ACR/JAMS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT

ACR/JAMS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Request for Initial Proposal Ideas
ACR/JAMS Foundation Partnership
Regular Year One – 2015-2016

ACR is pleased to announce this Request for Initial Proposal Ideas for the 2015 funding cycle of the ACR/JAMS partnership in supporting Conflict Resolution Education. The mission of the ACR/JAMS partnership is summarized below.

Mission: The population to be served by the funding streams will be (1) youth in preK-12 age range and/or (2) adults working with these youth populations in ways that directly transfer CRE skills for adults to the youth populations.

Funding Contexts: The contexts for projects may be a variety of contexts including community, schools, alternative education (online education, charter schools, after school programs), government (juvenile justice facilities, courts) and NGO settings. While some proposals may be able to secure and guarantee access to or cooperation from traditional K-12 school districts/schools, we are excited by opportunity to support possible funding of CRE work from other contexts. Thus, projects in pre-K-12 schools will be considered but emphasis will be on projects outside that context.

RFP Topic Area: The funding focus for the 2015 funding cycle is to support projects that advance the development, implementation, and/or assessment of conflict resolution education serving special needs youth populations in formal or informal educational contexts.

Projected Funding Parameters and Criteria for the 2015 Funding Cycle

The JAMS Foundation estimates awarding up to $100,000 in new awards for the 2015 funding cycle based on ACR review and recommendations. ACR will also monitor grant progress post-award.
Requests for funding can range from $15,000 to $50,000 per year of funding. In special circumstances projects requesting more than $50,000 per year may be considered. We are looking to recommend a small number of high quality projects with proven impact and the potential of regional and national impact upon completion.
The proposed projects can be one or two year projects, but decisions on funding for a second year will always be contingent on evidence of benchmark accomplishments at the end of the first year of funding.
Preference for funding is given for Development and Innovation projects – bringing exciting new ideas to fruition. A secondary emphasis is on Expansion grants that enable an already developed pilot project to be taken to national rollout.
Eligible organizations include nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations, educational institutions, and public agencies.

RFP Project Process
Interested organizations or individuals are required to submit a 1-2 page Initial Project Idea description (using the guidelines below) to ACR at ed@acrnet.org no later than July 1, 2015.

By July 15, 2015 the ACR Grant review committee will notify applicants if they have been selected to develop a full proposal for submission and review.
Full proposals (with a required application protocol provided upon notification) will be due to the ACR Grant review committee by September 1, 2015.
By September 15, 2015 the ACR Grant Committee will select proposals for submission to the JAMS Foundation Board for determination of funding at their November 2015 meeting. The ACR Grant review committee will work with applicant organizations between September 15^th and submission to the JAMS Foundation Board to increase the likelihood of funding approval.
Funding decisions are anticipated at the November 2015 JAMS Foundation Board meeting.

Please address questions to Dr. Tricia Jones, Chair, ACR Grant review Committee, attsjones@temple.edu.

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