Aim and Mission
- to support emerging scholars through small grants
- to promote scholarship with a social policy application
- to encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences
Funding Amount
Our grants are based solely on merit. Each grant is worth a total of $7,500—$5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project.
Criteria for completion include:
- approval of the dissertation
- acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal
- invitation to write a book chapter based on the research
Grants are non-renewable and recipients have 5 years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment.
Eligibility
- Current PhD candidates who are working on their dissertation.
- Applicants who do not already have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible.
- Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department.
- We accept applicants from any country and any university in the world. U.S. citizenship or residency is not required.
Criteria
The foundation targets projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level.
Applications are evaluated based on the Trustees’ assessment of criteria such as: feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research and letters of recommendation. No specific weight is given to any one area. Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application.
We encourage applicants to look at the kind of projects we have supported in previous years. See Previous Recipients.
Conditions
- Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. If processed through an institution, a waiver for overhead is required.
- Recipients are expected to acknowledge assistance provided by the Foundation in any publication resulting from their research and are also asked to notify the Foundation with publication details.
- Grants are issued immediately on receipt of an acceptance letter from the recipient. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure the grant does not conflict with other funding they have secured. Grants are usually administered in June of the year they are decided.
- Grant recipients will be publicized on the foundation’s website, in appropriate professional media, and a press release to university media offices.
Donation
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