Business, Law, Criminal Justice & Management
Last Updated: April 2, 2026
Below are currently active opportunities for research funding listed in ascending order by the external due dates. Contact the Sr. Grant Facilitator at orsp-preaward@newark.rutgers.edu for additional information regarding any of these.
Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates
(i.e. if it’s listed first, it’s due to the sponsor sooner)
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Funding Source: FY25 Tribal Justice Infrastructure: Physical Plant and Corrections Operations Support Program
Amount: Up to $1,350,000 for each anticipated award
Key Deadline: 04/17/2026 – JustGrants deadline
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This program will select awardees in two categories: Category 1/Physical Plant will support technical expertise for tribal jurisdictions to renovate, expand, or replace existing tribal justice-related facilities or build new permanent tribal justice related facilities (prefabricated, permanent modular, new standalone permanent facilities, or pre-engineered steel building options). Category 2/Corrections Operations will support statistical analysis and facilitate technology expansion and adoption for tribal jurisdictions seeking to identify gaps/needs for tribal corrections facilities (e.g., jails, detention centers) and/or leverage changes in federal law and/or court decisions to expand their jurisdiction, thereby responding to more crime, and helping additional victims (e.g., Tribal Law and Order Act, the Violence Against Women Act, McGirt v. Oklahoma).
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Funding Source: BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Training and Technical Assistance Program
Amount: Up to $605,000
Key Deadline: 04/17/2026 JustGrants
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This NOFO will support Second Chance Act grantees, with a particular focus on Smart Reentry program grantees, to assess community reentry strategies and implement or expand interventions to address identified gaps in technical areas to reduce recidivism and improve public safety, including technology adoption and expansion to enhance reentry strategies, and statistical analysis support to inform and achieve identified objectives.
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Funding Source: NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women
Amount: $3,700,000.00 in total is available – project amounts determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award. Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed up to the full dollar amount anticipated to be awarded under this NOFO.
Key Deadline: 04/20/2026 (LOI) and 05/11/2026 (grants.gov)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This NOFO seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics to reduce violence against women (VAW), including the crimes of domestic violence (DV) and family violence (FV); intimate partner violence (IPV); rape, sex trafficking, sexual violence (SV); stalking; and teen dating violence (TDV), also known as adolescent relationship abuse (ARA), along with the trauma that results from these crimes and the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. Performance period: not to exceed 60 months
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Funding Source: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Amount: $2,500–$50,000 for early-stage grants
Key Deadline: 04/23/2026 and 07/23/2026 – Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly.
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants – Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Brief Overview: We are primarily, but not exclusively, interested in activities that build connections between basic and early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions aimed at reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for healthcare, care delivery, and biomedical research.
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Funding Source: FY25 Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Assaults in Confinement Facilities Program
Amount: $2,000,000 – award ceiling
Key Deadline: 05/11/2026 Justgrants
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This program supports state, local, and tribal efforts to enhance their capacity to investigate and prosecute incidents of sexual assault in confinement facilities. State agencies, law enforcement, and prosecutorial agencies may utilize this funding for investigative and prosecutorial activities to decrease incidents of sexual assault in confinement facilities and increase the rate of successful prosecutions of such cases.
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Funding Source: BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes
Amount: Up to $900,000
Key Deadline: 05/11/2026 Justgrants
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This NOFO supports state, local, and tribal governments and community-based organizations to provide education and employment programs for people leaving jail and prison. The goal of the program is to improve academic and vocational/trade programs available to people in prisons and jails and expand workforce development and career pathways that result in improved job readiness, employment attainment, and retention thereby improving employment prospects and reducing recidivism. Applicants may consider proposing projects that develop marketable skills, leverage technology, and build capacity to align with their local job market and engage in the digital economy.
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Funding Source: NIJ FY25 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
Amount: $1,600,000 – individual awards will be determined by the number of meritorious awards
Key Deadline: 05/19/2026 (Grants.gov) or 05/26/2026 (JustGrants)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This NOFO seeks to fund applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in five topical areas: (1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults; (2) research on financial fraud against older adults, including knowledge building around scam prevention messaging; (3) research on formal and informal caregivers who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults, to inform intervention and prevention program development; (4) forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults; and (5) research examining the role of emerging technologies in fraud and exploitation.
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Funding Source: NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship
Amount: Up to $180,000 – award ceiling
Key Deadline: 05/27/2026 (JustGrants)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research has direct implications for preventing and controlling crime, protecting the border, enforcing the law, promoting public safety, and preventing or reducing crime.
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Funding Source: Robert Spadoni Grant for Business Students seeks undergraduate business entrepreneurs
Amount: $1,000
Key Deadline: 07/15/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Robert Spadoni
Brief Overview: The Grant for Business Students, an annual scholarship established to alleviate financial burdens and recognize outstanding undergraduate talent, is accepting applications for its 2026 award cycle. Founded by veteran healthcare executive and leadership mentor Robert Spadoni, the national scholarship program supports undergraduate business students who demonstrate a powerful vision for merging principled leadership with modern innovation.
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Funding Source: Community Foundation of New Jersey invites applications from organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and their pets
Amount: $5,000
Key Deadline: Rolling until 12/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Find Grants | Community Foundation of New Jersey
Brief Overview: The foundation accepts Quinn’s Corner Jumpstart Grant applications. These one-time $5,000 grants will help New Jersey groups support domestic abuse survivors escaping with their pets and boost capacity. Use them as: Emergency funds: For survivors and their pets (pet deposit for an apartment, interim pet boarding, vet costs, pet food, etc.). This funding can only be used for direct expenses to support survivors and their dogs, not staff or administrative costs.
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Funding Source: Economics | PD 23-1320
Amount: budget not listed – See Previously funded proposals
Key Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
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Funding Source: Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB)
Amount: Not listed – Browse projects funded by this program
Key Deadline: Full proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details – Division of Economic Science
Brief Overview: Supports theoretically motivated research on governance-related attitudes, behavior and institutions in democratic and non-democratic settings, in areas such as preference formation and expression, voting and elections, and decision making and public policy. The Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) Program supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to public policy and the provision of public services. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented.
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Funding Source: Law & Science (LS) – NSF
Amount: Not listed – Browse projects funded by this program
Key Deadline: Full proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Law & Science (LS) program, evolved from the Law and Social Sciences program, supports interdisciplinary and methodological projects relating to the science of law and the system of rules. Proposals should “describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences.” Among the topics that may be addressed are “Crime, Violence, and Policing; Cyberspace; Economic Issues; Environmental Science; Evidentiary Issues; Forensic Science; Governance and Courts; Human Rights and Comparative Law; Information Technology; Legal and Ethical Issues related to Science. Legal Decision Making; Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice; Litigation and the Legal Profession; Punishment and Corrections; Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology (e.g., Gene Editing, Gene Testing, Synthetic Biology) and Other Emerging Sciences and Technologies; and Use of Science in the Legal Processes.” The LS program also offers DDRI grants and conference awards, as well as Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), CAREER, RUI, RAPID, and EAGER awards. Grant proposals are accepted at any time.
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