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The Society of Family Planning Research Fund (SFPRF) provides grants for research on abortion and contraception. The focus of our grantmaking is on research in the US.

We offer targeted funding opportunities designed to further two strategies named in our strategic plan:

• Build and support an inclusive, multidisciplinary, diverse, skilled, and well-connected community of emerging and established scholars and partners who have a shared focus on the science and clinical care of family planning. Funding opportunities supporting this strategy are scholar-focused.

• Support and advocate for the production of research primed for impact. Funding opportunities supporting this strategy are topic-focused.

Examples of previous funding opportunities include:

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.

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.

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.

2022 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color.

2022 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio.

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.

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.

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).

2021 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color.

2021 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio.

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.

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. 

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.

2020 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color.

2020 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio.

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.

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.

2019 Changemakers in Family Planning

Purpose: To provide dedicated support to researchers of color.

2019 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning

Purpose: To support trainees to establish a family planning research portfolio.

2018 Increasing access to medication abortion

Purpose: To increase access to medication abortion across the US through impactful, innovative, and forward-looking research Learn more about the 2019 increasing access to medication abortion grants.

By offering targeted funding opportunities, we seek to concentrate our finite resources where there is the greatest need and support innovative and impactful projects and scholars. We rely on peer review processes to drive award decisions in order to strengthen the rigor and impact of the research funded and the capacity of the family planning research community more broadly.

If you are a current grantee of SFPRF seeking assistance or a potential grantee seeking additional information, we welcome the opportunity to be in touch via Grants@SocietyFP.org. Grant applicants need not be SFP members. SFPRF actively cultivates disciplinary, organizational, and demographic diversity of who is at the family planning research table.

Insights

Ongoing learning helps us accelerate the impact of our grantmaking. We systematically reflect on the impact of grants we fund and our grantmaking processes.

In 2017, we conducted a retrospective evaluation of our investment in family planning research. The results of this analysis directed us to move towards more focused funding opportunities, including longer-term and larger investments, and to prioritize partnerships between researchers and knowledge brokers. Read more about our evaluation here or contact Grants@SocietyFP.org to get a copy of the article.

Past evaluation of this work are:

Assessing research impact: a framework and an evaluation of the Society of Family Planning Research Fund’s grantmaking (2007-2017)
Proposals received and grants funded 2007-2017
Proposals received and grants funded 2007-2016