ABOUT THE FACULTY GRANT PROGRAM

Grants will be made on a competitive basis, from among those applicants whose research and publications hold promise for making significant contributions to social work knowledge and service delivery. Applicants must be full-time faculty at CSWE accredited MSW programs. Priority will be given to projects that have direct applicability to social work policy and practice and/or is likely to impact graduate social work education. Projects that are primarily conceptual or theoretical will be considered in rare instances where relevance to practice, policy or social work education can be clearly delineated.

A limited number of Grants are made annually by the Board of the Silberman Fund in an objective and nondiscriminatory manner, based on the recommendations of the FGP Review Committee. Committee evaluation of proposals includes: professional review for research feasibility; currency of the issues to be addressed; and, the utility and potential scope of the project findings. Final selection for grant support is based on the proposal meeting the stated mission and objectives of the FGP and the qualifications of the investigator. Grants will be made for qualitative or quantitative research that will produce end products relevant to social service delivery and useful to social work education curricula. It is anticipated that the end product will be one or more manuscripts of publishable quality in refereed professional journals and, in the case of pilot study projects, applications for larger grants.