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RSF Monthly Bulletin

The RSF Bulletin is a monthly email update on recent foundation research, publications, funding opportunities, and other news from RSF. To join our email mailing list, click here.

March 2025: 2025 RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars

February 2025: New Book: Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat; LOI Deadline March 11

January 2025: Announcing the Visiting Scholar Class of 2025-2026

December 2024: RSF and Arnold Ventures Launch New Grants Competition; New Research Grants Approved

November 2024: Two New RSF Books; Funding Guidelines for Upcoming Deadlines

October 2024: New Journal Issue: Building an Open Qualitative Science; RSF Welcomes New Board Members

September 2024: New Book on Mexican Intergenerational Mobility; RSF Welcomes Incoming Visiting Class

July/August 2024: New Research Grants Approved; New Book on Mexican Intergenerational Mobility; Watch New RSF Webinar

June 2024: Dissertation Research Grants Awarded; New RSF Journal Issue on Black Reparations

May 2024: Mentors Announced for the 2024 RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grantees

April 2024: New Research Grants Approved; New Book Examines Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program

March 2024: RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars

February 2024: New Collaborative Research Initiative Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Diverse Groups

January 2024: Announcing the Visiting Scholar Class of 2024-2025; New Book: When Care Is Conditional

December 2023: New Book: Patchwork Apartheid; New Research Grants Approved

November 2023: Presidential Search Announcement; RSF Board of Trustees Update

October 2023: Pipeline Grants Competition Deadline; New RSF Books for Fall 2023

September 2023: New Book: Poverty in the Pandemic; Early Career Funding Opportunities

July/August 2023: New Research Grants Approved; Two New RSF Books on Education

June 2023: New Visiting Scholar Video Series; Upcoming Deadlines for Visiting Scholar Program and Grants

May 2023: Dissertation Research Grants Awarded; Announcing the Mentors for the 2023 Pipeline Grantees

April 2023: New Research Grants Approved; New RSF Journal Issue on Suburban Inequality

March 2023: RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded; New Guidelines for Special Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration

February 2023: New Research Grants Approved; New Book: Work in Black and White

January 2023: Announcing the Visiting Scholar Class of 2023-2024; RSF Research Highlights on Housing

December 2022: RSF Research Highlights on Criminal Justice; Upcoming Funding Deadlines

November 2022: New RSF Journal Issue on Low-Income Families; RSF Research Highlights on Immigration

October 2022: Research Grants for Qualitative Research; Funding Guidelines

September 2022: New Book: Voices in the Code; Two New Trustees Join RSF Board

July/August 2022: New Research Grants Approved; New Book: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis

June 2022: Inaugural Dissertation Research Grants Awarded

May 2022: New Book: Skin Color, Power, and Politics in America; Visiting Scholar Applications Due June 28

April 2022: New Grants in Core Programs and Special Initiatives; Applications Due May 4

March 2022: RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded; New Journal Issue on State Monetary Sanctions

February 2022: New Book: Who Should Pay?; RSF Launches Medium Page

January 2022: Announcing the Visiting Scholar Class of 2022-23; Application Deadlines for 2022 Summer Institutes

December 2021: New Book on Immigration Policies and Attitudes; New Research Grants

November 2021: New Presidential Grants Approved; Deadlines for 2022 Summer Institutes

October 2021: Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis; New Trustees Join RSF Board

September 2021: New RSF Journal Issue: Wealth Inequality and Child Development; New Core Program

July-August 2021: New Research and Presidential Authority Grants Approved; July 28 Deadline for LOIs

June 2021: New Book: Hijacking the Agenda; Funding Guidelines for July 28 LOIs

May 2021: New RSF Journal Issue; Visiting Scholar Application Deadline

April 2021: New Research Grants Approved; New Book: Cradle to Kindergarten, 2nd Edition

March 2021: RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars

February 2021: New RSF Journal Issue: The Legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson; Announcing Visiting Scholars for 2021-22

January 2021: New Research Grants Approved; Funding Guidelines for May 4 LOIs

November 2020: New RSF Journal Issue: The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration; New Presidential Grants

October 2020: New Book on Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants; Upcoming Funding Application Deadlines

September 2020: New Book: After Prison; RSF Welcomes New Visiting Scholars and Researchers

July 2020: New RSF Journal Issue on the Affordable Care Act; New Grants Announced

June 2020: New Funding Priorities for Aug 5 LOIs; RSF Board Welcomes Two New Trustees

May 2020: New RSF Journal: Criminal Justice and the Labor Market; New Funding Guidelines

April 2020: New Guidelines for May 21 LOIs; RSF Responds to COVID-19

March 2020: RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars

February 2020: New Presidential Grants Announced; Upcoming Funding Application Deadlines

January 2020: Visiting Scholars Selected for 2020-2021; New Book: Stagnant Dreamers

December 2019: New Book: Status; Three New Trustees Join RSF Board; New Grants Announced

November 2019: New RSF Journal Issue: Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets; Upcoming Funding Deadlines

October 2019: New Book: The Company We Keep; RSF & Gates Foundation Launch Pipeline Grants Competition

September 2019: New RSF Journal Issue: Changing Job Quality; RSF Launches New Pipeline Grants Competition

July 2019: New Book: Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete; New Research Grants Approved

June 2019: New Book: Immigration and the Remaking of Black America; New Presidential Authority Grants Approved

May 2019: New Book: Credit Where It’s Due; Apply for Research and Funding Opportunities

April 2019: New RSF Journal Issue: Using Administrative Data for Science and Policy; New Special Initiative

March 2019: New RSF Journal Issue: Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality; New Grants Approved

February 2019: New Book: Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life; Now Accepting Visiting Scholar Applications

January 2019: Announcing RSF Visiting Scholars for 2019–2020; New Book: Administrative Burden

December 2018: New Book: Starving the Beast; New Research Grants Approved

November 2018: New Trustees Join RSF Board; Letters of Inquiry Due Nov 30

October 2018: New Book: Origins & Destinations; New Funding Opportunities

September 2018: New Book: Sites Unseen; RSF Welcomes Visiting Scholars

July 2018: New Book: The Government-Citizen Disconnect; RSF Launches New Grants Management System Fluxx

June 2018: Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change; Visiting Scholar Applications Due Thursday

May 2018: New Book: Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison; RSF Research Findings on the Effects of the ACA

April 2018: New RSF Journal Issue: Biosocial Pathways of Well-Being Across the Life Course; Upcoming Funding Deadlines

March 2018: New Grants Approved; Fellowship Application Period Open

February 2018: Announcing the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars; Three New RSF Journal Issues

January 2018: New Book: Cycle of Segregation; Now Accepting Visiting Scholar Applications

December 2017: New Book: Where Bad Jobs Are Better; New Research Awards Approved

November 2017: New RSF Journal Issue: The Underground Gun Market; Mario Luis Small Joins RSF Board

October 2017: New Book: Bridging the Gaps; Former RSF Trustee Richard Thaler Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics

September 2017: New Book: Who Will Care for Us?; RSF Welcomes New Visiting Scholar Class

July 2017: New RSF Issue: Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality; New Research Awards Approved