Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants
Funds early-career social scientists to conduct research in RSF priority areas including economic inequality and poverty, with explicit priority for scholars from underrepresented groups and under-resourced institutions.
- Indicative award
- $50k–$65k (total award)Maximum budget of $50,000 for an individual applicant or $65,000 for a team of eligible assistant professors, per the RSF budget guidelines page. No indirect costs are allowed.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-21 — 68 days awayOne annual competition; the published letter-of-inquiry deadline is October 21, 2026 at 2pm ET.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Open only to assistant professors, adjunct assistant professors and lecturers who have not previously held an RSF Trustee or Presidential research grant or RSF visiting fellowship. No nationality or location restriction. J-PAL North America is a co-funder.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- economic inequality · poverty · early-career research · research capacity
- Apply at
- https://www.russellsage.org/research/early-career-awards
- 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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