SPARC (Social work with groups: Practice, Advocacy, Research and Community) Grants
International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG)
Small seed grants and formal endorsement for innovative group-work projects in practice, education, training or research. Since 2013, 49 of 71 endorsed projects received funding totalling about $40,000.
- Indicative award
- $400–$1k (total award)Individual grants typically range from $400 to $1,000; the page notes recent review rounds awarded between $400 and $2,900 per cycle. No fixed maximum is published.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Jun, NovNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Two review cycles per year, ahead of the June and November Board meetings, with decisions announced in May and November. The most recent published deadline (extended to 15 June 2026) has passed; the next cycle date was not yet posted.
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Any faculty rank, Doctoral candidate, Community organisation, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be current IASWG members. Projects may be practice, education or research focused, and applicants worldwide are funded (recent awards in Nigeria, India and the United States). Applicants may also request endorsement without funding.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- group work · practice innovation · community projects
- Apply at
- https://www.iaswg.org/sparc-program
- 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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