Engagement Award: Building Capacity for Small Organizations To Engage in Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) — Fall 2026 Cycle
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Two-year awards helping small community organisations prepare to engage in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. Awardees also receive PCORI technical assistance and join a peer learning network.
- Indicative award
- up to $300k (total award)Award total costs may not exceed $300,000 (direct plus indirect). The page publishes no floor.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Mar, OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-01 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.PFA opened Aug. 4, 2026. LOI deadline Oct. 1, 2026, 5 pm ET; invited applications due Jan. 11, 2027, 5 pm ET; earliest start June 1, 2027. Engagement Awards run Spring and Fall cycles (Spring 2026 LOI was Mar. 30, 2026). Applicants to this PFA may not apply to other Engagement Award opportunities in
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant organisation must have an average yearly operating budget of $1.5 million or less over the past two fiscal years; must be 501(c)(3) or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor; must not have received over $125,000 total in prior Engagement Award funding; must show current relationships with researchers and with patients/stakeholders. LOI required; application by invitation only.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community organisation capacity building · patient-centered cer · research partnership · peer learning network
- Apply at
- https://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/announcement/engagement-award-building-capacity-small-organizations-engage-patient-centered-comparative-clinical-effectiveness-research-cer-fall-2026-cycle
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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