The Spencer Foundation is a US foundation, founded in 1962, that funds research to improve education. It supports field-initiated studies through grants of varying size, from smaller projects to large programmes. Its grants are open to scholars internationally.
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Funds rigorous, intellectually ambitious education research from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Open to US and international scholars.
Spencer Foundation · United States
Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 12 to 18 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as its core that the development of these kinds of research projects requires time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan. Proposals to the Vision Grant program must be for planning research projects that study education and/or learning, broadly conceived, though they will more than likely include scholars and partners in other sectors and fields. See the Funders page for more details and previously funded projects.
