How do you Design a Seed Grant Program That is Inclusive and Equitable?
Motivating RD Professionals to ACT by advocating for inclusive language – revising a Seed Grant Program
Goal: Deliver resources, concepts, and a specific intervention that lowers the activation energy for RD Professionals to recommend and implement equity in seed grant project design
Background – Before You Design
- Do a baseline analysis – what’s existing?
- Identify the goal or goals (be explicit, see “What a Seed Grant Program is good for)
- Check in with leadership (lead from the middle)
- Know your budget & consider the source
- Consider competition platforms
Before You Write the Solicitation
The bare minimum of using inclusive language – A Choose your own adventure application
-Falk-Krzesinski and Tobin, 2015
| Key Question | Review Criteria Terms |
| Why does it matter? | Significance, Importance |
| How is it new? | Innovation, Novelty, Creativity |
| How will it be done? | Approach, Plan, Methodology, Objectives, Aims |
| In what context will it be done? | Environment, Resources, Population, Facilities |
| What is special about the people involved | Investigators, Organization, People, Researchers, Personnel, Partners, Collaborators, Staff |
| What is the return on investment | Impact, Value, Relevance |
| How effectively will resources be managed? | Budget |
| How will success be determined? | Evaluation, Assessment |
