Local- and State-Level Policy Work Grants
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Funds teams of social scientists to influence local and state policy through applied research, covering research costs, participant incentives, student support and meeting expenses.
- Indicative award
- up to $2k (total award)Up to $2,000 USD per group, with funding for up to three groups annually. Overhead costs are prohibited.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · SepNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states proposals are due September 1 annually. No specific year-stamped future deadline is published, so treat September 1 as the recurring date and confirm with SPSSI.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a research/policy group of at least three social scientists from the same state or region, with at least one current SPSSI member. Groups showing policy expertise or commitment to learning policy work, and those including graduate students or early-career scholars, are prioritized. Overhead is not allowed.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- state and local policy · applied research · policy advocacy
- Apply at
- https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=2034
- 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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