Deadline: 13-Feb-23
The Vancouver Foundation is currently seeking applications for its Participatory Action Research Grants (PAR) to support research that is co-led by community members and researchers to learn more about the root causes of pressing issues impacting the health of communities.
The Participatory Action Research methodology is based on the belief that research must be done with people, not for them or on them. The researchers and community members that make up the research team are active co-participants who learn from one another. The research is grounded in critical reflection and is action-oriented to influence systemic change on the issues they are investigating.
Prioritize
- Projects that are co-led by communities who are disproportionately impacted by racism and other discriminatory behaviors and beliefs within health systems
- Research teams that include as many community members as professional researchers
- Research projects that bring an intersectional lens to the work
Types of Participatory Action Research Grants
- There are two different grant types available, depending on the stage your project is at in the participatory action research process.
- Convene Grants (up to $20,000, for up to one year)
- Agree grants are short-term grants to help teams to unpack a complex health issue and to question the systemic behaviors that have created that issue, or that are holding the issue in place. Agree grants help teams to articulate a research question and to develop a participatory research project plan that can then be submitted to funding organizations in the future. The funding requested should be distributed equitably between the convening process and the community’s participation in that process. Agreed grants are a one-stage application.
- Investigate Grants (up to $100,000 per year, for up to three years)
- Investigate grants are multi-year grants to help teams answer a research question, analyze their findings, and share knowledge in a way that supports the community to take action in the future. Investigate grants have a two-stage application process. Applicants begin their application by completing the first stage of questions and, if successful, are then invited to complete the remaining questions.
- Convene Grants (up to $20,000, for up to one year)
Eligibility Criteria
- The research projects we consider for funding:
- must investigate the root causes of a complex health issue
- must be a collaboration between community organizations and institutions with access to an ethics board, such as universities and research institutions.
- They specifically invite projects that investigate the root causes of racism and other discriminatory behaviors and beliefs experienced by adults and children within health systems, especially communities who are disproportionately impacted by these discriminatory behaviors.
For more information, visit Vancouver Foundation.