External Funding Opportunities

The below highlighted external opportunities are just a small snippet of funding available for projects in a variety of disciplines. Additonal opportunities can be searched using PIVOT's Research Tool or contact the ORSP so that we may coordinate a search of opportunities where your research project meets the criteria and elligibility set forth by the sponsor.


External Blocks

 

Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Deadline:        09-12-24

Amount:        Upper:  $150,000

Project Start Date: June 1, 2025- August 1, 2025.

You may request up to $75,000 for projects led by a single researcher. You may request up to $150,000 for projects led by collaborative teams. NEH anticipates awarding approximately $1,000,000 among an estimated 9-12 recipients per deadline.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting
applications for the Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities
program. This program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities
presented by technology, broadly defined. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues.

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Furthermore Grants in Publishing
J.M. Kaplan Fund

Deadline:        3-1-24; 09-01-24

Amount:        Upper:  $15,000; Lower: $1,500 (awarded twice annually)

Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.

Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. Book projects to which a university press, nonprofit or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred.

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Foreign Policy Research Grants
Charles Koch Foundaiton

Deadline:         Rolling

The Charles Koch Foundation partners with social entrepreneurs to remove the barriers that prevent people from reaching their potential and supports research that explores the key issues of society and funding innovations in postsecondary education.

To that end, the foundation welcomes applications for its Foreign Policy Research Grants program, which provides support to scholars and research institutions interested in challenging the current foreign policy approach of the United States, providing alternative visions for U.S. foreign policy, and engaging in research that can bridge the gap between ideas and policy. While the foundation is especially interested in foreign policy research projects from the fields of political science, international relations, history, or economics, proposals from all fields will be considered on their merits.

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Asia Program
Henry Luce Foundation

Deadline:          Rolling

In keeping with the mission of the Luce Foundation, the goals of the Asia Program are to encourage the development of expertise, capacity and resources on East and Southeast Asia, and to foster scholarly and cultural exchange between the United States and Asia. Grants awarded to institutions, support three areas: Asia-focused teaching and research in higher education; policy projects relevant to U.S.-Asia relations; and public education about Asia.

Goals are pursued through two categories of grantmaking: Responsive Grants and Special Initiatives.

Responsive Grants:
The Responsive Grants category is deliberately broad, allowing the Asia Program to respond to new ideas and keep abreast of trends, needs and priorities relevant to Asia-focused work in our three grantmaking areas (academic work, foreign policy, public education). Most awards are made to colleges, universities, think tanks, museums and other non-profit organizations based in the United States.

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Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Deadline:          Rolling

Amount:          There is not an explicit range for budget requests. Grant periods are flexible, though generally range from 1 to 3 years.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector.

Please note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognize the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.
 

E-Team Program
VentureWell
Lemelson Foundation

Deadline:          01-31-24

Amount:  Upper:  $25,000

Every year, over $800,000 awarded in non-dilutive E-Team grants.
 
The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.

Do you have an idea that can change the world? Every year, we award E-Team grants to early-stage innovator teams that develop scalable innovations which aim to solve a large social, health, or environmental challenge.

Is Your Innovation a Good Fit?
  • Social/Environmental Impact: Inventions that will scale to address a pressing social, health, or environmental need. We fund innovations that can solve challenges including health, food security, energy, and climate change.
  • Science- and Engineering-Based Inventions: An innovation that is different from other competing technologies.
  • Intent To Commercialize: A strong commitment to exploring commercialization of your innovation.
  • Student Team Identified: Teams that include two or more students and a faculty advisor.

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Defense Sciences Office Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
United States Department of Defense (DOD)
Lemelson Foundation

Deadline:          09-27-24

Amount:            DARPA anticipates multiple awards. The level of funding for individual awards made under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds.

The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and create the next generation of scientific discovery to fuel innovation throughout the Agency and beyond. DSO serves as “DARPA’s DARPA” by developing and executing an aggressive and forward leaning portfolio that expands the art of the possible across a broad set of technical areas. DSO aims to create strategic surprise advantage for the DoD by pushing science towards its fundamental limits. We look to prevent technological surprise by understanding the path commercial research and development (R&D) is taking, anticipating that our adversaries will exploit available technology to develop new capabilities in the coming decades. In addition, the office looks for changes at the global scale and the impact such changes may have on our nation.

In support of this mission, the DSO Office-wide BAA invites proposers to submit innovative basic or applied research concepts or studies and analysis proposals that address one or more of the following technical thrust areas: (1) Novel Materials & Structures, (2) Sensing & Measurement, (3) Computation & Processing, (4) Enabling Operations, (5) Collective Intelligence, and (6) Global Change. Each of these thrust areas is described below and includes a list of example research topics that highlight several (but not all) potential areas of interest.
Proposals must investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances. DSO is explicitly not interested in approaches or technologies that primarily result in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
 

AI for Earth Grant
Microsoft

Deadline:  Rolling - Reviewed quarterly

Amount:  Upper:  $15,000; Lower: $5,000

AI for Earth awards grants to support projects that use AI to change the way people and organizations monitor, model, and manage Earth's natural systems.

Areas of focus:
  • Climate
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Water
Microsoft can support projects in two ways:
  1. Azure compute credit grants
  2. Special grants

 

Comcast Innovation Fund
Comcast

Deadline:  Funding done annually starting in January until year's funds are exhausted.

Amount:  Upper:  $150,000 - Comcast does not anticipate individual grants exceeding $150,000. They only support one-year projects. Comcast will sometimes consider multi-year projects but will only fund one phase at a time with no guarantee of continued funding.

The Comcast Innovation Fund offers funding for researchers at leading academic institutions and elsewhere to support research that is of mutual interest to Comcast and the research community. It also provides funding to support open source software development. While Comcast has supported this kind of work for many years, we are now doing so in a more strategic way.

The Comcast Innovation Fund is focused on Internet technology R&D and Open Source Internet software.

Types of Grants:
  • Open Source Development Grants
  • General and Target RESEARCH GRANTS
  • Useful & Interesting Things Grants

We are broadly interested in things that make the Internet run or that aid in the stability, scalability, and health of the Internet.

Top Areas of Interest for 2023:
  • Internet Consolidations & Mechanisms for De-Centralization
  • Internet Measurement
  • Encryption of data & network protocols, certificate & key management
  • CDNs and Video Streaming Efficiency including encoding improvements
  • Low Latency Networking
  • Multi-Path Networking
  • Security and Privacy design, automation, privacy enhancements & confidential computing for devices, systems, cloud, and microservices as well as topics like differential privacy.
  • De-centralized Data & Identity
  • De-centralized Anomaly Detection
  • Internet core services such as DNS and Routing

Large Research Grants on Education Program
Spencer Foundation

Deadline: Full proposal: 02-27-24         

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated,” meaning that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. We seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.

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Grants
Bader Philanthropies, Inc.

Deadline:   Application continually open - preliminary applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with deadlines correlating to Foundation board meetings held twice each year. Once a prelininary application is submitted online, organizations can expect to hear a response regarding the status of their application within 3 weeks and may receive a requrst for submission of a full proposal and supplemental materials. Preliminary Application received by the month of May for Board Meeting consideration in Fall or in November for Spring.

Through grant making, Program Related Investments, and collaborations, we connect people to each other, with ideas, purpose, and education.
Awarding grants is what we do, and compassion is why we do it. Whether it’s funding arts programs that bridge the gap between kids and older adults, or supporting literacy programs for people of all ages, our work helps make life better for people in the communities we serve. Simply put, we connect people in need with people who can help because that’s the only way real change happens.

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Research Grants: Graduate Research Grants
Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology)

Deadline:        1.15.24; 05-01-24

Amount:  Upper:  $1,500

The annual budget for this program is $65,000, which is split as evenly as possible between three rounds. Individual grants are up to $1,500 each.
 
By providing funds for graduate Psi Chi student members who will serve as first author and project director, the Graduate Research Grants help to defray direct costs (barring stipends, salary, tuition, etc.) of the student's original, empirical, research project as well as introduce students to the process of applying and managing research grants. The Graduate Research Grants provides funds for well-rounded applications which demonstrate competence of and commitment to psychology's best research practices.
 

 

Vision Grants
Spencer Foundation

Deadline:     February/March 2024

 

The Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as core that visionary, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research projects require time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan. Vision Grants are $75,000 total and two cycles of this grant program will be held annually. Different from many of our other programs, the proposal does not yet need to be a fully fleshed out research plan. Proposals are identifying a research topic, scope for impact, process and a team that will lead to a fully fleshed out research plan by the end of the grant period. 

We encourage applicants to think creatively about how convenings can expand our understanding of research methods and how new innovative research methods can impact educational research that is grounded in advancing racial equity.

The Foundation rotates the area of focus for this program annually to generate fresh ideas and perspectives on pressing educational challenges. For this funding cycle, Spencer will support conferences related to the topic of critical and innovative methodological needs and advancements in the service of education research that advances racial equity.

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New Letters Literary Awards (Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction)
New Letters
University of Missouri - Kansas City

Deadline:          05-21-24

Amount:           $2,500

New Letters established its Awards for Writers in 1986 to discover and reward new writers and to encourage more established writers to try new genres or new work in competition. In order to assure fairness throughout the decision process, all judging is done anonymously and by writers outside the New Letters staff, with two rounds of judges making finalist and winner decisions.

This writing contest features:
  • The Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry for the best group of three to six poems.
  • The Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction for the best Essay.
  • The Robert Day Award for Fiction for the best short story.
 

 

Grants
Bader Philanthropies, Inc.

Deadline:   Application continually open - preliminary applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with deadlines correlating to Foundation board meetings held twice each year. Once a prelininary application is submitted online, organizations can expect to hear a response regarding the status of their application within 3 weeks and may receive a requrst for submission of a full proposal and supplemental materials. Preliminary Application received by the month of May for Board Meeting consideration in Fall or in November for Spring.

Through grant making, Program Related Investments, and collaborations, we connect people to each other, with ideas, purpose, and education. Awarding grants is what we do, and compassion is why we do it. Whether it’s funding arts programs that bridge the gap between kids and older adults, or supporting literacy programs for people of all ages, our work helps make life better for people in the communities we serve. Simply put, we connect people in need with people who can help because that’s the only way real change happens.

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DOL Nursing Expansion Grant Program
Employment and Training Administation (ETA)
United States Department of Labor (DOL)

Deadline:    Check back for 2024 funding opportunities.

Amount:            Upper:  $6,000,000 Lower:  $1,000,000

We expect availability of up to $80 million to fund 15-25 grants.
 
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for the DOL Nursing Expansion Grant Program. This FOA will address bottlenecks in training the United States nursing workforce and expand and diversify the pipeline of qualified nursing professionals through two training tracks. The first track (Nurse Education Professional Track) will increase the number of clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators by training new or upskilling experienced current or former nurses (including retired nurses) into advanced postsecondary credentialing necessary for nurses to become clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators. The second track (Nursing Career Pathway Track) will train frontline healthcare professionals and paraprofessionals, including direct care workers, to advance along a career pathway and attain postsecondary credentials needed for middle- to high-skilled nursing occupations during the grant period of performance. Applicants will propose strategies to improve nursing professional, clinical instructor, and educator recruitment, preparation, development, training, and retention. Through the Nursing Career Pathway Track, grantees will develop training partnerships between clinical settings and education and training providers to support accelerated learning and expanded access to clinical residencies and specialty care rotations.
 

Winter and Summer Pilot Awards
Simons Foundation

Deadline:          1-10-24; 6-18-24

Amount:          Upper: $300,000

The total budget of a Pilot Award is $300,000 or less, including 20 percent indirect costs, over a period of up to two (2) years.

The goal of the Pilot Award is to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses. Appropriate projects for this mechanism include those considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results. Projects that represent continuations of ongoing work (whether funded by SFARI or other funders) are not appropriate for this mechanism.

This funding mechanism is particularly suitable for investigators who are new to the autism field, though we encourage those new to the field to consult with experts in autism research to ensure their projects are relevant to the human condition.
 

Addressing Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction
Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI)

Deadline:       2-22-24

Amount:        HABRI awards an average of 5-6 projects each year with project costs averaging approximately $45,000 per project and an average duration of about 20 months.

The vision of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) is for the human-animal bond to be universally embraced as an essential element of human wellness. To that end, HABRI works to establish the vital role of the human-animal bond in the health and well-being of individuals, families, cultures and communities.

HABRI is issuing a call for research proposals from institutions and organizations across the globe to investigate the health outcomes of pet ownership and/or animal-assisted interventions (AAI) or therapy, both for the people and the animals involved. Proposals should have a strong theoretical framework and focus on innovative approaches to studying the health effects of companion animals on humans within the following broad categories:
  • Child Health and Development
  • Healthy Aging
  • Mental & Physical Health and Wellness
 

SEEF Fellowship
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)

The SEEF Fellowship helps faculty in the early stages of their career to develop skills in medical education and assessment research.

The SEEF Fellowship is designed for medical school faculty who are interested in developing skills in medical education and assessment research, and who have a commitment to working with a team of interested colleagues.
The project-based faculty development program was established to:
  • Foster professional development
  • Promote assessment-focused scholarship about innovative approaches that will enhance the assessment of individuals across the continuum of medical education and in active independent practice
  • Support a cohort of individuals who will work with a senior mentor and NBME staff to identify and develop questions and a research project that falls within one or both of the following themes:
    • Assessment of clinical reasoning/critical thinking
    • Diversity/bias and disparities in assessment

 

Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy Research Grant
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research (FPTR)

Deadline:          Info on 2024 Grants

Amount:          Upper: $40,000 

The intent of FPTR is to fund the highest quality scientifically based and clinically relevant research with priority given to projects having the most immediate clinical application. One Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Research Grant is to be awarded to an Emerging Investigator exploring clinical outcomes of physical therapy practice for patients with musculoskeletal conditions.

Studies should seek to do one or more of the following:
  • Evaluate the clinical effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
  • Assess the interaction between patient characteristics and therapeutic methods
  • Explore the scientific basis for interventions used in physical therapy
  • Address an item identified in the APTA Research Agenda
In addition, priority will be given to studies which:
  • Have direct application to the practice of physical therapy
  • Address the need for measurable outcomes
  • Ask a new question important to intervention or its validation
  • Address a previously asked question with a new methodology, different sampling strategy or a different form of analysis

 

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Deadline:          Rolling

Amount:          There is not an explicit range for budget requests. Grant periods are flexible, though generally range from 1 to 3 years.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector.

Please note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognize the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.
 

Improving Undergraduates STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Deadline:       01-17-24; 07-17-24

Amount:       135- The program estimates makin awards for 50 Level 1 projects, 20 Level 2, and 3 projects, 15 Capacity-Building projects, and 40 conferences and workshops.

Anticipated Funding Amount: $63,000,000

The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EDU is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EDU supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings.

IUSE: EDU also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development. IUSE: EDU especially welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society.

 

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Improving Undergraduates STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Deadline:       01-17-24; 07-17-24

Amount:       135- The program estimates makin awards for 50 Level 1 projects, 20 Level 2, and 3 projects, 15 Capacity-Building projects, and 40 conferences and workshops.

Anticipated Funding Amount: $63,000,000

 

 

 

National Coastal Resilience Fund
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)

Deadline:       Check back for 2024 updates on funding.

Amount:    based solutions to help protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards and enable them to recover more quickly and enhance habitats for fish and wildlife.

All projects under this program must demonstrate a dual benefit to both coastal communities and habitats. The NCRF supports projects that will result in the creation and/or restoration of natural systems in order to increase the resilience of communities from coastal hazards and improve habitats for fish and wildlife species.
Award decisions will be made based on regional circumstances and needs, but all proposals must address the following priorities:

  • Nature-Based Solutions: Projects must focus on identifying or implementing natural, nature-based or hybrid solutions,3 such as restoring coastal marshes, reconnecting floodplains, rebuilding dunes or other natural buffers, or installing living shorelines to both reduce climate risks to communities while enhancing habitats (hereinafter “nature-based solutions”).
  • Community Resilience Benefit: Projects must show clear benefits in terms of reducing current and projected threats to communities from coastal hazards, including, but not limited to: sea-level rise, lake-level change, coastal erosion, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and impacts from other chronic or episodic factors (e.g., nuisance flooding during high tides, permafrost melt) (hereinafter collectively “coastal hazards”).
  • Fish and Wildlife Benefit: Projects must help to improve habitats for fish and wildlife species. Proposals should be as specific as possible in identifying the anticipated benefits to habitats and species that will result from the project proposed.
 

Applied Mathematics
Division of Mathematical Science (DMS)
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Deadline:  Upcoming 11-01-24-11-15-24

Amount:   not specified

The program supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. Mathematical merit and novelty, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications, are important factors.

 

AI for Earth Grant
Microsoft

Deadline:   Rolling with quarterly review

Amount:    Upper $15,000, Lower $5,000 Azure compute credits: This grant provides Azure compute credits worth $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000 (depending on project scope and needs)

AI for Earth awards grants to support projects that use AI to change the way people and organizations monitor, model, and manage Earth's natural systems.

Areas of focus:

  • Climate
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Water

Microsoft can support projects in two ways:

  1. Azure compute credit grants
  2. Special grants

 

 
IUSE: EHR also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development. IUSE: EHR especially welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society.

For all the above objectives, the National Science Foundation invests primarily in evidence-based and knowledge-generating approaches to understand and improve STEM learning and learning environments, improve the diversity of STEM students and majors, and prepare STEM majors for the workforce. In addition to contributing to STEM education in the host institution(s), proposals should have the promise of adding more broadly to our understanding of effective teaching and learning practices.

The IUSE: EHR program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation.
 

 

National Coastal Resilience Fund
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)

Deadline:        Check back for 2024 funding opportunities.


All projects under this program must demonstrate a dual benefit to both coastal communities and habitats. The NCRF supports projects that will result in the creation and/or restoration of natural systems in order to increase the resilience of communities from coastal hazards and improve habitats for fish and wildlife species.
Award decisions will be made based on regional circumstances and needs, but all proposals must address the following priorities:

  • Nature-Based Solutions: Projects must focus on identifying or implementing natural, nature-based or hybrid solutions,3 such as restoring coastal marshes, reconnecting floodplains, rebuilding dunes or other natural buffers, or installing living shorelines to both reduce climate risks to communities while enhancing habitats (hereinafter “nature-based solutions”).
  • Community Resilience Benefit: Projects must show clear benefits in terms of reducing current and projected threats to communities from coastal hazards, including, but not limited to: sea-level rise, lake-level change, coastal erosion, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and impacts from other chronic or episodic factors (e.g., nuisance flooding during high tides, permafrost melt) (hereinafter collectively “coastal hazards”).
  • Fish and Wildlife Benefit: Projects must help to improve habitats for fish and wildlife species. Proposals should be as specific as possible in identifying the anticipated benefits to habitats and species that will result from the project proposed.
 

SFARI Supplement to Enhance Equity and Diversity SEED)
Simons Foundation

Deadline:          Rolling

Amount:          Upward three years, $100,000

The SFARI Supplement to Enhance Equity and Diversity (SEED) is a new program that provides supplements to existing grants for the recruitment of new lab members from American underrepresented minority groups at the postdoctoral level. For the purposes of this supplement, eligible groups include the following: African American/Black; Latin American/Hispanic; Native American/Alaskan Native; Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander (including Filipino).

The goal of this award is to increase diversity and fight inequity. SFARI Principal Investigators (PIs) are encouraged to recruit candidates for this supplement not only at their home institution, but also at historically Black colleges and universities and other institutions with high minority enrollment.

The budget is up to $100,000 per year for up to three years.

 

Responsive Grants
Retirement Research Foundation (RRF)

Deadline:        2-5-24

Amount: Upper:  $250,000 Lower:  $100,000

 
RRF Foundation for Aging focuses on improving the quality of life for older people. In an effort to strengthen the Foundation’s impact, RRF has established Priority Areas. These Priority Areas are specific topics in aging that will be given higher priority within the Foundation’s grantmaking program.

Types of Grants
  1. Advocay: Achieve enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
  2. Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based services and supports in seven states
  3. Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older persons
  4. Professional Education & Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older people
  5. Organizational Capacity Building: Improve management and governance of non-profit organizations

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Grants
Bader Philanthropies, Inc.

Deadline:    Application continually open - preliminary applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with deadlines correlating to Foundation board meetings held twice each year. Once a prelininary application is submitted online, organizations can expect to hear a response regarding the status of their application within 3 weeks and may receive a requrst for submission of a full proposal and supplemental materials. Preliminary Application received by the month of May for Board Meeting consideration in Fall or in November for Spring.

Through grant making, Program Related Investments, and collaborations, we connect people to each other, with ideas, purpose, and education.
Awarding grants is what we do, and compassion is why we do it. Whether it’s funding arts programs that bridge the gap between kids and older adults, or supporting literacy programs for people of all ages, our work helps make life better for people in the communities we serve. Simply put, we connect people in need with people who can help because that’s the only way real change happens.

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Economic Institutions, Behavior, and Performance
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Deadline:   Interested researchers with a relevant project idea should email a letter of inquiry. 

Projects in this sub-program study households and individuals, specifically the role of “choice architecture” on their economic decision-making. Research topics include: risk-taking and insurance markets; time inconsistencies and the annuity paradox; cognitive biases; behavioral applications to policy; experimental testing of nudges or other regulatory interventions; behavioral welfare economics; obfuscated markets; consumer finance; probabilities and perceptions of extreme events; behavioral foundations and heterogeneous agents in macroeconomics; etc.

Interested researchers with a relevant project idea should email a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages. When submitting a letter of inquiry to the program, please indicate which sub-program best fits your research project.
Before submitting a letter of inquiry, please review the Foundation's guidelines on what we do not fund.

Grants made in this program are typically:
• Empirical and hypothesis-driven;
• Policy-relevant, but neither “policy research” nor advocacy;
• Motivated by nonideological questions rather than preconceived answers;
• Engaged with fundamental puzzles, but using fresh approaches;
• Unbiased, statistically significant, and replicable;
• Careful about baselines, controls, confounding variables, and econometrics;
• Savvy about markets, institutions, regulation, transaction costs, behavioral biases, etc.;
• Contributors to research infrastructure, datasets, or resources for general use;
• Generators of highly cited and catalytic results in high-quality journals;
• Ultimately concerned with the quality of life in the United States.

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Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Deadline:          Rolling

Amount:          There is not an explicit range for budget requests. Grant periods are flexible, though generally range from 1 to 3 years.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector.

Please note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognize the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.