Agency: Department of Education
Deadline: May 5, 2015 (required pre-application)
Available funding: Award range: $0 - $3,000,000
Estimated number of awards: Development grants: 9-11
Description: The Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students. The central design element of the i3 program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding that an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project. Applicants proposing practices supported by limited evidence can receive relatively small grants that support the development and initial evaluation of promising practices and help to identify new solutions to pressing challenges.
Development grants provide funding to support the development or testing of practices that are supported by evidence of promise or a strong theory and whose efficacy should be systematically studied. Development grants will support new or substantially more effective practices for addressing widely shared challenges. Development projects are novel and significant nationally, not projects that simply implement existing practices in additional locations or support needs that are primarily local in nature. All Development grantees must evaluate the effectiveness of the project at the level of scale proposed in the application.
Update: On April 15, 2015, the pre-application deadline was extended from April 29 to May 5.
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Federal Register notice extending the pre-application deadline (.pdf file)
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