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Engagement Award: Building Capacity for Small Organizations to Engage in PCOR/CER (October 2022 Cycle)
- What is a firm-fixed price contract?
- My organization received a total of exactly $100,000 in funding through two different Engagement Awards. Is my organization eligible to apply?
- My organization was a subcontractor on someone else’s PCORI Engagement Award. Does the money my organization received for this subcontract count towards the $100,000 limit described above?
- What is meant by an average yearly operating budget of $1.5 million dollars or less for the past two years?
- The PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) says that organizations that apply for funding must have a connection with researchers or existing research networks. What does this mean?
- How many researchers do I have to engage?
- Do I need research experience to take part in this program?
- Do I need to have experience in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) or comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) to apply for this funding?
- Do members of stakeholder groups or communities need to be involved in the project?
- Do I need to use the PCORI Engagement Awards Evaluation Reporting Tool for my evaluation?
- How much time will I spend taking part in the Learning Network?
- Can I talk with someone from the EA Program about my project idea?
- Can I use a tool or resource that I did not develop?
- Does the Principal Investigator (PI) or Project Lead (PL) of the original PCORI project that made the tool or resource have to be included in the Capacity Building Engagement Award?
- Can I use multiple engagement resources and tools to scale up or adopt?