Office of Research
Quality of Life Grants - Direct Effect and Expanded Effect Spring 2021
The 2021 1st Cycle Quality of Life grant program will offer Direct Effect and COVID-19: Addressing Social Isolation grants. All grants must be completed within 12 months after receipt of the award funds and are non-renewable. Grant projects awarded through the 2021 1st Cycle will start June 1, 2021 and close May 31, 2022
Please note that these programs do not fund: research and projects that serve less than three people with paralysis, their families or caregivers.
Direct Effect Grants ($25,000)
The Direct Effect Quality of Life Grant (Tier 1)is open-focused and will award at least 36 grants ofup to $25,000 to support the same wide range of projects and activities of the traditional Quality of Life grants. Grants will fund specific budget items that will clearly impact individuals living with paralysis and their families, and the project must be completed within 12 months. Examples of funded projects may include (but are not limited to): sports wheelchairs for a wheelchair basketball team; adapted glider in a community playground; kayak for a rowing program; accessible gym equipment; hydraulic lift at a pool; electronic door openers at a community center; workshop education series on sex and sexuality with a spinal cord injury; wheelchair accessible picnic table at a county fairground; program for preventing abuse in adaptive sports; camp programs; subsidized lessons for therapeutic horseback riding; transportation costs for an inclusive afterschool program; and support groups. These grants will have short- to- medium-range impact. Long-range impact and sustainability are not expected for projects funded at this level.
COVID-19: Addressing Social Isolation Grants ($25,000-$50,000)
The aim of the Reeve Foundation’s new grants program is to address social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of enhancing connectedness of people living with paralysis and their caregivers to their communities and preventing adverse health outcomes.
Application Instructions
Please submit:
- a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
- CV (not NIH format) of the PI
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday February 11, 2021. Proposals are due to the sponsor 3/16/21, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 3/5/21 for processing, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee.
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.