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RRF Foundation for Aging Research Grants

RRF PORTAL

All applications for this internal competition must be submitted via InfoReady. You can sign in using your Net-ID and your @stonybrook.edu email address. Please allow sufficient time to familiarize yourself with the portal prior to submitting your pre-application. Pre-application requirements are listed in the announcement below.

The Office for Research and Innovation invites applications to the RRF Foundation for Aging Research Grants which funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Stony Brook University may submit ONE application per department per deadline. 

Please see below for details. If you are interested in applying, you must submit a pre-application via the RRF Portal in InfoReady by September 4, 2026 at 9:00 am. Pre-applications for internal review and selection must be uploaded to the portal as a single PDF document.

KEYWORDS: Healthy aging

WHAT DOES IT FUND: RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Applicants must focus on one of RRF's priority areas: Age Equity, Caregiving, Housing, Economic Security, or Social Connectedness. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. RRF is particularly interested in: interventional trials, translational studies, and health services and policy research; projects that build on the investigator's past studies; proposals including robust dissemination plans to assure that findings reach audiences positioned to act on them. RFF prioritizes projects with an intentional DEI lens. RRF is especially interested in projects that focus on and meaningfully work with populations that have been historically marginalized, including older adults who are people of color, LGBTQ, women, and/or immigrants and refugees. Note: RRF generally does not fund biomedical research, basic theory development for social science research, or research and development for new technology.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS: PIs who submitted to this program in the past and were not funded must wait one year to re-submit a proposal for the same project.

AWARD: Awards are typically made in the $50,000 to $300,000 range over 1 to 3 years.

COST SHARE: Not required

SPONSOR DEADLINE: LOI due November 1, 2026; Full proposal (by invite only) due February 5, 2027

 

A complete pre-application should comprise of the following:
  • Project Summary (no more than 3 pages) that includes a statement about the primary issue the project will address, how you intend to address it, and why this project is needed at this time; the overarching Goals and SMART(IE) Objectives of your project; a brief description of the target population, including number of people your project will reach/effect (sample size for research proposals), how you will reach the population (recruitment), and demographic information or geographic location where relevant; describe how your organization will bring a DEI lens to the proposed project, if applicable; describe the specific methods you will use to accomplish your goals and objectives; discuss your evaluation criteria and methods, which should include expected outcomes and a brief statement on dissemination where applicable; and describe what you will do to disseminate outcomes/findings of your work beyond presenting at professional conferences, and writing manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.
  • CV for the Principal Investigator (PI) (no more than 2 pages)
  • Prospective Project Budget (no more than 1 page) which should describe how you generally anticipate RRF funds being used to support your proposed project (i.e., supporting costs for personnel, consultants, program materials, technology, dissemination activities). Note: RRF generally does not fund computer equipment; conferences, publications, or production of films and videos unless they are integral components of a larger project; or tuition expenses.