Community-Based Participatory Research

Webinar for interested applicants: Recorded Jan. 8, 2010
Concept Paper deadline: CLOSED
Full Proposal (by invitation) deadline: March 16, 2010

**For those invited to submit a full proposal, please download the full Call for Concept Paper Proposal PDF document below to review the instructions and guidelines.**

Call for Concept Papers Due February 1, 2010 The Northwest Health Foundation invites innovative, community-driven research proposals that seek to reduce the burden of chronic diseases using community-based participatory research approaches. The Foundation is particularly interested in prevention, health promotion, and disparities research that address social, environmental, and behavioral factors through policy and systems changes.  Award amounts will range from $10,000 to $180,000 for the total project, depending on the scale and duration of the project. Grant periods are 12-36 months.

Before submitting your concept paper, please download and read carefully the Call for Concept Paper Proposals. You will also need to complete a cover sheet. Download the Cover Sheet.

Applicants should propose how they will identify and test innovative ways to address the factors that prevent chronic conditions and use the research results to affect policy or systemic change. Intervention research may be designed to directly impact the health or behavior of persons with a chronic disease; conditions that promote healthy behaviors; or be targeted at systems or policies, and influencers of these systems or policies. CBPR projects that address community-identified questions, build community capacity for advocacy, address communities experiencing disparities, and propose to disseminate their research results to advance policy changes will be given highest priority.

Phase 1:  Concept Papers (Due February 1, 2010)

The first step in the application process is to submit a concept paper. Concept papers must be written jointly by the community and academic or government-based research partner. Each concept paper must include a cover sheet. Concept papers will be evaluated on programmatic compatibility and the potential benefit of the proposed research.  Your concept paper should be no more than two pages.

If you are applying for a Partnership-building Grant, your concept paper should include:
• Problem/Issue/Need to be addressed
• Preliminary description of the outreach, research, or partnership-building that your organization needs to do before developing a well-defined CBPR project
• Other organizations that you plan to engage during this phase
• Methods that will be used to strengthen the partnership’s capacity to conduct CBPR
• Amount requested, over how much time
• Background and qualifications of key organizations/personnel involved.

If you are applying for an Implementation or Policy Dissemination Grant, your concept paper should include (not necessarily in this order):
• Need and purpose of the project
• Description of the established research partnership
• Description of the research methodology, including how the community will be involved the process
• Anticipated impact on the intended population/community, and how that impact would be assessed
• Amount requested, over what time period
• Background and qualifications of the key organizations/personnel involved

For complete guidelines, download the Call for Concept Paper Proposals.