Tribal Early Childhood and Family Economic Well-being Research and Evaluation Grants (Tribal Research Center)
HHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
Supports a national center leading culturally responsive research, measurement work, secondary data analysis, and training across tribal child care, Head Start/Early Head Start, home visiting, and Tribal TANF and family economic well-being programs.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)ACF's page describes the center's scope but publishes no award amount; the figure appears only in the Grants.gov NOFO.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Described on the OPRE grants page as anticipated. OPRE has run the Tribal Research Center as a recompeted mechanism for over 20 years; no due date is published on ACF's own site.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Organizations able to assemble a team with expertise across all named program areas and to engage Indigenous program administrators and staff; OPRE makes no grants to individuals or for direct services. Funds are pooled from Head Start, Child Care, MIECHV, and Social Services Research and Demonstration authorities.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- tribal tanf · culturally grounded measurement · secondary data analysis · early childhood · dissemination
- Apply at
- https://acf.gov/opre/grants#Grant-TFE
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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