The Center for Social and Community Research will provide grants to faculty to cover the expenses of the services provided. Applications will be submitted to the Director, who will estimate the amount of the award required to complete the requested work. The award has no redeemable cash value; the award will be used to subsidize the work performed by the Center. Applications will be reviewed by sending them to a faculty committee for ranking. The overall ranking of the committee will establish the final funding priority, but the availability of grants will be determined by the Director, in consultation with the Dean and the faculty committee. Priority will be given to faculty who have no funding for their current work. Projects which have funding for data entry are not eligible for duplicate support (although faculty may contract with the Center for these services). Merit of the proposed research (i.e. potential for publication or research grant development) will be a key factor in evaluation of funding priority, especially as related to the amount of resources required.

The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences also has funds available for faulty training in quantitative research trough Loyola's membership in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR conducts an extensive training program in statistical methods during the summer at the University of Michigan. Other off-campus training opportunities can also be supported.