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                AmeriCorps provides research grants to institutions of higher education to:

Increase the nation’s understanding of civic engagement and the importance of strengthening civil society and civic infrastructure in America,
	Identify effective strategies for national service and increase the evidence base of AmeriCorps’ programs for the purpose of optimizing the agency’s effectiveness in improving lives and strengthening communities, and
	Support researchers with innovative research methods such as participatory research to identify and tackle community priorities.

**Research grants address knowledge gaps and develop innovative methodological approaches to researching national service, and volunteering.**

                    2022 National Service and Civic Engagement Funding Opportunity
			Build on prior research funded by AmeriCorps or propose new lines of research that build the field of volunteering and civic engagement especially in the context of COVID.
				Broad categories include: studying volunteers and volunteer management, understanding and measuring civic engagement, volunteering, and national service at varying geographical levels, understanding civic infrastructure and how it strengthens communities, or research focused on national service programs’ interests2018 Community Conversations Research Competition
			Using a participatory research approach to engage people within their communities to identify, understand, and address societal issues. In addition, exploring the use of national service to assist in tackling community-identified priorities.2017 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition
			Defining and measuring civic engagement at the community level
				Understanding individuals’ motivations for and behaviors of civic engagement throughout the lifecourse
				Researching the impacts of civic engagement, volunteering, and national service for individuals, families, and communities2015 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition
			Researching the economic benefits of national service, volunteering, and civic engagement
				Developing innovative methods to measure these concepts at various geographic levels

                    


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  The Office of Research and Evaluation Award competitions are only open to accredited institutions of higher education who have DUNS numbers and are registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). The institution of higher education (the legal applicant for this competition) will submit an application from a “Program Director” (i.e., Principal Investigator). The legal applicant must select one or more academics, researchers, and postdoctoral researchers who will actually be conducting the research on behalf of the legal applicant.

The Program Directors (i.e., Principal Investigators) can include academics, researchers, and postdoctoral researchers with a track record in their field or as required by the competition. If the competition allows funding dissertators, the dissertator’s advisor will serve as the official Program Director on the application.

      


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