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Research and evaluation grants

Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families

TraditionalFederal grant

Federal research on child care, child welfare, Head Start, TANF and family self-sufficiency, including the Child Care Research Scholars awards that fund dissertations with a state agency partner.

Indicative award
Amount not published (varies by call)Scholar awards are small; evaluation contracts under the same office are not.
Timing
Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Announcements posted through Grants.gov across the year.
Who can apply
Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank
Eligibility
Several OPRE mechanisms require a formal partnership with a state or tribal administering agency. Line that up before the notice opens, not after.
SSWR clusters
Special Interest Groups
Topics
child care · TANF · Head Start · administrative data · state partnership
Apply at
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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