Sociological Initiatives Foundation: Support for Research and Social-Action Projects Deadline: August 15, 2006 The Sociological Initiatives Foundation seeks to support research and social-action projects focusing on understanding and finding solutions to a broad array of social problems. The Foundation’s primary goal is to encourage research, including community-based research, with preference given to projects that address institutional change and/or research that provides insight into sociological and linguistic issues that may be useful to specific groups or communities. Areas of particular interest include: social and political inequalities, poverty and employment, social welfare (e.g. education, housing and healthcare), minority group and gender issues, second language learning and use, literacy, and topics related to language in its social contexts, such as attitudes, dialects, gender, law and medicine, education). For more information, visit www.grantsmanagement.com/sifguidelines.html.