Research Enhancement Office

To achieve the UCLA Strategic Plan’s goal to deepen UCLA’s engagement with Los Angeles and enhance its research and creative activities, the UCLA Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) and the UCLA Center for Community Engagement are pleased to announce the availability of funding to support Social Impact Collaboratives—new mechanisms for supporting interdisciplinary community-engaged research and creative activities with a focus on working with Los Angeles stakeholders.

This new research funding program will provide three types of grants:

Social Impact Collaborative Exploratory Grants

• This grant focuses on initial relationship building for starting a new collaborative team.

Social Impact Collaborative Seed Grant

• This grant will support a newly formed or existing interdisciplinary group working with a Los Angeles community partner(s) on an equity-advancing topic to conduct early-stage research and/or creative activity. Seed grants provide an opportunity to test how the research/creative activity collaboration contributes to a theory of change to address the equity issue.

Social Impact Collaborative Full Grant

• This grant will support an interdisciplinary group with a demonstrated track record of work with a Los Angeles community partner(s) on an equity-advancing topic to conduct advanced research and/or creative activity. Proposals at this level have successfully completed one or more research projects or creative activities together, and now seek to expand their scope or scale of work, add new partners or add a new dimension to their collaborative efforts. At this stage, social impact collaboratives must be able to articulate how the research/creative activity collaboration contributes to a theory of change to address the equity issue.

For more information about each opportunity, please visit the grant program website. For questions about this funding opportunity, please contact Shalom Staub at SStaub@college.ucla.edu, or Center for Community Engagement Associate Director Erica Yamamura at EYamamura@college.ucla.edu.

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