Research Design and Measurement
Methods, measurement, data infrastructure, and analytic innovation across the field.
345 opportunities · 209 traditional · 136 nontraditional
Traditional (209)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG)Dissertation awardNational Science FoundationImproves dissertation research beyond what a department can fund: fieldwork, data collection, participant payments, specialised analysis. Runs through individual SBE programmes rather than as one competition.up to $50k · Varies by programme
- Sociology ProgramFederal grantNational Science FoundationBasic research on social organisation, institutions, stratification and social processes. The NSF home most compatible with structural social work questions that are not framed as health research.$100k–$500k · Rolling / open
- William T. Grant Scholars ProgramEarly-career awardWilliam T. Grant FoundationA five-year award for early-career researchers built around a deliberate professional stretch: the plan must take you somewhere methodologically or substantively you cannot currently go.$350k · Annual cycle · Jul
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- NIJ FY 2026 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of CrimeFederal grantNational Institute of Justice (with the Office for Victims of Crime), U.S. Department of JusticeFunds research and evaluation on crime victims' needs and victim services. Category 1 covers law enforcement-based victim services and evaluations of other victim service programs; Category 2 covers technology-facilitated abuse, including nonconsensual deepfake images.up to $1.5M · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug
- Transformation of Mental Health CareFoundation grantKlingenstein Third Generation FoundationUp to two awards of $200,000 over two years to test novel mental health care delivery or prevention models for children and adolescents, including adaptations for non-traditional settings and digital approaches. Implementation and service outcomes must be measured.$200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- 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
- AAUW American Short-Term Research Publication GrantsPilot / seed fundingAmerican Association of University Women (AAUW)Short-term support for women holding a terminal degree to prepare completed research for publication — writing time, editing, and manuscript preparation rather than new data collection. Explicitly open across all fields, with the D.S.W. and M.P.H. among the qualifying degrees, and gender-focused research is encouraged.$8k · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- 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
- NIJ FY 2026 State and Local Collection and Reporting of Crime DataFederal grantNational Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of JusticeSupports rigorous research on the accuracy of crime data collection and reporting across state and local jurisdictions, including documented inaccuracies in offender race and ethnicity data, with the goal of scalable best practices for data quality and governance.up to $2M · Periodic calls · Jun, Jul, Aug
- 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
- 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
- Social Policy Research Initiative (SPRI) Request for ProposalsPilot / seed fundingJ-PAL North America (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT)Rolling twice-yearly competition funding randomized evaluations of US social policy in housing, homelessness, labor, education, climate and energy, with separate tiers for pilots, full trials, proposal-development travel, and add-on funding to existing studies.$5k–$400k · Several times a year · Jan, Jun
- 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
- 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
- Radcliffe Institute FellowshipFellowshipHarvard Radcliffe InstituteA residential year in Cambridge for scholars to complete an individual project, with social sciences as one of the application categories. Fellows join a multidisciplinary cohort and have access to Harvard resources.$78k–$83k stipend · Annual cycle · 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
- Vision GrantsPilot / seed fundingSpencer FoundationPlanning grants for teams developing ambitious large-scale education research projects aimed at transforming educational systems toward greater equity. Supports 12-18 months of planning, not the study itself.$75k · 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
- AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave FellowshipFellowshipAmerican Association of University Women (AAUW)A one-year stipend releasing a woman scholar to work full time on postdoctoral research. The eligible degree list explicitly includes the DSW, so social work doctorates qualify directly.$50k stipend · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- 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
- Partnership Development GrantsFoundation grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)One-to-three-year grants to develop partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including building the relationships and infrastructure a larger partnership would need.$75k–$250k · Annual cycle · Nov
- National Leadership Grants for LibrariesFederal grantInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Funds projects that develop, test or adapt replicable practices, models and tools to strengthen library and archival services, including a dedicated Applied Research grant category ($75,000-$750,000).$25k–$1M · Annual cycle · Mar, Nov
- Sheldon Danziger Pipeline GrantsEarly-career awardRussell Sage FoundationFunds early-career social scientists to conduct research in RSF priority areas including economic inequality and poverty, with explicit priority for scholars from underrepresented groups and under-resourced institutions.$50k–$65k · Annual cycle · Oct
- Insight GrantsFederal grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)SSHRC's main investigator-led research grant for the social sciences and humanities, including social work. Two streams by budget size, 2 to 5 years, proposed by individuals or teams.$10k–$500k · Annual cycle · Oct
- 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
- Partnership GrantsFoundation grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Large multi-year support for new and existing formal partnerships advancing research, research training and knowledge mobilization. Two-stage: a letter-of-intent stage, then a full application.$20k–$2.5M · Annual cycle · Feb, Oct
- Connection GrantsTraining & capacitySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)One-year grants for events and outreach activities aimed at short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization: conferences, workshops and dissemination of research to practice and policy audiences.$10k–$50k · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
- NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral FellowshipEarly-career awardNational Academy of EducationNon-residential fellowship for early-career education researchers, providing a year of salary support plus mentorship from a senior scholar and three professional development retreats. About 20 fellows a year.$80k · Annual cycle · Oct
- Collections Stewardship (Humanities Collections and Reference Resources)Federal grantNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Collections and InfrastructureFunds preservation of and access to humanities collections: archival arrangement and description, cataloguing, digitisation, transcription and indexing of primary sources, and staff training in collections care.up to $500k · Several times a year · May, Dec
- ERC Starting GrantEarly-career awardEuropean Research Council (European Commission)Bottom-up grants for individual researchers starting their own independent team, in any field including social sciences and humanities. No predetermined research priorities.up to $1.6M · Annual cycle · 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NEXT – 'Dual Use' of Ideas and Concepts from the Humanities and Social SciencesFoundation grantVolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation)Germany's largest private research funder is asking how concepts generated inside the social sciences get lifted out of context and repurposed for anti-liberal, anti-scientific or anti-democratic ends — the classic example being 'knowledge is socially constructed' flattened into 'all truth is opinion' and used to delegitimise research. For social work this is unusually close to home: trauma, resilience, safeguarding, empowerment and vulnerability are all discipline-born concepts that circulate in politics and media in mutated form. Grants fund small interdisciplinary teams to trace that transfAmount not published · Periodic calls · Oct
- Social Science and Humanities Research Thematic Grant (SSHR-TG)Federal grantSocial Science Research Council, SingaporeSingapore's flagship competitive grant for social science and humanities research on issues of strategic relevance to Singapore and the region, run by the Social Science Research Council. Three funding tiers scale from a single project up to a multi-year research centre, so it can carry anything from a focused study to sustained programmatic work on ageing, family, mental health or social policy. Joint submissions across eligible host institutions are permitted, and collaboration with local or overseas partner organisations is allowed.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Aug
- SSH Open Competition XSPilot / seed fundingDutch Research Council (NWO)A deliberately small, deliberately fast grant for testing a promising idea — the Dutch answer to the pilot-study gap. No thematic restriction inside the social sciences and humanities, minimal paperwork, and a distinctive review model in which applicants anonymously peer-review each other's proposals rather than waiting on a standing panel. Useful for a social work researcher who needs to establish feasibility, build a measure, or run a small community study before mounting a full project bid. The 2026 call runs in three rounds across the year.Amount not published · Several times a year · Sep
- 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
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar ProgramFederal fellowshipU.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (administered by IIE)The flagship U.S. government fellowship sending faculty and professionals abroad to teach, conduct research, or carry out professional projects, with more than 380 awards in more than 120 countries each cycle. Social work faculty apply into open social sciences awards or country-specific awards; a dedicated school-of-social-work award listing exists in the catalogue.Amount 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
- Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)Training & capacityU.S. National Science FoundationBuilds STEM education and research capacity at Tribal Colleges and Universities and Alaska Native- and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, through seven tracks including Small Grants for Research, planning grants, and TCU Enterprise Advancement Centers.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Jun, Sep, 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
- 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
- Core Research Grants (Social, Political, and Economic Inequality)Foundation grantRussell Sage FoundationTwo-stage letter-of-inquiry then invited-proposal competition for social science research. Housing affordability and housing instability are fundable within the Social, Political, and Economic Inequality priority rather than as a standalone housing programme.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, Jul, Oct
- Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research PartnershipsFederal grantU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)PD&R accepts researcher-initiated (unsolicited) proposals on housing and community development questions, funded through cooperative agreements. Applicants bring their own research question and at least half the money.Amount not published · Rolling / open · Jun
- Research Training Programs in Special Education — 84.324BTraining & capacityInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), U.S. Department of EducationFunds programmes that prepare researchers to conduct special education and early intervention research. FY 2027 competes two topics: Early Career Development and Mentoring in Special Education, and Methods Training for Special Education Research.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep, 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
- 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
- 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
- Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences — 84.305BTraining & capacityInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Research (NCER), U.S. Department of EducationFunds programmes that prepare people to conduct rigorous education research. For FY 2027 two topics are competed: Early Career Development and Mentoring, and Methods Training for Education Research.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep, Oct
- CASBS FellowshipFellowshipCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford UniversityA residential year at Stanford in a multidisciplinary cohort drawn from anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, law, education and related fields. Fellows pursue their own project alongside cross-disciplinary exchange.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- Statistical and Research Methodology in Education — 84.305DFederal grantInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Research (NCER), U.S. Department of EducationSupports development and dissemination of statistical and methodological products for education researchers. FY 2027 accepts applications under two topics: Core Grants, and Toolkits, Guidelines, Compendia, Review Papers and Curated Data Resources.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep, Oct
- Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy GrantDissertation awardHorowitz Foundation for Social PolicyA small competitive grant for PhD students at the dissertation stage doing social policy research. Obscure, individually awarded, and one of the few dissertation funds open across social science disciplines.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Nov, Dec
- 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
- Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking — 84.305SFederal grantInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Research (NCER), U.S. Department of EducationFunds use of statewide longitudinal data systems to generate evidence for state and local education programme and policy decisions, including access to high-quality education and academic achievement.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep, Oct
- Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking in Special Education — 84.324SFederal grantInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER), U.S. Department of EducationFunds state agencies to use statewide longitudinal data systems to produce evidence for state and local decisions about learners with, or at risk for, disabilities.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep, Oct
- 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
- 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
- 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
- AERA-NSF Research GrantsFoundation grantAmerican Educational Research AssociationNSF-supported AERA grants for rigorous quantitative studies of education policy and practice that analyze large-scale federal, international, or state longitudinal administrative datasets. Relevant to social work researchers studying schooling, youth outcomes, and education-linked inequality using NCES, NSF, or SLDS data. Institutions may not charge indirect costs, and grantees may not hold concurrent funding for the same project.$25k–$35k · Annual cycle · May
- AmeriCorps Maryland Notices of Funding Opportunity (including Workforce Development Planning Grants)Training & capacityMaryland Department of Service and Civic InnovationMaryland's cabinet-level service department runs three AmeriCorps subgrant lines: competitive operational grants, formula operational grants, and a Workforce Development Planning Grant that funds a six-month design period for a new AmeriCorps programme built around a defined member career pathway. The planning grant is the notable one for research partnerships — it pays for programme design, needs assessment and measurement architecture rather than member positions, which is precisely the work a social work researcher is equipped to do alongside a community agency.up to $240k · Annual cycle · Feb, Apr, May
- 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
- 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
- Jack Shand Research GrantsPilot / seed fundingSociety for the Scientific Study of ReligionSmall seed grants for direct research expenses on the scientific study of religion, judged primarily on intellectual merit. Well suited to social work researchers studying religion's role in health, help-seeking, family life or community organisation. Funds are transferred to the principal investigator's institution and no indirect cost recovery is permitted.up to $5k · Annual cycle · May
- SRA International Young Scholars Program (IYSP)Training & capacitySociety for Research on AdolescenceA mentored program bringing adolescence researchers based in low- and middle-income countries to the SRA biennial meeting, pairing them with senior mentors. Provides complimentary registration plus a travel stipend, building international research capacity and networks. Relevant to global social work researchers studying youth development outside high-income settings.$1k stipend · Periodic calls
- Causal Research on Community Safety and the Criminal Justice System (Request for Proposals)Foundation grantArnold VenturesFunds causal-design studies (RCT, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables) of US policies, practices and interventions affecting crime and criminal justice outcomes, measured with real-world behavioural or administrative data.$110k–$500k · Rolling / open
- AERA-NSF Dissertation GrantsDissertation awardAmerican Educational Research AssociationSupports advanced doctoral students at the dissertation stage whose research analyzes large-scale federal, federally supported, international, or state longitudinal administrative data on education. Award covers data analysis and writing, plus travel and lodging for required AERA conference participation. Open to students in education and related social science fields, including those studying youth, families, and schooling.$28k · Annual cycle · May
- NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) ProgramDissertation awardNational Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of JusticeGrants to accredited academic institutions supporting doctoral students whose dissertation research addresses crime prevention, victimization, victim services, or the fair administration of criminal and juvenile justice. Open to students from any discipline.up to $180k per year · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
- SVRI Research GrantFoundation grantSexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)An annual research grant for work on violence against women and violence against children in low- and middle-income countries, requiring feminist, intersectional and rights-based approaches and safe, ethical engagement of affected communities.$40k–$100k · Annual cycle · Jul, Aug
- 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
- Research Grants on Reducing InequalityFoundation grantWilliam T. Grant FoundationSupports descriptive and intervention studies of programs, policies or practices that reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral or economic outcomes for US youth ages 5-25 — a frame that covers child welfare and foster care system research.$25k–$600k · Several times a year
- 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
- Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System (CRCJ) Early Career AwardsEarly-career awardRussell Sage FoundationSupports early-career scholars using causal designs to study police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention, including sentencing policy, post-prison outcomes, bias and disparities. Co-funded with Arnold Ventures.up to $100k · Annual cycle · Apr
- 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
- 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
- Grawemeyer Award in PsychologyPrize or challengeUniversity of Louisville (Grawemeyer Awards)One of five annual Grawemeyer Awards, given for an outstanding idea in psychology; a companion award in Education runs on the same cycle. Both are relevant to behavioural-health and child-development scholarship.$100k · Annual cycle · Dec, Apr
- Siegel Family Endowment grantmakingFoundation grantSiegel Family EndowmentTech-derived family foundation funding academic research projects, mission-driven programmes and policy institutions across three areas: Learning, Work, and Infrastructure, with an explicitly inquiry-driven grantmaking method.$100–$3M · By invitation
- 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
- 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
- Google PhD Fellowship ProgramFellowshipGoogleAnnual corporate doctoral fellowship covering tuition, stipend, travel and research costs for PhD students in computing and adjacent fields, relevant to social work doctoral students doing computational, HCI or data-science-heavy dissertations.$10k–$85k per year · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Research Grants and User Research GrantsFoundation grantMotability FoundationGrants to charities and organisations for accessible transport research, including a User Research strand explicitly created to fund research centred on disabled people's own perspectives where little funding has existed.$50k–$1M · Rolling / open
- ESRC Responsive Mode: Research Grants (Round Two)Federal grantUK Research and Innovation – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Researcher-led social science grants for basic, applied or strategic research on any ESRC-remit topic, including social policy, social care and social work. Social science must be more than 50% of the research focus and effort.$445k–$1.3M · Rolling / open
- 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
- NEH FellowshipsFederal fellowshipNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)Individual stipends of up to $60,000 ($5,000/month for six to twelve months) for scholars to complete humanities books, articles, critical editions or digital scholarship. Paid directly to the applicant, not the institution.up to $60k stipend · Annual cycle · Apr
- SECC Dissertation Research Funding AwardsDissertation awardSociety for Research in Child Development (SRCD) — Student and Early Career CouncilAwards of up to $2,000 for doctoral students' dissertation research on populations under age 18. Funds participant incentives, standardized measures, equipment, consultant fees and methodological training.up to $2k · Annual cycle · May
- 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
- 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
- SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)Federal fellowshipU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesTwo-year postdoctoral fellowship in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, with a fundamental-research track and a broadening-participation track. The fellow works with a sponsoring scientist at a host organization.$80k per year · Annual cycle · Nov
- 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
- ESRC Responsive Mode: New Investigator Grants (Round Two)Early-career awardUK Research and Innovation – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Grants for early career social scientists making the transition to research independence, on any ESRC-remit topic. Supports a first substantial project as principal investigator.$127k–$445k · Rolling / open
- National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative — Category II Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) CentersFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds centres that provide national expertise on specific childhood trauma types, populations or service systems, and that adapt, refine and support implementation of evidence-based trauma treatments. Includes a SAMHSA-directed evaluation.up to $600k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
- 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
- Emerging Scholar Awards (dissertation fellowship)Dissertation awardHarry Frank Guggenheim FoundationOne-year dissertation writing fellowship for doctoral candidates whose research addresses the causes, manifestations and control of violence and aggression, including crime, punishment and family violence.$25k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- ESRC Responsive Mode: Secondary Data Analysis (Round Two)Federal grantUK Research and Innovation – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Short grants to deliver high-quality social science research through analysis of existing datasets. Useful for social work and social policy researchers working with administrative, cohort or survey data.up to $381k · Rolling / open
- Small Research Grants on EducationFoundation grantSpencer FoundationField-initiated grants for education research projects broadly conceived, running one to five years. A common entry point for school-based studies by doctorally trained researchers.up to $50k · Several times a year
- 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
- Insight Development GrantsPilot / seed fundingSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Seed funding for research in its initial stages: developing new research questions and experimenting with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas. One to two years.$10k–$100k · Annual cycle · Feb
- Dissertation Research GrantsDissertation awardRussell Sage FoundationSmall grants for doctoral candidates whose dissertation research addresses RSF priority areas, including economic inequality, poverty and social policy. Co-funded with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and the Upjohn Institute.up to $15k · Annual cycle · Feb
- 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
- 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
- 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 Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)Federal grantBureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of JusticeNCHIP funds states, territories and tribes to improve the quality, timeliness and accessibility of criminal history records by integrating data across law enforcement, prosecution, courts and corrections. For social work researchers the value is the administrative-data infrastructure it builds: NCHIP-funded record systems are the backbone for research on protective orders, firearm prohibitors, reentry and justice-involved families, and awards routinely fund analytic and evaluation subcontracts.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- 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
- State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program for Statistical Analysis CentersTraining & capacityBureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of JusticeSJS builds state analytic capacity by funding Statistical Analysis Centers to coordinate statistical activities, analyze administrative justice data and act as the liaison between BJS and state agencies. Recent cycles offered Core Capacity-Building projects (NIBRS compatibility, performance measurement, data access) and Special Emphasis projects using administrative and criminal history data, which is a direct fit for social work researchers studying reentry, diversion and justice-system contact.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- AmeriCorps Texas Operating and Planning GrantsTraining & capacityOneStar Foundation / OneStar National Service CommissionOneStar is the Texas service commission and subgrants AmeriCorps State funds on two lines: operating grants for organisations enrolling members, and a planning grant for organisations designing an AmeriCorps programme for the following cycle. The planning grant explicitly cannot pay for AmeriCorps members, meaning the money goes to programme design, partnership building, needs assessment and measurement architecture — the phase where a social work researcher's contribution is the substance of the award rather than an add-on.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr
- 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
- Humanities and Social Sciences research programs (Academic Research Fellowships and career-stage grants)Federal grantNational Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)Korea's national research funder runs a laddered set of humanities and social sciences programs spanning master's and doctoral student fellowships, Academic Research Fellowships for PhD holders without a permanent post, and career-stage research grants for early-career, mid-career and distinguished scholars. It also runs domestic and international collaborative research grants and larger International Research Group and Institute grants. The international tracks are the realistic entry point for a non-Korean social work researcher, who joins as a collaborator on a Korea-based lead's grant.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard)FellowshipJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)A 12 to 24 month funded postdoctoral fellowship placing an overseas researcher with a host researcher at a Japanese university or research institute, explicitly open to all fields of the humanities and social sciences. The host applies on the fellow's behalf and can separately seek a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow to cover the cooperative research costs, so the fellowship carries both salary-equivalent support and a route to project money. A viable path for a social work researcher pursuing comparative or Japan-focused work on ageing, family policy or welfare systems.Amount not published · Several times a year
- 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
- Soutien aux equipes de recherche (SE), secteur Societe et cultureFederal grantFonds de recherche du Quebec - Societe et culture (FRQSC)Four-year team funding from Quebec's social sciences and humanities research fund, supporting an ongoing scientific program rather than a single project. Built for standing research teams, including teams configured in partnership with practice or community settings, with supplements available for partnership, inter-regionality and college-based research. The multi-year, programmatic structure fits a social work research group sustaining several linked lines of inquiry.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct
- 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
- 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
- DFG Individual Research Grants (Sachbeihilfe)Foundation grantDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG)The central bottom-up instrument of German research funding and the one most social work academics in Germany will use. Any qualified researcher at a German institution can propose a project with a clearly defined topic and duration, in any discipline, with no submission deadline at all — proposals go in when they are ready, via the elan portal. A distinctive sub-track matters for the field: 'long-term projects' in the humanities and social sciences carry continuous funding for seven to twelve years, which is what makes cohort studies, longitudinal welfare research and large corpora feasible.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship ProgrammeFederal fellowshipIrish Research Council / Taighde Eireann - Research IrelandIreland's flagship all-disciplines postdoctoral fellowship, funding a one- or two-year fellowship at an eligible Irish higher education institution. Bottom-up and non-directed, so social work, social policy and social care topics compete on their own merits, and the scheme welcomes pioneering proposals in new and emerging fields and interdisciplinary research.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug, Oct
- 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
- Research on Research Integrity (RRI) ProgramFederal grantHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)ORI's extramural grant program funds empirical research on the societal, organizational, group and individual factors that help or harm integrity in research. ORI explicitly invites proposals with relevance to behavioral health science and health services research, which puts social work methodologists, research-ethics scholars and mentorship researchers squarely in scope. FY26 awards are one-year projects and the competition is announced annually.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- Program Development and Evaluation (PDE) ProgramFederal grantHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)Established by ORI in 2020, PDE funds the development, implementation and testing of innovative approaches and tools that promote research integrity and prevent misconduct, including interventions built on empirical evidence and instruments to identify at-risk individuals or laboratories. It is the applied/intervention sibling of ORI's RRI research program and suits social work researchers who build and evaluate training or organizational interventions.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- ESRC Postdoctoral FellowshipsFederal fellowshipUK Research and Innovation - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)A consolidation fellowship for the immediately post-PhD stage, funding the fellow to develop publications, networks, research skills and professional skills from existing doctoral work. Explicitly not a route to fund new research. Well suited to social work doctoral graduates converting a thesis into publications and a fundable research programme.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun
- 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
- 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
- Conferences and Workshops Program (CWP)Training & capacityHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)CWP supports the planning and execution of conferences and workshops that promote the responsible conduct of research and disseminate findings from research-integrity scholarship. It is a small, practical mechanism for a school of social work or a professional association to convene researchers around research ethics, data stewardship or mentorship practice.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- 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
- Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships: Supporting Adoptive FamiliesFederal grantHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Funds a summative randomized controlled trial or quasi-experimental evaluation of programs supporting adoptive families at risk of adoption disruption or dissolution. The design must meet Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse standards for moderate or high causal evidence.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Tribal Early Childhood and Family Economic Well-being Research and Evaluation Grants (Tribal Research Center)Federal grantHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Supports a national center leading culturally responsive research, measurement work, secondary data analysis, and training across tribal child care, Head Start/Early Head Start, home visiting, and Tribal TANF and family economic well-being programs.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- Tribal Child Care Data and Research Capacity AwardsTraining & capacityHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Phase I planning awards supporting partnerships between Tribal CCDF Lead Agencies and research or coordinating organizations to build tribal early childhood data systems, identify linkable data sources, and use the data to inform tribal child care policy.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation GrantsDissertation awardHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Supports dissertation research by graduate students working with a university mentor and a local Head Start or Early Head Start program. Program staff are expected to shape the project from design through interpretation and dissemination.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Dissertation GrantsDissertation awardHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Supports dissertation research on child care subsidy and CCDF policy questions, carried out in partnership with a state Child Care and Development Fund agency or administrator and a faculty mentor.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Secondary Analyses of Head Start Data GrantsFederal grantHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Funds researchers to analyse existing survey, program evaluation, or administrative data on Head Start, Early Head Start, American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start, and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, to inform policy and program administration.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Secondary Analyses Grants for Early Care and Education DataFederal grantHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Funds secondary analysis of existing datasets to answer questions about child care and early education programs funded by the Child Care and Development Fund, and to build researcher capacity to analyse and disseminate from those data.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- Research Grants for Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Suicide Among Youth and Young Adults (R01), CDC-RFA-CE-26-020Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Division of Violence Prevention)CDC Injury Center investigator-initiated R01 research grants to study prevention of interpersonal violence and suicide among youth and young adults. Recurring roughly annually under the CE-xx-020/021/030 numbering.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Dec
- Grants to Support New Investigators in Conducting Research Related to Preventing Interpersonal Violence Impacting Children and Youth (K01), CDC-RFA-CE-26-021Early-career awardCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlCDC Injury Center mentored career development (K01) award for new investigators researching prevention of interpersonal violence affecting children and youth. Recurs most years under a new CE number.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jun, Dec
- Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms: Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real-Time (FASTER: AVERT), CDC-RFA-CE-23-0007Federal grantCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence PreventionFunds 12 jurisdictions to collect near real-time emergency department data on firearm injury, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suspected child abuse and neglect, youth violence and mental health conditions. Runs 9/1/2023 to 8/31/2028.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
- Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceFoundation grantWilliam T. Grant FoundationFunds studies of how research evidence gets used in decisions affecting young people, including theory-building, measurement development, and evaluations of efforts to increase research use in policy and practice.Amount not published · Several times a year
- Criminal Justice research grantsFoundation grantCharles Koch FoundationSupports scholarship on overcriminalization and drug policy, policing practices and alternative models, due process (pretrial and bail reform, prosecutorial incentives, access to counsel, fines and fees), and alternatives to lengthy sentences.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship ProgramFellowshipJacobs FoundationThree-year fellowship for early- and mid-career researchers working on the learning and development of children and youth, with funds paid to the fellow's institution and usable for salary, staff, equipment or travel.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Feb
- 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
- 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
- React (time-critical pilot awards)Rapid-response fundUK Research and Innovation - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Six-month pilot awards for time-critical social science work on public-sector challenges, listed among ESRC's refreshed applicant-led schemes launching from spring 2026. It is ESRC's nearest equivalent to a rapid-response route.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
- MSCA Postdoctoral FellowshipsFederal fellowshipEuropean Commission – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Horizon Europe)Individual postdoctoral fellowships supporting a mobility-based research and training project in any discipline, including social policy and social work research, at a European or global host.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- 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
- 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
- National Poverty Fellows ProgramFederal fellowshipInstitute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison, with ASPE and ACF OPREPostdoctoral fellowship placing poverty and economic mobility researchers in residence at federal evaluation offices such as OPRE and ASPE, with mentoring and twice-yearly residencies at IRP, to build capacity for policy-relevant research.Amount not published · Annual cycle
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- 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
- Crowdfunding for research projectsCrowdfundingExperimentAll-or-nothing crowdfunding for discrete research projects. Realistic for pilot data, participant payments or a small community study — and the campaign itself is public engagement.$1k–$25k · Rolling / open
- 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
- Emergent VenturesRapid-response fundMercatus Center, George Mason UniversitySmall fast grants to individuals with an unusual idea, decided in weeks with a short application and no institutional overhead. Useful precisely where a conventional grant cycle is too slow to matter.$1k–$100k · Rolling / open
- Community-Based Participatory Research GrantsFoundation grantSociological Initiatives FoundationFunds community-based participatory research that connects research to social change, including research on language learning and behaviour and its intersection with policy — a route for work with immigrant and linguistic-minority communities.$15k–$30k · Annual cycle · Aug
- 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
- 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
- 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
- California Office of Migrant Services Feasibility and Impact Report (RFP)Evaluation contractEnterprise Community PartnersRequest for proposals to produce a feasibility and impact report on California's Office of Migrant Services housing program. A contracted research and analysis engagement rather than an open grant.Not a cash award · Periodic calls · Aug
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth Research Grants (including Early Career Grants)Early-career awardWashington Center for Equitable GrowthGrants for policy-relevant research on how inequality affects economic growth, with a standing emphasis on labor market dynamics: bargaining power, wage stagnation, job mobility, paid leave, schedule stability, and unemployment insurance. Recent topical calls have covered the labor effects of AI adoption and of the Inflation Reduction Act.$15k–$30k · Annual cycle
- Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF)Training & capacityHispanic Federation, with Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, New York Urban League, Asian American Federation and Black Agency ExecutivesA capacity-building fund run by Latino, Black and Asian umbrella organisations for NYC nonprofits of colour. Evaluation systems and management information systems are named eligible project areas, so it can pay for building an organisation's own data and evaluation capacity.$35k–$45k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft Nonprofit Azure Grant and Cloud DiscountsIn-kind resourceMicrosoftA standing annual Azure credit grant plus deep discounts on Microsoft 365, Copilot and Dynamics for verified nonprofits. Supports the data infrastructure an organisation needs to document and evaluate its own work.$2k per year · Rolling / open
- AWS Imagine GrantPilot / seed fundingAmazon Web ServicesAnnual competitive corporate grant giving registered nonprofits unrestricted cash plus AWS credits to build or modernise technology for mission delivery, including data and AI projects that support evaluation and measurement.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May, Jun
- Microsoft nonprofit Azure credit grantIn-kind resourceMicrosoftAnnual in-kind cloud grant giving eligible nonprofits Azure services credits, usable for hosting, data storage and analytics work that underpins programme evaluation and administrative-data research.$2k per year · Rolling / open
- ED/IES Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ProgramPilot / seed fundingInstitute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of EducationContracts for small businesses to develop and evaluate education technology. Includes a Direct to Phase II track specifically for commercialising evidence-based innovations originally created by university or non-profit researchers.$250k–$1M · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun
- CODESRIA Grants and FellowshipsTraining & capacityCouncil for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)CODESRIA, headquartered in Dakar and operating fully in French and English, is the pan-African social science research council and the single most important non-Northern funder of African social research careers. Its grants and fellowships strand now runs through the College of Senior Academic Mentors, which pairs doctoral students registered at African universities with senior diaspora academics for proposal and chapter feedback, reading materials, methodological guidance and conference networking; Support to Doctoral Schools, which funds humanities and social science doctoral schools to run Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Mulago Foundation Fellows and Portfolio FundingPilot / seed fundingMulago FoundationA design-for-impact funder that combines grants with debt or equity where the structure fits, and pairs money with explicit training in impact measurement and scaling strategy. The measurement training is the substantive draw for this database: Mulago's model is built on defining and tracking a single outcome metric, so a funded organization becomes a natural partner for rigorous outcome research, and the training itself builds evaluation capacity inside the organization.Amount not published · By invitation
- CODESRIA Meaning-making Research Initiative (MRI)Foundation grantCouncil for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)CODESRIA's flagship research grant strand, funding interpretive and explanatory research on African social realities and futures, with diversity and gender treated as central rather than optional questions. Applications may be individual or from groups of three to five members drawn from one country or several, which makes it a genuine vehicle for cross-border francophone-anglophone West African teams. A dedicated stream funds groups headed by female scholars and composed of women only, with rare justified exceptions. Grants run on a strict 16-month lifespan and budgets must be built to that. Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- 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
- 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
- City of Philadelphia Professional Services Contracting (eContract Philly / PHLContracts)Evaluation contractCity of Philadelphia Procurement DepartmentPhiladelphia posts professional-services opportunities on eContract Philly and other procurement opportunities on PHLContracts, with a Contracts Hub that searches multiple city procurement sites at once. Professional services is the route municipal research and evaluation work travels.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- External Research Partner RosterEvaluation contractColorado Evaluation and Action LabColorado's state-facing evaluation lab keeps a standing pool of outside researchers it draws on for paid project work, rather than running open grant competitions. You join by questionnaire and are contacted when a fitting project appears.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- Illinois Judicial Branch Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractOffice of the Illinois Courts / Administrative Office of the Illinois CourtsThe Illinois judiciary lists its own solicitations here, and they regularly include research-shaped work — most notably a comprehensive validation of the state's Adult and Juvenile Risk Assessment instruments and strategic planning consulting for the Judicial Conference.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- NIJ Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program for AcademicsIn-kind resourceNational Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of JusticeA three-year non-monetary scholars programme for early-career academics who do research with law enforcement agencies. NIJ covers domestic travel, accommodation and per diem for LEADS events, and provides networking, peer review and funding-notification access.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- 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
- Government of the Virgin Islands Procurement Opportunities (GVIBUY)Evaluation contractU.S. Virgin Islands Department of Property and ProcurementThe USVI's central procurement office posts all territorial government solicitations, including professional-services and evaluation work, through GVIBUY. Registration in the system is the route to bidding on territory-funded social research.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
- Office of Innovation, Alignment, and Accountability (Evaluation and Research)In-kind resourceWashington State Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesWashington's child welfare agency runs an internal evaluation and research office covering performance improvement, evaluation and research, and data and reporting. It is the agency door for researchers seeking a state partner, data, or an evaluation role.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- LAHSA Funding Opportunities (RFPs, RFQs and Statements of Qualifications)Evaluation contractLos Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)The Los Angeles CoC lead agency's standing solicitation page, where it posts RFPs, RFQs and a pre-qualification RFSQ — including professional-services contracts for statistical and demographic surveying, not only service delivery.Amount not published · Several times a year
- COMMBUYSEvaluation contractCommonwealth of Massachusetts, Operational Services DivisionThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts e-procurement platform. Posts open bid solicitations, statewide contracts and blanket agreements from state agencies, including professional-services solicitations that can cover programme evaluation.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Integrated Database (IDB) of Federal Court FilingsIn-kind resourceFederal Judicial CenterA free, unified longitudinal database of federal civil, criminal, bankruptcy, and appellate case filings and terminations from 1970 to the present, downloadable in full with codebooks — the standard backbone for quantitative federal court research.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- KYSTATS Data Request ServiceIn-kind resourceKentucky Center for StatisticsKentucky's state longitudinal data agency fulfils custom data requests, including linked education-to-workforce records, for outside researchers. Aggregate requests are usually free, making this a research input rather than a cash award.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DESE Research Partnership and Confidential Data Access for External ResearchersIn-kind resourceMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Planning and ResearchMassachusetts DESE accepts external research proposals through a research portal and can share confidential student-level data under FERPA research exemptions in limited circumstances. This is data and partnership access, not cash.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- CDE Funding Opportunities Portal (Available and Projected Funding)Evaluation contractCalifornia Department of EducationCalifornia's education agency runs a searchable funding portal listing programs currently accepting applications, programs projected to open, and past funding results. Useful for tracking state-level education solicitations before they circulate widely.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- NYSED Funding Opportunities and Competitive Service Contract ProcurementsEvaluation contractNew York State Education DepartmentNYSED's single portal for both grants it administers and competitive service contract procurements — RFPs, RFQs and other bidding opportunities. The procurement side is where evaluation and technical-assistance contracts appear.Amount not published · 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
- Fairfax County Department of Procurement and Material ManagementEvaluation contractFairfax County, VirginiaFairfax County's central procurement department handles purchasing and contracting for all county agencies, and operates a Vendor Pitch Portal that lets a firm present its services to county agencies and the school system at once.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Denver General Services Purchasing — Bidding OpportunitiesEvaluation contractCity and County of DenverDenver procures goods and related services for all city and county agencies through competitive bidding, posting solicitations to the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System, and runs regular small and minority business onboarding sessions.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
- OASIS+ (One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus)Evaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's governmentwide multiple-award IDIQ program for professional services, with 13 domains including Social Services and Research & Development. Federal agencies place evaluation and research task orders against it.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board Contracting Opportunities (WEBS)Evaluation contractWashington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating BoardWashington's Workforce Board is the state's independent evaluator of the workforce system, and it buys outside research and analysis through competitively bid contracts posted on the state's WEBS procurement system.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Texas Workforce Commission Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractTexas Workforce CommissionThe state workforce agency for Texas posts its competitive solicitations here, including Requests for Qualification used specifically for professional services — the usual vehicle for research and evaluation work.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- Anticipated Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractWisconsin Department of Children and FamiliesAdvance notice of child welfare and child care procurements Wisconsin DCF intends to release, posted months before the RFP itself. It is the rare early-warning list that lets an outside team assemble a bid before the clock starts.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)Evaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's Federal Supply Schedule, through which federal, state, local and tribal governments buy commercial services at pre-negotiated prices, including consulting, auditing and research and analysis services.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
- 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
- The Consultant Connection — City of Seattle Consultant OpportunitiesEvaluation contractCity of Seattle — Finance and Administrative Services, Purchasing and ContractingSeattle announces its consultant RFPs and RFQs — including work tagged as evaluation, management and auditing — through a dedicated Consultant Connection feed run by the city's purchasing division.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- SAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesEvaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (SAM.gov, Integrated Award Environment)The single federal portal where every agency posts procurement notices, including the evaluation, data-collection and policy-research solicitations that never circulate on academic listservs.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- 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
- Court Improvement Program Evaluation and Technical Assistance SolicitationsEvaluation contractSupreme Court of Ohio, Office of the Chief Financial OfficerOhio's high court posts its own RFPs directly on this page, including program evaluation of the state Court Improvement Program and technical assistance for juvenile court mediation and a court navigator pilot.Amount not published · Several times a year
- 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
- Mayors for a Guaranteed Income coalition supportIn-kind resourceMayors for a Guaranteed IncomeA mayoral coalition that offers technical assistance and funding support for new guaranteed income pilots in member cities, and runs the Center for Guaranteed Income Research with the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Texas Office of Court Administration Contracting and ProcurementsEvaluation contractTexas Office of Court Administration (judicial branch agency)The judicial branch agency that runs Texas court data and administration explains here how it buys services. Its bid opportunities post to the Electronic State Business Daily rather than to a court-specific list.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Amazon Research AwardsIn-kind resourceAmazon (Amazon Science)Twice-yearly topic-specific calls giving researchers unrestricted funds plus AWS Promotional Credits. Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the PI's institution, with Amazon retaining no intellectual property.Not a cash award · Several times a year · May, Nov
- eVA — Virginia's eProcurement MarketplaceEvaluation contractVirginia Department of General Services, Division of Purchases and SupplyVirginia's centralised eProcurement marketplace. Hosts Virginia Business Opportunities postings, construction and government-to-government contracts, plus public spend reports and a searchable contract database.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
- Registro Único de Licitadores / Registro Único de Subastas (RUS)Evaluation contractAdministración de Servicios Generales de Puerto Rico (ASG)Puerto Rico's central procurement agency runs the island's single bidder registry and posts government solicitations through the Registro Único de Subastas, the standing route to territory-funded evaluation and social research contracts.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDC) project accessIn-kind resourceU.S. Census Bureau and partner federal statistical agenciesSecure physical and remote enclaves where approved researchers analyse restricted-access federal microdata, including censuses, surveys, linked employer-employee data and federal and state administrative records.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Judicial Council of California Bidders and SolicitationsEvaluation contractJudicial Council of CaliforniaThe standing solicitation portal for California's judicial branch, searchable by request type, department, topic, year, and status. This is where branch-wide professional-services and consulting RFPs appear.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- PA eMarketplaceEvaluation contractPennsylvania Department of General ServicesPennsylvania's official bidding and contract information portal. Posts general solicitations, sole-source and emergency procurements, upcoming procurements and the debarment list for Commonwealth agencies.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
- DataKind PartnershipIn-kind resourceDataKindDataKind matches mission-driven organisations with volunteer data scientists to scope and build data and AI projects. The resource is analytic capacity and volunteer labour rather than a cash award.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DFPS Contracting and Funding Opportunities (Solicitations over $25,000)Evaluation contractTexas Department of Family and Protective ServicesThe standing entry point for Texas child protective services contracting. DFPS announces every procurement above $25,000 here as an RFP, RFA, RFO, RFQ or IFB, including evaluation and analytic work.Amount not published · 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
- Montgomery County Office of Procurement — Solicitations and ContractsEvaluation contractMontgomery County, Maryland — Office of ProcurementMontgomery County buys goods, services and construction through a central procurement office with an explicit inclusion mandate and a vendor registration database, and posts its solicitations publicly.Amount not published · 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
- Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD)Evaluation contractTexas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Statewide Procurement DivisionSearchable public listing of Texas state agency procurement solicitations, including service contracts. Searchable by agency, commodity code, keyword and date range, and usable to find agency evaluation and analysis contracts.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- SAM.gov Entity Registration and Unique Entity IDIn-kind resourceU.S. General Services Administration (SAM.gov, Integrated Award Environment)The gateway step for any federal contract or assistance award. Without an active registration an organization cannot bid as a prime on an evaluation contract, no matter how strong the proposal.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Quick Response Research Award ProgramRapid-response fundNatural Hazards Center, University of Colorado BoulderFunds and trains researchers to collect perishable data in the field immediately after an extreme event, with an explicit social science and interdisciplinary focus. Awardees receive editorial support to publish preliminary findings as reports and briefs.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Community Foundation LocatorIn-kind resourceCouncil on FoundationsFree searchable map of US community foundations by state, with an optional filter to show only foundations accredited under the Community Foundations National Standards. The practical way to find the local funder for a place-based study or an agency partner.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- ACCESS Allocations (Explore, Discover, Accelerate, Maximize)In-kind resourceNational Science Foundation / ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support)Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources, granted as ACCESS Credits that are exchanged for time on partner systems. Four project tiers scale from a starter allocation to large production computing.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NAIRR Pilot Resource Access (Call for Proposals)In-kind resourceNational AI Research Resource Pilot (NSF, DOE and partner organisations)Free access to computing allocations, datasets, AI models, platforms and educational resources for U.S. research and education projects. Awards are resource access for a 12-month project, not cash.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- 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
- 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
- GSA Professional Services Contract VehiclesEvaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's hub for the professional-services vehicles agencies use to buy studies, analysis and evaluation work, listing OASIS+, legacy OASIS, MAS Professional Services and HCaTS side by side.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- HSH Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractSan Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH)San Francisco's homelessness department posts its RFPs and RFQs here, including consulting contracts explicitly for programme evaluation and for standing up and facilitating an advisory group of people with lived experience.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- 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
- WSIPP Contracted Research and University CollaborationEvaluation contractWashington State Institute for Public PolicyWashington's nonpartisan legislative research institute extends its own capacity by contracting outside experts and collaborating with university faculty on legislature-assigned studies of criminal justice, child welfare, and social policy.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Klaus J. Jacobs Awards (Research Prize and Best Practice Prize)Prize or challengeJacobs FoundationTwo annual prizes endowed with a combined 1.2 million Swiss francs for exceptional achievement in research and in practice on child and youth development. Entry is by nomination.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Zooniverse Project BuilderIn-kind resourceZooniverse (Citizen Science Alliance)Free software and hosting for researchers to build crowdsourced data-classification projects — a way to get transcription, coding or image/document classification done at scale without a data-processing budget.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Open Science Framework (OSF)In-kind resourceCenter for Open ScienceFree, open-source project management and preregistration infrastructure for the whole research lifecycle, including registrations, file and protocol storage, and long-term preservation.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NVIDIA Academic Grant ProgramIn-kind resourceNVIDIAPeriodic calls for proposals awarding in-kind GPU compute, hardware and software to university faculty. Relevant to computational social science and to social work researchers running large-model or simulation work.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- NCES Restricted-Use Data LicenseIn-kind resourceNational Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of EducationA license under which IES loans confidential NCES survey data — far more detailed than the public-use files — to a qualified U.S. organization for a defined research project.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- ACCESS Allocations (Explore, Discover, Accelerate, Maximize)In-kind resourceU.S. National Science Foundation (ACCESS program)No-cost allocations of national advanced computing and storage for researchers and educators, in four tiers from a small starter project to a peer-reviewed large allocation.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
- Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF) and Applied Data Analytics TrainingIn-kind resourceColeridge InitiativeA FedRAMP-authorized secure cloud platform where government agencies link confidential longitudinal data across states and agencies, paired with an Applied Data Analytics training program that builds analytic capacity in agency staff.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
- Listen4Good feedback capacity-building cohortsIn-kind resourceListen4GoodCohort-based capacity building that equips nonprofits to gather, analyse and act on feedback from the people they serve, with feedback tools and methodology, coaching and technical support, data analysis help, peer learning and a resource library; a practical route to client-voice evaluation in human services.Not a cash award · Periodic calls · Dec
- Economic Futures Research AwardsPilot / seed fundingAnthropic (Economic Futures Program)Corporate research awards for short empirical studies of AI's economic impacts, including labour-market effects, productivity and distributional consequences, using econometric methods, data analysis or new data collection completable within six months; awardees also receive API credits.$10k–$50k · Periodic calls
- 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
- TikTok Research API and Research ToolsIn-kind resourceTikTokAccess for qualified non-commercial researchers to public TikTok data on accounts, videos and engagement, usable for public-interest research on youth online experience, help-seeking, health information, harassment or community formation; requires a defined proposal and evidence of ethical review.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Allegheny County DHS Research and Data Requests (Data Warehouse)In-kind resourceAllegheny County Department of Human Services (Pennsylvania)Researchers can request de-identified, limited or (with IRB approval) identified client and service data from the Allegheny County Data Warehouse for human services research that builds knowledge, improves practice or informs policy.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Meta Content Library and API (researcher access)In-kind resourceMeta PlatformsFree researcher access to public content from Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp Channels, searchable across more than 100 data fields with up to 100,000 results per query, for scientific or public-interest research such as studies of online communities, help-seeking, misinformation or youth social media use.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- ERDC P20W Data RequestsIn-kind resourceWashington State Education Research and Data Center (ERDC), Office of Financial ManagementResearchers can request redacted aggregate, unredacted aggregate or individual-level data from Washington's P20W data system, spanning early learning, K-12, higher education and workforce, through ERDC's web-based data request form.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) Research AccessIn-kind resourceVirginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS), with participating Virginia state agenciesVetted researchers, guided by agency sponsors, can run privacy-protected linked analyses of administrative data from 13 Virginia agencies, including Social Services, the Office of Children's Services, Aging and Rehabilitative Services, Juvenile Justice, education and workforce.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Philadelphia DHS External Research Committee (ERC) study approvalIn-kind resourceCity of Philadelphia Department of Human ServicesRoute for external researchers to seek approval and data from Philadelphia's child welfare and juvenile justice agency, by submitting a proposed study application to the External Research Committee.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NLSY Restricted Geocode Data AccessIn-kind resourceU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Longitudinal Surveys programRestricted state, county, MSA and college codes for the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult and NLSY97 cohorts, used from approved locations on the physical premises of the researcher's institution, enabling place-based research on employment, family, poverty and youth transitions.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NDACAN Summer Research Institute (SRI)Training & capacityNational Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), Duke University and Cornell University, a service of the Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of HealthA free, competitive online institute in which selected researchers work on their own secondary-analysis project using NDACAN child maltreatment datasets, with NDACAN staff and statistical consultants supporting them toward a publishable paper.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
- 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
- ACS Research Review Committee Approval (research access to ACS clients, staff and administrative data)In-kind resourceNYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS)Route by which university researchers, graduate students and program evaluators obtain approval to study children and families served by New York City's child welfare agency, its staff, foster parents, contract agencies or administrative data.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
- DBHIDS Centralized Requests for Research (proposals, data requests, IRB unit approval)In-kind resourcePhiladelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), Research UnitSingle intake through which researchers seek Philadelphia DBHIDS support for studies involving its data, staff, programs or providers, including research proposals, behavioral health data requests, IRB unit approval and publication review.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- HUD Data License for Access to Restricted DataIn-kind resourceU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)Data License Agreements give research organizations household- and member-level administrative records from public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, multifamily assisted housing and LIHTC for policy-relevant research that needs HUD's identifiable data.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA) Research Data AccessIn-kind resourceOhio Analytics / Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR), The Ohio State University, for Ohio state agenciesApproved researchers receive extracts of linked Ohio state administrative records prepared for research and evaluation, in exchange for a policy-relevant research brief that informs the priorities of the data-providing public agencies.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- NSCAW Restricted Release Data Licence (NSCAW I, II and III)In-kind resourceNational Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), Duke University and Cornell University, a service of the Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of HealthA three-year licence to the restricted releases of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I, II and III), the national longitudinal study of the well-being, service needs and service use of children in contact with child welfare.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
- Pro Bono Statistical and Data Science ProjectsIn-kind resourceStatistics Without Borders (American Statistical Association outreach group)Volunteer statisticians and data scientists provide free survey and experimental design, statistical and data analysis, forecasting, dashboards and visual presentations to not-for-profit organisations, helping them understand their data, show the impact of their work and build their own analytic capacity.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
- DPSS External Research RequestsIn-kind resourceLos Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS), Management and Research ServicesProcess through which external researchers ask Los Angeles County's public social services department to take part in a study, supply administrative data, or give access to applicants, participants or staff of programs DPSS administers.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- SAMHSA Research Data Center (NSDUH Restricted Use File)In-kind resourceSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and QualityOn-site access to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health restricted use file (2002 onward), including state and county codes, detailed industry and occupation codes and detailed demographic items, for approved substance use and mental health research.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- AWS Cloud Credit for ResearchIn-kind resourceAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS promotional cloud credits for researchers building publicly available cloud-hosted research services, running proof-of-concept or benchmark tests, or delivering training workshops, useful for data-intensive social and health research tools.Amount not published · 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
- Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) FellowshipTraining & capacityCarnegie Mellon University and the Data Science for Social Good FoundationFull-time summer fellowship in which student teams build machine learning and data science projects with government and nonprofit partners on real social problems; agencies and nonprofits can also propose projects as partners.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar
- Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized TrialsTraining & capacityInstitute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Research, with Northwestern University (STEPP Center / IPR)An intensive in-person summer institute that trains education researchers to plan, design, conduct and interpret cluster-randomized trials; Northwestern pays lodging, instruction and course materials, with limited travel support in special cases.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Apr
- Google Cloud Research CreditsIn-kind resourceGoogle (Google for Education / Google Cloud)Cloud computing credits for faculty, PhD students and postdocs to run research workloads on Google Cloud, useful for large administrative-data analyses, text analysis and other computationally heavy social research.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Engaged Scholarship Research/Creative Activities Grants Program for Faculty and StaffParticipatory grantmakingEngagement Scholarship ConsortiumOne-year grants for scholarship that is mutually beneficial for university scholars and communities, with stakeholder inclusion and community partner roles expected; collaborative projects across disciplines and institutions are encouraged.up to $5k · Annual cycle · Oct
- DCF Research Review Committee: Research and Data RequestsIn-kind resourceNew Jersey Department of Children and FamiliesThe route for researchers to seek approval for research involving New Jersey DCF-affiliated staff, programs, families, children and youth, or confidential DCF client data. The researcher submits an application for a proposed research project by email, and the Research Review Committee reviews, approves and monitors it at monthly meetings.Not a cash award · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- DCFS Research Review Board (approval to research DCFS-served children and families)In-kind resourceIllinois Department of Children and Family ServicesThe route a researcher must use to study children and families served by Illinois DCFS: the Research Review Board reviews all proposed research involving them, and research involving DCFS staff, foster parents, grantees and contractors may also need review. The researcher submits a proposal packet by email. The page notes approval does not itself grant access to DCFS data, participation, or funding.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- 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
- YouTube Researcher ProgramIn-kind resourceYouTube (Google)Scaled access to YouTube's public data corpus, with as much quota as the research requires, global data, and technical support from YouTube staff, for academic researchers with a clear research goal who intend to publish. The researcher applies to use the data in their own study.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
- Linked Information Network of Colorado (LINC) ProjectsIn-kind resourceColorado Evaluation and Action Lab (Linked Information Network of Colorado)LINC securely connects and de-identifies data across Colorado public systems to produce research-ready linked data for projects that address problems government partners face. Academic researchers can initiate a LINC project if they bring expertise in an area of high priority to government partners: they answer five screening questions, consult the LINC Director, and the project goes to the relevant data partners for approval.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
- Integrated Client Services (ICS) Data Linkage RequestsIn-kind resourceOregon Department of Human ServicesOregon's Integrated Client Services data links ODHS and OHA program records, including SNAP, Medicaid and child welfare, into a unified client index. External researchers can request linkages: they submit an official request with data use agreements, pass a feasibility review, provide IRB documentation where applicable, and receive a client index crosswalk with study IDs for confidential linking.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
- Children's Division Research Protections and Request for Release of DataIn-kind resourceMissouri Department of Social Services, Children's DivisionThe route for researchers to conduct studies with, or obtain data from, Missouri's Children's Division: the researcher submits an Application to Conduct Research/Study (Form MO 886-4454) with any IRB positions, and a committee appointed by the Division Director reviews whether the request is bona fide and could advance child welfare practice in Missouri.Not a cash award · Varies by programme
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
- Health
- History
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy
- International Social Work and Global Issues
- Immigrants and Refugees
- LatinX Focused-Research
- Mental Health
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
- Organizations and Management
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research 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