2025 Young Scholars Program Call for Proposals
The Foundation for Child Development is currently accepting proposals for its 2025 Young Scholars Program (YSP). YSP supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds research projects that aim to clarify how, why, and for whom policies, programs, and practices support the early care and education (ECE) workforce and shape children’s early learning experiences and well-being in early childhood, defined as birth through age eight. Research awards are up to $225,000 for primary data collection and analysis and up to $180,000 for secondary data analysis.
Letter of Intent Deadline: Monday, June 3, 2024
As 2025 represents the culmination of the Foundation’s 10-year initiative focused on strengthening the capacity and status of the ECE workforce, the 2025 YSP application cycle is the final opportunity to select Young Scholars within these programmatic objectives.
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Research Focus
Proposals must be relevant to the Foundation's interest in implementation research to support the capacity and status of the ECE workforce. Studies may encompass descriptive, experimental, or measurement-focused approaches. The Foundation seeks research proposals with implications for policy or practice. Additionally, research that builds from the interests and priorities of the communities, educators, or families who are engaged in the research is highly valued.
Who Should Apply?
YSP is an open competition. The Foundation is committed to diversity and equity in our work and through our grantees. To increase the diversity of research perspectives, the Foundation encourages applications from:
- Scholars who are from underrepresented groups that have historically experienced poverty, racism, xenophobia, prejudice, and discrimination. Such groups include, but are not limited to, researchers of color, first-generation college graduates, and researchers from low-income communities and/or immigrant families
- Scholars who represent a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches
Principal Investigators must have received their terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., J.D., M.D.) within 10 years of submitting their applications to the program. In medicine, the date of the completion of the first residency is used for this calculation.
How to Apply
For additional information about the research focus, eligibility criteria, application timeline, and how to apply, please visit the Foundation's website.
The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent is Monday, June 3, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.
Questions?
Please view the YSP FAQs and send all questions about the application and the online system to [email protected].
We look forward to receiving your application!
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Job Opportunity:
Vice President of Finance and Administration
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The Foundation for Child Development is searching for a dynamic individual to join us as Vice President of Finance and Administration.
In this pivotal role, you will serve as a partner to the Foundation’s President, providing strategic leadership for the Foundation’s finances, operations, compliance, organizational development, and grants management and aligning these functions with the Foundation’s programmatic goals. You will oversee expert vendors that provide accounting, auditing, human resources, and information technology support. The VPFA is the primary staff liaison to our investment advisor and the executive liaison to the Board of Director’s Finance Committee and Audit Committee.
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ABOUT US
Founded in 1900, the Foundation for Child Development works at the intersection of research, policy, and practice to support young children in reaching their full potential.
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