Stephen Lieberman

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Research on Social Work Education

Teaching, field education, curriculum, and the preparation of the social work workforce.

72 opportunities · 56 traditional · 16 nontraditional

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NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership GrantsTraining & capacityNEA Foundation (affiliated with the National Education Association)Grants from the union-affiliated NEA Foundation for individual professional development or group collegial learning, with action research named explicitly as a supported group activity. Useful to school social workers and other specialized instructional support personnel who want to fund a study group, an inquiry project, or conference travel tied to practice improvement.up to $5k · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep
Engagement Award: Capacity Building — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Builds the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered CER, and strengthens researchers' skills as partners. Does not fund research studies themselves.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
2026 NIA Mentorship Prize CompetitionPrize or challengeNational Institute on Aging (NIA), Office of Strategic Extramural Programs, NIHA prize that pays faculty for mentoring rather than for a project. Mentees nominate you; if you win, $100,000 goes to your institution to buy you time and to build shareable mentorship resources.$100k · Periodic calls · Aug, Oct, Nov
SPARC (Social work with groups: Practice, Advocacy, Research and Community) GrantsPilot / seed fundingInternational Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG)Small seed grants and formal endorsement for innovative group-work projects in practice, education, training or research. Since 2013, 49 of 71 endorsed projects received funding totalling about $40,000.$400–$1k · Several times a year · Jun, Nov
Small-Scale Events Advancing SPSSI (SEAS) GrantsTraining & capacitySociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)Reimbursement-based grants for local research symposia, mini-conferences, speaker events and cross-career networking that build research community around social issues scholarship.up to $1k · Rolling / open · Sep
COMpetency in Menopause & Integrated Therapy (COMMIT) ChallengePrize or challengeNIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), with NIA, NHLBI, NINR, NIAMS and the NIH Office of the DirectorA $2.5 million prize for existing health-professions curricula that teach the menopausal transition well. It rewards documented, evaluated teaching practice rather than a proposal for new work.up to $2.5M · Varies by programme
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
Yidan Prize (Education Research and Education Development)Prize or challengeYidan Prize FoundationTwo annual prizes — one for Education Research, recognising researchers whose work strengthens teaching and learning, and one for Education Development, recognising leaders advancing practice through innovative interventions. Each laureate receives a gold medal, a cash prize of HK$15 million (shared equally for teams) and a project fund of HK$15 million. The project-fund half is the reason this belongs in a research funding database: it is money to be spent extending the winning work, so it functions as a large unsolicited research and implementation grant rather than a purely honorific award.Amount not published · Annual cycle
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health grant programsParticipatory grantmakingHogg Foundation for Mental Health (University of Texas at Austin)A Texas mental health funder running competitive RFPs on community-driven themes: rural and border community mental health, libraries as mental health infrastructure, flexible funding for under-resourced organisations, policy fellows, and arts-and-humanities research grants for early career faculty.Amount not published · Periodic calls
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
ISBE Funding Opportunities and Notices of Funding OpportunityEvaluation contractIllinois State Board of EducationIllinois's state education agency posts its Notices of Funding Opportunity here, ordered by proposal due date, under a merit-based review policy with a published appeals window. It also recruits volunteer grant evaluators.Amount not published · Rolling / open
TEA Grant Opportunities (Requests for Application)Evaluation contractTexas Education AgencyTexas's state education agency posts discretionary and formula Requests for Application on a standing portal. Each RFA carries its own program guidelines, eligibility, due dates and application forms.Amount not published · Rolling / open
DESE Grant Funding Opportunities (RFP postings)Evaluation contractMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationMassachusetts DESE posts current and previous grant RFPs in a listing searchable by fund code, program name, posting date, or deadline, with awards administered through the EdGrants and GEM$ systems.Amount not published · Rolling / open
NJDOE Discretionary Grants (Notice of Grant Opportunity)Evaluation contractNew Jersey Department of EducationNew Jersey awards discretionary grants to selected agencies to address specific education initiatives, publishing guidelines as a Notice of Grant Opportunity that walks applicants through the competition.Amount not published · Annual cycle
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
KP Mental Health Scholars Academy Community Grants (MHSA Community Fund)Training & capacityKaiser Permanente Northern California (Fund for Health Education at the East Bay Community Foundation)Grants to nonprofit organisations, via the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Fund for Health Education at the East Bay Community Foundation, to expand the pipeline of mental health professionals with an emphasis on California's communities; its first grant funded research and a UCSF Healthforce Center report on expanding the pipeline of behavioral health paraprofessionals.Amount not published · By invitation

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