Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) has recently completed a call for various research proposals in the area of adult learning. It will be issuing a call for research in other Knowledge Centre areas that also include adult learning, such as Aboriginal learning, work and learning, structured learning, and health and learning.
See
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/

Canadian Women’s Foundation is a national public foundation specifically designed to raise and grant funds on violence prevention to meet the needs of women and girls in Canada.
See http://www.cdnwomen.org/

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Funding programs for Graduate students, Postdoctoral researchers, Faculty, Community & on- profit organizations, Aboriginals, postsecondary institutions, scholarly associations. (These programs fund adult education and learning research).
See http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/

Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) has been the premiere research conference for adult education in the USA for half a century. Conference papers are also available at this web site.
See http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/aerc

American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides an adult educators’ directory for the USA and for their international members.
See http://www.aaace.org/

Canadian Association for Study of Adult Education (CASAE) provides adult education researchers’ home pages etc. See http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/maineng.html