Society of Family Planning

Past Funding Opportunities

View previous funding opportunities from the Society.

High-risk pregnancy care, post-Dobbs
Purpose: To generate evidence that documents how the Dobbs decision has impacted care for pregnant people at high risk of pregnancy mortality and morbidity. Offered in partnership with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Describing care at Complex Family Planning Fellowship sites
Purpose: To understand the role of Complex Family Planning Fellowship sites within the larger family planning ecosystem, via a multi-site chart review, with the goal of strengthening connections across points of care to best meet people’s abortion and contraception needs.

Later abortion service delivery, post-Dobbs
Purpose: To generate evidence that documents how the service delivery landscape of abortion later in pregnancy has been impacted by the Dobbs decision.

Self-managed abortion, post-Dobbs
Purpose: To generate knowledge that centers the perceptions, preferences, and experiences of people that have self-managed their abortions or are considering or seeking self-managed abortion in the post-Dobbs environment.

Leveraging existing resources to document the impact of Dobbs
Purpose: To support research that leverages existing resources (#WeCount, the Abortion Access Dashboard, and the Post-Dobbs State Abortion Restrictions and Protections Database) in service of expanding our understanding of the impact of Dobbs.

2023 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color. Application submissions closed June 5, 2023.

2023 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio. Application submissions closed June 5, 2023.

2023 Side effects matter: Centering people’s experiences with contraceptive side effects

Purpose: To generate evidence on how to best support people experiencing contraceptive side effects. Application submissions closed May 29, 2023.

2022 Capturing tradeoffs in abortion care using preference assessment methods

Purpose: To support research using quantitative preference assessment methods that captures the relative importance of different attributes when making tradeoffs around abortion care in a highly restricted environment. Application submissions closed November 9, 2022.

2022 Honoring community-based organizations as knowledge generators

Purpose: To support and elevate the knowledge of individuals working at community-based organizations, with a focus on lifting up knowledge that centers the needs and preferences of communities whose access to abortion care is constrained by systems of oppression. Application submissions closed October 3, 2022.

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2022 Uta Landy Complex Family Planning Scholars

Purpose: To advance the field of Complex Family Planning by supporting complex family planning fellows in their clinical or translational research endeavors during fellowship. Application submissions closed September 15, 2022.

2022 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color. Application submissions closed June 6, 2022.

2022 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio. Application submissions closed June 6, 2022.

2022 Inequities in abortion access

Purpose: To support research focused on how changes in the US legal abortion landscape impact people whose access to abortion is constrained by systems of oppression. Application submissions closed April 4, 2022.

2021 Contraceptive equity in telehealth: A partnership with Bayer Women’s Health Care

Purpose: To expand the evidence base around how telehealth, as implemented at the institutional level, is positioned to support person-centered care and equitable access to contraception. Application submissions closed January 7, 2022.

2021 In their hands: Exploring the potential of self-administered injectable contraception

Purpose: To expand the evidence base around people’s experiences with self-administered subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC). Application submissions closed November 23, 2021.

2021 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color. Application submissions closed June 7, 2021.

2021 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio. Application submissions closed June 7, 2021.

2021 Innovations in medication abortion service delivery

Purpose: To support research capturing innovations prompted by COVID-19 that may be uniquely positioned to contribute to the future of medication abortion service delivery. Application submissions closed February 25, 2021.

2020 Research grants for Complex Family Planning fellows

Purpose: To facilitate the establishment of academic research credentials in family planning via the development of an independent research portfolio. Concretely, this funding opportunity seeks to advance the field of Complex Family Planning by supporting CFP fellows in their clinical or translational research endeavors during fellowship. Application submissions closed December, 2020.

2020 Contraceptive service delivery: Capturing innovations responsive to COVID-19

Purpose: To spur research focused on the shifts in contraceptive service delivery associated with COVID-19. Application submissions closed June 9, 2020.

2020 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color.

Application submissions closed June 17, 2020.

2020 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio. Application submissions closed June 17, 2020.

2019 Increasing access to medication abortion in the US, Part II

Purpose: To increase access to medication abortion in the US, specifically for populations not currently benefiting from its availability. Application submissions closed February 14, 2020.

2020 SMFM and SFP Bridge Builder awards

Purpose: To cultivate a more dynamic relationship between the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and Society of Family Planning’s (SFP) memberships and scholarship in order to improve research and clinical practice. Application submissions closed March 2, 2020.