"Community Justice and Community Justice Action Fund work to reduce gun violence in Black and brown communities by empowering those closest to the pain. Community Justice is seeking an experienced Director of Programs to lead the organization’s field and programmatic operations at the state and local levels to bring about change across the country to end gun violence. ... The Director of Programs will manage the field team to build and strengthen a national network of activists, volunteers, and policymakers to advocate for change. The Director of Programs will lead local and state campaigns to apply pressure on decision makers to advance policy by working within and alongside coalitions, identifying advocacy opportunities, and organizing partners to lobby lawmakers at critical moments. An ideal candidate will have significant policy, community organizing, and advocacy experience, as well as knowledge of state and local lawmaking processes. The ideal candidate will have managed projects and campaigns from start to finish, including experience building broad multi-racial and multi-stakeholder support that has led to clear victories.

"This role is remote with preference for candidates residing in the Washington, DC metro area. This role requires travel to attend in-person events."

APPLICATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 2, 2025

See the complete position description online.

"The Senior Researcher will help shape the future of learning and work by producing original, actionable research on the connections between education and economic opportunity. This full-time role sits within Strada’s Institute for the Future of Work and reports to the Institute’s Managing Research Director. The Senior Researcher is responsible for leading and executing methodologically rigorous research projects—from data management and statistical analysis to writing and visualizing key findings.

"This role is ideal for a researcher who thrives at the intersection of empirical inquiry and public impact. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in quantitative research methods and a strong interest in informing education and workforce policy through rigorous, applied research. This is a hybrid position based in Washington, DC. 

"Education and Experience: PhD (completed or imminent) in public policy, economics, sociology, demography, higher education, or a related discipline. Expertise in quantitative methods, including causal inference and longitudinal data analysis. Strong experience with data cleaning, coding, and management in Stata (preferred) or R."

See the complete position description online 

"The Department of Environment, Development & Health invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2026. 

"We welcome applicants whose research addresses causes of and responses to disasters. We view disasters as the serious harm to communities, economies or the environment triggered by 'natural' or human-generated hazards, such as extreme weather or industrial accidents. The ideal candidate will be skilled at analyzing the social, political and economic factors that cause disasters, such as institutions and policies, as well as poverty, inequality, and violence. We are especially interested in scholar-practitioners who view disasters through the lenses of sustainable development, gender, conflict, rights, food, natural resources, and/or environmental justice."

Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2025

See the complete position announcement online

"Susan G. Komen brings a 100% virtual working environment, and you can work anywhere within the U.S. We are a force united by a promise to end breast cancer forever. For over 40 years, we've led the way by funding groundbreaking research, community health initiatives and advocacy programs in local communities across the U.S.  Susan G. Komen is the ONLY organization that addresses breast cancer on multiple fronts such as research, community health, outreach and public policy initiatives to have the biggest impact against this disease.

"The Project Manager, Applied Research & Evaluation is a member of the Applied Research & Evaluation (ARE) team within Komen’s Mission division. The ARE team supports Komen’s role as an evidence-based organization by transforming data into meaningful intelligence that will guide program strategy, convey Komen’s impact, and contribute to the body of scientific evidence about breast cancer."

See the complete position description online 

"The Center on Rural Innovation is a national non-profit dedicated to fostering more innovative and inclusive economies in small towns across America. Through our data-driven research, capacity-building programs, and national network of community partners, we provide the tools, resources, and support rural leaders need to build thriving, future-ready economies.

"We are looking for a passionate researcher to work with our interdisciplinary team to analyze workforce development and entrepreneurship, providing the insights communities need to become more resilient. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and a genuine connection to rural America, either through lived experience or professional focus. This flexible role is open to candidates with a Master's or PhD, and will be tailored to the expertise of the successful applicant. This is a full-time, one-year position with the potential for renewal or conversion to a permanent role based on performance and organizational needs.

"Fully remote, but will require travel to Hartland, VT headquarters and/or other rural locations 1-3 times a year for in-person meetings. **We are seeking candidates who currently live in a rural area or have lived in a rural area for more than 5 years."

See the complete position description online

"The Student Upward Mobility Initiative (SUMI) seeks bold, innovative R&D that identifies and measures the skills and competencies in late high school (grades 11–12) that drive economic mobility and the ways in which skill development and access to opportunity in early high school and middle school shape those trajectories. 

"We will release our second request for proposals (RFP) on August 27, 2025. Sign up here for updates."

Informational webinars: September 3 or September 9.

"The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites applications for the Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop to be held Wednesday, April 8 through Saturday, April 11 during the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. This workshop is for undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a graduate or professional degree that can lend itself to education research areas such as children and youth, school and schooling issues, higher education, education policy, student achievement, curriculum and instruction, education psychology, or education leadership. Students must have current or ongoing research that can be presented in a poster session.

"The award includes conference registration and three nights of lodging at a designated hotel. The fellows and/or their home institutions are responsible for transportation costs to Los Angeles. Most meals are part of the Workshop activities."

Deadline: October 27, 2025. Read the complete announcement on the AERA website.

"Launched in 2020, the Pipeline Grants, initially co-funded with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, support early-career scholars and promotes diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. They were renamed the Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants in 2025.

"Only researchers who have not previously received a trustee or presidential research grant or fellowship from RSF will be eligible to apply. The proposal deadline for the seventh annual competition is 2 PM EST on October 22, 2025, for funding starting in Summer 2026.

"RSF program staff will host a webinar discussing the Pipeline Grants Competition and the application process on September 30, 2025, at 2PM ET."

Read the complete program announcement on the RSF website.

Register for the webinar on Zoom.

SOCY-375 Gender, Poverty and Health (3 Credits)

This course examines the interconnections among gender, poverty, and health from a global perspective, including the Global South (low and middle income countries) as well as the United States. Emphasis is on understanding the social, as contrasted with the biomedical, dimensions of health. 

Wednesday 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, 8/25/2025 - 12/13/2025

If interested, contact Chenyang Xiao, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, American University. 

"Rising Organizers’ Community Organizing fellowship is a nine-session intensive program for individuals based in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. This engaging, free program helps new and emerging organizers develop core organizing skills, provides these organizers with intensive 1-1 coaching with experienced organizers, and deepens participants’ engagement with organizing and civil society. 

"Rising Organizers is proud to have held 15 fellowship classes and matriculated 285 fellows who have gone on to organize in the DC metro area and around the country. They have become leaders in labor unions, civic associations, advocacy groups, and more.

"Rising Organizers’ free fellowship program will bring together 20-25 people new to organizing from the DC/MD/VA area for a 9-session program that will run from September to December. All sessions take place on Saturdays from 10:00am to 2:00pm ET. The locations will be in central areas of DC."

Applications for the fellowship are due Saturday, September 6th at 11:59 PM ET. The first session will be held on Saturday, September 20th. See more information and the application form online.