Grants & Funding
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The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Research Consortium
The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society offers funding up to $150,000 for scholars working on interdisciplinary projects that fall within PPE’s (very broad) ambit. Our aim is to foster and support interdisciplinary work aimed at understanding social and political institutions, both formal and informal. Information about the grants is available HERE. Initial short proposals are due January 5, 2026.
The funding is for teams of two or more people who are bringing together tools, theories, or insights from different disciplines. (Individuals “in search of a team” and teams “in search of additional individuals” are able to submit applications in the first phase of the application process.)
Team members do not have to be in different departments, though they may be; they do not need to be working at the same institutions, though they may; and they do not need to be working specifically within the fields that figure in the PPE Society’s name, though, again, they may.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) solicitation overviews provide key details about available funding opportunities as well as helpful information on how to apply. Following are solicitation overviews for BJA’s fiscal year that have been released so far: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/solicitation-overviews
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) funds research projects that are focused on the causes and/or control of violence, in any form and anywhere in the world.
The foundation offers two main grants:
The Emerging Scholars Award, for graduate students in the dissertation year, is a $25,000 award. The annual application submission period is November 1-February 1.
Decisions are announced in June.
The Distinguished Scholar Award, for those beyond the Ph.D. or equivalent degree, has a typical range of $15,000 to $45,000. The annual application period is May 1-August 1.
Decisions are announced in December.
Information on applying can be found on the foundation’s web site: www.hfg.org
Barbara Huber Scholarship Program | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Germany)
The Barbara Huber Scholarship Program of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Securityand Law in Freiburg (Germany) offers funding for outstanding academics at all levels from foreignresearch institutions. The scholarships are awarded for particularly innovative research projects thathave the potential to significantly contribute to the research program through new perspectives, research questions, or methods in the subject areas of Criminology, Public Law, or Criminal Law. They are granted for a research stay at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg for a period of two to six months and amount to EUR 1,365.00 per month for doctoral candidates, EUR 2,500.00 for postdocs, and EUR 3,000.00 for professors and experienced researchers. In addition to the monthly scholarship, a grant can also be awarded for expenses in connection with participation in an academic event or further research activities in Germany or other (European) countries. Each department awards up to one Barbara Huber Scholarship per calendar year.
Applications for scholarships for the following year can be submitted by November, 30 of the previous year via our online application portal.
For information about our institute, please visit our website at: https://csl.mpg.de/en.
National Institute of Justice
Notice Regarding NIJ Notices of Funding Opportunity
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation (NSF) is interested in receiving proposals to existing programs in any directorate across the Foundation that address fundamental research questions which might simultaneously advance activities related to research and education in forensic sciences. Supplent requests to existing awards may also be submitted.
University of Virginia’s Center for Public Safety and Justice and the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation
The University of Virginia’s Center for Public Safety and Justice and the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation are now inviting proposals for the Howard and Carol Safir Foundation Public Safety Research Initiative Grant Program. This forward-leaning effort is designed to support the development of innovative solutions to complex challenges in public safety today. The program plans to award three research grants in each of the following categories: (1) Urban Policing, (2) Drug Enforcement, and (3) Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration. Each selected project will receive up to $50,000.
U.S. Department of Justice
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released the Fiscal Year 2024 Grants Program Plan (DOJ Program Plan).
The DOJ Program Plan is a tool to help find potential funding opportunities (solicitations) from DOJ’s grant-making Components—the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The Program Plan provides summary details of the funding opportunities each DOJ grant-making Component is expecting to release or has released in a particular fiscal year.
OJP’s six program offices— Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA); Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS); National Institute of Justice (NIJ); Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); Office for Victims of Crime (OVC); and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART)—offer funding opportunities to support law enforcement and public safety activities in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions; to assist victims of crime; to provide training and technical assistance; to conduct research and collect national statistics; and to implement programs that improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems.
Please feel free to share the DOJ Program Plan widely. Also, please feel free to share the following resources on—
• Where to find DOJ funding opportunities and how to apply: JustGrants Resources Application Submission Training
• OJP’s Current Funding Opportunities
• How to become an OJP Peer Reviewer
• OJP Grant Awards site, which includes Success Stories, a Grantee Communications Toolkit, and an interactive map of OJP awards since 2021
In addition, potential applicants can sign up to be notified of OJP’s funding opportunities as they become available.
