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Purpose
The purpose of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine Ideas Grants is to spark the innovation, impact, people and purpose of our department. These grants are intended to provide financial and technical assistance as well as support to faculty, clinical, and non-clinical staff in fostering ideas in our three pillars.
The RFP will award 1 grant for each category, for a total of 3 awards.
Workforce Enrichment
Proposals that fall into this category involve internal-facing efforts to foster and maintain an innovative and impactful working environment. These include, but are not limited to, novel efforts to recruit, retain, support, and educate faculty and staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Health Equity
The principle of Health Equity recognizes that everyone deserves the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Proposals in this space are patient-facing and should be aimed at promoting equitable care in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Community. A wide range of applications are possible, and we favor projects that have near-term impact. We encourage applications from all providers, as well as those that are interdisciplinary.
Social Programs
The committee for social program focuses on initiatives that strengthen the communities we serve. Proposals should support efforts that engage and partner in community efforts through a lens of economic and civil reform.
Guidelines for Ideas Grants
Budget Justification
The detailed budget must be on the Ideas provided spreadsheet and list all direct and indirect costs associated with the proposed project for the entire project period, including a breakdown of these costs and how the total requested award amount was determined. See the Budget Justification Template.
Project Leads (PL) eligibility and funding recipients
Current Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine faculty, residents, fellows, and physician assistants are eligible to apply for Ideas grants as PL’s. Nurses and administrative staff may be collaborators but are not eligible to be project leads on Ideas grant projects. We encourage projects that involve multiple groups.
Eligible projects
Any type of non-research project. The department currently has Seed grants and the Ideas grants are not intended to compete with them. Projects should impact one of 3 domains: workforce enrichment, health equity in our patient community, and social programs within our community. Please identify which area your project is focused on. Projects are meant to be completed within 6 months.
Ideas grant usage
Unless specifically excluded in the Ideas grant guidelines and procedures, grant funds may be used for justifiable, necessary and reasonable project-related costs, including:
- consultancy fees
- travel to research site for data collection, etc.
- statistical analyses
- participant incentives
- laboratory materials
Download a PDF with information about Ideas Grant Guidelines and Restrictions.
Award offering schedule
For 2025, three Ideas grants will be offered (one per committee).
Proposal review process
Selected proposals will present to the Ideas core prior to project initiation.
Proposal review and presentation dates
Submitted proposals must be accepted by the vice-chair for workforce enrichment or designee for review by the Ideas core team. For 2025, Ideas grant applications open August 1st, 2025 and proposals will be due by November 3rd, 2025, and awarded by December 2025 for a January start date of your project. Target start date January 2026.
Ideas Grant Restrictions
Ideas grant use exclusions:
Salary support of project leads, fellows, or residents; conference fees, presentation costs or travel; publication fees
Ideas grant application limits:
A faculty member may be a project lead on only one Ideas grant per one-year period.
Ideas grant amounts:
An applicant may request up to $10,000 per project. 3 total projects.
Ideas grant proposal submission:
Proposals may be submitted starting August 1st, 2025 using ONLY the Ideas grant proposal form and must be submitted prior to the November 3rd, 2025 deadline. Submissions without this form will not be accepted.
Download a PDF with information about Ideas Grant Guidelines and Restrictions.
We are full of ideas!
