Donors Make a Difference
Donor-supported projects have already gained momentum and present exciting opportunities for strategic philanthropic engagement. Your gift today creates immense impact tomorrow; join us in building the future of ISR and the social sciences.
Social Media Archive (SOMAR)
The Social Media Archive (SOMAR) is a revolutionary initiative and data resource that democratizes access to some of the most consequential information in contemporary society: social media data. Your support will help scholars shed light on the ways in which social media impacts our world, our health, and our choices.
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID)
The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics aims to
produce cutting-edge research on social inequality, especially wealth inequality.
With your help, CID will educate the next generation of inequality scholars, disseminate novel data to researchers around the world, and empower distinguished researchers to illuminate aspects of socio-economic inequality that would otherwise remain in the shadow.
Robert F. Schoeni Research Professorship
By serving as a tool to spark collaborative and mold-breaking scholarship, the Robert F. Schoeni Research Professorship—made possible by a generous group of donors—will play an integral role in ISR’s future success.
The Power of Philanthropy
Your support makes a tremendous difference in our ability to support emerging scholars, to empower researchers to explore innovative projects that have the potential to change the world, and to ensure the strength of our data infrastructure for the scientific community now and long into the future.
Thank you to everyone who has generously donated to this fund; ambitious projects would not be possible without such awards and resources.
– Davis Daumler
The funding from this grant will allow me to collect my own data to study my research questions. I will obtain nationally diverse samples of Black Americans and ask questions about their belief in the American opportunity structure, the extent to which they feel discrimination limits their opportunity to succeed and their support for racially redistributive policies.
– Zoe Walker
Personally, I am very excited to pursue this research, in part because this is my first opportunity to conduct such a large-scale study. This is only possible through the funding that you provided.
– Jess Lasoff-Santos
Your generosity has inspired me to help others and to give back to the community. I hope one day I will be able to help future students to achieve their goals just like how you have helped me.
– Jiaming Soh
Thanks to you, I will be able to create and field my own survey for the first time in my career, which will be invaluable to my professional development.
– Ciera Hammond
I encounter so many people in the professional world who received training at ISR. It’s such an incredible network of people. ISR is inseparable from how I think about Michigan social sciences.
– Sasha Killewald
I feel an obligation to do good research and then also to publish it, not just so that I have more publications, but so the research can help improve people’s health. “I’m not a policy maker, I’m a researcher, but part of making a difference is being able to effectively communicate the science affected by our research, and if we can do that, we can make real change for those who need it.
– Jasmine Manalel
One of the best parts of ISR is just the ability to talk with any number of people about any number of ideas all the time. All of my research today and the way I think about doing scholarship reflects the way that folks at CPS and at ISR thought about these questions. The approach that folks at ISR take is, by nature, an interdisciplinary enterprise to answer the really hard and complicated questions we’re all trying to wrestle with as social scientists.
– Hakeem Jefferson
Economic inequality in the U.S. has reached extreme levels, in particular in terms of wealth, and the pandemic has pulled away the curtain on many of the inequalities, injustices, and economic vulnerabilities in this country. Especially during these difficult times, I believe that as social scientists we have the responsibility to lay the foundation for both the diagnosis and the solutions to the inequality crisis that we are experiencing.
– Fabian Pfeffer
I’m so excited to help CID push forward wealth and inequality research and to help expand the social sciences data infrastructure that truly reflects the fourth industrial revolution era we are living in. I chose to join CID as I felt confident that this is where I can pursue my passion for studying inequality and enhancing the data infrastructure for social sciences in an unparalleled way.
– Sunn Kyoung Lee