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Request for Proposals to Organize the 2027 Summer Institute on Democracy from the Margins
The Russell Sage Foundation seeks proposals to organize its 2027 Summer Institute on Democracy from the Margins, supporting a one- to two-week multidisciplinary institute on democratic life, civic engagement, and political institutions as experienced by marginalized communities.
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- $200,000
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Russell Sage Foundation’s Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context program funds interdisciplinary research that applies behavioral economics and decision-making perspectives to advance understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision processes and institutional practices across domains such as policing, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.
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Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context - RFP
Russell Sage Foundation’s core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context solicits interdisciplinary research proposals that apply behavioral science to understand decision-making, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private settings (e.g., policing, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, immigration) with an emphasis on social, political, and economic inequalities in the United States.
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Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System (RSF/Arnold Ventures)
Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures, is running its second annual grants competition to support early-career scholars conducting causal research on the criminal justice system.
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Core Research Grants
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) provides Core Research Grants to support innovative research projects led by PhD holders.
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- $200,000
Core Research Grants (Russell Sage Foundation)
The Russell Sage Foundation offers multiple funding streams for social science research aligned with its priority areas, including Core Research Grants (up to $200,000), the Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants for early‑career faculty (up to $65,000), Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System Grants for assistant professors (up to $100,000), Dissertation Research Grants ($15,000), a 10‑month Visiting Scholar Fellowship with partial salary support (up to 50% of academic salary, max $150,000), and occasional unpaid Visiting Researcher residencies.
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- $200,000
Early Career Awards
The Russell Sage Foundation offers residential scholar awards at its New York headquarters to support innovative social and behavioral science research that advances methods, questions, and policies to improve social and living conditions in the United States.
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Future of Work program (Russell Sage Foundation)
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Future of Work program funds investigator-initiated research on the causes and consequences of changes in job quality for low- and moderately paid workers in the United States.
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- $142,895
Pipeline Grants (Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants)
Russell Sage Foundation’s Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants (launched 2020; renamed 2025) fund innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States, with particular interest in structural barriers and how individuals, communities, and state entities understand, navigate, and challenge systemic inequalities.
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Pipeline Grants Competition (Sheldon Danziger)
Russell Sage Foundation offers three funding streams to support doctoral and early-career social‑science research: the Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants Competition for assistant professors, lecturers, and adjunct assistant professors; Dissertation Research Grants for innovative dissertations aligned with RSF priority areas; and the Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System competition (co‑funded with Arnold Ventures) to promote causal studies of policing, courts, jails, prisons, probation/parole, and immigration detention.
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Russell Sage Foundation — Social, Political, and Economic Inequality Funding Opportunities
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Social, Political, and Economic Inequality program funds innovative research on the causes and consequences of social, political, and economic inequalities in the United States, including impacts on educational and labor-market access, intergenerational mobility, and civic participation.
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Russell Sage Foundation Program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Russell Sage Foundation’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program supports innovative, investigator-initiated social science research on how race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status—and their interactions with other social categories—shape social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.
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Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program
Russell Sage Foundation offers 10‑month residential Visiting Scholar fellowships (September–June) — with optional half‑year terms — for 15–17 researchers in the social, economic, political, and behavioral sciences to pursue data analysis and writing at its New York City headquarters; applications are typically due at the end of June (next deadline June 2026).
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- $150,000
Visiting Researcher (RSF) - short-term in-residence positions (no stipend)
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) offers Visiting Researcher residencies of up to five months (rarely up to ten) that provide office space, computers, library access and, when available, partially subsidized housing, but do not include financial support.
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