The funding database
1000 funding opportunities for social work research — 500 traditional and 500 nontraditional — shelved on the 29 SSWR submission clusters and searchable across 75 Special Interest Groups, plus topic, timing, career stage and indicative award size.
Built for the SSWR Task Force on Safeguarding Social Work Research, by its Research Infrastructure and Funding Innovation Working Group.
Award sizes and dates here are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Confirm amounts, eligibility and deadlines on the funder's own page before applying.
Search by keyword, funder, cluster, Special Interest Group, topic, timing, career stage and award size. Sort, select, and save what you find to your lists and tracker.
Shelves
Every SSWR cluster
The database is structured on the clusters you already choose between when you submit an abstract to the SSWR annual conference, so the track your work goes under is the shelf its funding sits on. 29 of 29 clusters currently have entries.
- Adolescent and Youth DevelopmentHealthy development, transitions, and well-being of adolescents and young adults.131 opportunities
- Aging Services and GerontologyPractice, policy, and services for older adults, caregiving, and late-life health.80 opportunities
- American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)Research with and by Indigenous nations and communities, including tribal sovereignty over data.58 opportunities
- Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-ResearchHealth, social, cultural, community, and policy research centred on Asian and Pacific Islander populations.15 opportunities
- Black and African Diaspora Focused-ResearchResearch centred on Black and African-descended communities across the diaspora.29 opportunities
- Child WelfareThe child welfare service system: prevention, foster care, permanency, and system reform.92 opportunities
- Communities and NeighborhoodsPlace-based conditions, community practice, organising, and neighbourhood effects.505 opportunities
- Crime and Criminal JusticePolicing, courts, incarceration, reentry, and justice-system involvement.66 opportunities
- DisabilityDisability studies, access, supports, and the rights and participation of disabled people.89 opportunities
- GenderGender as a structuring force in social conditions, services, and policy.85 opportunities
- Gender-Based ViolenceIntimate partner violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and violence against women and children.45 opportunities
- HealthPhysical health, health services, health equity, and integrated behavioural health care.416 opportunities
- HistoryHistorical scholarship on social work, social welfare, and the institutions they built.32 opportunities
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare PolicyIncome, wealth, safety-net programmes, benefits administration, and anti-poverty policy.415 opportunities
- International Social Work and Global IssuesCross-national and global research, humanitarian response, and social development.116 opportunities
- Immigrants and RefugeesMigration, asylum, resettlement, immigration enforcement, and immigrant well-being.32 opportunities
- LatinX Focused-ResearchResearch centred on Latina/o/x communities, including language access and mixed-status families.20 opportunities
- Mental HealthMental health services, treatment, prevention, suicide, and psychiatric care.183 opportunities
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their FamiliesService members, veterans, military families, and the systems of care around them.32 opportunities
- Organizations and ManagementHuman service organisations, leadership, workforce, financing, and implementation.210 opportunities
- Race and EthnicityRacism, racial and ethnic discrimination, anti-racist practice, and racial equity policy.140 opportunities
- Research Design and MeasurementMethods, measurement, data infrastructure, and analytic innovation across the field.345 opportunities
- Research on Social Work EducationTeaching, field education, curriculum, and the preparation of the social work workforce.72 opportunities
- School Social WorkSchool-based services, education systems, and student well-being.46 opportunities
- Sexual Orientation and Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ populations, affirming services, and sexual and gender minority health.37 opportunities
- Social Work PracticeDirect practice, interventions, clinical models, and practitioner decision-making.176 opportunities
- Substance Misuse and Addictive BehaviorsSubstance use, addiction treatment, harm reduction, overdose, and recovery supports.75 opportunities
- Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate JusticeClimate, disaster, environmental hazard, and sustainable development as social work concerns.56 opportunities
- Work and Work-Life Policies and ProgramsEmployment, labour conditions, care work, and work–family policy.56 opportunities
Cluster names are taken verbatim from the SSWR call for papers; the one-line scope notes under them are ours, written to help you pick a shelf, and are not SSWR's words.
Nontraditional funding — participatory funds, agency evaluation contracts, prizes, community foundations, in-kind resources — is often the hardest to find. If you know of an opportunity that is not yet in the database, please add it.
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