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Physical health, health services, health equity, and integrated behavioural health care.
416 opportunities · 255 traditional · 161 nontraditional
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- 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
- Research grantsFoundation grantAmerican Foundation for Suicide PreventionA tiered ladder from pilot innovation grants through distinguished investigator awards, all focused on understanding and preventing suicide — including a dedicated postdoctoral track.$30k–$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov
- 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
- Evidence-based policy fundingFoundation grantArnold VenturesFunds rigorous evaluation — often randomised — of criminal justice, health and public finance interventions, and will pay for replication and for null results other funders avoid.$250k–$5M · Rolling / open
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research ProgramsFederal grantU.S. Department of DefenseDisease- and topic-specific programmes set annually by Congress, several of which fund psychosocial, caregiving and military-family research that has no obvious NIH home.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun, Jul
- Grants.gov — the federal opportunity indexIn-kind resourceU.S. federal governmentEvery federal discretionary funding notice, searchable and subscribable by keyword and agency. Not a funder — the index you set standing alerts on, so notices reach you rather than the reverse.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Behavioral health workforce education and trainingTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services AdministrationFunds field stipends, integrated-care training and workforce pipelines in schools of social work. Not a research grant, but it pays for the students and placements a research programme is built on.$300k–$2M · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- 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
- Scholarships, fellowships and research awardsDissertation awardNASW FoundationSmall named awards for social work students and researchers, including dissertation support and practice-improvement awards administered through the profession's membership association.$1k–$10k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual NRSA (F31)Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthDissertation-stage fellowship covering stipend, tuition and training costs while you finish the doctorate. A Diversity F31 runs in parallel under its own announcement.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- 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
- Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthTwo phases in one award: mentored postdoctoral time, then independent research funding that transfers with you to a faculty position. Carrying an R00 into the job market changes the conversation.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- 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
- Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21)Federal grantNational Institutes of HealthShort, higher-risk projects: feasibility work, new measures, early-stage intervention development. No preliminary data required, which is what makes it the usual first NIH grant for a social work researcher.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- 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
- Active funding opportunitiesFoundation grantRobert Wood Johnson FoundationA rotating portfolio built around health equity and the structural conditions that produce it, including Evidence for Action and Policies for Action, which fund research on policy levers outside the health sector.$100k–$1.5M · Periodic calls
- Behavioral health services and evaluation grantsTraining & capacitySubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationService delivery, workforce and infrastructure money rather than investigator-led science — but most awards carry an evaluation requirement, which is a durable route into funded applied research.$100k–$5M · Periodic calls
- 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
- Discovery and health research fundingFoundation grantWellcomeA large international funder whose mental health, climate and health, and discovery research portfolios all fund social science, with awards that can be held outside the United Kingdom.$500k–$5M · Periodic calls
- 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
- 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
- Community Health Matching Grant ProgramFoundation grantBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationTwo-year matching grants to Michigan nonprofit community organizations testing new approaches to a health problem. Suits a community agency partnering with a social work researcher on a pilot-and-evaluate design, since the foundation asks for evidence-based and community-inspired solutions across behavioral health, maternal and child health, senior health, nutrition and health care access.up to $25k per year · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Aug, Oct
- Open Competition: Implementation of Findings From PCORI's Research Investments PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds multicomponent implementation projects that move specific named PCORI-funded findings into practice, with a rigorous evaluation plan. Cycle 3 2026 evidence areas include pediatric OCD treatment, direct hospital admission for children, early palliative care in advanced cancer, and school-based caries prevention.up to $1.8M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Angelman Syndrome Foundation Call for Research ProposalsFoundation grantAngelman Syndrome FoundationAn open annual call funding one- and two-year Angelman syndrome projects at up to $100,000 a year. The published roadmap centres on UBE3A biology, therapeutic development, biomarkers and endpoints, and clinical care and innovation. That fourth cornerstone, covering symptom management, standardized protocols and care delivery, is the realistic entry point for a social work investigator, and the Foundation names seizures, sleep and motor challenges as priority problem areas. Be candid with yourself about fit: the Foundation does not advertise a dedicated behavioural, family or caregiver track.up to $100k per year · Annual cycle · Sep
- 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
- CURE Epilepsy Research Grants (Taking Flight Award and Rare Epilepsy Partnership Award)Foundation grantCURE EpilepsyCURE Epilepsy runs two open competitions. The Taking Flight Award gives $125,000 over 18 months to launch an independent epilepsy research program. The Rare Epilepsy Partnership Award gives $100,000 over one year to build research tools, model systems and data collection platforms for rare epilepsies, which is the mechanism that can carry registry, patient-reported outcome and family-facing data infrastructure work. Both awards fund salary, supplies and conference travel to present funded work, but neither pays equipment or indirect costs. International applicants are welcome if materials are $100k–$125k · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar, Jun, Sep
- Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trials Optional) — RFA-ES-25-002Federal grantNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIHNIEHS Core Centers are intellectual hubs that knit together already-funded environmental health investigators at a single institution and extend their reach. What makes this relevant to social work is that a Community Engagement Core is MANDATORY, must be funded at a published floor, and must operate a Stakeholder Advisory Board — the center cannot be scored without it. That core is routinely where social work faculty sit: running the partnership with affected residents, translating exposure findings into action, and building the two-directional communication NIEHS requires. It is a large infr$850k–$1M per year · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) — PAR-25-369Federal grantNational Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIHThe exploratory tier of NHGRI's three-part ELSI suite, sized between the R03 and the R01. It supports investigation of novel ideas, new model systems, tools or methods for studying how genomics affects individuals, families, communities and society — the place to take a risk that would not survive R01 review for lack of preliminary data. For social work, that includes building measures and instruments for community-level attitudes toward genomic research, testing new participatory or deliberative designs with populations that have historical reason to distrust biomedical research, and developiup to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional) — PAR-25-370Federal grantNational Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIHThe small-grant companion to NHGRI's ELSI R01, built for self-contained projects that a single investigator can carry: focused conceptual, normative or legal analysis, secondary analysis of existing data, a bounded qualitative study, or a pilot that establishes feasibility before a larger application. For a social work researcher without a large team or an existing genomics portfolio, this is the lowest-barrier entry point into the ELSI program — two years and a modest budget, with the same broad methodological welcome as the R01. Useful for work on how genetic information is used in child welup to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award (K43 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) — PAR-24-296Federal fellowshipFogarty International Center, NIHA mentored career development award that buys protected research time for a junior faculty member at an academic or research institution in a low- or middle-income country, so that they can become an independent investigator based in their own country rather than emigrating. Three to five years of support, with a substantial salary contribution and a separate research development allowance for supplies, tuition, travel, statistical services and mentor communication. This is one of the very few NIH mechanisms where the award is held by an LMIC institution and the LMIC scholar is the PI rather tup to $100k per year · Annual cycle · Dec
- IRSF Rett Syndrome Bridge AwardsPilot / seed fundingInternational Rett Syndrome FoundationA rescue mechanism rather than a standing programme: up to $75,000 for one year to keep Rett syndrome research alive when its existing funding has been disrupted. Eligibility is written broadly, with no stated restriction excluding caregiver, family, quality-of-life or psychosocial projects, which makes it unusually open among rare-disease foundation awards. The same page lists the Rett Syndrome Innovation Awards for seed-stage therapeutic work, a rolling compound-testing Scout Program, and rolling clinical research awards restricted to IRSF Centers of Excellence.up to $75k · Several times a year · May, Aug
- 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
- Mind and Body Interventions to Restore Whole Person Health via Emotional Well-Being Mechanisms (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) — PAR-25-449Federal grantNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHA phased award for mechanistic trials asking HOW mind and body interventions — mindfulness meditation, yoga, acupuncture, massage and other brain- or body-based practices — change emotional well-being, and how that in turn relates to whole person health. The R61 phase establishes feasibility over one to two years and, on milestone review, the R33 phase funds the full trial for two to four more. The design requirement is unusual and worth reading closely: the primary outcome must be an innovative MECHANISM of emotional well-being, not symptom reduction, with the Whole Person Health Index as a sup to $475k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- 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
- ACS Postdoctoral FellowshipsFellowshipAmerican Cancer SocietyMentored stipend support for postdoctoral researchers in cancer research training programs, across ACS extramural discovery science priorities including behavioral, psychosocial and health services research. Includes a paid parental-leave provision with a matching extension of the award term.$66k–$70k stipend · Several times a year · Jun, Dec
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy FellowsFellowshipRobert Wood Johnson Foundation (programme office: RWJF Health Policy Fellows)The premier midcareer health policy fellowship, placing accomplished professionals in Washington to work inside Congress or the executive branch on federal health policy. Social work and behavioral health expertise is named among the accepted backgrounds, making this one of the few national fellowships that explicitly opens a federal policy channel to social work researchers.$175k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Addressing Health Outcomes for Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and/or Rare Diseases (RD) PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds patient-centered comparative effectiveness research on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities or rare diseases. Emphasis areas include access to person-centered care and health-system approaches to care transitions, including the pediatric-to-adult transition.up to $12M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Addressing Substance Use PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds patient-centered comparative effectiveness studies of prevention, screening, treatment and recovery approaches for substance use, misuse and substance use disorders at individual, community or systems level. At least one primary outcome must be a substance-use outcome.up to $12M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Investigator Initiated Research ProgramFoundation grantBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationDoctoral-level investigator-led research grants addressing gaps in health-related research, including studies of factors that prevent or reduce disease risk and of cause-and-effect relationships between health variables. Runs on three concept-paper/application rounds each year and is one of the few payer foundation programs that funds investigator-initiated research directly rather than by invitation.up to $75k · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Aug, Oct
- NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) — PA-25-302Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of HealthInvestigator-initiated small grant for a discrete, well-defined project completable in two years — pilot/feasibility work, secondary analysis of existing data, small self-contained studies, methods development. Clinical trials are not accepted under this announcement.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of Health — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)NICHD-only small grant for discrete two-year projects that involve a clinical trial: pilot and feasibility trials, secondary analysis of trial data, and methodology development within the NICHD mission on child health, families, adolescence, pregnancy and disability.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NIH Research Education Program - Research Experiences (Parent R25, Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-27-036Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthFunds programmes that place participants in mentored hands-on research experiences, spanning high school students through early-career and established investigators. Suited to building a research pipeline in a school of social work or a partnered community setting.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Student Award ProgramDissertation awardBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationSmall research awards for doctoral and medical students at Michigan universities working to improve health care in the state. Past funded projects span applied research, pilot programs, demonstrations and evaluation studies in public health, nursing, psychology and related fields, which makes it a realistic first grant for a social work doctoral student based in Michigan.up to $3k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC): Planning, Development, and Implementation GrantFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds organisations to develop and certify new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. Recipients must build a sampling methodology and report client-level survey and administrative data into SPARS at intake, six months and closeout.up to $1M per year · Periodic calls · Aug
- 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
- NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (Parent R21, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) — PA-25-304Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of HealthTwo-year exploratory/developmental grant for early-stage, higher-risk projects: novel ideas, new methods or measures, or feasibility work that would break new ground. Preliminary data are not required. Clinical trials are not accepted under this announcement.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Advancing the Science of Engagement in Research PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds studies that build the evidence base on engagement in research itself: validated measures of engagement context, process and outcomes, and development or testing of engagement techniques and how their effectiveness varies by setting and community.up to $1.5M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Conduct Innovative Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Persons with Disabilities (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)NICHD-led two-phase, milestone-driven award for investigator-initiated multisite clinical trials and observational studies that use existing NICHD clinical research network infrastructure. Populations covered are women, children, pregnant and lactating people, and people with disabilities.up to $6.3M · Several times a year · Mar, Jul, Nov
- NIH Research Education Program - Courses, Curriculum and Methods (Parent R25, Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-27-034Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthSupports development and delivery of research skills courses and new curricula or research methods training that complement formal degree programmes. Useful for building methods capacity in a school or a community-partnered training programme.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Jan, May, 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
- Syringe Service Program GrantsFoundation grantComer Family FoundationSmall general operating grants, including money for harm reduction supplies, to syringe services and community harm reduction programs. Organizations led by people who use drugs are listed as the foundation's first funding priority.$3k–$20k · Several times a year · May, Nov
- NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (L30 Clinical, L40 Pediatric, L70 FOCUS)Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthRepays qualified educational debt for researchers outside NIH who commit to at least 20 hours a week of qualifying research over a two-year period. Renewable. Not a project grant: it pays down the researcher's own student loans.up to $50k per year · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)Training & capacityNational Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)NINR-led P20 centre grant building infrastructure for nurse-led, community-partnered research on persistent health challenges, including centralised research resources, interdisciplinary teams, and funded pilot projects.up to $500k per year · Annual cycle · Jan
- 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
- Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (Parent K24, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-188Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthUp to five years of protected time (25 to 50 percent effort) for an established mid-career patient-oriented researcher to deepen their own research and formally mentor junior clinical investigators, including K23 grantees.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds methods studies addressing named gaps in patient-centered CER: patient-centered measurement, use of real-world data in multi-site studies, artificial intelligence and machine learning in CER, and study design.up to $750k · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institutes of Health — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, participating IC)Small two-year grant for implementation and de-implementation research: pilot work, secondary analysis and method development on how evidence-based health interventions are adopted and sustained. NICHD is a participating institute; clinical trials are not accepted under this NOFO.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-194Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthTwo-phase award: one to two years of mentored postdoctoral support (K99) followed by up to three years of independent support (R00) that activates on securing a tenure-track or equivalent faculty position.up to $249k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Under Secretary's Award in Health Systems ResearchEarly-career awardU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Health Systems ResearchVA's top honour for health systems researchers. Confers research funds to supplement ongoing peer-reviewed work plus a one-time personal cash award, judged on research impact on veterans' care, mentorship and national visibility.$50k per year · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- AFSP Research Grants (Innovation Grant portfolio)Foundation grantAmerican Foundation for Suicide PreventionA ladder of suicide-prevention research grants from $50,000 pilot awards up to $500,000/year Focus Grants, open to all academic disciplines. Every funded project must include a suicide-related outcome measure.$50k–$500k · Several times a year · Aug, Sep, Nov
- Innovative Pilot Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthPilot mental health services research in understudied areas, using non-trial designs such as natural experiments, survey and mixed-methods work, clinical epidemiology, and new measures or financing analyses.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Cancer Institute (with NHGRI, NIA, NIDCR)Supports secondary analysis and integration of existing datasets to answer cancer research questions, explicitly including behavioural, lifestyle, health services, surveillance and vital statistics data alongside clinical and genomic data.up to $350k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHPlanning grant for pilot or feasibility work on preventing prenatal alcohol exposure and on interventions for people living with FASD across the lifespan. Pilot data are not required to apply.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pilot Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthPilot-scale hybrid trials developing and testing mental health interventions together with implementation strategies in accessible community, school, online or routine care settings.up to $750k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Research Scholar Grants (RSG)Early-career awardAmerican Cancer SocietyIndependent investigator grants for researchers early in their first faculty appointment, across the cancer research continuum. Psychosocial, behavioral and health policy projects are eligible where they fit ACS priority research areas.up to $215k per year · Several times a year · Jun, Dec
- Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Cancer Institute (NIH)A modular-budget R01 for cancer control and population science, explicitly naming cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviours and behavioural interventions, health care delivery, digital health and implementation science as in-scope.up to $250k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Appel à projets générique (AAPG) 2027Federal grantAgence nationale de la recherche (ANR)France's main open competition, and the route by which most French social science research gets funded. The 2027 edition is organised into 57 research axes spanning disciplinary and cross-cutting themes, with the social sciences and humanities explicitly in scope, and keeps five instruments — including JCJC for young researchers without a permanent team, and PRC/PRCE for collaborative projects with academic or non-academic partners, which is the natural vehicle for research done jointly with a social agency. Two-stage process with a short pre-proposal first.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Mar
- Delta States Rural Development Network ProgramFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health PolicyFunds the planning, development and implementation of integrated rural health care networks across the eight Mississippi Delta Region states, to expand access, coordinate care, improve quality and health outcomes, and strengthen the rural health system. Network partners typically include community-based organisations.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- NWO Talent Programme – Veni (Social Sciences and Humanities)Early-career awardDutch Research Council (NWO)Veni is the entry rung of the Netherlands' flagship personal-grant ladder (Veni–Vidi–Vici), giving a recently graduated PhD three years of protected funding to pursue research of their own choosing. The SSH round covers pedagogics, sociology, psychology, public administration, development studies, law, demography and related fields, so social work questions are squarely in scope. The award is to the individual and is designed to buy independence early, before an academic career has hardened around someone else's agenda. Two-stage: pre-proposal, then full application and interview.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Sep, Jan
- SNSF Project FundingFoundation grantSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)The SNSF's workhorse open call: researchers propose on a topic of their own choosing, in any discipline including the social sciences, and the scheme explicitly welcomes practice-related questions alongside purely theoretical ones — which matters for applied social work research. Grants run one to four years and can be held individually or as a collaborative project with up to three applicants, allowing a genuine multi-site design. Two fixed submission dates a year, so the planning rhythm is predictable. Note the 2026 rule change capping researchers at one submission per twelve months and two Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, 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
- Competitive Grant Cycle (Letter of Inquiry)Foundation grantEpiscopal Health FoundationA large Southeast Texas health funder making competitive grants around three impact drivers — strengthening comprehensive care, activating community voices, and maximizing connections to health coverage and benefits — with strategic priorities in food and nutrition security, maternal health and diabetes prevention. Community-voice and coverage-navigation work is a natural fit for social work practice partners, though the Foundation is explicit that it generally does not fund standalone research.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Sep
- Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) — PAR-25-371Federal grantNational Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIHNHGRI's flagship R01 for research on the ethical, legal and social implications of human genetic and genomic research. The NOFO explicitly welcomes single or mixed methods — empirical qualitative and quantitative work, plus conceptual, legal and normative analysis — and treats applied research that addresses real-world ELSI problems as responsive. That opens it to social work researchers studying how genomic information moves through families, child welfare and adoption systems, clinical care, insurance, employment, policing and immigration enforcement, and how communities weigh participation Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth (R01 Clinical Trial Required) — PAR-25-268Federal grantNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHAn R01 for fully remote efficacy or effectiveness trials of complementary and integrative interventions, with a strict design constraint: there must be no in-person contact at all between research staff and participants. Everything — recruitment, consent, delivery, assessment, retention — happens at a distance or through mobile health tools. That constraint is the point, because it tests whether these interventions can reach people who cannot get to a clinic: rural residents, unpaid caregivers, people with disabilities or transport barriers, and people whose work hours make in-person research Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rehabilitation ResearchTraining & capacityNational Multiple Sclerosis SocietySupport goes to a mentor-institution combination that recruits, selects and trains postdoctoral fellows for careers in rehabilitation research applied to MS and similar disorders. The Society states mentor and fellow may come from a variety of fields including medicine, physical, occupational or speech therapy, psychology, rehabilitation engineering, nursing or other fields, and training may be fundamental or applied.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug
- 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
- HRC Project Grants (2027 round)Federal grantHealth Research Council of New ZealandThe Health Research Council of New Zealand's main investigator-initiated project funding, open across the full breadth of health research including behavioural, social, public health, kaupapa Maori, Maori health and Pacific health work. Two-stage process: a short expression of interest, then a full application with external peer review and an applicant rebuttal stage. Projects run two to five years, which suits longitudinal or intervention-evaluation designs a social work researcher would run.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01 — Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Early-career awardNational Institutes of Health — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, participating IC)Three-to-five years of salary and research support with protected time and a mentor, aimed at reaching research independence. NICHD accepts K01 applications in only three areas: rehabilitation research, child abuse and neglect, and population research — the last two being direct social work research fields.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- MSCA Postdoctoral FellowshipsFellowshipEuropean Commission – European Research Executive Agency (REA)Europe's largest individual postdoctoral fellowship, open to every discipline and to researchers of any nationality, funding a move to a host organisation in another country for advanced training and an independent project. The inter-sectoral strand matters for this field: the host can be a non-academic organisation, so a social work postdoc can be based in an NGO, a public agency or a service provider rather than a university department. Because the fellowship is portable and the project is the applicant's own, it is one of the few European routes to genuine early-career independence across bAmount not published · Annual cycle · Sep
- Prevention Science Early Career Reviewer ProgramTraining & capacitySociety for Prevention ResearchA two-year mentored training program in which advanced doctoral candidates and very recent PhDs co-review manuscripts for the journal Prevention Science alongside an experienced mentor. Builds peer-review and critical appraisal capacity across prevention topics from substance use to health equity. Recognition includes acknowledgment at the SPR annual conference and listing in the journal's editorial board.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Sep
- VA ORD Career Development Program (CDA-1, CDA-2, CDEA)Early-career awardU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and DevelopmentVA-wide mentored award series. CDA-1 gives two years of entry-level support, CDA-2 covers three to five years of career development and research objectives, and the CDEA lets an established VA scientist spend up to a year acquiring a new research competency elsewhere.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
- Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PA-24-185Early-career awardNational Institutes of HealthThree to five years of protected time and salary support for clinically trained researchers building an independent patient-oriented research career under a mentor. Companion versions exist for clinical trial required and basic experimental studies with humans.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Building Evidence: Support for QEDs to Evaluate Social Programs and PoliciesFoundation grantArnold VenturesFunds quasi-experimental causal evaluations of social programs and policies. The Public Finance strand explicitly seeks studies of state responses to benefit cliffs and their effects on employment, earnings and economic mobility.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Sep
- RR&D Research Career Development Program (CDA-1, CDA-2, CDEA)Early-career awardU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Rehabilitation Research and Development ServiceMentored career development awards giving clinically and non-clinically trained researchers protected time to become independent VA investigators, on projects relevant to the health and function of veterans with disabilities.Not a cash award · Several times a year · May, Nov
- Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in BioethicsEarly-career awardGreenwall FoundationThree-year career development award providing 50% salary support so a junior faculty member can devote protected time to bioethics research intended to influence clinical, biomedical or public health decision-making, policy and practice.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Sep
- Interventions to Expand Cancer Screening and Preventive Services to ADVANCE Health in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01, Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNIH Office of Disease Prevention with NIMHD, NCI, NIDCR and ORWHR01 for clinical trials testing interventions that address barriers to uptake of cancer screening and preventive services among populations experiencing health disparities. NIMHD is a participating Institute.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHR01 support for secondary analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative and neuroimaging data on substance use, prevention and health service utilization. Primary data collection is not allowed.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec
- Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS)Foundation grantCraig H. Neilsen FoundationTwo- to three-year grants for research on functional outcomes and complications after spinal cord injury, plus two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships preparing researchers for independent SCI research careers.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Nov
- Effectiveness Trials to Test Mental Health System Interventions (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthTwo-phase trials of system-level interventions that change how mental health services are organised, financed, coordinated or delivered, with a feasibility R61 phase preceding an effectiveness R33 phase.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Practices for Youth Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthResearch on barriers to youth mental health care for people from birth to age 25, covering intervention optimisation, workforce development, system integration and service delivery strategies.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Development of Psychosocial Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthDevelopment and early testing of novel psychosocial therapeutic and preventive interventions, with emphasis on demonstrating that the intervention moves a defined mechanism linked to mental disorder risk or maintenance.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- RR&D Research Career Scientist AwardFederal fellowshipU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Rehabilitation Research and Development ServiceProvides a career track and salary support for outstanding non-clinician scientists with sustained research productivity and commitment to VA rehabilitation research relevant to veterans' care.Not a cash award · Several times a year · May, Nov
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIMH is a participating institute)Studies that identify, develop and test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, sustainability and scale-up of evidence-based interventions, programmes and policies in clinical and community settings.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Mar, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov
- Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthFull-scale, non-trial research on mental health services delivery: mutable factors shaping access and quality, new research tools and methods, and analyses of large administrative or service datasets.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Population Approaches to Reducing Alcohol-related Cancer Risk (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Cancer Institute (with NIAAA)Funds population-level work on alcohol and cancer: raising awareness of the alcohol-cancer link, shifting social norms, developing and evaluating alcohol policy, and testing interventions that reduce alcohol-related cancer risk.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (with NINR, NCI, NIAAA, THRO)Funds basic, clinical, social and behavioural research on family health, well-being and resilience in populations experiencing health disparities, including family-level interventions. NINR and NCI both participate.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- 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
- Full-Scale Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthHybrid trials that test the effectiveness of a mental health intervention and an implementation strategy at the same time, in community, school, online, or routine care settings, including mechanisms of action.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
- Post-Doctoral S.O.S. Grant ProgramEarly-career awardAutism Science FoundationA support mechanism for autism postdoctoral researchers, created in response to disruption in the research funding climate. Listed alongside ASF's Suzanne Wright Research Accelerator Awards, profound-autism pilot grants and pre-doctoral fellowships.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul, Oct
- Program Grants and Requests for ProposalsFoundation grantConnecticut Health FoundationThe Connecticut Health Foundation is the state's largest independent health philanthropy, created in 1999 from ConnectiCare's conversion to for-profit status, and works entirely on health equity in Connecticut. It funds policy and practice change with systems-level potential, and its grantmaking explicitly covers policy advocacy, research and evaluation rather than service delivery alone. Program grants run $25,000 to $150,000 on a quarterly concept-paper cycle, with smaller discretionary grants available on a rolling basis and periodic RFPs in the $25,000 to $50,000 band.$25k–$150k · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
- Community Research Collaboration (CRC) AwardsFoundation grantCalifornia Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), University of CaliforniaCBCRP, funded by a California tobacco tax surtax and administered by the University of California, runs an annual cycle of breast cancer research awards. The Community Research Collaboration award is the mechanism most relevant to social work: it requires a genuine co-principal-investigator partnership between a community organisation and an academic researcher across all phases of the study, from question-setting through interpretation. Pilot awards run up to $200,000 in direct costs for 18 months and full awards up to $600,000 over three years. The same cycle also carries IDEA awards, fellow$25k–$600k · Annual cycle
- 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
- Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) ProgramFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health PolicyFour-year cooperative agreements supporting university-based centres that conduct policy-oriented rural health services research on how social factors, financing, organisational structures and behaviour affect access, quality and cost. Centres pick enduring topics of concentration and publish plain-language policy briefs on the Rural Health Research Gateway.$700k–$950k per year · Periodic calls · May
- FY26 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Lifestyle and Applied Health Research AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports clinical research and clinical trials drawing on psychology, epidemiology, surveillance, implementation science and population health, explicitly including development of evidence-based practices and investigation of psychosocial patient outcomes. Applications must address one of the 52 congressionally directed FY26 PRMRP topic areas, which include Suicide Prevention, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Maternal Mental Health, Eating Disorders, Gambling Addiction, and Sleep Disorders and Restriction.up to $4.2M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Aug
- Frontiers CTSI Pilot, Community Partnership and Multi-Institutional AwardsPilot / seed fundingFrontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Kansas Medical CenterA CTSA hub running a stacked menu of small awards across an eight-institution regional partnership: pilot awards for early and mid-career investigators, an Integrating Special Populations award aimed at health disparities, small Broderick Crawford awards for researcher-community organisation partnerships, methods and biostatistics vouchers, and a multi-state rural CORES pilot. The community partnership and rural tracks are the ones most directly usable by social work researchers.$3k–$50k · Several times a year
- 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
- NHLBI Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical Trials Optional) — PAR-24-065Federal grantNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIHNHLBI's multi-project program grant, and the institute's main route for assembling a team around a single problem: a minimum of three interrelated research projects plus optional administrative and scientific cores. The NOFO explicitly names implementation science, health disparities and translation research as within scope alongside basic and clinical work, which is where social work fits — a P01 on heart, lung, blood or sleep conditions can carry a behavioural or community-delivered project, an implementation project, and a disparities project under one roof. Budgets are large enough to fund$1.5M–$1.8M per year · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- 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
- Community Grants ProgramFoundation grantThe Research Foundation (Kansas City)A regional health funder distributing roughly $1.7 million a year to organisations with health-centred missions serving Jackson County, Missouri, with a priority on urban Kansas City. The 2026 cycle funds two purpose areas, expanding access to care and promoting health equity. Awards are one-year only and most fall between $25,000 and $50,000, though applicants are told to request what the programme actually needs. This is a practical vehicle for a community agency to fund an intervention with an embedded evaluation designed alongside a social work researcher.$25k–$50k · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul
- Community Impact and Community Capacity GrantsFoundation grantWisconsin Partnership Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthThe Wisconsin Partnership Program is an endowed statewide health fund created from the conversion of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin and housed at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Its community grant stream is unusual in that the community organisation is the grantee rather than the university. Community Capacity grants are aimed at smaller and newer organisations building the infrastructure to do this work; Community Impact grants require substantial and authentic community leadership and target the social determinants of health, making them a natural home for practice-embeddeup to $20k · Annual cycle · May
- Feasibility Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions for NCCIH High Priority Research Topics (R34 Clinical Trial Required) — PAR-25-274Pilot / seed fundingNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIHThe planning-and-feasibility rung of NCCIH's mind and body portfolio: a three-year R34 to work out recruitment, retention, intervention fidelity, dose and outcome measurement before committing to a full trial. For a social work researcher who has a promising group or community-delivered practice and no trial-scale preliminary data, this is the step that makes a later R01 or R61/R33 credible — and it is one of the few NIH mechanisms that will pay for the unglamorous work of proving a protocol can actually run in a real service setting. Restricted to conditions NCCIH has designated as high-priorup to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- FY26 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Impact AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyFunds applied, use-inspired and practice-oriented research with near-term major impact on one of the FY26 PRMRP topic areas — which include Suicide Prevention, PTSD and Maternal Mental Health. A Partnering PI option supports two collaborating investigators, at least one of whom must be a clinician researcher. Clinical trials are not allowed.$2.8M–$3.6M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Aug
- FY26 TBIPHRP Clinical Trial AwardFederal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports clinical trials, from proof-of-concept feasibility through larger effectiveness trials, on treatment or management of psychological health conditions and/or traumatic brain injury. Applications must include a community-based participatory research approach, which makes behavioural and psychosocial intervention trials with community partners in scope.$2.1M–$4.1M · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Oct
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tourette Association of America Young Investigator AwardEarly-career awardTourette Association of AmericaA career-development award of up to $75,000 a year for two years for researchers moving into Tourette syndrome and tic disorders. Applications must pair an independent research project with an explicit career development component. TAA states the award supports biological understanding, clinical research aimed at improving patient care, and the development and testing of new therapies; the Association has historically seeded a behavioural sciences consortium alongside its genetics, neuroimaging and DBS consortia, so behavioural and psychosocial work has a place, though the emphasis on this pagup to $150k · Annual cycle · Nov
- 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
- Quality of Life Grants ProgramFoundation grantChristopher & Dana Reeve FoundationTiered grants to nonprofits for projects serving people living with paralysis. Tiers run from open-purpose Direct Effect awards through targeted priority tiers (assistive technology, disaster preparedness, respite and caregiving, rural underserved populations, employment, nursing home transition) to Expanded Impact awards for proven prior grantees.$5k–$100k · Several times a year
- FY26 Autism Research Program (ARP) Career Development AwardEarly-career awardU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencySupports early-career independent investigators, or established investigators transitioning into autism research, to pursue high-impact ideas or early-phase proof-of-principle trials addressing critical needs of the autism community. Preliminary data are required.$750k · Annual cycle · May, Jul, Oct
- New Ideas AwardFoundation grantSimons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)Early-stage support for exploratory research testing novel hypotheses in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Investigators who have not previously been funded by SFARI, including those new to autism research, are encouraged to apply.up to $600k · Rolling / open
- 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
- Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHPhased cooperative-agreement funding to develop and test interventions preventing or treating substance use disorders and overdose, including behavioral interventions and digital therapeutics alongside pharmacological and device approaches.up to $3M per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pilot Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHPilot and preliminary services or economic research preparing for a larger effectiveness trial: access, quality, affordability and uptake of substance use and tobacco treatment, including services for co-occurring medical and mental health conditions.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Clinical and Translational Science Pilot AwardPilot / seed fundingOhio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CTSI)$25,000-$35,000 in direct costs for a 12-month interdisciplinary translational study in chronic disease prevention and management, including implementation science and community-engaged research on behavioral, environmental and social determinants of health.$25k–$35k · Annual cycle · Sep
- Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program (CFPCGP)Federal grantUSDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)Supports community-based food security projects, including needs assessment and planning work, that are designed to become self-reliant after a one-time federal contribution. Nonprofits and tribal organisations apply directly.$25k–$400k · Annual cycle · Jul
- 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
- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds implementation of the SBIRT public health model for children, adolescents and adults in primary care, community health settings and schools, focused on underage drinking, opioid use and other substance use. Requires client-level SPARS reporting.up to $995k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) — Nutrition IncentiveFederal grantUSDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)Funds point-of-sale incentive projects that increase fruit and vegetable purchasing by SNAP participants, with required project-level evaluation and reporting to a national coordinating centre. Government agencies and nonprofits apply, often with academic evaluation partners.$10k–$15M · Annual cycle · May, Jun
- Quick Response Research Award ProgramRapid-response fundNatural Hazards Center, University of Colorado BoulderSmall awards for social science teams to collect perishable data in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Awardees write a five-page proposal, do fieldwork, and deliver a roughly twenty-page report with findings and actionable recommendations.up to $5k · Rolling / open
- One Mind Rising Star AwardEarly-career awardOne MindThree-year award of $300,000 for hypothesis-driven research on psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, OCD, PTSD, eating disorders and suicidality, plus a structured leadership and mentorship programme.$300k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Tribal Behavioral Health: Suicide Prevention (TBH-SP)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds community-wide suicide prevention for American Indian and Alaska Native youth and young adults through age 24, incorporating Indigenous knowledge and healing methods. Requires quarterly reporting on outreach, screening and linkage.up to $350k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- ACS Institutional Research Grants (IRG)Pilot / seed fundingAmerican Cancer SocietyA block grant to an institution rather than to an individual investigator: the institution runs its own internal competition and awards pilot projects to newly independent junior faculty so they can generate preliminary findings for national funding. For a social work researcher this is an internal pilot-funding route rather than a direct application.$400k–$480k · Varies by programme
- 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
- NIDCD Cooperative Agreement for Clinical Trials in Communication Disorders and NIDCD Clinical Trial RoutesFederal grantNational Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), NIHNIDCD's own routing page for clinical trial applications, and unusually concrete about where a trial belongs. Lower-risk trials go through the NIH parent R01 announcements (PA-25-305 for clinical trial required, PA-25-303 for basic experimental studies with humans) when the trial needs no FDA oversight, carries safety risks no greater than routine medical care, is not powered to change health policy or standard of care, and is not an NIH-defined Phase III trial — generally under $500,000 annual direct costs. Higher-risk or pivotal trials go through the NIDCD-specific cooperative agreement PAR-up to $500k per year · Varies by programme
- Colorado Pilot Program (CO-Pilot)Pilot / seed fundingColorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), University of Colorado AnschutzOne-year pilot awards for cross-disciplinary proof-of-concept and feasibility studies. $40,000 for mentored and junior investigator awards; $50,000 for CU-CSU collaboration awards spanning two institutions.$40k–$50k · Annual cycle · Nov, Dec, Jan
- Prevention and Intervention Approaches for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHTwo-phase award: an R61 pilot or secondary-data phase to establish feasibility, then a milestone-gated R33 phase to test FASD prevention or intervention approaches at scale.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- 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
- Alcohol Treatment, Pharmacotherapy, and Recovery Research (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHR01 support for clinical trials on alcohol use disorder treatment and recovery: behavioral therapies, mechanisms of behavior change, precision medicine, recovery, and medications development.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Planning Grant Program (R34 Clinical Trials Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Cancer Institute (NIH)Planning grants to gather the information needed to design a cancer prevention or control trial: characterising the study population, testing recruitment approaches, assessing intervention feasibility and resolving operational risks before a full trial.up to $225k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH), CDC-RFA-DP-23-0014Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and ObesityFive-year awards to 50 organisations in 32 states and DC to run community-based participatory chronic disease prevention work with racial and ethnic populations carrying the highest disease burden. Runs 2023-2028.$522k–$680k per year · Periodic calls
- Health Policy Research ScholarsFederal fellowshipRobert Wood Johnson FoundationA national leadership and funding program for full-time doctoral students from historically marginalised backgrounds, in any research discipline, who want to apply their research to health equity and health policy.up to $30k per year · Annual cycle
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Cancer Institute (lead) with NIMHD and other NIH Institutes and CentersTwo-year exploratory R21 for dissemination and implementation studies that test strategies for overcoming barriers to adoption and sustainability of evidence-based health interventions, practices and policies. NIMHD is a participating Institute.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian PrizePrize or challengeConrad N. Hilton FoundationAn annual unrestricted prize to a nonprofit organisation working to alleviate human suffering. Selected from a worldwide call for nominations, with due diligence on a shortlist and a final decision by an independent international jury.$3M · Annual cycle
- Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Cancer Institute (NIH)Two-year exploratory grants for the early conceptual stages of novel cancer control ideas, including new techniques, methodologies or applications in population-based cancer research. Preliminary data are not expected.up to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- BBRF Young Investigator GrantEarly-career awardBrain & Behavior Research FoundationTwo-year seed funding for early-career investigators studying serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, autism and eating disorders. Explicitly framed as proof-of-concept money to enable later federal grants.$35k–$70k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR)Pilot / seed fundingSigma Xi, The Scientific Research SocietySmall research grants to graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines to cover direct costs of a student-led project, including social and behavioural research. Two cycles per year.$500–$5k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Alcohol Health Services Research (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHR34 planning grant for pilot and preparatory alcohol services research on treatment access, affordability, insurance and cost structures, implementation of evidence-based care, and reducing disparities.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Alcohol Health Services Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), NIHFull R01 support for research on closing the alcohol use disorder treatment gap: access to treatment, treatment appeal, cost and insurance structures, dissemination and implementation, and disparities in access.up to $500k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Substance Use/Substance Use Disorder Dissertation Research Award (R36 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)Dissertation awardNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHDissertation support for doctoral candidates working on substance use and substance use disorder, spanning epidemiology, prevention, treatment and services research. Alcohol-only projects are not responsive.up to $50k per year · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Pride Foundation Community Grants and Community Care FundFoundation grantPride FoundationTwo streams of funding for LGBTQ+ organizations in the Northwest: multi-year Community Grants and the responsive Community Care Fund, which reviews requests on a rolling set of due dates.$10k–$70k · Several times a year
- 1890 Institution Teaching, Research and Extension Capacity Building Grants Program (CBG)Training & capacityUSDA National Institute of Food and AgricultureBuilds teaching, research and extension capacity at the 1890 land-grant HBCUs. Research and integrated projects on food security, childhood obesity prevention, food safety or sustainable bioenergy are eligible.$100k–$750k · Annual cycle
- Community Issues GrantsFoundation grantHorizons FoundationGeneral operating support for grassroots LGBTQ organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area across youth, advocacy and civil rights, arts and culture, community building and leadership, and health and human services.up to $20k · Annual cycle
- Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesTwo tracks: HNDS-I builds shared data resources and analytic tools for social and behavioral research; HNDS-R applies data and network science methods to advance theory in a core social science discipline.$350k–$800k · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Jul, Aug
- BBRF Distinguished Investigator GrantFoundation grantBrain & Behavior Research FoundationOne-year award for senior investigators pursuing innovative neurobiological and behavioural research on serious mental illness. Companion mechanism to the Independent Investigator grant for associate-professor-level researchers.$100k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Maternal and Child Health Secondary Data Analysis Research (MCH SDAR) ProgramFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal & Child Health BureauFunds applied maternal and child health research using secondary analysis of existing national data sets and administrative records. Findings must strengthen the evidence base behind Title V National Performance Measures and address health disparities; recipients must submit a dissemination plan and report sample diversity.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jan
- Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority-Serving Institutions (MH-RC-MSI) Research CentersTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal & Child Health BureauBuilds the capacity of minority-serving institutions to conduct quantitative and qualitative research on the root causes of disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, and to develop community-based solutions. Recipients must engage communities throughout, train early-career researchers, publish, and submit at least one external grant proposal for sustainability.Amount not published · Periodic calls · 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
- Forte Project GrantsFoundation grantForte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and WelfareForte is Sweden's national research council for health, working life and welfare — the closest institutional match in Europe to a social work research funder. The annual project grant is a free-standing, investigator-initiated three-year grant: applicants formulate their own question anywhere inside Forte's remit, which explicitly covers social policy, social services, welfare provision, the labour market, public health and care organisation. Proposals are assessed by nine subject panels, several of which (social policy, welfare services, working life) map directly onto social work scholarshipAmount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- 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
- TRDRP Research Awards, including the Community-Partnered Participatory Research AwardFoundation grantTobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), University of CaliforniaTRDRP is California's tobacco-excise-tax-funded research programme, spanning social, behavioural and biomedical science on tobacco-related disease, addiction and tobacco control policy. Its current call carries four families of mechanism: core research awards, the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award for collaborative work with community partners, the Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative, and the Smoke- and Vape-free Scholars Initiative for early-career researcher development. The participatory and policy strands make it one of the more accessible state-level research funders for Amount not published · Annual cycle
- AmeriCorps Competitive and Formula Grant Opportunities (Florida)Federal grantVolunteer FloridaFlorida's service commission administers AmeriCorps Competitive and Formula subgrants to organisations working on education, economic opportunity, conservation, healthy futures and veteran support, with priority for workforce development, environmental stewardship and community quality of life. The published guidance package includes budget templates and an evaluation plan form, so measurement design is a scored part of the application and a natural point of entry for a university evaluation partner. Applications are submitted through eGrants with supporting documents through Blackbaud GrantmaAmount not published · Annual cycle · Feb
- Arizona Biomedical Research Centre Research Grant ProgramsFederal grantArizona Department of Health ServicesThe Arizona Biomedical Research Centre sits inside the state health department and directs tobacco tax and state lottery revenue, under the Health Research Fund established by A.R.S. sections 36-275 and 36-773, into research that improves the health of Arizonans. Its stated scope covers behavioural studies and attitude assessments alongside prevention, epidemiology and treatment research. At the time of retrieval the Centre's live solicitations were two clinical research programmes, the Psilocybin Research Clinical Trials Grant Program and the Marijuana Research Studies and Clinical Trials GraAmount not published · Periodic calls
- James and Esther King Biomedical Research ProgramFederal grantFlorida Department of HealthA state research programme established in section 215.5602, Florida Statutes and funded from Florida's tobacco settlement, supporting research on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cures for tobacco-related cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and pulmonary disease. Recent priorities include reducing mortality and morbidity among disproportionately affected populations and improving screening accuracy and detection in high-risk groups, which opens room for behavioural, health-services and community-facing research alongside laboratory work. Budget templates are published for project lengthAmount not published · Annual cycle
- National MS Society Research GrantsFoundation grantNational Multiple Sclerosis SocietyAnnual investigator-initiated grant program tied to the Society's Pathways to MS Cures Roadmap. The page states the Society supports fundamental as well as applied studies, nonclinical or clinical, explicitly including projects in patient management, care and rehabilitation, and values proposals focused on underserved and understudied ethnic and racial MS populations.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov
- 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
- Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) ProgramFederal grantPennsylvania Department of HealthCURE was created by Act 77 Chapter 9 of 2001 and is Pennsylvania's tobacco-settlement-funded health research programme. It runs two award streams each year: formula grants, distributed non-competitively to institutions in proportion to their existing NIH or NCI funding, and nonformula grants awarded through a competitive process. A formula grant may support several projects at once, and eligible project types explicitly include health services research and patient-oriented clinical investigation alongside basic biomedical work, which is the doorway for social work health-services researchers aAmount not published · Annual cycle
- Community Health Grants, Mid-Atlantic StatesFoundation grantKaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic StatesSeasonal community health grant rounds across Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., funding health equity, affordable care access, socioeconomic opportunity, and healthy policies and environments for populations experiencing disparities. The Mid-Atlantic team explicitly welcomes new and grassroots organizations into its invited pool, which is the practical entry point for a community-partnered research team.Amount not published · Several times a year
- Community Health Grants, Southern CaliforniaFoundation grantKaiser Permanente Southern CaliforniaKaiser Permanente's Southern California community health grantmaking, organized around safety net partnerships, community health initiatives, and knowledge development and dissemination — that last priority is the channel through which evaluation and research-adjacent work is funded. Worth tracking rather than applying to cold, because the pipeline runs through pre-identified partners.Amount not published · By invitation
- 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
- LAUNCH — Global Health Program for Fellows and ScholarsFellowshipFogarty International Center, NIHFogarty's flagship trainee pathway: one year of mentored global health research training at established biomedical and health research institutions and project sites in low- and middle-income countries. Fogarty funds seven consortia (ACHIEVE, Global Health Emerging Scholars, INSIGHT, NPGH LEADERs, HBNU, UJMT and GLOCAL), each with its own sites, mentors and application process, and trainees apply directly to a consortium rather than to NIH. For a social work doctoral student or postdoc, this is a route into field-based global research on mental health, HIV care engagement, maternal and child wAmount not published · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Research Grants and FellowshipsFoundation grantMyotonic Dystrophy FoundationMDF funds three standing mechanisms in myotonic dystrophy. The Research Fellows Program supports pre- and postdoctoral fellows. The two-year Early Career Scholar Program is the one worth a social work researcher's attention: MDF states it supports basic, translational, clinical and care-focused projects, and care-focused is the wording that admits care delivery, support and outcomes work. A Pilot Grants Program runs semiannually for one-year studies. MDF also issues targeted RFAs for strategic initiatives and small grants for travel and open-access publication.Amount not published · Several times a year
- NJCCR Research Grants and Fellowship Training ProgramFederal grantNew Jersey Commission on Cancer Research, New Jersey Department of HealthThe New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research funds cancer research in the state through investigator research grants, a Fellowship Training Program aimed at early-career researchers, and supplemental bridge grants for investigators between major awards. Funding comes from state appropriations, a designated line on the New Jersey individual income tax return, and proceeds from the Conquer Cancer specialty licence plate. Behavioural, survivorship and psychosocial cancer research falls within scope alongside laboratory science.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Resilient Children and Families Request for ProposalsFoundation grantCambia Health FoundationAn RFP from the corporate foundation of Cambia Health Solutions supporting school-based health and wellness services, with explicit emphasis on centering student and parent or caregiver voice and leadership. School social work and youth behavioral health researchers working with districts in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West are squarely in scope.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- Strategic Focus Area GrantsFoundation grantBlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina FoundationStatewide grantmaking on three strategic focus areas: access to care, health through food, and youth mental health, connectedness and resilience. The Foundation states it values initiatives reflecting the voices, perspectives and lived experiences of North Carolinians facing barriers to good health, which opens room for community-based participatory work and evaluation partnerships.Amount not published · By invitation
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program evaluation and rigorous impact evaluation grantsFederal grantHHS Office of Population Affairs (OASH)OPA's national TPP program funds diverse organizations to prevent teen pregnancy and, alongside implementation grants, funds the development and evaluation of new approaches. Two distinct evaluation mechanisms ran in FY2026: rigorous impact evaluation of prevention programs (up to five-year projects) and shorter evaluation grants, both open to research organizations partnering with implementers.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug
- 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
- CTSC Annual Pilot Award Program (multi-institution requirement)Pilot / seed fundingClinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio, Case Western Reserve UniversityThe CTSA hub's flagship annual pilot competition, notable because every application must span two or more CTSC partner institutions — the award is designed around cross-institutional teams rather than a single lab. Useful for a social work researcher at one partner who can pair with a clinical or health-services collaborator at another.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Jan
- Frontiers for the Future ProgrammeFederal grantTaighde Eireann - Research IrelandResearch Ireland's flagship investigator-led programme for independent researchers pursuing ambitious, high-risk high-reward projects. Listed as accepting applications on a rolling basis, which makes it unusual among large national schemes. Since the merger of the Irish Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland into Research Ireland, the agency's remit spans all disciplines, so applied social and social care research can be in scope - confirm current disciplinary scope in the live call document before investing effort.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- CSR&D Brain, Behavioral and Mental Health (BBMH) Merit Review and Career Development ProgramsFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Clinical Science Research and Development ServiceCSR&D's mental health portfolio funds clinical, interventional, effectiveness, epidemiological and technological studies with human participants, with stated focus areas including PTSD treatment and suicide prevention. Includes investigator-initiated Merit Review and mentored career development awards.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Sep
- DFG Walter Benjamin ProgrammeFederal fellowshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG)A postdoctoral fellowship built around mobility: an early-career researcher takes their own project to a new institution, either abroad on a monthly fellowship or within Germany on a funded postdoctoral position. Beyond salary or stipend it covers direct project costs, travel, publication costs and, where relevant, foreign and cost-of-living allowances and child benefits — the practical details that decide whether a fellowship is actually takeable by someone with dependents. Submission is rolling, so it can be timed to a doctoral defence rather than a call cycle.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Title X Family Planning Research GrantsFederal grantHHS Office of Population Affairs (OASH)OPA's research grant program (NOFO PA-FPR-26-001) funds research organizations to study how family planning service delivery can be improved, over project periods of up to three years. It is one of the few OASH mechanisms explicitly designated as research rather than service delivery, and reaches social work questions about access, service quality and reproductive health care for low-income clients.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Research Program (ASUDRP)Federal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyCDMRP programme funding research to identify, evaluate and advance treatments for alcohol, opioid and other substance use disorders in Service Members, Veterans, their families and the public, with stated emphasis on substance use disorder co-occurring with PTSD, TBI and suicide risk.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- FORE Grants (Request-for-Proposal cycles, including Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality)Foundation grantFoundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)FORE funds work on opioid use disorder and overdose mortality across professional education, payer and provider strategies, policy, and public awareness. Its community-driven RFP supports organizational capacity, program development, and community partnerships. Grants are made only in response to a posted RFP.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jun, Jul, Aug
- 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
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32), PA-25-168Training & capacityNational Institutes of HealthInstitutional grant enabling a school or centre to run a structured predoctoral and postdoctoral research training programme, explicitly including behavioural and social sciences and health services research. Awarded to the institution, which then appoints trainees.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research GrantsFederal grantU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and DevelopmentEPA's main competitive peer-reviewed extramural research programme, funding environmental and public-health research including community exposure, air and water quality, and toxic substances. Solicitations are issued topic by topic rather than on a standing cycle.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Psychosocial Research (PSR) GrantsFoundation grantCraig H. Neilsen FoundationFunds studies of psychological and social wellbeing after spinal cord injury, and the development and testing of interventions. Three mechanisms: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Investigational Grants (two years), and Interventional Testing Grants (up to three years).Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar, Jul
- 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
- Switzer Research Fellowship ProgramFederal fellowshipNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFellowships awarded to individuals, not organizations, to carry out research on rehabilitation, independent living and the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities. Two tiers: Merit for earlier-career researchers and Distinguished for senior researchers.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Grant Program (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Cancer Institute (NIH)Funds investigator-initiated clinical trials in cancer prevention and control covering early detection, screening, prevention, healthcare delivery, quality of life and survivorship. Trials of cancer diagnosis or oncologic therapy are explicitly excluded.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Georgia CTSA Pilot GrantsPilot / seed fundingGeorgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia)One- to two-year pilot grants for preliminary, preparatory or feasibility studies testing new protocols, data collection instruments or participant recruitment strategies, with an explicit preference for interdisciplinary collaborative teams across the four partner institutions.Amount not published · Several times a year
- Pfizer Competitive Grants (Independent Grants for Learning & Change)Foundation grantPfizerCorporate independent-grants programme that posts public Requests for Proposals in defined health topic areas, funding investigator-initiated research, quality improvement and education projects designed and run entirely by the applicant organisation.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- 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
- Community Partnerships and InvestmentsFoundation grantWounded Warrior ProjectWWP makes grants and investments to military and veteran organisations across five focus areas, and separately funds applied research and white papers on caregiving, brain injury telerehabilitation and military family well-being.Amount not published · By invitation
- Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP)Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlCooperative agreement building health department injury surveillance, partnership and evaluation capacity, focused on adverse childhood experiences, traumatic brain injury and transportation injury, with an enhanced strand for implementing and evaluating prevention strategies.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), NIHNIMHD-led R01 for population-based research on how work and occupation shape health outcomes in populations experiencing health disparities, treating work as both a risk source and an economic/social resource.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNIH (multi-Institute, including NIMHD)R01 for etiologic, intervention development/adaptation/testing and dissemination-implementation research to improve health in Native American communities, building on community knowledge, resources and resilience.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Oct
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32), PA-25-423Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthIndividual postdoctoral fellowship supporting mentored research training in health-related fields, including behavioral and social science. Award covers stipend, tuition and fees, institutional allowance and childcare costs.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- Institutional Training Programs to Advance Translational Research on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Training & capacityNational Institute on Aging (NIA), NIHInstitutional training grant for pre- and postdoctoral trainees in cross-disciplinary AD/ADRD translational research. Behavioural research is named among the eligible trainee backgrounds alongside basic biology, clinical investigation and data science.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · May, Sep
- Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingNIDILRR's main project grant mechanism, funding research, development, demonstration, training, dissemination and technical assistance on employment, independent living and community participation for people with disabilities. Sub-tracks include Knowledge Translation, Model Systems and the ADA Network.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFunds national centres that combine advanced research, training and information dissemination on a defined disability topic, aimed at improving employment, independent living, family support and economic self-sufficiency. Awards are typically five years.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Field-Initiated Projects (FIP) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingNIDILRR's investigator-initiated mechanism: the applicant chooses the research question rather than responding to an agency-set topic. Two categories, FIP Research and FIP Development, both smaller in scale than centre grants. Typical award is three years.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) ProgramTraining & capacityNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingGrants to universities to run structured postdoctoral research training in disability and rehabilitation, so trainees can move to independent research careers. Past cycles have used tracks on community living and participation, employment, and health and function.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Model Systems Program (Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Burn Injury)Federal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFunds centres that deliver coordinated rehabilitation care and run longitudinal and multi-site collaborative research on recovery and long-term outcomes after spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or burn injury, feeding national longitudinal databases.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFive-year centre awards for research and development on technologies and environments that remove barriers for people with disabilities. Grantees must also deliver technical assistance to service providers and to disabled consumers, which supports applied and participatory work.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- Rapid Response Rural Data Analysis and Issue Specific Rural Research StudiesFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health PolicySupports short-turnaround rural health services research and data analysis so that rural stakeholders and policymakers get timely evidence on pressing rural health issues, rather than waiting on multi-year study cycles.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jul
- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesFunds research that increases understanding of how individuals, organizations and societies make decisions, including judgment and decision making, decision aids, risk analysis and communication, and public policy decision making.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSupports development of analytical and statistical methods and models with potential use across the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Mechanisms include regular research awards, conferences, CAREER awards and dissertation improvement grants.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS)Training & capacityU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesFunds computational tools and data resources that support basic social and behavioral research — data collection or assembly that yields a shared resource for a research community, or software platforms that let others collect data.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Overdose Data to Action: Limiting Overdose through Collaborative Actions in Localities (OD2A: LOCAL)Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlCooperative agreement funding 40 city, county and territorial health departments for overdose surveillance and prevention, with required linkage-to-care and harm reduction strands and explicit process and outcome evaluation.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to ActionFederal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence PreventionFunds 12 recipients to build adverse and positive childhood experience data infrastructure and to implement, sustain and evaluate population-level ACEs prevention strategies. Launched 2023.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Health Systems Research (HSR) Investigator-Initiated Research (IIR)Federal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Health Systems ResearchVA's main investigator-initiated health services research grant. Funds studies of cost, quality and access to VA care, including patient safety and emerging topics, often multi-site to support generalizability and dissemination.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jun, Dec
- QUERI Global Request for ApplicationsFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)Funds implementation, evaluation, dissemination and training initiatives that scale up evidence-based practices across the VA health system, carried out by investigators embedded in VA facilities in partnership with VA operations leaders.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment (VISN 5 MIRECC)FellowshipU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical CenterTwo-year postdoctoral research and clinical training fellowship in serious mental illness. Offers two positions, one for an MD fellow and one Allied Health slot explicitly open to social work alongside psychology, nursing and pharmacy.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Nov, Dec
- Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies (LHHTS) Grant ProgramFederal grantU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy HomesHUD's explicitly research-funding healthy-housing programme. Supports studies on detecting and controlling lead and other housing-related health and safety hazards, and is the one OLHCHH programme open to universities.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Homelessness strategic initiativeFoundation grantConrad N. Hilton FoundationFunds work to end long-term homelessness in Los Angeles County: housing and early-response services, person-centered supports including mental health and income, data-backed prevention including predictive modeling, and cross-city knowledge exchange.Amount not published · By invitation
- Blue Shield of California Foundation grantmaking (Break the cycle of domestic violence)Foundation grantBlue Shield of California FoundationFoundation-led initiatives funding policy and systems change on the root causes of domestic violence - racism, gender inequity and economic inequity - alongside economic security and community-aligned systems work in California.Amount not published · By invitation
- Epidemiology Program for American Indian/Alaska Native Tribes and Urban Indian Communities (EP1)Federal grantIndian Health ServiceIHS cooperative agreement funding epidemiology capacity — surveillance, data analysis and health-status reporting — for American Indian/Alaska Native Tribes and Urban Indian communities. Listed as currently accepting applications under HHS-2026-IHS-EP1-0001.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant applications (letter of inquiry)Foundation grantW.K. Kellogg FoundationOpen, deadline-free letter-of-inquiry process funding work on racial equity, maternal and infant health care access, early care and education, food security, and family economic security.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- New York Health Foundation grantmaking (priority areas and Special Projects Fund)Foundation grantNew York Health FoundationGrants and commissioned policy analyses in three priority areas plus a Special Projects Fund, with an explicit focus on people of color and others historically marginalized in New York State.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Nov
- Michigan Health Endowment Fund grantmaking (Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health, Capacity Building)Foundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundPeriodic RFPs across four 2026 programme areas supporting innovative, evidence-based work to improve the health and wellness of Michigan residents, including behavioral health and healthy aging.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- California Health Care Foundation grants and Innovation FundFoundation grantCalifornia Health Care FoundationSolicited and unsolicited project grants, plus program-related investments through the Innovation Fund, for work improving quality, cost and access to care for Californians with low incomes.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Rural Healthcare ProgramFoundation grantLeona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable TrustFunds rural healthcare access across three pillars: telemedicine, behavioral health services, and clinical equipment/technology. The page cites a $13M pledge toward an adolescent behavioral health center serving four states.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Health Care program grantsFoundation grantThe Duke EndowmentFunds health care innovation in the Carolinas across five priorities: school-based mental health, population health, access to care for vulnerable populations, maternal and infant health, and the Healthy People Healthy Carolinas initiative.Amount not published · Several times a year · May, Jun, Nov, Dec
- NASW Foundation Doctoral Fellowships (Eileen Blackey and Jane B. Aron)Dissertation awardNASW FoundationNamed doctoral fellowships administered by the NASW Foundation to support social work doctoral students' dissertation research, alongside the Social Work HEALS doctoral fellowship.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)Federal fellowshipNational Institutes of HealthMentored postdoctoral research training support for candidates in health-related research, including behavioural, mental health and substance use research relevant to social work. Requires an identified sponsor and institution.Amount not published · Several times a year · Apr, Aug, Dec
- What We Fund (veteran, service member and military family grants)Foundation grantBob Woodruff FoundationGrants to veteran-serving organisations in three priority areas: health and well-being of service members, veterans, families and caregivers; local community capacity to improve veteran outcomes; and strengthening the military/veteran service sector.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- DAV Charitable Service Trust GrantsFoundation grantDAV (Disabled American Veterans) Charitable Service TrustQuarterly grant cycles funding physical and psychological rehabilitation and direct-service programmes for ill and injured veterans and their families, including housing, mobility and therapeutic programming.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
- Klaus J. Jacobs Research PrizePrize or challengeJacobs FoundationAn annual prize honouring a researcher whose work is key to progress in child and youth learning, development and living conditions. Open to any scholarly discipline, including social work and social policy research.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Cannabis Public Health and Safety Research GrantsEvaluation contractCalifornia Department of Cannabis ControlCalifornia state programme funding academic research on cannabis public health and safety impacts. The department reports allocating nearly $80 million since 2020 across 72 research projects.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Wellcome Discovery AwardsFoundation grantWellcome TrustLong research programme funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline, including social science, pursuing work that shifts understanding of human life, health and wellbeing.Amount not published · Several times a year · Sep
- Wellcome Career Development AwardsEarly-career awardWellcome TrustLong-duration awards for mid-career researchers from any discipline ready to lead their own substantial research programme related to human life, health and wellbeing.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)Federal grantIndian Health Service with the National Institutes of HealthA long-running IHS-NIH program supporting partnerships between AI/AN tribes or tribally based organizations and research institutions, combining health research with training for students and tribal members.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Medical Research Grants (Seed, Resubmission and Redirection)Pilot / seed fundingRhode Island FoundationCommunity foundation seed grants for laboratory, clinical and population-based research by Rhode Island faculty, meant to generate preliminary data for larger federal or national applications, plus resubmission and redirection grants; designated funds cover areas such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and infectious disease.up to $25k · Annual cycle · Nov
- Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund (ARDRAF)Pilot / seed fundingCommonwealth of Virginia (Virginia General Assembly), administered by the Virginia Center on Aging, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityState-appropriated awards for dementia research across biomedical and psychosocial domains, including caregiving and how families cope with the stresses of the disease; partnerships between community agencies and academic institutions are encouraged.up to $75k · Annual cycle · Dec, Feb
- Truman Library Institute Research GrantsFellowshipHarry S. Truman Library InstituteGrants of up to $2,500, awarded twice a year, to offset the cost of conducting research on the Truman era at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.up to $3k · Several times a year · Apr, Oct
- FY26 Alzheimer's Research Program (AZRP)Federal grantU.S. Department of Defense — Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), Defense Health AgencyFunds solution-oriented research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, including a quality-of-life focus on caregivers and people living with dementia, the needs of service members who are care partners, and community-partnered clinical research. FY26 mechanisms: Transforming Care, Diagnosis and Research Awards.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Sep
- Research Awards: Research Grants in the Arts and NEA Research LabsFederal grantNational Endowment for the ArtsResearch Grants in the Arts fund research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts in American life; NEA Research Labs fund transdisciplinary research teams pursuing a long-term research agenda through multiple empirical studies.$20k–$300k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- From Insight to Action: Health Equity Research That Meets This Moment (Health Equity Research for Action)Foundation grantRobert Wood Johnson FoundationFunding for community-rooted, action-oriented health equity research addressing root causes of structural discrimination and countering health-harming misinformation, co-led with a community-based organization.up to $500k · Periodic calls
- Commonwealth Fund's Paul Engel Memorial Award (Rockefeller Archive Center research stipend)FellowshipRockefeller Archive Center (with the Commonwealth Fund)Stipends of up to $5,000 toward travel and accommodation for short-term research in the Commonwealth Fund's records held at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a source for the history of philanthropy, child guidance, public health and health policy.up to $5k · Rolling / open
- Student Micro Grant ProgramPilot / seed fundingCenter for Rural Pennsylvania (legislative agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly)Summer grants of up to $5,000 for students, working with a faculty member, to research the needs and concerns of rural Pennsylvanians through a public-policy lens, including services, health, local government and education.up to $5k · Annual cycle · Mar
- Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D)FellowshipAlzheimer's AssociationPostdoctoral fellowship for scientists from underrepresented groups in Alzheimer's and dementia research, including social-behavioral research, with mentored training before a first faculty post.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Feb, May
- Alzheimer's Association Research Grant to Promote Diversity (AARG-D)Early-career awardAlzheimer's AssociationGrant to increase scientists from underrepresented groups in Alzheimer's and dementia research, including social and behavioral research and health disparities, supporting pilot data and early independent work.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Feb, May
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- 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
- Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesFoundation grantBob Woodruff FoundationFunds community programmes serving veterans and military families and, unusually, pays for the evaluation capacity those programmes need to show whether they work.$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
- Federal prize competitions and challengesPrize or challengeU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)Agencies post cash prizes for solutions to defined problems — including behavioural health, caregiving and child welfare challenges. You are paid for the result, so there is no grant to administer.$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Community and science grant programsFoundation grantChan Zuckerberg InitiativeCorporate-linked philanthropy funding community organisations, education and science infrastructure, with open calls that do not require a university affiliation.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Grants to address the overdose crisisRapid-response fundFoundation for Opioid Response EffortsA funder created specifically for the overdose crisis, moving faster than federal cycles on treatment access, harm reduction and recovery supports, and funding evaluation alongside services.$100k–$500k · Periodic calls
- Transition to Scale and innovation fundingPrize or challengeGrand Challenges CanadaStage-gated funding for bold ideas in global health and development — including mental health and humanitarian innovation — where evidence generation is a condition of moving to the next stage.$100k–$1M · Periodic calls
- Reproductive justice grantmakingParticipatory grantmakingGroundswell FundFunds reproductive justice organising led by women of colour, transgender and gender-expansive people, including the community-based research those organisations use to make their case.$10k–$150k · By invitation
- Grants to Latino-serving organisationsParticipatory grantmakingHispanic FederationRegranting to Latino-led and Latino-serving community organisations across health, education, immigration and disaster recovery, including capacity for their own evaluation.$5k–$100k · Periodic calls
- Restricted data access, summer program and data fellowshipsIn-kind resourceInter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchIn-kind rather than cash: access to restricted administrative and survey data, and methods training that would otherwise be a line item. For a secondary-data dissertation this substitutes for a grant.Not a cash award · Rolling / open · Jun, Jul, Aug
- 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
- CommonSpirit Health Community Grants ProgramParticipatory grantmakingCommonSpirit HealthHospital community benefit grants that must address a significant health need named in the local hospital's Community Health Needs Assessment or implementation strategy, serving underserved populations in that hospital's service area.up to $150k · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug, Sep
- RurAL CAP Foundation Small GrantsParticipatory grantmakingRurAL CAP Foundation (Rural Alaska Community Action Program)Small grants for community-driven projects in remote rural Alaska, across culture, community, leadership, food security, and environment, with priorities the foundation describes as flexible to what each community needs.$500–$25k · Several times a year · Apr, Nov
- Engagement Award: Building Capacity for Small Organizations To Engage in Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Two-year awards helping small community organisations prepare to engage in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. Awardees also receive PCORI technical assistance and join a peer learning network.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Engagement Award: Capacity Building — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Builds the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered CER, and strengthens researchers' skills as partners. Does not fund research studies themselves.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Engagement Award: Convening Support — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds multi-party convenings, meetings and conferences that bring patients, families, caregivers and the healthcare community together around patient-centered CER, or that disseminate PCORI-funded research findings.up to $125k · Several times a year · Mar, 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
- Boundless San FranciscoPrize or challengeCrankstart, administered by Lever for ChangeAn open competition awarding up to $150 million total, with up to three awardees receiving up to $50 million each for solutions that make San Francisco a better place to live. Finalists receive $250,000-$500,000 plus technical assistance.$250k–$50M · Periodic calls · Sep, Oct
- TOPx HHS Tech Sprint for AI and Invisible IllnessPrize or challengeHHS LymeX Innovation Accelerator with NIH Office of Research on Women's Health and the Federal CDO CouncilA $2 million sprint to build working tools from federal open data on conditions that are hard to measure. One of its three tracks is explicitly about quantifying the full cost of illness borne by patients and families.up to $2M · Periodic calls · Jul, Oct
- Peg Johnston Innovation FundPilot / seed fundingAbortion Conversation ProjectsSmall seed grants for innovative work on abortion care, support, storytelling and meaning-making, explicitly open to researchers, artists, doulas and community leaders as well as organizations.$5k–$10k · Annual cycle · Sep
- NCI Office of Data Sharing Impact PrizePrize or challengeNational Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Data Sharing, NIHA $200,000 prize for ideas and documented exemplars that make publicly funded research outputs genuinely findable and reusable. It explicitly invites librarians, staff scientists, patient advocates, and citizen scientists, not only PIs.up to $200k · Periodic calls · Aug, Oct
- 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
- Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Supports organisations and communities in actively disseminating published PCORI-funded research results to specific audiences so those audiences can use the findings in healthcare decision making.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Community Grants (Resident Advancement Committee)Participatory grantmakingSaint Luke's FoundationA resident committee — not foundation staff — decides these grants of up to $6,000 for projects in three Cleveland neighborhoods, on a quarterly cycle with decisions two weeks after each deadline.up to $6k · Several times a year · Mar, May, Jul, Sep
- NNLM Region 4 Professional Development Award (Year 5)Training & capacityNetwork of the National Library of Medicine (National Library of Medicine, NIH)Small award supporting professional development and training for staff of NNLM member organisations, including skills in health information, data and research engagement.$3k · Annual cycle · Jan
- Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority Grants (Individual Distributions, Cooperative Partnerships, State Agency Awards)Participatory grantmakingVirginia Opioid Abatement AuthorityVirginia's OAA is an independent state authority created to spend the Commonwealth's share of national opioid settlement money, awarding it as grants for efforts to treat, prevent and reduce opioid use disorder and opioid misuse. Three grant lines run on published calendars: Individual Distributions to a single city or county, Cooperative Partnerships that pool two or more localities for a joint project, and State Agency Awards. The locality lines run on a rolling committee calendar — applications are due about two weeks before each OAA Grants Committee meeting — while state agencies apply in Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Mar, Jul, Sep, Oct
- El Camino Healthcare District Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino Healthcare DistrictA public healthcare district re-grants community benefit dollars each year to programs addressing the five health needs selected through the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment, for residents of Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale and part of Cupertino.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- MarinHealth Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingMarinHealth Medical CenterA single-hospital community benefit fund for programs serving Marin County residents, organised around four health priorities drawn from the hospital's community health needs assessment. Proposals that measure outcomes through evaluation methods are explicitly prioritised.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- Nexa Funding Opportunity: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (climate x health)Prize or challengeGrand Challenges CanadaA challenge-fund call for innovations helping local health actors address climate-driven health risks — mosquito-borne infection, extreme heat, and poor air quality — through early warning systems and climate-responsive patient care.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- El Camino Health Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino HealthThe hospital-side companion to the healthcare district fund: annual community benefit grants for programs addressing the five priorities of the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment in the cities served by El Camino Health's hospitals.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- 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
- Regional Opioid Abatement Council (ROAC) Funding Requests — 60% Regional ShareParticipatory grantmakingColorado's 19 Regional Opioid Abatement Councils, overseen by the Colorado Opioid Abatement CouncilRoughly $547.6 million of Colorado's settlement is controlled by 19 regional councils made up of local government and community representatives, who decide their own region's spending on twice-yearly request deadlines.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Sep
- Nexa Funding Opportunity: Africa, Latin America and the CaribbeanPrize or challengeGrand Challenges CanadaA challenge fund for locally led solutions helping health systems anticipate and respond to climate-driven health threats: extreme heat, poor air quality and mosquito-borne disease. Transition-to-Scale applications are open.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- CPWR Small Study ProgramPilot / seed fundingCPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training (the research arm of North America's Building Trades Unions)Seed funding from the building-trades unions' research center to test promising construction safety and health research or practical interventions. The page frames it as the on-ramp to larger projects and notes that over 60 percent of funded researchers have published in peer-reviewed journals.up to $30k · Rolling / open
- Proposal Development AwardTraining & capacityBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationA rolling capacity award that pays for the grant-writing itself: technical assistance, freelance proposal writers and related proposal development costs for Michigan nonprofits that lack in-house grant writing capacity. Useful for a community agency preparing a research or evaluation proposal to the Foundation, the Michigan Health Endowment Fund or a federal agency.up to $4k · Rolling / open
- NC Collaboratory Opioid Remediation Research AwardsPilot / seed fundingNorth Carolina Collaboratory (opioid settlement funds appropriated by the NC General Assembly)One of the few places where opioid settlement money is spent directly on research: competitive awards to North Carolina public-university teams for research and evaluation done in partnership with local governments implementing remediation.$129k–$200k · Periodic calls
- CHPRD Community Grant ProgramsEvaluation contractNew Jersey Department of State, Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and DevelopmentA state office dedicated to Hispanic policy and research posts an annual slate of competitive awards to community agencies serving New Jersey's Latino communities, solicited and submitted through the state's SAGE system.$50k–$75k · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar
- Harm Reduction Futures FundParticipatory grantmakingAIDS UnitedA pooled donor fund for syringe services and harm reduction organizations, with pre-applications screened by a community-based review committee. Organizations led by or meaningfully involving networks of people who use drugs are prioritized.$10k–$40k · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- LGBTIQ+ Emergency Support Fund (Small Grants for Community-Led Rapid Response and Advocacy in Asia-Pacific)Rapid-response fundAPCOMSmall, fast grants for LGBTIQ+ community-led groups across Asia and the Pacific responding to human rights violations, shrinking civic space and other urgent threats. Documentation and monitoring of violations are explicitly eligible.up to $5k · Periodic calls · Jun
- Community Engagement Pilot Grant Program (CE-Pilot)Pilot / seed fundingColorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), University of Colorado AnschutzTwo-tier pilot funding for community-academic research partnerships: $8,000 Partnership Development Projects for new partners, and $30,000 Joint Pilot Projects for established partnerships doing T3/T4 translational work in real-world community settings.$8k–$30k · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
- Community Power-Building for Birth and Parenting Justice Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingSisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice CollectiveParticipatory grant program that reserves a share of its pool for BIPOC researchers and BIPOC creatives alongside grassroots groups, funding research and arts that advance birth and parenting justice.$25k–$50k · Periodic calls · May, Jun
- 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
- Colorado Opioid Abatement Council — Infrastructure ShareTraining & capacityColorado Opioid Abatement Council / Colorado Department of LawThe 10% Infrastructure Share of Colorado's opioid settlement, awarded competitively in rounds for capital and operational capacity — including data systems and outcome-tracking dashboards, not just bricks and mortar.$130k–$530k · Periodic calls · Jan
- Protection GrantsRapid-response fundFront Line DefendersEmergency protection grants for human rights defenders at risk — physical and digital security, legal fees under judicial harassment, medical costs after attack — sustaining the capacity to keep documenting abuses.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- Twilio.org Impact Access ProgramIn-kind resourceTwilio (Twilio.org)Product credits and ongoing discounts on Twilio's SMS and voice platform for nonprofits and social enterprises. Practical for text-based data collection, EMA/diary studies, reminder trials and participant follow-up.$100 · Rolling / open
- SBIR and STTR (America's Seed Fund)Pilot / seed fundingU.S. Small Business Administration (coordinating 11 participating federal agencies)Equity-free federal seed funding to small businesses to develop and commercialise a technology or service. Several participating agencies, including HHS components, award it as contracts rather than grants.$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year
- Zayed Sustainability Prize — Health categoryPrize or challengeZayed Sustainability Prize (United Arab Emirates)An annual global prize with a Health category awarding US$1,000,000 to an organisation delivering affordable healthcare access in underserved settings. No grant paperwork — a submission-and-jury process.$150k–$1M · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun
- ARISE-HIV LAUNCH ChallengePrize or challengeNIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR)A $1 million two-phase implementation-science prize on access, delivery, engagement, and retention for long-acting HIV prevention and treatment. Phase 1 rewards the idea; Phase 2 pays for the implementation and evaluation plan.up to $1M · By invitation · Aug
- NAPSW Innovative Program Award and Research GrantPilot / seed fundingNational Association of Perinatal Social Workers (NAPSW)A $1,000 one-time seed award for perinatal social workers to fund special programmes or research efforts that lack other funding, including evidence-based practice implementation and best-practice evaluation.$1k · Annual cycle · Feb
- HEAL Capacity GrantParticipatory grantmakingLatino Community Fund of WashingtonA Latinx-led organisation regrants Washington Healthy Environment for All Act funds to frontline groups, with a community review committee choosing projects from a three-question first-stage application.$1k–$30k · Periodic calls · Nov
- Asian Pacific Community Giving Circle and Firecracker FundParticipatory grantmakingAsian Pacific Community Fund (APCF)Member-funded giving circles hosted by APCF. The Asian Pacific Community Giving Circle sets its own priorities each year and its members vote to select grantees serving AANHPI communities in Greater Los Angeles.$5k · Annual cycle
- DrivenData Open CompetitionsPrize or challengeDrivenData (competitions sponsored by mission-driven organisations and agencies)A standing venue where social-sector sponsors post machine learning and data science challenges with cash purses. Entrants compete on a held-out benchmark; there is no proposal, budget or institutional paperwork.$20k–$50k · Rolling / open
- All of Us Researcher Workbench accessIn-kind resourceNational Institutes of Health, All of Us Research ProgramRegistered access to a cloud analysis platform holding the All of Us participant dataset, including survey, electronic health record and physical measurement data, with starter computational credits for running analyses.$300 · Rolling / open
- inroads FellowshipsIn-kind resourceinroads (International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma)Themed cohort fellowships for network members who produce a personal or collective resource on abortion stigma, combining a stipend with structured collective learning and global dissemination.$2k stipend · Periodic calls
- Black Philanthropy FundParticipatory grantmakingThe Cleveland FoundationAn endowed affinity fund seeded at $3 million whose grantmaking priorities and awards are set by an advisory committee of Greater Cleveland Black community leaders. First round ran in 2026.$10k–$25k · Annual cycle · Apr, May
- AI for Good Innovation FactoryPrize or challengeInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU), United NationsThe UN's global pitching competition for AI solutions to social and development challenges, run as monthly regional and thematic rounds feeding a Grand Finale at the AI for Good Global Summit.$20k · Several times a year · Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May
- Hispanic Impact Fund GrantPrize or challengeAustin Community FoundationA Central Texas Latino-focused fund that awards unrestricted general operating support in a tiered winner, runner-up and semifinalist structure across four strategy areas.$22k–$56k · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul
- Sector Transformation Initiative — Rapid Response Technical Assistance (Level 3: Intensive TA plus Micro-Grant)Rapid-response fundAIDS UnitedRapid-response support for HIV service organizations facing funding contraction: a $15,000 micro-grant plus a dedicated technical assistance liaison and customized training. Relevant to syringe services and harm reduction programmes housed within HIV service organizations.$15k · Rolling / open
- Farm Aid grant programFoundation grantFarm AidGrants to organizations serving family farmers, explicitly including farm advocates, legal support, mental health services, hotlines, and emergency assistance — a rare direct source for rural agricultural behavioural health work.$5k–$10k · By invitation · Nov, Dec
- Rapid Response Technical Assistance Program (Sector Transformation Initiative)Training & capacityAIDS UnitedTiered technical assistance for HIV service organizations navigating funding contraction, from open-access courses through hours of one-to-one TA up to intensive support paired with a micro-grant.$15k · Rolling / open
- UIHI Community Grants — Sweetgrass and SagePilot / seed fundingUrban Indian Health Institute (Seattle Indian Health Board)A Native-led institute regrants to urban Indian organizations for chronic disease prevention work built on culturally adapted Indigenous methods, frameworks and evaluation approaches.$10k–$62k · Annual cycle · Jan, Jun
- COMpetency in Menopause & Integrated Therapy (COMMIT) ChallengePrize or challengeNIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), with NIA, NHLBI, NINR, NIAMS and the NIH Office of the DirectorA $2.5 million prize for existing health-professions curricula that teach the menopausal transition well. It rewards documented, evaluated teaching practice rather than a proposal for new work.up to $2.5M · Varies by programme
- Kresge Foundation Social Investment PracticeFoundation grantThe Kresge FoundationKresge's balance-sheet arm, deploying program-related investments and loans, equity, strategic deposits and unfunded guarantees across all seven of the foundation's programme areas — including Health and Human Services, the two most directly aligned with social work. The guarantee instrument is the distinctive one: Kresge absorbs first-loss risk so other investors will fund a community project, which makes it a route to capitalizing demonstration projects whose outcomes a research partner can then study.Amount not published · By invitation
- North Carolina Opioid Settlement Funds — Local Government Spending RouteIn-kind resourceNorth Carolina opioid settlement (NC Department of Justice / NC Association of County Commissioners Memorandum of Agreement)North Carolina is receiving $1.6 billion in national opioid settlement funds, and the state's Memorandum of Agreement routes the overwhelming majority directly to counties and municipalities rather than to a statewide competitive grant program. There is no central research or evaluation solicitation to apply to: local governments choose strategies from the MOA's allowed-uses lists, then report annually through the state's Local Government Reporting Hub and Annual Reporting Portals, which are open at the time of writing. For a social work researcher this is a county-by-county access route — funAmount not published · Rolling / open
- OneOhio Recovery Foundation Regional Grant Cycle #2Participatory grantmakingOneOhio Recovery FoundationOhio's statewide opioid settlement foundation distributes 55% of the state's national opioid settlement dollars through regionally-governed competitive cycles. Regional Grant Cycle #2 makes $45,780,885 available across 19 Ohio regions, allocated by the settlement formula plus Cycle 1 carryover. Awards support prevention, treatment, recovery and community-resilience work for people with substance use disorder (including co-occurring mental health conditions) and family members affected by another person's SUD. The RFP released 2025-12-10; a required Funding Inquiry stage opened 2026-01-14 and cAmount not published · Periodic calls · Dec, Jan, Feb
- Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) Call for ProjectsPilot / seed fundingFund for Innovation in Development (Fonds d'innovation pour le développement)FID is a Paris-based, francophone-anchored fund backing promising ideas with high potential impact against poverty and inequality, and it is unusual in that its whole architecture is built around evidence: funding is released in seven successive stages matched to a project's maturity, so an idea can move from small pilot through rigorous evaluation to scale without changing funder. It explicitly finances research institutions alongside NGOs, governments and companies, which makes it one of the few nontraditional funders where a social work researcher can be the applicant rather than a subcontrAmount not published · Rolling / open
- Zayed Sustainability PrizePrize or challengeZayed Sustainability Prize (United Arab Emirates)An annual global prize, in its 18th year, awarding across six categories — Health, Food, Energy, Water, Climate Action and Global High Schools — to enterprises, nonprofit organisations and schools delivering transformative sustainability solutions. The Health and Climate Action categories reach the same terrain as social work's environmental justice and community health work, and the award functions as implementation and scaling money for the winning organisation rather than as a personal honorarium, which is what makes it usable by a community organisation working with a researcher.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun
- 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
- Boston Children's Hospital Collaboration for Community HealthParticipatory grantmakingBoston Children's HospitalA multi-year community investment stream tied to the Massachusetts Determination of Need / Community Health Initiative, funding partner-led work on mental and behavioral health workforce, youth engagement, food access and housing, with published evaluation reports on each area.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
- Massachusetts Determination of Need Community Health Initiative planning toolsIn-kind resourceMassachusetts Department of Public Health, Determination of Need ProgramFree state-issued instruments for community-engaged health planning: Community Engagement Guidelines for Community Health Planning, a CHNA/CHIP self-assessment, a Community Engagement Plan template and an online Community Engagement Partner Assessment that collects partners' own ratings of engagement quality.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- 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
- NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI)In-kind resourceNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), NIHA free, competitive one-week in-person research training institute at the NIH campus for early-stage investigators, covering health disparities theory, research design, measurement and implementation, with individual consultation from NIH programme staff on a planned NIH application.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Los Angeles County Open Solicitations (WebVen / Vendor Self Service)Evaluation contractCounty of Los AngelesLA County's standing procurement portal, where every county department — including Public Health, Mental Health, Children and Family Services and Public Social Services — posts open solicitations, including RFPs for evaluation, analysis and professional services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Colorado Hospital Community Benefit Accountability program materialsIn-kind resourceColorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)Colorado requires reporting hospitals to file needs assessments, community benefit implementation plans, 340B figures and full public-meeting records, and publishes a Best Practices in Community Engagement Guide and resource repository developed with the Colorado Health Institute.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Jul
- Supplies, Access, Facilitation and Education (SAFE) harm reduction fundingEvaluation contractIllinois Department of Human Services (opioid settlement funds)Illinois opioid-settlement money awarded to established harm reduction providers across the state's seven health regions, with notices of funding opportunity posted through the state's opioid settlements initiative portal rather than on any research listserv.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Feb
- DHCF Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractDistrict of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DC Medicaid)DC's Medicaid agency directs prospective bidders to the District's central contracting portal for all open DHCF solicitations, including analytic and evaluation work. This page is the agency's standing entry point and names the contract compliance contact.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- California Grants PortalEvaluation contractCalifornia State Library (State of California)Statewide catalogue of competitive and first-come grants and loans offered by every California state agency, searchable by category and by time remaining until deadline. Includes health, housing, education and human services funding that can carry evaluation components.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- The Way Home CoC Funding OpportunitiesEvaluation contractCoalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County (CoC lead agency)The Houston/Harris County CoC lead agency's funding page, carrying local HUD competitions (CoC NOFO, YHDP, CoC Builds), its own intervention funding, and regional HOPWA and HOME-ARP solicitations that rarely circulate outside the local system.Amount not published · Several times a year
- 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
- Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) FundParticipatory grantmakingWomen Donors NetworkPost-Dobbs participatory fund that moves unrestricted money to community-rooted abortion access and reproductive justice groups, with grantmaking decisions made by an advisory council of movement leaders, providers and organizers.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OMH Requests for Proposals and Requests for InformationEvaluation contractNew York State Office of Mental HealthNew York's state mental health authority posts its RFPs and RFIs on this page, including data-collection and reporting work such as the National Outcome Measures project. A tentative forward procurement schedule is also published so bidders can plan.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Medicaid Evaluation and Research Solicitations via eVA (DMAS Procurement)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS)Virginia's state Medicaid agency buys evaluation, analytic and study work through competitive solicitations posted on the eVA procurement portal rather than through grant announcements. The DMAS procurement page explains how to find and bid on them.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Community Fund for Immigrant WellnessParticipatory grantmakingScattergood Foundation (with the Philadelphia Foundation, City of Philadelphia DBHIDS, and Paul D. Schurgot Foundation)A participatory fund for immigrant and refugee behavioral health in Greater Philadelphia, where a Community Advisory Board of immigrant-serving organizations writes the strategy and RFP and nominates the Decision Making Group that selects awardees.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- eMMA — eMaryland Marketplace AdvantageEvaluation contractState of Maryland, Department of General ServicesMaryland's online procurement platform connecting vendors with contracting opportunities from state, county and local government entities, including health and human services solicitations. Registered vendors get bid notices and submit responses online.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- New York State Contract ReporterEvaluation contractState of New YorkNew York's official source of state contracting opportunities, described as bringing business and government together — the board where state health and human services agency solicitations, including evaluation and consulting services, are advertised.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Partnering with DHCF (Health Reform and Innovation Partnerships)In-kind resourceDistrict of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DC Medicaid)A standing, rolling route for outside researchers and organizations to bring DHCF in as a partner on health reform and innovation projects. What DHCF supplies is staff effort, agency role and Medicaid data access under a DUA rather than cash.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Robert Carr Fund for civil society networksParticipatory grantmakingRobert Carr FundA pooled international fund giving core, flexible, multiyear support to global and regional civil society networks led by inadequately served populations, including networks of people who use drugs. Decision-making is explicitly participatory with those communities.Amount not published · Periodic calls · May
- Current Grant Opportunities (Neighbor to Neighbor, Whitehorse Foundation, Medical Funds, Benjamin N. Phillips Memorial Fund)Participatory grantmakingSeattle FoundationSeattle Foundation's live listing of open funds, including Neighbor to Neighbor, which funds small-budget grassroots groups to increase the engagement, power and influence of community members affected by poverty and racial disparities.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
- Community Empowerment GrantmakingParticipatory grantmakingNotah Begay III (NB3) FoundationNational grantmaking from a Native-led foundation that also runs its own evaluation and research arm, funding Native-led work on physical activity, nutrition, youth leadership, and cultural connection for Native children's health.Amount not published · By invitation
- Add Health Restricted-Use Data ContractsIn-kind resourceCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillContractual access to the restricted-use files of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, covering four decades of one cohort's development, available either through a secure research workspace or a home-institution contract.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Good Ancestor Program - Spiral Braid Language InitiativeParticipatory grantmakingSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous PeoplesAn Indigenous-controlled fund's request for proposals supporting language revitalization, community-based healing rooted in traditional practice, traditional foodways, and cultural knowledge sharing across the greater Southwest.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jul, Aug
- Emergency Assistance ProgramRapid-response fundFreedom HouseStanding emergency assistance for human rights defenders and civil society organisations under threat, including rapid response advocacy and opportunity grants and resiliency grants for security training and threat mitigation.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- SHARE Initiative (Supporting Health for All through REinvestment)Participatory grantmakingOregon Health Authority — Medicaid Coordinated Care OrganizationsOregon requires its Medicaid coordinated care organizations to reinvest a share of net income or reserves into community-chosen work on social determinants of health and equity, with community advisory councils involved in the spending decisions.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Dec
- CalOptima Health community sponsorships and letters of supportIn-kind resourceCalOptima Health (Orange County, California Medi-Cal health plan)A county Medi-Cal plan that does not run a grants programme but does provide event sponsorships, letters of support for eligible projects, use of its logo, and free presentations on Medi-Cal — practical assets for a study needing a plan partner.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- AHCCCS Solicitations and Contracts (Open Solicitations and Bidders Library)Evaluation contractArizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)Arizona's Medicaid agency posts its open solicitations, closed solicitations, contract amendments and a bidders library here. This is the route by which analytic, monitoring and evaluation work for Arizona Medicaid is competed.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- LISC Community Development Lending, Grants and Capacity BuildingTraining & capacityLocal Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)One of the largest U.S. community development intermediaries, combining flexible lending to under-resourced borrowers with grantmaking, capacity-building services, a public resource library and its own policy research and impact assessment through the LISC Institute for Community Power. The dual role matters here — LISC both capitalizes community organizations and publishes research on them, so it is a plausible funder, data partner and dissemination route for social work research on housing, safety and justice, health, and income and wealth building.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- PA eMarketplace — Commonwealth of Pennsylvania solicitationsEvaluation contractCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General ServicesPennsylvania's online board where state agencies — including human services and health agencies — post Invitations for Bid, Requests for Proposal and Requests for Quote across services, including research and evaluation services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Tribal Epidemiology Center Data Access (TEC PHI request process)In-kind resourceIndian Health Service, Division of Epidemiology and Disease PreventionPublished guidance letting Tribal Epidemiology Centers obtain IHS protected health information as public health authorities, with data use agreements and request templates. It is the practical route to IHS data for tribally partnered research.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DOL Community-Rooted Opioid Response GrantParticipatory grantmakingColorado Department of Law (Office of the Attorney General) — State Share of Opioid Settlement FundsOpioid settlement State Share money routed specifically to small 'By and For' community organizations for prevention, early intervention, and recovery-oriented work in disproportionately affected Colorado communities.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jul
- Foundation For Black Philanthropy grantsParticipatory grantmakingFoundation For The CarolinasFounded in 1993 as the African American Community Foundation, this Charlotte-region fund runs a competitive annual grant cycle whose decisions are made by a Board of Advisors of Black civic, business and community leaders.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- 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
- Lawson Foundation grantsFoundation grantThe Lawson FoundationA Canadian family foundation funding the healthy development and wellbeing of children and youth across five impact areas: early child development, child and youth diabetes, youth climate and nature leadership, sector infrastructure, and the place-based Miggsie Fund. Grantmaking explicitly names research and advocacy, prevention and early intervention, and evaluation and knowledge sharing among its priorities, and funds can cover research, capacity enhancement and training rather than only service delivery. Grants are flexible in size and length by design.Amount 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
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation research grant programsPilot / seed fundingBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationA health plan foundation that funds applied health services research in Michigan — investigator-initiated projects, physician pilot studies, student awards, and proposal development awards to help nonprofits strengthen applications.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Mother Cabrini Health Foundation grants - Mental and Behavioral HealthFoundation grantMother Cabrini Health FoundationLarge New York State health funder with a standing Mental and Behavioral Health funding area, including access to mental health counselling, alongside healthcare access, workforce, and basic needs. Two-stage LOI then invited full proposal.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health JournalismFellowshipThe Carter CenterStipends and training for journalists reporting on mental health, caregiving, and substance use. A documentation route rather than a research grant, and one of the few funded ways to spend a year on a single mental health story.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
- Standard Application Process (SAP) for access to federal confidential data assetsIn-kind resourceNational Science Foundation (SAP portal, on behalf of the federal statistical agencies)Single federal portal for applying to use confidential data held by federal statistical agencies. It carries a searchable catalogue of restricted datasets and the application system used to request access for an approved research project.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- North Carolina electronic Vendor Portal (eVP)Evaluation contractState of North Carolina, Division of Purchase & ContractNorth Carolina's system connecting vendors with state government organizations that purchase goods and services, including health and human services evaluation and analytic contracts. Self-service vendor registration.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- IHS Research Program — tribal research review, capacity building and liaisonIn-kind resourceIndian Health Service, Office of Public Health SupportThe IHS office that reviews all IHS research for tribal involvement and 45 CFR Part 46 compliance, builds tribal research capacity through technical assistance, and acts as liaison to federal agencies, universities and foundations.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Indigenous Tomorrows FundParticipatory grantmakingNative Americans in PhilanthropyA youth-led participatory fund where Native people aged 14-24 set priorities, review proposals, and make the final award decisions, funding food justice, community health, and food-culture-healing work in Indigenous communities.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- Naloxone Supply Accounts (bulk naloxone at or below cost, including free tier)In-kind resourceRemedy Alliance / For The PeopleCommunity harm reduction programs and mutual aid collectives apply for a supply account to receive generic injectable and nasal naloxone at tiered pricing running from below-market to free, shipped directly to the program.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Capital Impact Partners Mission-Driven Financing and Capacity ProgramsTraining & capacityCapital Impact PartnersA CDFI providing flexible, affordable capital to nonprofits and community organizations alongside a set of named capacity-building programmes — among them Co-op Innovation Awards, the Housing Accelerator Fellowship, Equitable Development Initiative training for community-rooted developers, and the Nourish DC food-access collaborative. The fellowship and award programmes are the research-relevant openings: they fund structured learning and model development, not only bricks and mortar.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Fundo Agbara thematic funds — Apoio Imediato, Fundo Bem Viver and Asa DuduParticipatory grantmakingFundo AgbaraFundo Agbara is a Brazilian fund by and for Black women, channelling resources through thematic funds. Apoio Imediato supports Black women students taking up study opportunities abroad and human rights defenders at risk. Fundo Bem Viver resources well-being initiatives, with a Malunga Bem Viver line for collectives and organisations and a Descansa, Nêga line that pays for Black women's rest. Asa Dudu offers strategic business guidance. The fund reports more than R$6.8 million invested, a network of around 600 Black women's initiatives, and more than 5,000 Black women strengthened. It is a routAmount not published · Varies by programme
- California Hospital Community Benefits Plans and Needs Assessments (public data)In-kind resourceCalifornia Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)HCAI collects and publishes every California private not-for-profit hospital's community benefit plan and triennial community needs assessment, free to download, giving community-based researchers a full statewide corpus of hospital-identified needs and spending.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- ACCESS: Advancing Cross-Cutting Engagement and Service Strategies for People Who Use DrugsEvaluation contractMaryland Department of Health, Office of Overdose Prevention and EducationMaryland's community overdose prevention grant stream, currently supporting 50 organizations for naloxone distribution, syringe services, overdose response programs, and training. New applications are closed between cycles.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- CareSource Foundation Signature and Community GrantsFoundation grantCareSource Foundation (CareSource, a Medicaid managed care organisation)The philanthropic arm of a Medicaid managed care plan, funding nonprofits on poverty, healthy communities and services to low- and moderate-income families. As of July 31, 2026 it moved to invitation-only grantmaking.Amount not published · By invitation
- Pawanka FundParticipatory grantmakingPawanka FundAn Indigenous-led global fund that supports Indigenous peoples' own initiatives on traditional knowledge, wellbeing, rights and self-determined development. Its method, which it calls LAN Pawanka, is explicitly learning-by-doing and step-by-step, and it describes the Indigenous peoples it funds as local partners rather than grantees — the participatory-grantmaking posture where the constituency governs the money. It is one of the few funds whose remit directly names traditional knowledge, which is the ground on which Indigenous-led evaluation, intergenerational knowledge transmission and commuAmount not published · Varies by programme
- Alaska Area IRB and ANTHC Health Research Review CommitteeIn-kind resourceAlaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (with IHS Alaska Area IRB)A three-stage tribal research review and a research support infrastructure for studies involving Alaska Native people, including biostatistics, data management, REDCap, an EpiCenter, and a Research Advisory Network.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) contracting pathwayEvaluation contractU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVA's route for small businesses, especially veteran-owned ones, to win VA contracts, including the studies and evaluation work relevant to veteran mental health, homelessness and family services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Enhanced Research Environment and Data RequestsIn-kind resourceIndiana Management Performance Hub (MPH)Indiana's state performance and analytics office runs a secure Enhanced Research Environment that brings research teams, code, and state data together, and accepts data requests from outside parties.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board (NNHRRB) Protocol ReviewIn-kind resourceNavajo Nation Division of Health / Navajo Research OfficeMandatory tribal research review for any health or health-related research within Navajo Nation jurisdiction. The board meets monthly, and its approval is the gate that lets a Navajo-based study exist at all.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (CPPRA), 2027 Call for ApplicationsParticipatory grantmakingTobacco-Related Disease Research Program, University of California Office of the PresidentAward mechanism within the University of California's TRDRP for research questions originating in community needs, requiring an equitable community-academic partnership rather than a community advisory role.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Fiscal Sponsorship (Become a Project)In-kind resourceMultiplierMultiplier houses unincorporated projects under its 501(c)(3) so they can receive grants, run payroll, and manage contracts without forming a nonprofit. Onboarding runs about six weeks.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Multnomah County Bids and ProposalsEvaluation contractMultnomah County, Oregon — Purchasing (Department of County Management)Multnomah County procures services for its health clinics, jails, libraries and animal and human services through a central purchasing office, with solicitations posted to a public bids-and-proposals portal.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OregonBuys — Oregon state procurement platformEvaluation contractState of Oregon, Department of Administrative ServicesOregon's procurement platform where state agencies post bid opportunities and blanket contracts, including the route for Oregon Health Authority and human services evaluation and analytic solicitations.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Fisher Service Awards (formerly the Newman's Own Award)Prize or challengeFisher House Foundation (with Military Times Foundation)An annual competition recognising innovative nonprofit programmes that improve quality of life for active duty, Reserve, National Guard members, veterans and their families. Winners must file 6-month and 1-year evaluation reports.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar
- Low-Cost Naloxone Access for Community ProgramsIn-kind resourceRemedy Alliance / For The PeopleSupplies naloxone and related harm reduction supplies at low cost to community-based organizations that distribute them, plus drug-checking technical assistance. This is a materials and TA pipeline, not a cash research grant, but it underwrites the distribution infrastructure an evaluation would study.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- MoCAP (Missouri Collaborative Application Program) grant-writing assistanceIn-kind resourceMissouri Foundation for HealthFree technical support and grant-writing consultants for organizations pursuing federal or national funding for health or prevention programs. An in-kind capacity resource rather than a cash grant.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NIH Challenges and Prize Competitions (open-innovation portal)Prize or challengeNational Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesThe single NIH page where every Institute's prize competition posts. Awards pay for results rather than proposals, so there is no grant application, no indirect-cost negotiation, and no NIH funding history required.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Training and Technical Assistance for Harm Reduction ProgramsIn-kind resourceNational Harm Reduction CoalitionLearning, development and technical assistance for community-based organizations implementing harm reduction strategies, including training on evidence-based practice. In-kind capacity support rather than a grant.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- COMPASS Initiative FundingTraining & capacityGilead Sciences (COMPASS Initiative)Corporate social-impact funding for community organizations addressing HIV in the Southern United States, supporting organizational structure, wellness, and stigma-reduction capacity.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- NYS OASAS Funding Opportunities (RFPs and RFAs)Training & capacityNew York State Office of Addiction Services and SupportsRolling list of OASAS requests for proposals and applications covering substance use disorder services, gambling harm prevention, youth services, recovery residences and mobile medication units across New York State.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 2026 Bridging Investments in Abortion and Contraception ResearchRapid-response fundSociety of Family PlanningRolling bridge funding to complete, in whole or in part, US abortion and contraception research grants that were terminated by NIH.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- NNAF Member Fund Grants (Count On It, Power Up, Collective Power Fund, TA Mini Grants, Emergent Gathering Grants)Participatory grantmakingNational Network of Abortion FundsA suite of regrants moving money to member abortion funds, including rolling technical-assistance mini grants for special projects and gathering grants for convenings across funds.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Harris County Bonfire Procurement PortalEvaluation contractHarris County, Texas — Purchasing DepartmentHarris County posts all of its solicitations through a free Bonfire vendor portal, including service contracts for the county's public health, community services and justice departments.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Southcentral Foundation Research ReviewIn-kind resourceSouthcentral FoundationA tribal health organization's multi-step research review, running from project start through the sharing of findings, that outside researchers must complete to work with SCF customer-owners.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal for Federal Confidential DataIn-kind resourceInteragency Council on Statistical Policy (portal hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation)A single portal, created under the Evidence Act, through which researchers apply for access to confidential data assets held by 16 federal statistical agencies, with a searchable inventory of what each agency holds.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NIH STRIDES Initiative (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability)In-kind resourceNational Institutes of Health, Office of Data Science StrategyNIH partnerships with commercial cloud providers that let NIH-supported researchers buy cloud services at reduced rates, with free enterprise support, training, and a no-cost Cloud Lab testing environment.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- 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
- Community Partnership Seed GrantParticipatory grantmakingUniversity of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)Grants of up to $5,000, plus coaching and skill-building, to start new research collaborations between Minnesota community organizations and University of Minnesota researchers on community-identified health issues and disparities.up to $5k · Several times a year · Apr, Sep
- Centinela Valley Medical and Community FundsFoundation grantCalifornia Community FoundationCommunity foundation grants in South Los Angeles's Centinela Valley for integrating medical, dental, vision, mental health and substance use services, cross-sector work on health disparities tied to immigration status, and health policy and advocacy for universal access to coverage and public benefits.from $100k · Rolling / open
- Equality FundParticipatory grantmakingThe Boston Foundation (Equality Fund)Fund guided by a community advisory committee that advances equitable treatment of LGBTQ+ people and families through research, forums, partnerships and grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to LGBTQ+-serving and LGBTQ+-led nonprofits working on legal rights, social isolation, safe schools, health care access, housing and economic stability.$10k–$25k · Annual cycle
- Community Partnership Development Seed GrantsParticipatory grantmakingUniversity at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)Seed grants of $2,500 to $10,000 to plan community-based participatory research partnerships in Western New York, co-led by a community organization and a university researcher, each with an essential role on the team.$3k–$10k · Annual cycle
- Community Health Grants, WashingtonFoundation grantKaiser Permanente WashingtonHealth-system community benefit grants to organisations addressing needs found in Kaiser Permanente Washington's three-yearly community health needs assessment: access to care, mental and behavioural health, housing, dismantling structural racism, income and employment, and food security.Amount not published · By invitation
- Community & Academic Partnership Pilot (CAPP) ProgramParticipatory grantmakingUtah Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), University of UtahPilot funding for collaborations between community organizations in Utah and neighbouring states and CTSI-affiliated academic partners on translational research, innovation and health equity projects, with joint community and academic PIs.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government InnovationPrize or challengeGoogle.orgGlobal open call funding mission-driven organisations that use AI to help governments improve public services in health access, crisis response and recovery, and essential economic services, with grants plus a multi-month pro bono Google.org Accelerator, training and cloud credits.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Restricted-Use Vital Statistics FilesIn-kind resourceNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and PreventionApplication-based release of restricted natality, mortality, fetal death, linked birth/infant death and maternal mortality research files with state, county or large-city geographic detail, for studies of health and the factors affecting health.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- CCW Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC)In-kind resourceCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), via ResDACVirtual research environment giving approved researchers timelier access to Medicare and Medicaid program data inside the CMS Chronic Conditions Warehouse secure environment, for health services research such as behavioral health care, long-term services and dual-eligible populations.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- AI for Good Open Call Program (Washington State)In-kind resourceMicrosoft AI for Good LabTwo-year programme giving Azure cloud credits and scientific collaboration with Microsoft's AI for Good Lab to projects that use artificial intelligence on sustainability, public health and human rights challenges affecting Washington State and its residents.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- NCHS Research Data Center (restricted-use NCHS survey data)In-kind resourceNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProposal-based access to restricted-use NCHS survey data such as NHIS, NHANES and the National Survey of Children's Health, with variables from other data sources addable on request, for approved projects run through the NCHS Research Data Center.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Heluna Health Fiscal SponsorshipIn-kind resourceHeluna HealthFiscal sponsorship and third-party administration (contracts and grants management, HR, payroll, accounting, IT) for public health and social service programs of academic institutions, government agencies and community organizations.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Cook County Department of Public Health Data Request ServiceIn-kind resourceCook County Department of Public Health (Illinois), Epidemiology UnitThe suburban Cook County health department's Epidemiology Unit takes data requests for uses including research and academic studies, on topics such as mental and behavioral health, substance use, maternal and child health, mortality and adolescent health.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship at PHI (bring your program to PHI)In-kind resourcePublic Health Institute (PHI)Fiscal sponsorship and full-scale operational support for public health programs, letting a principal investigator or public health leader bring an existing, funded program under PHI's nonprofit status and systems.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Butler-Williams Scholars ProgramTraining & capacityNational Institute on Aging (NIA), NIHAn annual multi-day summer program at NIA for emerging aging researchers covering the biology of aging, health, behavior and aging, and methods, with direct consultation from NIA review and program officers on preparing grant applications.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Apr
- Public Health - Seattle & King County Data Request ServiceIn-kind resourcePublic Health - Seattle & King County (King County, Washington)Custom data analyses from Seattle and King County's public health department for researchers and community groups; the first two hours of staff time per requester each year are free, with larger analyses done under contract.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Community Partnerships in Research ProgramParticipatory grantmakingPolicyLab, Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaSeed funding for community-academic research partnerships focused on children and families in Greater Philadelphia, building capacity at CHOP for community-engaged research: Partnership Development Awards for new or emerging partnerships, and Joint Pilot Project Awards for established partnerships with a well-defined research project that may produce preliminary data for future grant applications.up to $40k · Varies by programme
- Kaiser Permanente Research Bank — external researcher accessIn-kind resourceKaiser PermanenteExternal researchers can apply to use Kaiser Permanente Research Bank resources (self-reported health survey data, KP clinical data, genomic data and biospecimens) in a secure on-premises data enclave, working with a required KP collaborator who acts as scientific partner and study administrator.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec
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
- Gender-Based Violence
- 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