Gender-Based Violence
Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and violence against women and children.
33 opportunities · 14 traditional · 19 nontraditional
Traditional (14)
- Research grants and the Graduate Research FellowshipFederal grantNational Institute of JusticeThe research arm of the Department of Justice: policing, courts, corrections, reentry, victimisation — plus a dedicated fellowship for doctoral students working on justice questions.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- FY26 Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBIPHRP) Health Services Research AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyFunds health services research that builds real-world evidence on deploying interventions, clinical guidelines or policies for psychological health conditions and TBI. Named focus sub-areas include suicide/sexual-assault postvention, crosscutting prevention of suicide and intimate partner and family violence, military and Family readiness, and access-to-care barriers. Community-based participatory research is required when prospectively enrolling human subjects.up to $4M · Annual cycle · May, Sep, Oct
- NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of CrimeFederal grantNational Institute of Justice (with the Office for Victims of Crime), U.S. Department of JusticeFunds research and evaluation on crime victims' needs and victim services. Category 1 covers law enforcement-based victim services and evaluations of other victim service programs; Category 2 covers technology-facilitated abuse, including nonconsensual deepfake images.up to $1.5M · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug
- OVC FY 2026 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula ProgramFederal grantOffice for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of JusticeNon-competitive formula funding from the Crime Victims Fund set-aside for victim services in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Allowable activities explicitly include conducting a needs assessment and developing a strategic plan alongside direct services.up to $650k · By invitation · Jun, Jul, Aug
- APF Visionary GrantsPilot / seed fundingAmerican Psychological FoundationTen grants of up to $20,000 for research, education or intervention projects on social problems: serving at-risk populations, violence prevention, behavior-health connections, stigma and prejudice reduction, and racial equity. Preference for pilot projects likely to attract later federal or foundation funding.up to $20k · Annual cycle
- Medical Forensic Access InitiativeFederal grantHHS Office on Women's Health (OASH)OWH NOFO WH-AST-26-004 funds practical, data-driven and scalable projects supporting states, tribal communities, health care systems and other entities to improve access to medical forensic examinations for women and girl survivors of violence. Because the design centers data collection and systems improvement, it is a direct fit for social work researchers who evaluate sexual assault response systems and SANE capacity.up to $1M · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug
- SVRI Research GrantFoundation grantSexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)An annual research grant for work on violence against women and violence against children in low- and middle-income countries, requiring feminist, intersectional and rights-based approaches and safe, ethical engagement of affected communities.$40k–$100k · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug
- Distinguished Scholar AwardsFellowshipHarry Frank Guggenheim FoundationIndividual research awards for work on the causes, manifestations and control of violence, including crime, punishment, family violence, and racial or ethnic conflict. Awards go to the individual scholar rather than the institution.$15k–$75k per year · Annual cycle · Jul, Sep
- Behavioral Health and Community Safety Partnerships (BH-CSP)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Supports communities in reducing the behavioral health impacts of crime, violence and disorder and improving outcomes for affected youth and families. Formerly known as ReCAST. Requires quarterly indicator reporting through SPARS.up to $750k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Emerging Scholar Awards (dissertation fellowship)Dissertation awardHarry Frank Guggenheim FoundationOne-year dissertation writing fellowship for doctoral candidates whose research addresses the causes, manifestations and control of violence and aggression, including crime, punishment and family violence.$25k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- 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
- National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)Federal grantBureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of JusticeNCHIP funds states, territories and tribes to improve the quality, timeliness and accessibility of criminal history records by integrating data across law enforcement, prosecution, courts and corrections. For social work researchers the value is the administrative-data infrastructure it builds: NCHIP-funded record systems are the backbone for research on protective orders, firearm prohibitors, reentry and justice-involved families, and awards routinely fund analytic and evaluation subcontracts.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- ANROWS Research GrantsEvaluation contractAustralia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS)Competitive research grants commissioned against Australia's National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023-2028, funded by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments and, for some streams, by philanthropic funds. Rounds are announced periodically against identified evidence gaps, with recent rounds focused on people who use domestic, family and sexual violence. Unusually open in who may lead: any Australian organisation capable of conducting research, not only universities.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI)Federal grantIndian Health Service, Office of Clinical and Preventive ServicesA congressionally mandated IHS grant program funding domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment across Indian Country: victim advocacy, intervention, case coordination, policy development, community response teams, sexual assault examiner programs and community and school education. IHS specifies evidence-based and practice-based models that are culturally appropriate and community-driven, so funded projects carry real evaluation and practice-research work.Amount not published · Periodic calls
Nontraditional (19)
- Grantmaking for gender justice by and for young peopleParticipatory grantmakingThird Wave FundActivist-led funding for gender justice organising by young people of colour, including rapid-response money that moves in weeks rather than the eighteen months a federal grant takes.$5k–$50k · Rolling / open
- Grants to end domestic violence and build health equityFoundation grantBlue Shield of California FoundationFunds prevention-oriented work on domestic violence and the economic conditions underneath it, including community-defined evidence that conventional evaluation designs miss.$25k–$300k · Periodic calls
- Opportunity GrantRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismFast small grants for activist groups facing an unanticipated, time-sensitive opening, covering advocacy and work to raise awareness, influence policy and shift public discourse. Decisions come within 15 business days.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- Security Grants and Opportunity GrantsRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismRolling rapid-response grants to feminist activists, organisations and movements — Security Grants when safety is at risk, Opportunity Grants for advocacy, awareness raising, policy influence and shifting public discourse.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- Security Grant (rapid response)Rapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismRapid grants for feminist activists and groups facing unanticipated, time-urgent safety and security risks. Receipt confirmed within 24 hours and decisions made within 15 business days.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- Survivor Leadership FundParticipatory grantmakingThe Freedom FundUnrestricted grants to organisations led by people with lived experience of trafficking and exploitation, covering programmes, staff and office costs, with country-specific application rounds.up to $20k per year · Periodic calls · Apr, May
- Leading From The South — Asia window (Women's Fund Asia)Participatory grantmakingWomen's Fund AsiaThe Asia window of Leading From The South, a Global-South-led consortium fund in which Southern women's funds — not Northern intermediaries — make the grant decisions. Women's Fund Asia awards multi-year grants in three tiers to organisations and networks led by women, girls, trans and intersex people working on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate justice and economic justice. The tiers reach from community-level frontline work through national advocacy to regional agenda-setting, and the multi-year form is long enough to carry evaluation and evidence-builAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Apoyos de Respuesta Rápida (rapid response grants)Rapid-response fundFondo de Acción Urgente de América Latina y el Caribe (FAU-LAC)FAU-LAC is a feminist rapid-response fund working across 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers three funding modalities, of which the Apoyo de Respuesta Rápida (ARRS) is the flagship: grants for the protection, integral security and collective care of movements in the region facing risks and threats, and for groups building transformations against systems of oppression and injustice. Requests are made through a dedicated intake portal rather than a fixed-date competition, which makes it a viable channel for urgent security, protection and accompaniment needs arising in theAmount not published · Rolling / open
- Doria Feminist Fund — Core, Project and Knowledge Production GrantsParticipatory grantmakingDoria Feminist FundA MENA-region feminist fund making core, project and knowledge-production grants to feminist organisations and collectives based in or working across the Middle East and North Africa. Decisions are made participatorily: an activist review committee reviews applications, gives feedback, builds the shortlist against movement priorities, joins due diligence and confirms the final grantees. The knowledge-production stream is the direct route for community-based research, documentation and evidence-building; core support funds the organisational capacity that makes such work possible.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Kosovo Women's FundParticipatory grantmakingKosovo Women's NetworkA small-grants fund run by the Kosovo Women's Network for women's organisations in Kosovo and the surrounding region, weighted toward groups serving rural and marginalised women and girls. Grants are small and flexible, and every grant is paired with tailored capacity development — grant writing, project management, financial management and advocacy — so the fund is as much a capacity-building instrument as a money instrument. That pairing is what lets a small rural organisation become a credible research or evaluation partner.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership – Bangladesh (RWVL-B)Participatory grantmakingManusher Jonno FoundationA national intermediary fund in Bangladesh that re-grants multi-year core funding to grassroots women's rights, feminist and community-based organisations and to networks led and managed by women and gender-diverse groups. The support is deliberately institutional rather than project-bound — institutional strengthening, grassroots implementation and movement-building — and applications open with a short Expression of Interest accepted in Bangla or English, which lowers the barrier for organisations that could never assemble a donor-standard English proposal. Manusher Jonno works across 53 distAmount not published · Periodic calls · Sep
- Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific — Rapid Response GrantsRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund Asia & PacificA feminist rapid-response fund for women and non-binary activists and organisations under threat across Asia and the Pacific. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis rather than against deadlines, and the fund also runs strategic support for defender communities alongside the emergency window. For research-adjacent work the relevant uses are security, relocation, urgent documentation of violations and protecting the people and records a longer evidence project depends on — the kind of cost no conventional research grant will move fast enough to cover.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Ukrainian Women's Fund — Calls for ProposalsParticipatory grantmakingUkrainian Women's FundA Ukrainian women's fund operating since 2000 that has run hundreds of grant competitions for women's and feminist NGOs and is currently reshaping its support around wartime needs. Its recent, now-closed calls show the shape of what it funds and are a fair guide to what returns: implementation of regional National Action Plan 1325 commitments by coalitions, pilot projects addressing conflict-related sexual violence, travel grants for activists, and support for women entrepreneurs creating jobs. The 1325 and CRSV lines are directly research- and evaluation-adjacent for social work scholars workAmount not published · Periodic calls
- 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
- Mama Cash grantmaking (Solidarity Fund and Spark Fund)Participatory grantmakingMama CashFlexible, long-term core support for self-led feminist groups — people who speak and act for themselves from lived experience of stigma, violence, exploitation and exclusion — including accompaniment beyond the grant.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Global Resilience FundRapid-response fundPurposeful (Global Resilience Fund)A pooled crisis-response fund that moves flexible money to girls and young feminists responding to acute and protracted emergencies, steered by local young advisors and an Activist Stewarding Circle.Amount not published · By invitation
- GrantTankPrize or challengeThe Jensen ProjectA funder-run 'think tank' plus grant programme for nonprofits serving adult female sex trafficking survivors, combining money with convenings, professional resources and shared learning across grantees.Amount not published · By invitation
- Fondo Lunaria Convocatorias (open calls for young women and trans youth collectives)Participatory grantmakingFondo Lunaria Mujer (Colombia)A Colombian feminist fund whose recurring calls resource collective processes led by young women and trans people, including groups with no legal registration and groups far from Bogota.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Rapid Response, Protection, and Advocacy & Alliance Building GrantsRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund Africa (UAF-Africa)A pan-African feminist fund that moves money in days, not months, for unanticipated and time-urgent situations. Three windows: rapid response, protection/security, and advocacy and alliance building.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Other clusters
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- Aging Services and Gerontology
- 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
- 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