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  • 2024 Call for Proposals

    Community-Based Participatory Research Projects. Deadlines:  August 15, 2024 Amount:  $15,000 – $25,000 Geography:  United States & Territories The Sociological Initiatives Foundation (SIF) is dedicated to the belief that research and…

  • Of Interest: Violence and Society

    The Sociological Initiatives Foundation has a broad mission but is particularly interested in supporting community-based research focused on the topic of violence and society. It invites requests to support research…

  • Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research

      Foundation Administrator, Prentice Zinn, penned an op-ed for the American Sociological Association’s magazine, Footnotes.  The essay, Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research highlighted the unsung importance of pedagogy in research…

  • Diary Worker Study Wins Public Sociology Award

    The Sociological Initiatives funded study, Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State was named the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Publication Award for 2020.  The study…

  • Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook

    Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents…

  • New York City’s High School Enrollment System Failing Immigrant Youth

    Over the years, immigrant families and high school students complained that Family Welcome Centers of the New York City Schools did not serve them well. The Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project…

  • Community Based Research to Promote Family Reading

    Latino children make up a large part of the population in the Tampa, Florida schools, but they are not reading as well as expected.  The Hispanic Services Council and the…

  • Pathways to Success: The Need for Better Training for Retail Workers

    The report, Pathways to Success, shows that while career ladders exist in retail, workers have trouble climbing those ladders and are expected to take on additional responsibilities without a change in title, pay or additional training.

  • Expanding Food Benefits for Immigrants

    The United States has many social benefit programs that help people avoid hunger.  Not everyone, however, has access to these food safety net programs and many are unaware of their…

  • Shining a Light on Domestic Employers

    The recent report, My Home is Someone’s Workplace: Re-envisioning Domestic Employment in New York State, by Hand in Hand was a first-of-its-kind, in-depth look at the demographics, needs, and challenges…