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Nebraska Academy for Early Childhood Research
July 24, 2023
IES invites applications for Education/Special Education Research Grant Program Awards

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has issued a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year 2024 for the Education Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs.

NAECR can assist you in finding research partners for your IES application. Check out the NAECR Find a Researcher database to identify potential team members.

For assistance with building a collaborative team, please contact Lisa Knoche at lknoche2@unl.edu

Here are recent publications from NAECR researchers:

Jacqueline Towson, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Central Florida
Marisa Macy*, College of Education, University of Nebraska Kearney
Diana Abarca, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Florida State University
Kara Myers, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Florida State University
Erin Fitzpatrick, Department of Special Education and Child Development, University of North Carolina


 * Denotes NAECR Researcher
** Denotes NAECR Student Researcher
Would you like to see your work featured here? Contact us at naecr@unl.edu
NAECR can assist you in finding research partners for your funding applications and staff in CYFS are available to assist with your proposal development for these or other funding opportunities.

Please contact Lisa Knoche if you are interested in building a collaborative team, need assistance with proposal development or would like to discuss funding opportunities for your research.
New! Student Funding: Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship

The Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship program supports graduate research projects and scholarships in child psychology and seeks to nurture excellent young scholars in areas of psychology, such as child-clinical, pediatric, school, educational and developmental psychopathology.

Budget: $25,000

Proposal due date: Nov. 15, 2023

Spencer Foundation – Research Grants on Education – Small

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. The goal is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Budget: Up to $50,000

Proposal due date: Aug. 9, 2023

Spencer Foundation – Vision Grant Program

The Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity.

Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity.

Budget: $75,000

Letter of intent due date: Aug. 15, 2023

Proposal due date: Sept. 14, 2023

Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States.

Funding is provided in the areas of early childhood welfare, early childhood education and play and parenting education.

The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale.

Letter of inquiry due date: Sept. 30, 2023

American Educational Research Association
2024 Annual Meeting

Call for Proposals

April 11-14, 2024
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 25-26, 2024
Virtual

The theme of the 2024 AERA meeting is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.” AERA invites two types of submissions: an individual paper and/or a session submission (multiple presentations and a chair).

Proposal due date: Monday, July 31, 2023

2024 Nebraska Young Child Institute Conference

Call for Speakers

June 25-26, 2024
Kearney, Nebraska

The Nebraska Young Child Institute conference is a multidisciplinary collaboration of professionals to deeply assess and respond to our communities' most pressing needs. Attendees connect on issues to improve the outcomes of young children and their families.

Proposal due date: Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 

No events are scheduled at this time.
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