Doctor of Social Work (DSW) Research: Funding Opportunities

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The Culutural Contact Program supports research that makes an effort to bring social science to bear more effectively on improving the quality of contact among the many racial and ethnic groups that make up American society. The interest of the Cultural Contact Program at the Russell Sage Foundation, is to foster positive inter-group attitudes and avoid group conflict that can undermine the tolerance and social acceptance that are essential to the successful functioning of democracy.

With the support of the American people, the NIH annually invests over $28 billion in medical research. More than 83% of the NIH's funding is awarded through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 325,000 researchers at over 3,000 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state and around the world.

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