Funding Opportunities

No funds for 2026/2027

This fund provides support to doctoral students who meet one or more of the following criteria and who demonstrate unmet financial need due to a life crisis or some other unforeseen circumstance. Students may receive support from this fund in the amount of $X00 per year, per student. Two students per year may receive support. Please contact the Doctoral Office prior to submitting the award application to verify funds are still available: [email protected]

Flourish Fund: Supporting Community Well-Being Initiatives

The Flourish Fund provides small grants to support current MSW students, PhD students, staff and faculty within the School of Social Work who are interested in hosting events or developing projects that advance community-wide well being, with and explicit connection to one or more of the 8 Sectors of Well-Being (emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical social, spiritual).

The John & Penny Tropman Conference Networking Travel Grant carries a value of $500. This travel grant is to support a doctoral student who would like to attend a conference for networking purposes who is not presenting at the conference. To be eligible for the award, a student must be in good standing in the Doctoral Programs. Please contact the Doctoral Office prior to submitting the award application to verify funds are still available: [email protected]

This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham.

This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham.

The Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant is designed to support Rackham graduate students who need assistance to carry out research that advances their progress toward their degree.

Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant Precandidate Application

Rackham deadline: September 17, 2026
Submit electronically to Rackham

Department deadline: September 2026

This award is in memory of Joseph Veroff and Katherine Pavelka Luke. It provides students with the funds to create a Conversations Across Social Disciplines event. The event will focus on key social issues that affect both social work and social science disciplines

Department deadline: September 3, 2026 Submit electronically to Todd Huynh [email protected]

The Rackham International Student Fellowship assists outstanding international students, particularly those who may be ineligible for other kinds of support because of citizenship.

Rackham International Student Fellowship

Department deadline: September 18, 2026
Submit electronically to Todd Huynh [email protected]

The Rosemary Sarri Endowed Scholarship was established by gifts from alumni and friends to honor Rosemary Sarri, PhD, on her retirement from her distinguished teaching and research career at the UM School of Social Work. Dr. Sarri generously matched these contributions to double the amount of the fund. This award provides two scholarships, one for students in the MSW program and one for the students in the Joint PhD Program who have interest in community change, policy and political social work, management and leadership or program evaluation and applied research.