Racial Justice Grant
The Council for Exceptional Children’s Racial Justice Grant encourages and supports work focused on addressing the issues related to the ongoing racial disparities in educational experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for individuals with disabilities from minoritized racial groups. Grants up to $1,000 are awarded to CEC members for initiatives engaging practitioners, children/youth, families, or other stakeholders in support of students with disabilities from minoritized racial groups
Award Details:
The Council for Exceptional Children’s Racial Justice Grant encourages and supports work focused on addressing the issues related to the ongoing racial disparities in educational experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for individuals with disabilities from minoritized racial groups. Grants up to $1,000 are awarded to CEC members for initiatives engaging practitioners, children/youth, families, or other stakeholders in support of students with disabilities from minoritized racial groups Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Developing Professional Learning Communities related to intersections of race and disability in direct support of students with disabilities
- Professional development or mentoring programs centered on retention of diverse P-12 educators
- Culturally responsive interventions directly serving students with disabilities from minoritized racial groups.
- Advocacy and community-based initiatives serving students with disabilities from minoritized racial groups
Awardees may be asked to present outcomes of the activity at a CEC conference or professional development event.
Proposals must meet the following requirements to be considered:
- The applicants(s) must be individual members of CEC at the time of application and not organizations, community groups, schools, CEC Divisions, Units, Chapters, etc.)
- A Racial Justice Grant award cannot have been awarded to the applicant(s) in the past three years;
- Award recipients must submit a post-activity report of the project within three months of the completion of the project (format at recipient’s discretion);
- Funding may be used to purchase non-consumable supplies/materials, speaker honorariums, or other event costs;
- Funds may not be used for travel, planner stipends, research participation fees, or food;
- No indirect costs may be taken by the host institution;
- Priority will be given to projects that have other partners aligned to support the work (school/community groups, Divisions/Units, partner organizations, etc.).
Proposals must be submitted using the attached templates and sent to Brannan Meyers at bmeyers@exceptionalchildren.org, no later than March 13, 2023. Proposals should include:
- Cover Page —template attached
- Budget Summary (including amount of request, potential partners and their contributions , and please specify origin of estimates and justification)—template attached
- Proposal (limited to two pages) that includes:
- the rationale, methods of implementation, goals, and measurable outcomes;
- brief comments on how the project meets the purposes of the Racial Justice Grant
- Potential partners and their contributions
- how the project aligns with the goals and objectives of CECs strategic plan.
- Project Timeline – template attached