20.2529, FYI: Notice of Funding for Language Research

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Date: 15-Jul-2009
From: Prentice Zinn < pzinn at gmafoundations.com >
Subject: Notice of Funding for Language Research
 

	
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From: Prentice Zinn [pzinn at gmafoundations.com]
Subject: Notice of Funding for Language Research

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Funding for Research that Supports Social Change

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $10,000 to
$20,000 to support research that supports social change. 

The Foundation supports research that focuses on:
- 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).
- Social policy objectives
- Institutional and educational practices
- Legislative and regulatory changes
- 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 the 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.

http://www.gmafoundations.com/ 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





 




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