Stephen Lieberman

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Disability

Disability studies, access, supports, and the rights and participation of disabled people.

89 opportunities · 59 traditional · 30 nontraditional

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Pooled and participatory fundsParticipatory grantmakingBorealis PhilanthropyA set of pooled funds — including Black-led movement, disability inclusion and racial equity funds — where movement leaders help decide the grants, and where research is funded as a movement tool.$25k–$300k · By invitation
Grantmaking to organisations of persons with disabilitiesParticipatory grantmakingDisability Rights FundParticipatory grantmaking where disabled people sit on the panel that decides awards, funding disabled-led organisations in the global South to do their own research and advocacy.$5k–$60k · Periodic calls
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
Wellcome Snakebite Innovation PrizePrize or challengeChallenge Works (prize funded by Wellcome)A challenge prize for innovations that strengthen community response to snakebite, speed access to appropriate care, or improve treatment delivery in high-burden settings. Runs on prize stages, not a grant application.up to $6.3M · Periodic calls · Sep
Disability Frontlines FundParticipatory grantmakingThird Wave FundMulti-year unrestricted grants to disability justice work, awarded through what the fund describes as a participatory grantmaking process. Funds organizations, fiscally sponsored projects and individuals with projects.$10k–$50k per year · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug
Disability Rights Fund 2026 Grant RoundParticipatory grantmakingDisability Rights FundGrants direct to organisations of persons with disabilities to advance disability rights advocacy. Decision-making is led by disabled people, and grants support 12 months of organisation-defined work.up to $50k · Annual cycle · Jun, Aug
LymeX HealthathonPrize or challengeU.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) LymeX Innovation Accelerator, posted by NIHA $250,000 innovation sprint that pays for lived-experience narratives and community-identified priorities from patients, caregivers, and clinicians, then synthesises them into signals for federal decision-makers.$1k–$100k · Periodic calls · Aug
CIVICUS Solidarity FundParticipatory grantmakingCIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen ParticipationA member-led and member-resourced granting mechanism inside the CIVICUS alliance, designed to move small amounts of money to constituency-led groups that structurally cannot reach institutional donors. Priority goes to organisations of women, youth, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ people, labour groups, Indigenous peoples and rural communities, and to applicants in countries the CIVICUS Monitor rates closed, repressed or obstructed — which covers much of francophone West Africa and the Sahel. Eligible costs include core operating costs, legal action, media coverage, safety measures and commu$1k–$10k · Periodic calls
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
Disability Rights Fund — OPD GrantsParticipatory grantmakingDisability Rights FundA grantmaking collaborative in which persons with disabilities sit on the bodies that decide grants, funding organisations of persons with disabilities in the Global South to advance the CRPD, including their own advocacy research and documentation.$10k–$120k · Annual cycle · May, Jun
PICAN Climate Justice FundRapid-response fundPacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN)A community-driven re-granting model that moves climate and disaster money directly to Pacific frontline communities on the vouching of a trusted local node partner, with no formal proposal required.$2k–$7k · Rolling / open
Small Grant Opportunities (Growing Advocacy, Conference Access, Language Translation, Inclusive Transportation)Training & capacityNew York State Council on Developmental DisabilitiesA recurring set of small state-agency grants, including Growing Advocacy for organisations run and led by people with developmental disabilities, that can fund advocacy capacity, access costs and translation.$1k–$10k · Periodic calls
Awesome Foundation micro-grantsParticipatory grantmakingThe Awesome FoundationNo-strings $1,000 grants awarded monthly by autonomous local chapters of roughly ten micro-trustees each, for community, social innovation, accessibility and public-interest projects. Useful for small pilot documentation or community data work that cannot wait for a grant cycle.$1k · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
Disability Inclusion Fund — Collaborative GrantsParticipatory grantmakingBorealis Philanthropy (Disability Inclusion Fund)Two-year support for joint projects between two or more disability-led, disability-justice organisations in the US. Grantees are chosen by a committee made up mostly of disability advocates.$75k–$150k · Annual cycle · May, Jun
ED/IES Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ProgramPilot / seed fundingInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of EducationContracts for small businesses to develop and evaluate education technology. Includes a Direct to Phase II track specifically for commercialising evidence-based innovations originally created by university or non-profit researchers.$250k–$1M · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun
Disability Futures FellowsPrize or challengeFord Foundation (with the Mellon Foundation, administered by United States Artists)An unrestricted award to disabled artists, journalists and documentary filmmakers, designed with disabled practitioners. Fellows are nominated rather than self-applying.$50k · By invitation
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
WorkSafeBC Research Grants Program (Innovation Grants, Research Training Awards, Ralph McGinn Postdoctoral Fellowships)Federal grantWorkSafeBC (Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia)A workers' compensation board research program funding occupational health and safety work through several streams: innovation grants for applied, prototype, and exploratory projects; training awards for master's and doctoral students; a postdoctoral fellowship; and commissioned work on specific priorities and systematic reviews.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct
Elrha funding calls (R2HC research and Humanitarian Innovation Fund)Rapid-response fundElrhaThe single portal where Elrha posts its humanitarian research and innovation calls, including crisis-triggered R2HC calls for research responding to current or anticipated humanitarian health emergencies.Amount not published · Periodic calls
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
DBHDS Procurement (Behavioral Health Solicitations via eVA)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS)Virginia's behavioral health and developmental services authority competes its service, analytic and study contracts through eVA, the Commonwealth's eProcurement marketplace. This page sets out the rules, registration route and term-contract postings.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Global Genes RARE Patient Impact GrantsParticipatory grantmakingGlobal GenesA grant stream that puts money directly into rare disease patient advocacy organizations rather than into universities. Past cycles funded educational tools and resources to improve health equity in underserved and underrepresented rare disease populations, in-person convenings and community building, and programs addressing the health and mental wellbeing of the rare disease community, naming children, siblings, caregivers and care partners, and people who are grieving. That sibling-and-bereavement framing is rare in condition-foundation funding and maps directly onto family-systems social woAmount not published · Varies by programme
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
Disability Justice Funds (participatory grant-making)Participatory grantmakingADD InternationalFunds designed and awarded by panels of disabled women and young disabled people themselves, resourcing grassroots disabled people's organisations in Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Cambodia and Bangladesh.Amount not published · Periodic calls
Disability Inclusion FundParticipatory grantmakingBorealis PhilanthropyA pooled fund for disability justice work — policy advocacy, community organising, art and narrative change — with collaborative grants, joy grants and capacity-building support alongside project money.Amount not published · Periodic calls
MEAF National GrantsPilot / seed fundingMitsubishi Electric America FoundationSupports innovative model projects of national scope that increase employment for youth with disabilities. Model-project framing means demonstration and replication work rather than routine direct service.Amount not published · Varies by programme
Accessibility Fund cohort microgrants and storytelling supportTraining & capacityThe Accessibility FundA three-year cohort combining unrestricted microgrants with a nonprofit accelerator and storytelling support for grassroots disability organisations, mostly in the Global South.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Nov
ResDAC Free CMS Data Request AssistanceIn-kind resourceResearch Data Assistance Center, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCMS-funded expert help, at no charge, for researchers identifying which Medicare or Medicaid data files they need and preparing a data request that will actually be approved.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
DBHIDS Centralized Requests for Research (proposals, data requests, IRB unit approval)In-kind resourcePhiladelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), Research UnitSingle intake through which researchers seek Philadelphia DBHIDS support for studies involving its data, staff, programs or providers, including research proposals, behavioral health data requests, IRB unit approval and publication review.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
NHATS Sensitive and Restricted Data FilesIn-kind resourceNational Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), Johns Hopkins University with Westat, funded by the National Institute on AgingApplication-based access to NHATS sensitive files (including all National Study of Caregiving files) and restricted files with geographic data and CMS Medicare linkages, for research on late-life disability, family caregiving and care use.Not a cash award · Rolling / open

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