Russell Sage Foundation: Project Awards in Basic Social Science

The Foundation supports basic social science research within the "announced programs" (see below). The major awards range between $35K - $500K.
• Future of Work - the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of low-wage work in the United States and other advanced economies.
• research on current U.S. Immigration …
• Cultural Contact - understanding and improving relations between racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and other key institutional settings.
• Social Inequality - the social effects of rising economic inequality, with particular attention to the U.S.
• Behavioral Economics - which incorporates the insights of psychology and other social sciences into the study of economic behavior.
http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/apply-project-awards
http://www.russellsage.org/research