Social Science Research Council
For Fund Development Planning
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Amount$20,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/24/2014
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Social Science Research Council is undertaking with funding from the Hewlett Foundation a major project to reframe how academics are understanding and analyzing the "Anxieties of Democracy" in the US. We have funded their initial planning of this work and are in discussions with them about a follow up matching grant. To support their efforts, and to assist the Council more broadly, we are supporting with this organizational effectiveness grant work by an outside consultant to develop a fundraising strategy.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ssrc.org
Address
300 Cadman Plaza West 15th Floor, One Pierrepont Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Digital Platforms and the Public Interest Project
The Social Science Research Council was founded in 1923 by seven disciplinary associations to support social science in the public interest. This grant will support a one-year project to convene a group of senior, mid-career, and early-career economists to investigate the potential for an investment in economics research on digital platforms. The project will (a) survey the existing economics literature on digital platforms, (b) identify open research questions that could lead to important new evidence about digital platforms, (c) consider the potential implications of the proposed research agenda for new policy and regulatory frameworks, and (d) consider the potential implications of the proposed research agenda for new intellectual frameworks in the discipline of economics.
