Office of Research

Direct Effect and Expanded Impact Grants

Limited Submissions

Direct Effect Quality of Life Grants

The Direct Effect Quality of Life Grant (Tier 1) is open-focused and will award at least 32 grants of up to $25,000 to support a wide range of projects and activities. 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.

Expanded Impact Grants

The Expanded Impact Quality of Life grants program is a newly designed pilot program for previously awarded Quality of Life grantees whose programs and/or projects have achieved demonstrable, successful impact. The Foundation will award approximately four (4) grants of up to $100,000 each and will support significant expansion of strategies and programs that are evidence-based, show innovate promising practices, and/or best practices in the field they serve to improve quality of life for people with paralysis, their families, and caregivers. All grants must be completed within 24 months after receipt of the award funds and are non-renewable.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2. CV (not NIH format) of the PI

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday January 27, 2022.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2022

Deadlines
01/27/2022 UW Internal Deadline Closed
02/28/2022 OSP Deadline
03/09/2022 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

Funding amount

$25,000

Maximum Number of Applications

1 ((one per cycle and only one tier))

Eligible groups
  • All campus

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.