Stephen Lieberman

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Work and Work-Life Policies and Programs

Employment, labour conditions, care work, and work–family policy.

56 opportunities · 23 traditional · 33 nontraditional

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Traditional (23)

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
Research and evaluation grantsFederal grantOffice of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and FamiliesFederal research on child care, child welfare, Head Start, TANF and family self-sufficiency, including the Child Care Research Scholars awards that fund dissertations with a state agency partner.Amount not published · Periodic calls
Research grants and visiting scholarsFoundation grantRussell Sage FoundationSocial science on inequality, mobility, race and ethnicity, immigration, and the future of work — plus a residential visiting scholar year that is one of the few funded writing years in the social sciences.up to $200k · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
Academic research grantsFoundation grantWashington Center for Equitable GrowthResearch on whether and how economic inequality affects growth and stability, covering labour markets, care work, wage-setting and the macroeconomics of family policy.up to $100k · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
Core Research Grants — Social, Political, and Economic InequalityFoundation grantRussell Sage FoundationSupports social science research on the causes and consequences of rising economic inequality, including work on poverty, wages, safety-net policy and political and social stratification in the United States.$50k–$200k · Several times a year · Mar, Jul, 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
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
Quality of Life Grants ProgramFoundation grantChristopher & Dana Reeve FoundationTiered grants to nonprofits for projects serving people living with paralysis. Tiers run from open-purpose Direct Effect awards through targeted priority tiers (assistive technology, disaster preparedness, respite and caregiving, rural underserved populations, employment, nursing home transition) to Expanded Impact awards for proven prior grantees.$5k–$100k · Several times a year
Building Communities of Recovery (BCOR)Federal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds recovery community organisations to deliver peer recovery support services led by people with lived experience of substance use and co-occurring disorders, plus housing and employment linkage. Requires client-level SPARS data at intake, 6 months and closeout.up to $350k per year · Periodic calls · Jul
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
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars ProgramFellowshipRussell Sage FoundationA residential year at the Foundation's New York headquarters for scholars doing data analysis and writing on RSF priority areas. Provides salary replacement, office space, computing and subsidised housing.up to $150k per year · Annual cycle · Jun
Early Career GrantsEarly-career awardWashington Center for Equitable GrowthGrants for doctoral students, postdocs and untenured faculty studying how economic inequality affects growth and stability, including work on wages, the safety net and household economic security.$15k–$30k · Annual cycle
Forte Project GrantsFoundation grantForte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and WelfareForte is Sweden's national research council for health, working life and welfare — the closest institutional match in Europe to a social work research funder. The annual project grant is a free-standing, investigator-initiated three-year grant: applicants formulate their own question anywhere inside Forte's remit, which explicitly covers social policy, social services, welfare provision, the labour market, public health and care organisation. Proposals are assessed by nine subject panels, several of which (social policy, welfare services, working life) map directly onto social work scholarshipAmount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
Research for Future Skills, Education and Working LifeFoundation grantResearch Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet)Norway's national research council runs this call off its welfare-and-education portfolio plan, and the four themes — education and working life in transition, competence and skills development, learning and inclusion in education, and inclusive and well-functioning working life — read as a social work and social policy agenda. Grants are substantial and long: three to six years of funding for a full project team. Relevant for school social work, transitions out of care and into employment, labour-market inclusion of disabled and migrant populations, and workforce studies of the welfare servicAmount not published · Annual cycle · May
Immigrant Rights and Workers' Rights grantmakingFoundation grantRosenberg FoundationCalifornia-focused grantmaking supporting leadership development, policy advocacy and grassroots organising on immigrant rights and workers' rights, including capacity for community organisations working with the state's immigrant residents.Amount not published · Rolling / open
The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)Federal grantNational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), NIHNIMHD-led R01 for population-based research on how work and occupation shape health outcomes in populations experiencing health disparities, treating work as both a risk source and an economic/social resource.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
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 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
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) ProgramFederal grantNational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community LivingFunds national centres that combine advanced research, training and information dissemination on a defined disability topic, aimed at improving employment, independent living, family support and economic self-sufficiency. Awards are typically five years.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
Science of Organizations (SoO)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSupports research advancing theory on the design and management of organizations, the behavior and well-being of individuals within them, and the relationships between people, organizations and systems.Amount not published · Varies by programme
Military & Veterans grant programFoundation grantRobert R. McCormick FoundationGrants supporting veterans and their families through legal-aid programmes, job training and social services, with an emphasis on transition to civilian life and employment.Amount not published · By invitation
IRP Extramural Large Grant for Poverty and Economic Mobility ResearchPilot / seed fundingInstitute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-MadisonAwards of up to $50,000 for poverty and economic mobility research, through IRP's annual Extramural Research Funding Program supporting research on human services, for projects that can be completed within 24 months; past funding areas include child welfare, reentry from incarceration, youth employment and policies and programs on the geography of opportunity.up to $50k · Annual cycle · Jan, Mar
Sam Fishman Travel GrantFellowshipWalter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State UniversityAwards of up to $1,000, reimbursing actual travel expenses, to support travel to the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University to access archival records related to the American labor movement.up to $1k · Annual cycle · Mar

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