Grant Opportunities
This page identifies some sources that have provided grants for mental health and family research. The information on this web appears in alphabetical order by name of sponsoring organization. This page is offered as a courtesy for students.
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
This organization provides fellowships and grants for women scholars. For more information, refer to www.aauw.org/education/fga/.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This organization offers fellowships for work leading up to completing doctoral dissertations. For more information, refer to www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship/researchuniversities.
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
This organization provides research and dissertation grants for studies of education. For more information, refer to www.aera.net/grantsprogram/.
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES)
This organization, a division of the American Counseling Association, provides research grants to student members who are enrolled in Counselor Education and Supervision programs. Due dates for applications in 2009 will be 1/9 and likely sometime in early May. For more information, refer to www.acesonline.net.
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
The dissertation fellowship program provides funds to doctoral students beginning their dissertation. The program supports research on postsecondary education using the NCES and NSF national databases or research studies that increase the understanding and knowledge of student decisions in postsecondary education. Funded fellowship projects promise a significant contribution to the national knowledge of the nature and operation of postsecondary education. For more information, refer to www.airweb.org.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dissertation Grant Awards for Doctoral Candidates for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities (K01)
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator initiated and mentored research scientist development award (K01) applications from doctoral students that will help expand and advance our understanding of violence, its causes, and prevention strategies in minority communities. The proposed research must address one of the research priorities listed in the following chapters from NCIPC s research agenda; Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Child Maltreatment, Preventing Suicidal Behavior, or Preventing Youth Violence.
Counseling Association of Humanistic Education and Development (C-AHEAD)
This organization, a division of the American Counseling Association, offers a $500 2008/2009 Make a Difference Research Grant to support research based on humanistic philosophical characteristics that will make a difference for the studied population. The grant will be awarded to a student in a counseling program. Application deadline is November 15, 2008. For more information, refer to www.c-ahead.com/makeadifference.htm.
Dan E. Homeyer Research Awards of the Texas Association for Play Therapy
The Texas Association for Play Therapy (TAPT) awards two $500 grants are awarded each fall and spring. These awards are presented to students and faculty members of Texas colleges and universities who use play therapy in some aspect in their research and who have obtained approval for their research from the Human Subjects Review Board (IRB) at their institution. In addition to the monetary award, recipients receive a paid registration for the next TAPT conference (held in April) and two nights lodging at the conference hotel. Recipients are expected to present their findings at the TAPT conference and to submit a short synopsis of their findings for possible publication in the TAPT Newsletter. Upcoming deadlines for application are October 1, 2009, and March 1, 2010. For more information, refer to txapt.org/images/research_grant.pdf.
Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation (ELA)
ELA Scholarships are available only to women graduate students with physical disabilities who are enrolled in a college or university in the United States. These scholarships are awarded on an objective and nondiscriminatory basis. Scholarships range between $500 and $2,000.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation is offering fellowships to doctoral students who plan to enter a career in teaching and research at a college or university. The goals of these fellowships is to increase the ethnic and racial diversity in university faculties, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. The deadlines for application for these awards are November 2, 2009, for predoctoral awards and November 9, 2009, for dissertation and postdoctoral awards. For more information, refer to www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund was founded in 1975 to help Hispanic-American college students complete their education. The scholarships are available on a competitive basis for community college, four-year college, and graduate students of Hispanic heritage. Awards generally range from $1000 to $3,000. National Institute of Health.
The objective of this funding opportunity announcement is to help ensure that highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nationâ„¢s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda. The participating Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide individual predoctoral research training fellowship awards to promising doctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of these participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
Department of Health & Human Services - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
The NIA, NIAAA, NIDCD, NIDA, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, and the ODS are interested in supporting individual predoctoral fellowships for combined MD/PhD training in research areas relevant to the mission of the participating Institutes.
National Institute of Justice - NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship
The Graduate Research Fellowship is an NIJ annual program that provides dissertation research support to outstanding doctoral students undertaking independent research on issues related to crime and justice. Students from any academic discipline are encouraged to apply and propose original research that has direct implications for criminal justice. NIJ encourages diversity in approaches and perspectives in its research programs. NIJ awards these fellowships in an effort to encourage doctoral students to contribute critical and innovative thinking to pressing criminal justice problems.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Mental Health Dissertation Research Grant To Increase Diversity (R36)
Application Deadline: December 22, 2009 (including resubmission)
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to increase the diversity of the mental health research workforce. It will enable qualified doctoral candidates to pursue research careers in any area relevant to the research mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
National Institute on Drug Abuse - Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences (R36)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for support of drug abuse doctoral dissertation research in epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services, and women and sex/gender differences.
National Science Foundation (NSF) - Cultural Anthropology
The Cultural Anthropology Program promotes basic scientific research on the causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation. The program solicits research proposals of theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of Cultural Anthropology.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Developing Global Scientists and Engineers
In response to a world in which science and engineering are increasingly global in scope Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program has restructured its programs. One of the focal areas of OISE activity will be providing international research and education experiences for U.S. students and junior researchers. This solicitation addresses opportunities for international research and education for early career stages of scientists and engineers, i.e., as undergraduates and graduate students.
National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering 1) first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and 3) orientation to the society, culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Law & Social Science Program
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window" for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. For example, research on social control, crime causation, violence, victimization, legal and social change, patterns of discretion, procedural justice, compliance and deterrence, and regulatory enforcement are among the many areas that have recently received program support. In addition to standard proposals, planning grant proposals, travel support requests to lay the foundation for research, and proposals for improving doctoral dissertation research are welcome.
National Science Foundation SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
National Science Foundation Sociology Program: Dissertation Proposals
The Sociology Program supports research on problems of human social organization, demography, and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Mary Switzer Research Fellowships
These fellowships are awarded to help the nation build future disability and rehabilitation research capacity. Distinguished fellowships are awarded to individuals with doctorates or with comparable academic status who have had seven or more years of experience relevant to rehabilitation research. Merit fellowships are given to persons in earlier stages of their research careers.
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Fellowships in Child Development
The SRCD Congressional Fellowship program is designed to provide greater interaction between the developmental research community and Congress. Fellows spend one year working as a Legislative Assistant on the staff of a congressional committee, on the staff of a member of Congress, or in a congressional support agency that works directly for members or committees of Congress.
Society for Research in Child Development Executive Branch Policy Fellowships in Child Development
The SRCD Executive Branch Policy Fellowship program is designed to provide greater interaction between the developmental research community and Federal research programs and policies. Following a two-week science policy orientation program at AAAS, Fellows work as resident scholars in a Federal agency that sponsors developmental research, providing advice and guidance to programs, and working in partnership with research teams within the Federal government.
United States Institute of Peace Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships
The Jennings Randolph program awards Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to students at U.S. universities researching and writing doctoral dissertations on international conflict and peace.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation offers fellowships to students working on doctoral dissertations. The Newcombe Fellowships are awarded for work on dissertations in which ethical or religious values are a central concern. These fellowships provide 12-months of full-time dissertation writing support ($24,000 total award). All pre-dissertation requirements must be met prior to application. For awards beginning in June or September of 2010, application deadline is November 15, 2009. For more information, refer to www.woodrow.org/newcombe.
The Women's Studies Fellowships are awarded for $3,000 worth of expenses related to dissertation research focused on women. This research must cross disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. For awards presented in February 2010, the application deadline is October 11, 2009. For more information, refer to www.woodrow.org/womens-studies.
Upcoming Grants
Lowe Foundation
www.thelowefoundation.org/guidelines.htm
United Health Care Foundation
www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/request_form.doc
Zachry Foundation
www.zachryfoundation.org/
Brown Foundation
www.brownfoundation.org/Guidelines.asp
Alamo Area Council of Governments
VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) and VAWA (Violence of Women Act) funding for the San Antonio area is managed out of this office
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