What does the Dana Frontiers program not fund?

Specific to the Dana Frontiers program, we are not interested in funding:  

• Projects that primarily aim to increase awareness about brain health or specific brain-based diseases. (See Brain Awareness Week grants) 
• Projects that primarily aim to remedy a perceived “knowledge deficit” in communities and public audiences without creating multidirectional relationships, fostering mutual learning, or collaboration.  
• Research projects that draw on community input only to improve recruitment, participation, or shaping research questions, practices, or outcomes, without building genuine partnerships that directly benefit communities. 
• Projects that primarily produce static deliverables such as reports or websites without developing them in partnership with the communities they intend to serve. 
• Performances, art, films, or exhibits, except as part of larger sustained, multidirectional and collaborative community engagement. 
• Projects focused only on engagement among academics or experts, unless they also build skills, resources, capacity, or opportunities for connection with non-scientific communities. 

For expanded terms, conditions, and policies, please see our General Grant Guidelines.