- Award mechanisms
- Research Award
- Pilot Award
- New Investigator Award
- Postdoctoral Award
- Predoctoral Award
- Pilot Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (Pilot CPPRA)
- Full Community Partnered Participatory Research Award (Full CPPRA)
- Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative (MSCI)
- Tobacco Policy Research Centers (TPRC)
- Smoke and Vape Free Scholars Initiative
- Cornelius Hopper Disparities Award Supplement
- Student Research Supplement
- Research Priorities
- award processes
- Past Calls for Applications
- Key Dates
Pilot Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (Pilot CPPRA)
**Please Note: the CPPRA Award mechanism has a separate Request for Applications (RFA), which must be read and adhered to by applicant teams. The separate RFA can be found on TRDRP's website under Funding Opportunities**
Purpose: The goal of the Pilot CPPRA is to provide initial support for partnered research addressing tobacco-related health disparities with a strong rationale and potential to inform a tobacco prevention or treatment intervention in the future.
The Pilot CPPRA provides up to 2 years of support for the initial phase of a project, including testing the acceptability and feasibility of methods, strengthening collaborative relationships, developing tools and methods for a later intervention, collecting preliminary data, and demonstrating proof-of-principle to support the feasibility of a new paradigm or research hypothesis.
A Pilot CPPRA may have a specific aim focused on developing, strengthening, and/or evaluating the community-academic research partnership. Collaborative teams can be newly developed or new to tobacco science. Results from Pilot CPPRAs should enhance the team’s ability to leverage future funding from TRDRP or other funders.
Award Overview:
- Maximum award amount per year: $500,000 per year (Direct Costs)
- Community Co-PI budget max: $250,000 per year
- Academic Co-PI budget max: $250,000 per year
- Maximum Duration: 2 years
- Allowable direct costs: Salaries, trainee/internship costs, fringe benefits, supplies, participant incentives, subcontracts*, equipment (costing more than $5,000), travel, publishing costs and other dissemination activities.
- Travel:
- Project-related travel: As needed in each Co-PI budget (must be fully justified)
- Travel to TRDRP conference (Mandatory): $750 for the Community Co-PI; $750 for the Academic Co-PI
- Scientific conference travel: maximum of $2,000 per year for the Community Co-PI; maximum of $2,000 per year for the Academic Co-PI
- Indirect costs: Full indirect costs are allowed to non-UC institutions. Indirect costs to UC campuses are capped at 35 percent, or 25 percent for projects conducted off-campus.
*All out-of-state sub-contracts and collaborations must be well-justified; please note that funding for out-of-state expenses is extremely limited and TRDRP does not encourage such expenses.
Award requirements: The nuanced requirements for the CPPRA Award mechanism and expectations for Community and Academic Co-PIs are explicated in the standalone CPPRA RFA.
Review criteria: Detailed review criteria are described in the CPPRA RFA.
For more details, read the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award Request for Applications. It will be posted on Thursday, July 3, 2025.