Grant Funding Process


The BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center is providing funds to capable faculty and students for various efforts that carry out the center's mission. Descriptions of these types of efforts are listed at the end of this document under 'Available Grants.'

Funding Criteria

Since the center has limited funds and resources it cannot fund all requests for funds. Grants that meet the following criteria will be given higher funding priority:

  • Mission Alignment. All grants must align with the self-reliance center's mission. Our mission is to bring practitioners, scholars, and the community together to help families throughout the world become economically self-reliant.
    • Research Agenda
  • Research Agenda Support. All grants must be within the scope of the self-reliance center’s research agenda. The research agenda has four facets:
    1. Building an Economic Self-Reliance (ESR) Model
    2. Creating more effective ESR Practitioners
    3. Strengthening ESR Interventions
    4. Measuring the impact of ESR interventions on Economically Vulnerable Families
  • Learning Component. All grants involving students must involve a learning component.
  • Output. The center will not fund any grants without stated deliverables.
  • Action Research / Applied Research. The center is interested in granting resources for projects that benefit both the practitioner community as well as the academic community. Proposals that highly favor one above the other will be valued less.
  • Leveragability. The center has a greater interest in projects that can be leveraged for use with multiple practitioners or academics.
  • Existing Relationships. The center is interested in projects that include existing or new ongoing relationships with practitioners and academics.

Application Process

Grant applications are due before 5:00pm on the following dates proceeding each semester/term at the BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center Office (360 TNRB, Provo, UT 84602). Please consult with our Internship Director Joan Dixon, 801-422-9009, before proceeding to fill out a grant application.

Grant For Application Due the Previous
Fall Semester April 15
Winter Semester November 1
Spring/Summer Terms February 15

Grants can be used for more than one semester if described in the application and approved as such. Grant applications should be no longer than 5 pages and should include the following information:

  • Type of Grant Requested
  • Project Name
  • Participants & Affiliations
  • Project Summary
  • Project Output/Deliverables
  • Project Budget (including description of grant use)
  • Requested Grant Amount
  • Project Timeframes
  • Project Locations

Assessment Report

At a minimum, a 3-5 page report assessing the effectiveness of the project and the learning that took place is required for each grant as an output/deliverable. The report may include the following:

  • What did you do?
  • Assess your impact / effectiveness?
  • What went wrong?
  • What went well?
  • What did you personally learn from the experience?
  • What impact did this have on your career/studies?
  • Should we continue to work with this partner, go to this conference, publish an article, etc.?

Available Grants

Click here for information about available grants.