Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; The Sociological Initiatives Foundation does not make grants directly to individuals for any purposes. SIF also welcomes applications from academic institutions and other qualified organizations wishing to sponsor research projects by individual scholars or practitioners..
Award: $10,000 to $20,000
Deadline: 8/15/2007; Second Deadline: 11/15/2007
Details: The Foundation specifically supports research that focuses on:
* Clear social policy objectives
* Institutional and educational practices
* Legislative and regulatory changes
* Organizing previously unorganized groups
* Building collective community capacity and/or power (such as expanding membership base)
* Linguistic issues, such as literacy, language maintenance and expansion, multilingualism and its implications, and their possible intersection with social and policy issues.
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.
Keywords: sociology, linguistics, social issues, policy issues, community capacity, literacy, multilingualism, behavioral change
Posted by CLA Grants Support Team on August 15, 2008 12:00 AM|Permalink
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