| Amount: |
$2,500 maximum per grant |
| Grants/Year: |
N/A |
| Duration: |
1 year |
| Focus: |
Some suggestions for types of projects that could be funded are:
- Support a resident or student to do research or travel on a medical mission.
- Projects from smaller institutions that don’t get larger POSNA grants.
- Nontraditional grants not necessarily for research, educational ideas, advocacy, QSVI.
- Outside the box ideas: Start-up funding for a creative research project, pilot research project, proof of concept research to generate power analysis, statistical assistance for a research project, supplies to explore a new idea, assistance with creating an educational video for POSNAcademy, or other development of a creative idea.
- Travel and research for a history project
- Use of funds: Funds for microgrants cannot be used for indirect costs for faculty, salary, administrative or overhead expenses.
- Microgrants should not be used to fund POSNA committee activities.
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| Description: |
The objective of the POSNA Microgrant Program is to advance musculoskeletal care for children and adolescents through education, research, quality, safety and value initiatives, advocacy, and global outreach to children in underserved areas.
The microgrant program is dedicated to promoting the diversity of its membership and to encourage members who do not typically receive major POSNA research awards to advance their creative ideas.
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| Scoring Criteria: |
Five domains are considered and scored:
- Relevance to POSNA mission, ability to advance POSNA mission.
- Originality, novel, innovative
- Methods (quality and clarity of the study design or description of the project)
- Investigator/institution background and potential for completion of project
- Feasibility of budget, timeline. Potential for this project leading to next step.
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| Additional Information: |
The project should have at least one major outcome measure of success identified at the start of the project and addressed at the completion. POSNA will track success of each project, based on acceptance for publication, further grant support, or other outcome measure identified in the project report.
Questions? Please contact Traci Russell at russell@posna.org (630) 478-0483 |
| Eligibility Criteria: |
- All dues paying POSNA members in good standing are eligible for a microgrant.
- Although a microgrant may have several POSNA members associated with the project, each project is required to have one principal investigator/project leader who is a POSNA member in good standing.
- Microgrant recipients in the previous cycle (6 months prior to current grant cycle) are not eligible for current grant cycle.
- Each investigator is limited to two (2) grant proposal submissions per cycle but only one (1) grant will be awarded.
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