Francoise’s research (and next book project) explores the construction of grief and its relief in three ancient cultures — ancient Israel, Imperial Rome and Hellenistic Judaism — in comparison with contemporary Western societies. Today, alleviation of grief is usually considered an individual task, achieved within the self. Symptomatically, the term “consolation” has fallen out of favor in English. The three ancient cultures selected present widely different constructions of grief, but all regard it as a fundamentally interpersonal concern.

SAGE’s Concept Grant program provides funding for innovative software solutions that support research in the social sciences. We are seeking proposals for new technological solutions that support the adoption, development and application of established and emerging research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and computational methods.

RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under these core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Social, Political and Economic Inequality; in addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues: 1) Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S.; 2) Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S.

Achieving racial equity and health equity in American communities requires effective solutions to the "wrong-pocket problem": we invest in systems that are designed to improve social and economic conditions, but the financial benefits of these often flow elsewhere, in reduced costs for medical care from diseases and injuries prevented.This call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for new research to rigorously test and evaluate innovative solutions to the wrong-pocket problem that persists across health and social service systems.

Expensify.org is looking to fund people fighting injustice. The goal is to partner with the best ideas, make them a reality, and bring more justice to the world. Anyone can propose an idea by identifying a problem caused by injustice and suggesting a solution below.