Topic 0708 Funding Partnership Work

The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research.

Despite their documented benefits, the widespread adoption of community-engaged and participatory approaches among health researchers remains limited. Institutional practices and policies influence the uptake of community engagement and participatory approaches. We examine the role of financial arrangements between university researchers and community partners, by exploring efforts to bridge the gap between research administration and researchers at two research-intensive institutions. The type of financial arrangement a researcher has with a community partner plays an important role in setting the stage for the structure of the partnership as it relates to shared decision-making and ownership of the research. Continued efforts to clarify and streamline subcontracting processes are needed as is infrastructure to support community partners and researchers as they navigate financial arrangements if progress is to be made.

(Via Journal of Clinical and Translational Science)

This article discusses the effort and challenges of sustaining a partnership over time, raising issues related to capacity-building and funding over the long-range.

This publication from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations makes the case to funders to provide general operating support. While written for funders, it provides a framework for RPPs to make the case for core support.

RPPs share many of the same funding challenges and opportunities as collective impact efforts, which are also enabled by partnerships. The slide deck provides an overview of ten traditional and promising strategies for funding collective impact partnerships, plus tips for making case statements.

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools compiled over six years of its research about the effectiveness of reforms within New York City schools. This review of 20 major studies summarizes what they have learned to date and how that informs their future research agenda.