders. Only completed Evidence Updates are eligible.

Funding Information

Award total costs may not exceed $125,000. The maximum budget includes all direct and indirect costs.
Maximum Project Period: One year

Project Outputs

All convenings must produce at least one deliverable. It should encourage project collaborators to take part in and/or disseminate patient-centered CER in the future. Examples include:
- Research agendas and/or prioritized research questions for patient-centered CER.
- Strategic plans and/or road maps for future patient-centered CER.
- Strategies/approaches for patients and other partners to engage in patient-centered CER after the project period.
- Summaries of research topics, priorities and research agendas, including the processes used to identify and prioritize the information.
- Dissemination strategies for research evidence and demonstrated success of proposed efforts.

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 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. Standard agreements are available through the PCORI Funding Center.
Individuals may not apply.
Foreign organizations and nondomestic parts of U.S. organizations must show how the project will benefit the U.S. healthcare system and that engagement plans include U.S. patients and stakeholders.

For more information, visit PCORI.