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National Council on Family Relations
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Best Poster Awards (One Student Award, One New Professional Award)
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Family Therapy Section offers two annual Best Poster Awards—one for a student and one for a new professional—to encourage scholarly activity and support emerging leaders.
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- $175
Best Research Paper Awards
The National Council on Family Relations’ Family Therapy Section offers two annual Best Research Paper Awards—one for a student and one for a new professional—to encourage scholarly activity and recognize emerging leaders.
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- $300
Best Student Research Abstract in Families and Technology Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Families and Technology Focus Group offers an annual award recognizing innovative or highly impactful student research on technology in family life.
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NCFR Olson Grant: Bridging Research, Theory, and Practice
The National Council on Family Relations, supported by David H. Olson, Ph.D., offers an annual $10,000 grant for Family Science projects that creatively bridge research, theory, and practice.
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- $10,000
Advancing Family Science Legacy Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Advancing Family Science Section Legacy Award honors members who have made significant and lasting contributions to Family Science through teaching, scholarship, administration, or advancement of the discipline.
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Alexis J. Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
The National Council on Family Relations’ Feminism and Family Science Section offers the Alexis J. Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family Studies biennially in even years to recognize exceptional contributions to feminist family scholarship.
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Alexis J. Walker Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Alexis J. Walker Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Feminist Family Studies biennially in odd-numbered years to recognize outstanding contributions to feminist family scholarship.
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Annual Conference Travel Scholarship
The National Council on Family Relations’ International Section offers an approximately $500 travel scholarship, contingent on available funds, to support presenting original research on international family issues at the NCFR Annual Conference.
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- $500
Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research to recognize significant or innovative contributions to qualitative family theory, methodology, or research.
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Best Abstract by a Student or New Professional Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Research and Theory Section offers the Best Abstract by a Student or New Professional Award to recognize outstanding scholarly work submitted for the NCFR Annual Conference.
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- $200
Best Family Financial Well-Being Paper of the Year
The National Council on Family Relations’ Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group recognizes outstanding scholarship through its Best Family Financial Well-Being Paper of the Year Award, with each winning author receiving a certificate presented at the NCFR Annual Conference.
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Best Family Financial Well-Being Student Paper Award
The National Council on Family Relations presents the Best Family Financial Well-Being Student Paper Award to recognize outstanding emerging scholars and promote participation in its Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group.
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Best Student Paper Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Sibling Relationships Focus Group offers the Best Student Paper Award to recognize outstanding student research focused on sibling relationships.
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Best Student Poster Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Best Student Poster Award to recognize outstanding student research focused on sibling relationships.
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Cindy Winter Scholarship Award (SNP)
The National Council on Family Relations offers the biennial Cindy Winter Scholarship Award to recognize outstanding leadership and service in Family Science, providing a $250 travel award, up to $125 toward NCFR Annual Conference registration, and a plaque.
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- $250
Circle of Achievement in Families and Technology Research Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Circle of Achievement in Families and Technology Research Award to recognize innovative or highly impactful research on technology in family life with national or international significance.
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Diversity and Inclusion in Men in Families Research Article Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Men in Families focus group presents an annual certificate award recognizing high-quality peer-reviewed research on men in diverse families.
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Dr. Marie F. Peters Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the biennial Dr. Marie F. Peters Award to recognize distinguished scholars, researchers, and practitioners who have significantly contributed to the study and support of ethnic minority families.
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- $500
Emerging Mentor/Teacher Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Advancing Family Science Section offers the annual Emerging Mentor/Teacher Award to recognize early-career Family Science faculty who demonstrate excellence in teaching and mentorship; the recipient receives a plaque and recognition at the NCFR conference.
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Ernest G. Osborne Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Family and Community Education Section offers the biennial Ernest G. Osborne Award to recognize exceptional teaching of Family Science and leadership in educating about family relationships.
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- $1,500
Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Families and Health Section offers the Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award to recognize research- and theory-informed community or clinical practice that improves the health of individuals, families, or communities.
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- $200
Feldman Internship Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the annual Feldman Internship Award to encourage students and new professionals to pursue careers in family policy research and practice.
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- $250
Feldman Outstanding Research Proposal for Research in Family Policy
The National Council on Family Relations offers the annual Feldman Outstanding Research Proposal Award to recognize graduate students or new professionals conducting promising research on family policy, particularly gender/women’s issues or poverty.
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- $250
Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring
The National Council on Family Relations offers the annual Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring to recognize an NCFR member who demonstrates exceptional mentoring of junior colleagues, graduate students, or undergraduates beyond typical professional responsibilities.
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- $500
Issues in Aging Focus Group Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Issues in Aging Focus Group Award recognizes exceptional scholarly work addressing aging and presents certificates to one student or new professional and one professional at the NCFR Annual Conference.
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Jan Trost Award
The National Council on Family Relations presents the Jan Trost Award annually to recognize lifetime achievement and outstanding contributions to international family studies through research, teaching, and service.
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Jessie Bernard Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Jessie Bernard Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award to recognize rigorous feminist scholarship that examines bias, privilege, and oppression in Family Science and society.
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- $445
Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal Award to recognize rigorous feminist family scholarship that examines biases and systems of privilege and oppression in family science and society.
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- $1,195
John L. and Harriette P. McAdoo Dissertation Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the John L. and Harriette P. McAdoo Dissertation Award to support doctoral dissertation research focused on issues affecting ethnic minority families, particularly African American families.
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- $450
Kathleen Briggs Outstanding Mentor Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Kathleen Briggs Outstanding Mentor Award to recognize exceptional mentoring of graduate students and new professionals in marriage and family therapy.
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- $200
Latino(a) Research Focus Group Best Student Paper Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Latino(a) Research Focus Group offers its Best Student Paper Award to recognize student research advancing the study of Latino/as and Latino families.
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Latino(a) Research Focus Group Best Student Poster Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Latino(a) Research Focus Group offers the Best Student Poster Award to recognize student research on Latino families or outcomes affecting Latino populations.
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Margaret E. Arcus Outstanding Family Life Educator Award
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Margaret E. Arcus Outstanding Family Life Educator Award to recognize individuals or small collaborator groups whose research, practice, scholarship, program development, training, or policy leadership has significantly advanced family life education.
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- $1,500
Men in Families Best New Professional Research Article Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Men in Families Focus Group presents the Best New Professional Research Article Award annually to recognize an outstanding peer-reviewed article on men in families published during the preceding year.
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Men in Families Best Research Article Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Men in Families Focus Group presents an annual Best Research Article Award recognizing an innovative, peer-reviewed article published in the preceding year that advances knowledge, methods, or theory concerning men in families.
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NCFR Affiliate Councils Award for Meritorious Service
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the Affiliate Councils Award for Meritorious Service to recognize exceptional leadership, community service, public policy engagement, student mentoring, and other contributions to state or regional affiliates.
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NCFR Student Award (SNP)
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the annual NCFR Student Award to recognize a graduate student member who demonstrates academic excellence and strong potential to contribute to Family Science.
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- $500
Outstanding Administrator Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Advancing Family Science Section offers the annual Outstanding Administrator Award to recognize higher education administrators who positively impact Family Science programs through effective leadership.
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Outstanding Doctoral Student and New Professional Paper/Publication Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Families and Health Section offers the Outstanding Doctoral Student and New Professional Paper/Publication Award to recognize exceptional scholarly research, professional reviews, theoretical work, or methodological contributions.
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- $200
Outstanding Professional Paper/Publications Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Families and Health Section offers the Outstanding Professional Paper/Publications Award to recognize an exceptional scholarly paper by a section member.
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- $200
Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Paper Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Advancing Family Science Section offers the annual Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Paper Award for a peer-reviewed paper that advances SoTL in Family Science.
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Outstanding Student and Professional Proposal Awards
The National Council on Family Relations Korean Families Focus Group offers Outstanding Student and Professional Proposal Awards to recognize exceptional conference proposals addressing Korean or Korean immigrant families through data-driven research or relevant implications.
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Reuben Hill Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the Reuben Hill Award to recognize the prior year’s best scholarly article, book, or monograph combining theory and methodology to address a significant family issue.
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- $750
Student and New Professional Conference Travel Scholarships
The National Council on Family Relations’ International Section offers two annual $250 scholarships to help international students and new professionals cover travel costs to attend and present original research at the NCFR Annual Conference, subject to available funds.
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- $500
Wesley Burr Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship Awards
The National Council on Family Relations offers the Wesley Burr Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship Awards to recognize student scholarship presented through the Advancing Family Science Section at the NCFR Annual Conference.
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- $200
Ernest W. Burgess Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Ernest W. Burgess Award recognizes outstanding career-long scholarly achievement in family research, including contributions to theory, research methods, measurement, and the development of new areas of inquiry.
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- $750
Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award biennially to recognize the strongest dissertation proposal in Family Science, providing a $500 cash award and plaque.
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- $500
Czaplewski Fellowship Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) administers the Mary Jo Czaplewski Fellowship in Administration, providing up to $500 to support mid‑career family scholars pursuing transitions into academic or nonprofit administration; the fellowship is awarded only upon request and no more often than once every other year.
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- $500
NCFR Affiliate Grant Award
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) offers the Affiliate Grant—up to $300—to student and state/regional affiliate organizations to support community or regional projects that promote affiliate engagement and advance NCFR’s mission to strengthen family science.
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- $300
NCFR Inclusion and Diversity Committee Award
The National Council on Family Relations’ Inclusion and Diversity Committee offers the Social Justice Award for Contributions to Family Science, recognizing an NCFR member with an outstanding record of advancing social justice in work with families.
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2 closed programsDeadline passed before Sep 21, 2026
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- $500
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