Aging Services and Gerontology
Practice, policy, and services for older adults, caregiving, and late-life health.
66 opportunities · 54 traditional · 12 nontraditional
Traditional (54)
- Research Project Grant (R01)Federal grantNational Institutes of HealthThe NIH's core investigator-initiated research grant, and the mechanism most social work research careers are measured against. Supports a discrete, hypothesis-driven project over several years.up to $250k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthProtected time and structured mentorship for an early-career researcher moving toward independence. The most common K for social work faculty coming out of a postdoc or a first tenure-track year.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Health services research grantsFederal grantAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityFunds research on how care is organised, delivered, paid for and made safer — including the social care integration and care-coordination questions social workers own in practice.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Health Systems ResearchFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsResearch on care for veterans across the largest integrated health system in the country, with career development awards alongside project grants and unusually rich linked administrative data.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Jul, Nov
- Disability and aging research and demonstration grantsFederal grantAdministration for Community LivingCommunity living, independent living and long-term services research, including the NIDILRR portfolio — the largest federal funder of disability research led with disabled people rather than about them.$200k–$4M · Annual cycle
- Patient-centered outcomes research fundingFederal grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research InstituteComparative effectiveness research where patients and caregivers are partners in the study team from question-setting onward — a structure that rewards the engagement skills social work already teaches.$500k–$10M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Grants in aging and serious illness careFoundation grantThe John A. Hartford FoundationImproving care for older adults — age-friendly health systems, family caregiving, and serious illness care. Historically the single most important private funder of gerontological social work.$250k–$3M · By invitation
- Responsive grants in agingFoundation grantRRF Foundation for AgingOne of the few foundations funding aging research and practice on a genuinely responsive, applicant-driven basis, across caregiving, economic security, housing and social isolation.$25k–$250k · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
- Broad Pragmatic Studies PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)PCORI's largest open competition for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research: randomised trials, natural experiments or observational studies. Cycle 3 2026 names special emphasis areas including perinatal mental health and substance use, cancer survivorship, diabetes, and pain management in people with IDD or dementia.up to $12M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- AHA Career Development AwardEarly-career awardAmerican Heart AssociationThree-year career development funding for healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of a first professional appointment, explicitly covering population research science as well as basic and clinical science. The population-science lane is where cardiovascular caregiving, behavioral and disparities research by social work faculty fits.up to $231k · Annual cycle · Dec
- AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)Training & capacityAmerican Heart AssociationSmall-scale research project funding for faculty at teaching-focused colleges and universities that have not been major NIH recipients, covering the full range of basic, clinical and population research on cardiovascular disease and brain health while giving students exposure to research. A realistic capacity-building route for social work faculty at non-research-intensive institutions.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Sep
- Alzheimer's Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship For All (AACSFA)FellowshipAlzheimer's AssociationMentored fellowship for licensed, practicing clinicians building a research career in Alzheimer's and all other dementias. Applications are welcomed from all research areas including psychosocial investigations, care interventions and health equity, so a doctorally trained clinician in a patient-contact discipline can propose caregiving or care-delivery research.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship For All (AARFA)FellowshipAlzheimer's AssociationPostdoctoral fellowship supporting scientists transitioning toward research independence in Alzheimer's and dementia research. The program page states applicants may pursue basic science, translational studies, clinical research and psychosocial investigations, including care interventions and health equity, making it open to post-doctoral social work researchers in dementia care.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- BWH Roybal Center (C4HDS) Behavioral Trials on Medication Use in Older AdultsPilot / seed fundingBrigham and Women's Hospital Roybal Center / Center for Healthcare Delivery SciencesFunds two-year randomized clinical trials of behavioral interventions that improve how older adults use evidence-based medications, covering non-adherence, overuse and underuse. This is one of the most openly external Roybal calls: researchers based anywhere in the U.S., including at nonprofit organisations, may hold the award, and collaboration with experienced pragmatic-trial teams is encouraged rather than required.$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Dec
- James L. Rudolph Career Development Award (NIA IMPACT Collaboratory)Early-career awardNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A two-year mentored career development award preparing early-stage investigators to lead embedded pragmatic clinical trials that improve dementia care. It funds the preparatory work — secondary data analysis, intervention development, outcome measure development — rather than a trial itself, which suits social work researchers building toward a first large dementia-care award.$240k · Annual cycle · Sep
- National Ataxia Foundation Research Grants and Fellowships (FY2027)Foundation grantNational Ataxia FoundationNAF runs seven parallel mechanisms on one calendar, spanning the whole career ladder: a Graduate Research Fellowship, a Pre-doctoral Fellowship aimed at diversity, a Post-doctoral Fellowship, an Early Career Investigator Award, a Research Seed Money Grant, the Pioneer SCA3 Translational Award and the Michael Lundquist MSA-C Grant. The Foundation funds basic, translational and clinical ataxia research. It does not say on this page whether patient and caregiver quality-of-life studies qualify, so confirm scope with staff before writing a psychosocial proposal.$25k–$100k · Annual cycle · Nov, Mar
- NIA IMPACT Collaboratory ePCT Planning Grant ProgramPilot / seed fundingNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A twelve-month planning award to produce a fully specified, implementation-ready protocol for a Stage IV effectiveness embedded pragmatic trial in dementia care, restricted this cycle to non-pharmacological interventions for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in nursing homes. Requires a nursing home organisational partner, at least two nursing home sites, and a resident and care-partner advisory board.up to $150k · Annual cycle · Jun, Sep
- NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Pilot Grants ProgramPilot / seed fundingNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)Funds pilot embedded pragmatic clinical trials of non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia and their care partners, run inside real health care systems. Awards are large for a pilot mechanism and the design requirement — two or more health care systems or sites — makes this a natural fit for social work researchers who already hold agency or health-system partnerships.up to $300k · Annual cycle · Jul, Nov
- NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Phase I and Phase II (R43/R44)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIH SEED / America's Seed Fund)R&D funding for US small businesses developing health-related products — including digital health tools, behavioral and services technologies. Phase I establishes feasibility; Phase II supports full development toward commercialization. The current parent announcements are PA-27-100 (SBIR) and PA-27-101 (Phase IIB).$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Sep
- NIH Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, Phase I and Phase II (R41/R42)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIH SEED / America's Seed Fund)The partnership version of the small business programme: a US small business applies jointly with a non-profit research institution, which is the route by which a university social work researcher can lead the science. Current parent announcement is PA-27-102.$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Sep
- NIA Academic Leadership Career Award (K07 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Early-career awardNational Institute on Aging (NIA), NIHSupports an established investigator to build research infrastructure, mentoring and curriculum that expands aging and Alzheimer's research capacity at their academic institution. Combines salary support, research development funds and a programme coordinator.up to $150k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Alzheimer's Association Research Grant For All (AARGA)Early-career awardAlzheimer's AssociationEarly-career investigator award across all areas of Alzheimer's and related dementia research, explicitly including psychosocial studies, care interventions, and health equity research — not only basic science.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health — NIGMS-issued, with NIA among the participating institutesInvestigator-initiated research awards in basic, social, clinical, behavioural or translational science for faculty at institutions with limited NIH funding, coupled with building student research opportunities and institutional research capacity.up to $100k per year · Several times a year · May, Sep
- NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Summer Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Training & capacityNational Institute on Aging (NIA), NIHFunds institutions to run 8-14 week summer research experiences in Alzheimer's and related dementias research for high school students, undergraduates or science teachers, with the aim of widening the AD/ADRD research workforce.up to $200k per year · Annual cycle · May
- Horizon Europe Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive SocietyFederal grantEuropean Commission – European Research Executive Agency (REA)The social science pillar of the EU's research programme, and by budget the largest single source of European funding for welfare and inequality research. Three destinations structure it: democracy and governance, cultural heritage and the creative industries, and social and economic transformations — the last carrying 2026 topics on strengthening Europe's social model, tackling child poverty and rethinking long-term care policy, all directly commissioning social work evidence. Funding is by multi-country consortium, which makes it a route for a social work faculty to join or lead a cross-natiAmount not published · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct
- Community Building and Systems Change Grants (Inquiry Form)Foundation grantPoint32Health FoundationMulti-year general operating support from the health plan foundation formed by the Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan foundations, backing equity-focused work on healthy aging, food access and behavioral health across five New England states. Two tracks: organizing, policy, advocacy and systems change affecting older adults; and community building that advances community power. General operating and capacity dollars can carry participatory research and evaluation embedded in an aging-focused organization's work.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Sep
- Roybal Centers Cross-Center Call for Proposals: Clinical Trials on Behavioral Interventions in AgingPilot / seed fundingNIA Edward R. Roybal Centers for Translational Research (national coordinating site)A single coordinated call routed across 14 NIA-funded Roybal Centers, each with its own aging theme, funding fully powered clinical trials of behavioral interventions in aging framed by the NIH Stage Model. Applicants pick the center whose theme fits their proposal and follow that center's instructions; several centers accept investigators from any U.S. institution, which makes this the main externally-open door into university-hosted Roybal pilot infrastructure.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Dec
- Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant (SSHR-TG)Federal grantSocial Science Research Council, SingaporeSingapore's flagship competitive grant for social science and humanities research on issues of strategic relevance to Singapore and the region, run by the Social Science Research Council. Three funding tiers scale from a single project up to a multi-year research centre, so it can carry anything from a focused study to sustained programmatic work on ageing, family, mental health or social policy. Joint submissions across eligible host institutions are permitted, and collaboration with local or overseas partner organisations is allowed.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Aug
- SSCR Career Development Awards (Round 3)Training & capacityNIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR)Training and development awards for social care researchers and practitioners to build the skills needed to reach the next step of their research careers. Run by the NIHR School for Social Care Research, a research and capacity-building partnership of English universities with its directorate at the University of York, focused on adult social care. One of the very few UK awards aimed squarely at practitioner-researchers rather than established academics.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Sep
- Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer-term Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthDefinitive effectiveness trials of therapeutic and service interventions for the post-acute phase of mental health conditions in youth, adults and older adults, including tests of mechanism.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Advancing Healthcare for Older Adults from Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (with NIA, NINR, NCI)Supports multi-level healthcare research for adults 65+ in health disparity populations: screening and clinical care guidelines in primary care, shared decision-making with patients and caregivers, and care coordination strategies.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Parkinson's Foundation Community GrantsFoundation grantParkinson's FoundationA $1 million annual pool for locally operated programs serving people with Parkinson's disease and their care partners. Two of the three published focus areas are squarely social-work territory: mental health and emotional wellbeing (anxiety, depression, social isolation) and care partner support, training and resources. The Foundation asks that funded programs be impactful, sustainable, scalable and measurable, which is the opening for an evaluation component designed with a researcher. Since 2011 the program has put more than $13.9 million into 1,065 community-based programs.$10k–$25k · Annual cycle · Jan
- Health Services Research in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (HSR-ADRD)Foundation grantAlzheimer's AssociationTargeted funding program for health services research strengthening dementia detection, diagnosis and post-diagnostic care pathways, examining barriers to timely access, quality and care coordination across the care ecosystem. One of the closest fits in the disease-foundation world for social work researchers studying service delivery, care navigation and disparities in dementia care.up to $250k · Annual cycle · May, Jul
- Pathway to Stop DiabetesEarly-career awardAmerican Diabetes AssociationThe ADA's flagship long-horizon award for early-career diabetes scientists, pairing multi-year unrestricted-style funding with senior mentorship. ADA describes the program as supporting innovative basic, clinical, translational, epidemiological, behavioral or health services research relevant to any diabetes type or complication, which admits diabetes self-management, care-delivery and behavioral work.up to $1.6M · Annual cycle · Feb, May
- HDSA HD Human Biology Project (and companion HD Human Experience Project)Foundation grantHuntington's Disease Society of AmericaHDSA's flagship fellowship funds research on Huntington's disease as it occurs in people, using patient samples and clinical data. Read the scope carefully before applying as a social scientist: psychosocial, quality-of-life and behavioural projects are explicitly out of scope for the Human Biology Project itself. HDSA states on this same page that it launched a companion stream in 2026, the HD Human Experience Project, aimed at the cognitive, psychiatric and behavioural features of HD and at rehabilitation approaches, which is where a social work investigator's project belongs. A meaningful cup to $90k per year · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jul
- IMPACT Collaboratory Health Care Systems Scholars ProgramTraining & capacityNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A one-year mentored immersion placing mid-career investigators inside a health care system to build durable partnerships, learn the system's workflows and priorities, and lay groundwork for future embedded pragmatic trials in dementia care. It funds relationship and capacity building rather than a discrete study, which is unusual and well matched to social work's practice-partnership tradition.$120k · Annual cycle · Apr, May
- Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Pilot ProgramPilot / seed fundingTexas RCMAR — University of Texas Medical Branch, UT San Antonio and UT Austin consortium (NIA-funded)A one-year mentored pilot award for behavioral and social science research on health and aging in under-represented populations, with particular emphasis on Hispanic communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Scholars get structured career development alongside the money — proposal development, IRB, data collection, presentations, publications — explicitly aimed at positioning them for a K01 or R01. The three-university consortium structure means the award is not confined to a single campus.up to $40k · Annual cycle · Mar
- Healthy Aging Grant ProgramFoundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundGrants for projects improving the health of older Michiganders across access to care, aging in place, caregiver support, behavioral health, nutrition and food security, and age-friendly communities. Funded work has included landscape analyses, pilot evaluations and toolkit development.up to $750k · Annual cycle · Mar, Jun
- GSA Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Student Research AwardPrize or challengeGerontological Society of AmericaA paper competition recognizing original, unpublished empirical aging research by GSA Behavioral and Social Sciences Section student and early career members, with separate pre-dissertation and dissertation-level prizes. Winners receive a cash prize and are recognized at the BSS Section event during GSA's Annual Scientific Meeting. Open to social work doctoral students doing gerontological research.$500 · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul
- Alzheimer's Association Research Grant (AARG)Early-career awardAlzheimer's AssociationPilot funding for early-career faculty to develop preliminary data, test procedures and build hypotheses in dementia research. Sits within the Association's International Research Grant Program, which also funds dementia care and health services research.$140k–$200k · Annual cycle · Feb, May
- Academic Research Grants ProgramFoundation grantBorchard Foundation Center on Law and AgingSmall research grants for scholarship on new or improved public policies, laws and programmes that improve quality of life for older adults, especially those isolated by poverty, language, culture, disability or lack of education. Results must be publishable in academic journals.up to $20k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct
- Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC)Training & capacityCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlFive-year center grants funding academic injury and violence prevention research centers to run core operations, fill evidence gaps, evaluate interventions and train injury control professionals. Eleven centers are funded for 2024-2029.$849k per year · Periodic calls · Jan
- NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Training & capacityNational Institute on Aging (NIA), NIHFunds institutions to run a postbaccalaureate research education programme in Alzheimer's and related dementias research. Participants spend 75% effort on research for nine months plus 25% on academic and professional development.up to $400k per year · Annual cycle · May
- AGESW Pre-Dissertation Fellows ProgramFellowshipAssociation for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW)Early-doctoral fellowship in gerontological social work: a $1,200 stipend plus paid registration for the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting, one-year AGESW and GSA memberships, ten hours of professional development and ongoing mentoring.$1k stipend · Annual cycle · Mar, Jun
- US Programs GrantsFoundation grantIslamic Relief USAGrants to small US nonprofits delivering food security, healthcare, livelihood and community development services. The community development category explicitly names domestic violence intervention, at-risk youth programmes, special-needs inclusivity, senior programming and nonprofit capacity building — a viable route for a community agency partnered with a social work researcher to fund service delivery and the capacity to evaluate it.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Health Fund Grant Programs (Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health, Capacity Building)Foundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundThe Michigan Health Endowment Fund is a statewide fund created under Michigan law from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan restructuring, making grants to improve health and wellness across the state with a particular remit for children and seniors. Its 2026 grantmaking runs four programmes: Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health and Capacity Building. The Fund describes working with grantees to develop ideas and evaluate impact, so evaluation partnerships are within its normal way of working, and behavioural health is being folded into the Healthy Aging and Healthy Kids programmes Amount not published · Annual cycle
- NHLBI Early Career Investigator Awards and Supplements (K01, K08, K23, K25, K99/R00, K22, R03, R38/K38)Early-career awardNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIHNHLBI's consolidated early-career page, and the single most useful entry point for a social work researcher whose work touches heart, lung, blood or sleep conditions. The K01 here is described in terms that read as an invitation to social science: highly innovative research in humans across epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes research and IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE. Alongside it sit the K08 and K23 for clinically trained applicants, the K25 for quantitatively trained applicants moving into health research, the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence for postdocs, the K22 career transition award, and a lAmount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- AmeriCorps Arkansas State GrantsFederal grantEngage Arkansas (Arkansas Service Commission)Engage Arkansas subgrants AmeriCorps State operational funds to Arkansas organisations and, on the same page, sets out the VISTA, NCCC and AmeriCorps Seniors routes for organisations whose work does not fit the state stream. The scale gate here is unusually low — operational grants support the equivalent of at least five full-time members, against the 10 to 20 members several other commissions require — which makes it one of the more accessible national service doors for a small community agency working with a university research partner.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Humanities and Social Sciences research programs (Academic Research Fellowships and career-stage grants)Federal grantNational Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)Korea's national research funder runs a laddered set of humanities and social sciences programs spanning master's and doctoral student fellowships, Academic Research Fellowships for PhD holders without a permanent post, and career-stage research grants for early-career, mid-career and distinguished scholars. It also runs domestic and international collaborative research grants and larger International Research Group and Institute grants. The international tracks are the realistic entry point for a non-Korean social work researcher, who joins as a collaborator on a Korea-based lead's grant.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard)FellowshipJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)A 12 to 24 month funded postdoctoral fellowship placing an overseas researcher with a host researcher at a Japanese university or research institute, explicitly open to all fields of the humanities and social sciences. The host applies on the fellow's behalf and can separately seek a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow to cover the cooperative research costs, so the fellowship carries both salary-equivalent support and a route to project money. A viable path for a social work researcher pursuing comparative or Japan-focused work on ageing, family policy or welfare systems.Amount not published · Several times a year
- USC AD/ADRD RCMAR Scientist Pilot AwardsPilot / seed fundingUSC Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (NIA-funded, USC Schaeffer Center)Selects three RCMAR Scientists a year for one-year pilot projects on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, framed around the health and economic wellbeing of minority elder populations. The centre states plainly that it encourages non-USC applicants, so an early-career social work researcher elsewhere can hold a pilot plus the mentoring structure that goes with it.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Humana Foundation grants (Connected Healthy Lives; Research)Foundation grantThe Humana FoundationCorporate foundation grantmaking on health equity and access, focused on seniors, veterans and school-aged children. The Connected Healthy Lives cycle takes open proposals; separate Research and Health Equity Innovation funds are invitation-only.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Grantmaking ProgramFoundation grantThe SCAN FoundationFoundation grantmaking on long-term care, Medicare-Medicaid integration, Medicare health and social supports, and multisector plans for aging, including data-driven research and work centring the lived experience of older adults from underrepresented communities.Amount not published · By invitation
- Research GrantsFoundation grantRRF Foundation for AgingApplied research grants for projects with immediate, direct implications for adults aged 60 and older. Priorities are caregiving, economic security, housing, social connection and age equity; interventional trials, translational studies, and health services and policy research are favoured.Amount not published · Several times a year · May, Nov
Nontraditional (12)
- Cultivating Connected Communities Prize ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA two-phase national prize competition for existing community garden projects that expand accessibility, healthy eating and social connection for people with disabilities and older adults, including accessibility upgrades, adaptive tools and inclusive programming.$4k–$8k · Periodic calls · May, Jul, Aug, Oct
- NIHHIS Heat Tabletop Exercise Design Challenge 2026Prize or challengeNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / National Integrated Heat Health Information SystemA federal prize competition inviting submission of situational manuals for extreme-heat tabletop exercises, aimed at community heat resilience and preparedness. A million-dollar purse for a written deliverable, not a grant proposal.up to $1M · Periodic calls · Jun, Jul, Aug
- 2026 NIA Mentorship Prize CompetitionPrize or challengeNational Institute on Aging (NIA), Office of Strategic Extramural Programs, NIHA prize that pays faculty for mentoring rather than for a project. Mentees nominate you; if you win, $100,000 goes to your institution to buy you time and to build shareable mentorship resources.$100k · Periodic calls · Aug, Oct, Nov
- Point32Health Foundation GrantsParticipatory grantmakingPoint32Health Foundation (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan foundations)Multi-year general operating support from a New England health plan foundation for community-led work on equitable aging and on communities affected by disinvestment, using a trust-based process built from community listening sessions.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Sep
- AARP Community ChallengePrize or challengeAARPAnnual competitive quick-action grants making communities more livable for people aged 50 and older. Three tracks: Flagship grants, Capacity-Building Microgrants paired with coaching and cohort learning, and Demonstration grants funding replicable local efforts.$3k–$25k · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Capacity Building GrantsTraining & capacityArchstone FoundationGrants to strengthen California nonprofits serving older adults at a structural level — building organizational ability to deliver on mission over time, rather than covering routine operating or ongoing programme costs.up to $50k · Periodic calls
- AARP Purpose PrizePrize or challengeAARPAn annual prize for people aged 50 and over who founded nonprofits serving the needs of Americans 50+, giving cash plus a year of organisational support to grow the nonprofit's impact.$75k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- The CARE FundParticipatory grantmakingThe CARE Fund (Care for All with Respect and Equity)A philanthropic collaboration pooling resources to improve the livelihoods of paid and unpaid caregivers and the quality of care across generations. Stated targets are public investment in paid family and medical leave, early care and education, aging and disability care, and quality care jobs, which is squarely the evidence terrain of care-work research.Amount not published · By invitation
- Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging FundsParticipatory grantmakingMassachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds (MA DPH / Health Resources in Action, fiscal agent)A statewide pool built from hospital Determination of Need community benefit contributions that re-distributes money to communities historically left out of health investment, funding policy/systems/environmental change, healthy aging work and Community Health Improvement Plans.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Health at Home ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA three-phase prize competition to scale advanced community care networks led by community care hubs that integrate health care and community services for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, with measurable implementation progress required at each phase.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Apr, May, Jul, Aug
- Cultivating Connected Communities ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA phased national challenge funding community-garden initiatives that improve accessibility and food access for older adults and people with disabilities, including accessibility upgrades, adaptive tools and inclusive programming aimed at reducing social isolation.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jul, Aug, Oct
- Caregiver Artificial Intelligence Prize ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA three-phase competition (design, implementation, scaling) for AI-enabled tools supporting family caregivers (Track 1) and expanding the direct care workforce (Track 2). Teams must develop, test and scale a working tool rather than propose a study.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Sep
Other clusters
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)
- Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-Research
- Black and African Diaspora Focused-Research
- Child Welfare
- Communities and Neighborhoods
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- Disability
- Gender
- Gender-Based Violence
- Health
- History
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy
- International Social Work and Global Issues
- Immigrants and Refugees
- LatinX Focused-Research
- Mental Health
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
- Organizations and Management
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Design and Measurement
- Research on Social Work Education
- School Social Work
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Social Work Practice
- Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors
- Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate Justice
- Work and Work-Life Policies and Programs