[COMM-ORG] Funding for Research that Supports Social Change

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From:     Prentice Zinn <pzinn at gmafoundations.com>


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Funding for Research that Supports Social Change


The Sociological Initiatives Foundation (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sif/) 
provides grants of $10,000 to $20,000 to support research that supports 
social change.


The Foundation supports research that focuses on:

* Social policy objectives
* Institutional and educational practices
* Legislative and regulatory changes
* Linguistic issues (e.g. literacy, language loss and maintenance, 
language policy, national security, bilingualism, language and gender, 
language and law, language disabilities, language and health, language 
and education, different language cultures).
* Development of community capacity and organization of previously 
unorganized groups


A Systems Change Emphasis.  The Foundation supports projects that 
address institutional rather than individual or behavioral change and/or 
research and initiatives that provide insight into sociological and 
linguistic issues that may be useful to specific groups and or communities.

 

Linking Research to Community Action.  It supports projects that have an 
explicit research design and a concrete connection to public or 
community impact.


Strengthening Organizations and Advancing the Field.  The research 
should ideally build an organization or constituency's potential to 
expand public knowledge, impact policy, and create social change.


Some examples of desired applicants are:

* academic-community partnerships
* advocacy or community groups that conduct research that can withstand 
challenge in academic and policy arenas
* academics that organize or link to a constituency through their research

 

Complete guidelines and on-line concept application for the August 15, 
2009 deadline are available at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sif .

 

Contact Prentice Zinn at pzinn at gmafoundations.com or 617-391-3091 x 307 
if you have questions after reviewing the funding guidelines.

 

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