External Opportunities

March 6, 2012 Overview

External Funding and Other Opportunities

March 6, 2012

Below are funding and other opportunities from external organizations for poverty researchers. Some originate from our sister centers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford.

January 2, 2015 Post

Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using PSID Data

January 2, 2015

Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using PSID Data. The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with support from the National Institute on Aging, announces a small grant competition. The competition will fund 4-8 scholars in the range of $10,000-$20,000 each to use PSID to conduct research using new data on intergenerational transfers, extended family connections, and time use. Funded projects will generate papers that will be presented, along with other invited posters and presentations, at a two-day conference to be held June 9-10, 2016. Proposals may re

December 15, 2014 Post

Funding Opportunity Program on Social Inequality
From the Russell Sage Foundation

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December 15, 2014

The Russell Sage Foundation’s is interested in research that is broadly related to analyzing the causes and consequences of increased economic inequality. We encourage methodological variety, but all proposals should have well-developed conceptual frameworks and research designs. Analytical models should be specified and research questions and hypotheses should be clearly stated. Awards are available for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results.

January 16, 2014 Post

Russel Sage Foundation Request for Articles: Severe Deprivation in America
Proposal for RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Issue and Conference on Severe Deprivation in America

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January 16, 2014

Since 2000, the U.S. poverty rate has increased and the poor have become poorer. Along with hardships brought on by the Great Recession, welfare reform, the prison boom, the rise of short-term and low-wage jobs, political decisions at the federal level, declines in union membership, and high rates of joblessness have all contributed to deepening poverty in America.

April 15, 2013 Post