The
MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with The
MasterCard Foundation, Wellspring Advisors and Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Family
Foundation has announced the 2012 Call for Proposals: Strengthening Innovation
and Practice in Secondary Education. These funders have allocated up to $5
million for the Call for Proposals subject to the quality of proposals received, and will
consider funding levels between $50,000 and $500,000
over a period of one to three years for projects.
Applications are invited for the following types of projects.
Research – including descriptive studies of the
nature of problems and rigorous evaluations of promising programs that help
build an evidence base that informs programming, experimentation and policy
planning, as well as building research
capacity.
Pilot projects testing innovations – testing
approaches to particular problems such as tailoring courses of study/curriculum
to varied and changing labor market needs for “21st Century skills”, exploring
the use of technology to deliver and to enrich instruction and learning,
reducing barriers and facilitating transition and completion of secondary education for vulnerable groups, achieving and
sustaining gender equity, and ensuring improved and relevant learning outcomes.
Scale-up of successful models – scoping
activities to examine models of public-private partnership; explore the
cost-effectiveness, relevance, strategic fit and scalability of different
service delivery models; and build relationships among government, industry and
private actors to develop collaborative strategies to implement first phase
efforts to expand proven interventions.
Applicants
may propose work in the following geographic areas.- East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda)
- Nigeria (particularly the states of Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, Lagos and Rivers)
- India (particularly the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra)
The
application process will involve two successive review stages: Letters of
Inquiry (LOI) and Proposals. Successful applications will be invited to advance
to the second, Proposal, phase of the review process.
Deadline
for all Letters of Inquiry submissions is July 5, 2012 at 12:00pm CDT. For more
information, visit this link.
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