Funding support: Research & social action projects (areas includi ng work which "may provide practical documentation of initiatives that ma y be useful to communities")

[Scott McGinnis]

Funding Available for Research and Social Action Projects

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $5,000 to
$15,000
to support research and social action projects.  Areas of interest
include
but are not limited to social welfare, human rights, literacy, language
learning and use, dialect use and curricular issues in teaching second
languages and non-native languages.  The Foundation is also interested
in
supporting research by sociologists and linguists whose work may provide
practical documentation of initiatives that may be useful to
communities.
Guidelines for the September 2001 application deadline are available at
http://www.grantsmanagement.com/sifguide.html .  For more information,
contact Prentice Zinn at pzinn at grantsmanagement.com or 617-426-7172.