Full Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (Full CPPRA) Grant

Funder: Regents Of The University Of California, Office Of The President

The Full Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (Full CPPRA) supports research targeting tobacco-related health disparities through community-academic partnerships. With a maximum award of $600,000 per year for up to three years, this funding encourages the development and testing of tobacco prevention interventions. Applicants must include both a Community Co-PI and an Academic Co-PI from California-based institutions, fostering collaboration to enhance research efficacy and community impact.

Full Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (Full CPPRA)
Purpose:  The goal of the Full CPPRA is to support partnered research addressing tobacco-related health disparities focused on the development, testing, or evaluation of a tobacco prevention or treatment intervention.
Full CPPRA research plans may describe the need to collect a small amount of feasibility data; however, specific aims must mainly focus on intervention development and testing. A competitive application will include preliminary data and have a strong theoretical rationale supporting the research questions and methods.
The Full CPPRA is intended for well-integrated teams of academic and community experts with a previous working relationship. A Full CPPRA may have a specific aim focused on strengthening and/or evaluating the community-academic research partnership. In most cases, a community-academic team will use the Full CPPRA to complete a research plan developed and initiated during the Pilot CPPRA phase or a pilot grant from another funder (e.g., NIH R25/R34 grant types). Although a previous pilot award is not a requirement for a Full CPPRA application, a pilot project is strongly recommended as preparation for a Full CPPRA.
Award overview
Maximum award amount per year: $600,000 per year (Direct Costs)Community Co-PI budget max: $300,000 per yearAcademic Co-PI budget max: $300,000 per yearMaximum Duration: 3 yearsAllowable direct costs: Salaries, trainee/internship costs, fringe benefits, supplies, participant incentives, subcontracts*, equipment (costing more than $5,000), travel, publishing costs and other dissemination activities.Travel:Project-related travel: As needed in each Co-PI budget (must be fully justified)Travel to TRDRP conference (Mandatory): $750 for the Community Co-PI; $750 for the Academic Co-PIScientific conference travel: maximum of $2,000 per year for the Community Co-PI; maximum of $2,000 per year for the Academic Co-PIIndirect costs: Full indirect costs are allowed to non-UC institutions. Indirect costs to UC campuses are capped at 35 percent, or 25 percent for projects conducted off-campus. All out-of-state sub-contracts and collaborations must be well-justified; please note that funding for out-of-state expenses is extremely limited and TRDRP does not encourage such expenses.

Eligibility

The submitted Full CPPRA application must include leadership from a team that includes one Community Co-PI and one Academic Co-PI. Each CPPRA application can have only one Co-PI representing the community side and one Co-PI representing the academic side. If there is a need for other close collaborators, they can be designated in Key Personnel as a Co-Investigator, consultant, or collaborator.The qualifications of a Community Co-PI:Based in California.Affiliated with an organization, nonprofit community-based group, or institution (i.e., they cannot be a lone person who is not connected to relevant community-based groups) that primarily provides services or resources to people in a community in California. Committed to representing the views of the community of interest.Have the support of their organization, nonprofit, or institution in order to serve as a Co-PI for the project.There is not a requirement for a degree.U.S. citizenship is not a requirement.The Academic Co-PI should have research expertise and publications related to the research questions in the proposal and a commitment to developing or enhancing an existing program of research focused on community partnered participatory research or theoretical frameworks for community science. For the CPPRA award type, the Academic Co-PI will be responsible for managing their budgeted expenses while their university or research institution will be responsible for the fiscal administration of the academic research budget as a whole. An academic partner must be named, and their California-based university or research institution must be named in the submitted application. The qualifications of an Academic Co-PI:Based at a California academic or nonprofit research institution.Has a university faculty appointment or a community research scientist designation with an appointment at a community-based research organization or private research institution.Research scientists and community-oriented academics working at a non-university research organization that is a nonprofit can serve in this role.U.S. citizenship is not a requirement.Committed to accurately depicting the state-of-the-science for the community’s benefit.Committed to conducting long-term community-partnered participatory research.Must have PI status. PI status permits the academic applicant access to their institution’s infrastructure support for managing research grants.