Fund for Research and Experimentation
Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Small grants for practice-relevant research and for doctoral dissertations, aimed squarely at social work and allied practice fields. One of the few funders whose scope is the profession itself.
- Indicative award
- $5k–$20k (total award)Small by federal standards — the right size for a dissertation's data collection, with the faculty track at the upper end.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · May, NovNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual deadlines for the dissertation and faculty tracks.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Doctoral applicants must be past proposal approval. Practice relevance is the scoring axis, not methodological novelty.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- dissertation · practice research · small grant · profession-specific
- Apply at
- https://www.fahsbeckfund.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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