Scholarships, fellowships and research awards
Small named awards for social work students and researchers, including dissertation support and practice-improvement awards administered through the profession's membership association.
- Indicative award
- $1k–$10k (total award)Small awards, several of them named memorial funds with their own criteria.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Feb, MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycles that differ by award.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Most awards require NASW membership and current enrolment in an accredited programme.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- scholarship · named award · membership · practice improvement
- Apply at
- https://www.naswfoundation.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.
Also on the Social Work Practice shelf
- Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21)National Institutes of Healthup to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Faculty grant programLois and Samuel Silberman Fundup to $50k · Annual cycle
- Feedback and listening grantsFund for Shared Insight$10k–$100k · Periodic calls
- Crowdfunding for research projectsExperiment$1k–$25k · Rolling / open
- Finding your regional and community foundations (Candid)CandidNot a cash award · Rolling / open