The lead applicant organization must be a community-based organization that is actively engaged in serving communities that experience systemic racism. The CBO that applies as the lead applicant organization must work in partnership with an experienced research team that will help to design and carry out the pilot research activities associated with the proposed project. Active collaboration between the CBO applicant organizations and their research partners must occur prior to applying and should ensure an equitable division of responsibilities, effort, and resources among the CBO applicant organization, the research partner, and other project collaborators in carrying out the proposed pilot study.

We are also looking for research teams from diverse health and social service fields that have expertise in the three broad types of delivery and financing systems implicated in the S4A research agenda: (1) medical care; (2) public health; and (3) social and community services and supports. Because S4A is a research program, all applicants should ensure their team includes individuals with relevant expertise in scientific research design, data analysis methodologies, and scientific publication. Partnerships should also include individuals with knowledge of communities that experience forms of systemic racism, individuals with practical experience with leading systems change, and individuals with expertise in approaches for dismantling structural racism. We encourage applicants to include individuals with lived experience related to systemic racism as key members of the partnership.