Grant Funding Opportunity Available to Evaluate Fatherhood Programs

This grant funding opportunity is designed for:

• Evaluations of fatherhood services designed to promote economic stability, effective parenting or coparenting with fathers and/or improve effective practice.
• Studies of innovative approaches to recruit, engage and retain fathers for services or fathers and mothers for coparenting services.
• Studies that focus on low-income, never-married and nonresident fathers.
• Studies that use rigorous evaluation designs (randomized controlled trials or strong quasi-experimental), replication studies or exploratory studies that systematically examine innovative approaches.

Eligible applicants include:

• Teams of researchers and established fatherhood programs that have a strong track record in recruitment, retention and low attrition of fathers.
• Programs with and without funding from the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance.
• Programs based in many places (community-based organizations, courts, agencies, schools), but not prisons or other institutional settings.
• Teams willing to limit their administrative overhead or indirect costs to 15%.

Next steps:

• Download the FRPN request for proposals here.
• Submit a three-page letter of interest by February 5, 2016. 
• Funded projects begin July 1, 2016 and last up to 24 months. The FRPN will distribute approximately 2-4 awards of $50,000 and 4-5 awards of $100,000.

For more information on or questions about this upcoming RFP, contact the FRPN by clicking here. I also encourage you to visit the FRPN website and subscribe for the latest information about FRPN funding, news, and events.