Academic Research Grant Program

The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging awards up to 4 grants of $20,000 each year. Selections are made on or about December 15 of each year.

1. What Are the Objectives of the Grants?
   
   The Center recognizes the need for further research and scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly (including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by lack of education, language, culture, disability, or other barriers).
   
   
2. What Kinds of Projects Will be Funded?
   
   The Center expects grantees to meet the objectives of the grant program through individual or collaborative research projects that:
   
   • Analyze and recommend changes in one or more important existing public policies, laws, and/or programs relating to the elderly; or
     
   • Anticipate the need for and recommend new public policies, laws, and/or programs for the elderly necessitated by changes in the number and demographics of the country’s and the world’s elderly populations, by advances in science and technology, by changes in the health care system, or by other developments.
     
   Scholars in the fields of health, law, medicine and sociology have been awarded grants. Topics are described at http://www.borchardcenter.org/grant_recipients_argp.html.
   
   IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE RESEARCH PRODUCT WILL BE PUBLISHABLE IN A FIRST-RATE JOURNAL.
   
   
3. Who May Apply?
   
   This Request for Proposals is open to all interested and qualified legal, health sciences, social sciences, and gerontology scholars and professionals. Organizations per se, whether profit or non-profit, are not eligible to apply, although they may administer the grant. However, two or more individuals in the same institution or different institutions may submit a collaborative proposal.
   
   
4. How Much Funding is Available?
   
   We will make no more than 4 grants of up to $20,000 each annually. Larger budgets using outside matching funds are encouraged but not required. Favorable weight will be given to proposals that indicate, where appropriate, that active attempts will be made to solicit required additional funds for the project (including a list of sources to be approached). Grant funds may be used for the approved budget purposes, which may include reasonable compensation for the principal investigator(s), consultant(s) and research assistants, print and computer-based research materials, and other necessary expenses. Ordinarily, summer salary support will not be approved where the applicant(s) is eligible for significant support from his or her university or other institutions. Grant funds may not be used for university overhead or administrative charges, and the Foundation will not otherwise pay any such costs.
   
   
5. How and When to Apply?
   
   Please submit seven (7) copies of the application form (available at this website in pdf format), seven (7) copies of a Research Grant Proposal, limit five (5) pages, double spaced, not including appendices and any letters of support, plus seven (7) copies of each applicant’s curriculum vita to The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging, 335 4th Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. All materials must be postmarked by September 30. We cannot accept faxed applications or other materials.
   
   The Research Grant Proposal should include a description of the research project, a detailed budget (including matching support), a discussion of how the research meets the objectives of our grant program (as described in paragraphs 1 and 2 above), why the project is otherwise important, and a description of both your intended written research product and the publication(s) to which your work product will be submitted for publication.
   
   
6. Who Reviews Proposals and Awards Grants?
   
   Proposals will be reviewed and grants awarded by a committee composed of the Foundation Center’s academic advisory board members, executive director, assistant director and fellows.
   
   
7. What are the Reporting Requirements?
   
   Upon completion of the research project, but not later than December 31 of the year following the award (unless the committee, for good cause, extends the completion date), grantees must submit seven (7) copies of a final written report that includes a description and chronology of the research and results, an accounting for grant funds, and copies of any publications/products developed. In addition, a short written progress and status report must be submitted not later than June 30 of the year the award is granted.
   
   Upon publication of the research product, seven (7) reprints must be given to the Center.
   
   
8. Questions?
   E-mail the Assistant Director at mjcr@xmission.com