Current Funding Opportunities

The programs below are listed by college, but we encourage you to browse the entire list as some may be applicable to other colleges as well. Our list of funding opportunities will be updated monthly.

COVID-19 Funding

Title: Final Priorities and Definitions: Education Innovation and Research-COVID-19 and Equity
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Due Date: Effective: 8/27/2021
Description: The Department intends these priorities and definitions to support competitions under the EIR program for the purpose of developing, implementing, and evaluating projects designed to enhance instructional practice and improve achievement and attainment for high-need students in two key policy areas: (1) Innovative approaches to addressing the impact of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on students and educators (namely, the interruption of traditional patterns of education due to school closures and the disproportionate social, emotional, physical and mental health, and academic impacts on particular student groups), and (2) promoting equity in students' access to educational resources and opportunities. The Department believes that these priorities and definitions are essential to enable applicants to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and address equity issues.
Title: Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Due Date: Monthly deadline dates are available through 10/4/2022
Description: The Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences-R21 aims to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and related policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. Outside of the traditional scope of medical research, this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) creates an opportunity to engage political science and law studies faculty members interested in lending high-level consultation.
Title: COVID-19 Research Credits Program
Sponsor: Google
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime until further notice
Description: Google will be funding COVID-19 related research projects for potential treatments, techniques and datasets, and working with the Harvard Global Health Institute to prioritize grant recipients based on the project impact on public health. Preference will be given to projects that plan to make their datasets publicly available and referenceable. Unlike academic research seed grants, COVID-19 research grants are designed to fund urgent public health related projects in-full. COVID-19 research grants are valid for 90 days only.
Title: 2020 COVID-19 Flex Grants
Sponsor: West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime for quarterly review
Description: Supports pediatric medical device innovators who are able to use their technology to aid in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Companies will be awarded grants up to $15,000 to support activities that apply or adapt their existing medical device to help manage the health impacts of the crisis on children. Medical devices with adult indications that are expanding or wish to expand their clinical indication to pediatrics are welcome to apply.
Title: COVID-19 NSLS-II Rapid Access Proposal
Sponsor: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime
Description: Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences light sources want to ensure they are doing everything possible to enable research into the COVID-19 virus and the search for an effective vaccine or other treatment. NSLS-II is offering a streamlined and expedited rapid access proposal process for groups that require beam time for structural biology projects directly related to COVID-19. The Center for Biomolecular Structure team is supporting remote macromolecular crystallography experiments at at the AMX and FMX beamlines as well as solution scattering experiments at the LiX beamline.
Title: COVID-19 Response: A Call for Ideas
Sponsor: Marcatus Center
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Welcomes proposals for policy briefs, working papers, and articles that address the next round of challenges facing the United States and other countries in the response to the pandemic.
Title: Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Published program deadlines apply
Description: NSF is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. NSF encourages the research community to respond to this challenge through existing funding opportunities. In addition, we invite researchers to use the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism, which allows NSF to receive and review proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment as well as quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. Requests for RAPID proposals may be for up to $200K and up to one year in duration. Well-justified proposals that exceed these limits may be entertained. All questions should be directed either to a program officer managing an NSF program with which the research would be aligned or to rapid-covid19@nsf.gov.

College of Health Professions

Title: Macy Faculty Scholars Program
Sponsor: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Due Date: 8/1/22
Description: The Program will help develop the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education by identifying outstanding educators, physicians, nurses, and role models—individuals who represent the breadth of diversity seen in learners, patient populations, and health care settings around the country. By providing the Scholars with resources—especially protected time, mentorship, and a professional network of colleagues—the Program aims to accelerate Scholars’ careers, to turn their teaching practice into scholarship, and to help them become impactful leaders locally, nationally, and beyond.
Title: Hearing and Balance Research Grants
Sponsor: American Hearing Research Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports basic and clinical studies on the hearing or balance functions of the ear. Priority is for startup funding for new projects. Up to six awards that average $20,000 are made annually. Eligibility is limited to qualified Ph.D.s and M.D.s. Priority is given to investigators early in their careers who need seed funds to generate results and data that can be used to support later application for larger grants.
Title: Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/16/2022
Description: Supports the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the NICHD in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive original data collected with NICHD funding. LOIs are due 30 days prior to the application due date.
Title: New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Due Date: Supports a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in T1D research. In addition to providing support for preliminary research, the Gateway program provides an opportunity for new Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs) to pursue their studies within the intellectual environment of a select number of large, ongoing collaborative research programs.
Description: Supports a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in T1D research. In addition to providing support for preliminary research, the Gateway program provides an opportunity for new Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs) to pursue their studies within the intellectual environment of a select number of large, ongoing collaborative research programs.
Title: Short-Term Research Education Program to Enhance Diversity in Health-Related Research (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: LOI: 30 days prior to application date, 8/9/2022
Description: Supports educational activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce by providing research experiences and related opportunities that enrich the pool of individuals from nationally underrepresented groups who will be available to compete for research opportunities in the mission areas of importance to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Title: NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/16/2022
Description: Supports discrete, well-defined projects that realistically can be completed in two years and require limited levels of funding. Examples of project themes include pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology, etc. Direct costs cap at $100,000 over a two-year period, with no more than $50,000 in direct costs allowed in a single year.
Title: Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Due Date: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
Description: Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. We are concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander people, and other races and ethnicities)—as well as the ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority.
Title: Notice of Intent to Publish Funding Announcement for Strategies to Implement Evidence-based Care to Reduce High Burden Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: TBD
Description: AHRQ intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings that have been found to be the most impactful in reducing specific healthcare disparities. Interventions must be focused specifically on the goal of reducing disparities by wide-scale implementation of evidence-based care. Grant applicants may propose interventions in different healthcare settings (e.g., primary care, long-term care) based on where the comparative effectiveness evidence work was conducted. Though not limited to the following, some areas where comparative effectiveness interventions have evidence for decreasing disparities include promoting improved cancer and chronic condition screening, improving control of chronic conditions, and improving prenatal care, maternal health, and infant mortality.
Title: Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease/National Human Genome Research Institute
Due Date: 10/16, 2/16, 6/16 through June 2024
Description: Provides support for new investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences research, to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) or the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). New investigators at the time of award under this FOA will have had less than $125,000 direct costs of combined research funding (excluding NIH training and NIH career awards). This R21 will support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources and seeks to facilitate transition to research independence. The R21 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.
Title: Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (IPERT) (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/14/2022, 10/13/2023
Description: Supports the development of creative educational activities designed to equip a diverse cohort of participants with the technical, operational, and professional skills required for careers in the biomedical research workforce. Funded programs are expected to have robust evaluation, outreach, dissemination, and sustainability plans rooted in skills development and mentoring activities.
Title: Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (K01 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/13/2022, 2/14/2023, 10/13/2023, 2/13/2024
Description: Invites applications to enhance the pool of of highly trained investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in research areas of interest to the NHLBI. The career development will take place under the guidance of an experienced mentor in the biomedical, behavioral or clinical sciences leading to research independence. It is targeted toward individuals whose basic, clinical, and translational research interests are grounded in the advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to solve problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases and sleep disorders in the general and health disparities populations.
Title: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): NINR Priority Areas for Training and Career Development// Awards
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research
Due Date: Applies to Training and Career Development Grants due on or after May 25, 2021 and before September 7, 2023
Description: The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is committed to training the next generation of nurse scientists at all levels of education and encouraging training in important new areas of nursing research. NINR is issuing this Notice to highlight interest in receiving grant applications focused in the following area(s):
- Social determinants of health
- Health disparities and health equity
- Community and population health
- Observational and intervention research with practice and policy applications
- Embodiment of social inequalities
- Multilevel approaches bridging biology to society
Title: Fund for Trans Generations (FTG)
Sponsor: Borealis Philanthropy
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The FTG is committed to providing rapid-response funding to trans-led organizations responding to emerging needs in their communities.FTG's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund supports mutual aid and care support networks; healing and virtual wellness spaces; online/virtual programming needs; living stipends for members and/or staff; survival needs (i.e. food, rent support, shelter, utilities); and organizing and advocacy. FTG also offers general rapid support funding to organizations and communities in need of additional resources to respond quickly to organized opposition and unanticipated events.
Title:
Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed
Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Required)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 6/25, 10/25, 2/25 through May 8, 2024, AIDS: 9/7, 1/7, 5/7 through May 8, 2024
Description: Supports small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for undergraduate students, and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions.The three objectives of this FOA are to:
- Provide support for meritorious research at undergraduate-focused institutions or institutional components;
- Strengthen the research environment at these institutions/components; and
- Give undergraduate students an opportunity to gain significant biomedical research experience through active involvement in the research.
Title:
Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools (R15 Clinical Trial Required)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 6/25, 10/25, 2/25 through May 8, 2024, AIDS: 9/7, 1/7, 5/7 through May 8, 2024
Description: Supports basic and clinical research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.
Title: Using Innovative Digital Healthcare Solutions to Improve Quality at the Point of Care (R21/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through July 2024
Description: Invites applications that propose research projects that test promising digital healthcare interventions aimed at improving quality of care and healthcare services delivery at the point of care. This FOA will use the Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) mechanism to provide up to 2 years of R21 support for initial developmental activities, and up to 3 years of R33 support for expanded activities.
Title: NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health
Sponsor: National Library of Medicine
Due Date: LOI: 1/24/2023, Application: 2/24/2023
Description: NLM awards Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and/or public health policy value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers, historians of the health sciences, and scholars of all disciplines working at the intersection of the digital humanities/data science and the history of the health sciences.
Title: Notice of Special Interest: Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging
Due Date: Applies to PAR-19-071 due dates 11/12/2020 and beyond
Description: This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is intended to promote multidisciplinary research to clarify sex and gender differences in the risk, development, progression, diagnosis, and clinical presentation of Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD).
Title: Obesity Research
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: Deadlines depend upon program, but applications are accepted anytime when no relevant RFAs or Pas exist
Description: Supports a broad spectrum of obesity-related research, including research toward preventing & treating obesity through lifestyle modification & through pharmacologic, surgical, or other medical approaches; & research toward breaking the link between obesity & associated health conditions; & cross-cutting research topics, including health disparities, technology, fostering of interdisciplinary research teams, investigator training, & translational research.
Title: Program Grants
Sponsor: Anthem Foundation
Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime
Description: Funds specific public health-related initiatives that address disparities and social determinants that can positively affect conditions identified through our signature Healthy Generations program.
Title: Exploratory/Developmental Grant Program
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Due Date: 10/16, 2/16, 6/16 through 11/18/2023
Description: Supports research (R21) to develop an understanding of the risks and conditions associated with occupational diseases and injuries, to explore methods for reducing risks and for preventing or minimizing exposure to hazardous conditions in the workplace, and to translate significant scientific findings into prevention practices and products that will effectively reduce work-related illnesses and injuries. Interested in applications to reduce injury and illness in construction, transportation, agriculture, mining, and health care.
Title: Fellowships in Disability Policy Research
Sponsor: U.S. Social Security Administration
Due Date: Deadlines vary based on program
Description: SSA offers fellowship and small grant opportunities for junior faculty researchers interested in retirement and/or disability policy issues.
Title: Muscle Development and Physiology Program
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: Annual Proposals Accepted Anytime, call to determine interest
Description: Supports applications on development, growth, and maintenance of skeletal muscle tissue; basic biology of satellite cells and muscle stem cells; excitation-contraction coupling; skeletal muscle fitness and adaptation to exercise; muscle metabolism; & muscle imaging.
Title: Small Grants
Sponsor: Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Small grants support initiatives and activities in Maryland that are consistent with the Council’s mission and will have an impact that lasts beyond the time during which the grant is funded. The grants provide funding for a range of projects, from awareness campaigns and activities and needs assessments to training and workshops.
Title: Leonard & Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation Grants
Sponsor: Baltimore Community Foundation
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
Description:
Supports work in four areas of interest:
- Research as to causes and treatment of mental illness and services for people with mental illness and their families.
- Initiatives for an older adult and aging population and programs for geriatric medicine
- Programs engaged in health care treatment and prevention as well as those involved in medical research.
- Higher educational institutions
Title: Board Grants/President’s Grants
Sponsor: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Due Date: LOIs accepted anytime, full proposal upon invitation
Description:
- Board Grants: 1-3 years in duration; selected three times each year at our board meetings.
  
  President’s Grants: 1 year or less in duration, no more than $35,000; can be given at any time, evaluated and awarded by the foundation president.
  
  Priorities:
- Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
- Increasing Collaboration Among Future Health Professionals
- Preparing Future Health Professionals to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas
Title: Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. RWJF is 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, the foundation welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and progress toward a Culture of Health.RWJF wants 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 sought require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector.
Title: NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research for Years 2020, 2021, and 2022
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/20/2022
Description: Supports discrete, well-defined projects in any area of cancer research using the NIH R03 small grant mechanism which supports discrete, well-defined projects that realistically can be completed in 2 years and that require limited levels of funding. All areas of cancer research relevant to the mission of the NCI are appropriate for projects submitted in response to this FOA.
Title: Health Care Quality Improvement & Efficiency Grants
Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund
Due Date: LOI: Accepted on a Rolling Basis, Proposals Due Upon Invitation
Description: Supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy through four programs: delivery system innovation and improvement; health policy reform; health system performance assessment and tracking; and international program.
Title: Micro-Grants Program
Sponsor: Partnerships for Clean Competition
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The Micro-Grant Program was developed by the PCC to quickly fund quality research projects which fill immediate gaps in anti-doping knowledge and/or gather preliminary data to strengthen a regular cycle PCC Grant application or re-submission.

College of Education

Title:
Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences – (Early Career Mentoring Program for MSI Faculty; and Methods Training in Data Science for Education Researchers)
Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking
Special Education Research
Research Training Programs in Special Education (Early Career Development and Mentoring)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (ED) Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
National Center for Education and Research (NCER)
National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)
Due Date: 9/8/2022
Description: In awarding the research grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education). The IES research grant programs are designed to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all learners. These interested individuals include parents, educators, learners, researchers, and policymakers. In carrying out its grant programs, IES provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need. In awarding research training grant programs, IES aims to prepare individuals to conduct rigorous and relevant education and special education research that advances knowledge within the field and addresses issues important to education policymakers and practitioners.
Title: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/18/22
Description: Seeks proposals to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.
Title: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/12/22, 8/11/23, 8/9/24
Description: Seeks proposals applied research and development program with goals to advance the equitable and inclusive integration of technology in the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) from pre-kindergarten through high school. The program’s objective is to support all students’ acquisition of the foundational preparation in STEM disciplines.

College of Business & Economics

Title: General Grant Program
Sponsor: FINRA Investor Education Foundation
Due Date: Project Concept Forms are accepted any time, Full proposals will be due at any time during the year
Description: FINRA supports innovative research and educational projects that give investors tools and information needed to better understand markets and the basic principles of saving and investing. Projects are encouraged in: using behavioral finance to improve saving and investing; meeting financial and investor education needs of underserved audiences; creating new marketing and distribution channels for financial and investor education; and helping retirees manage finances.
Title: Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to public policy and the provision of public services. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) the study of individual and group decision-making, political institutions (appointed or elected), attitude and preference formation and expression, electoral processes and voting, public administration, and public policy.
Title: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/18/22
Description: Supports research projects, dissertation research, workshops, and small grants for time-sensitive and high-risk projects to increase understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Topics of interest include judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design.
Title: Economics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/18/22
Description: Supports research designed to improve understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. Supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
Title: Exploratory Research Grants
Sponsor: Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries
Due Date: LOIs accepted anytime for quarterly review
Description: Pursues a research agenda that aims to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in Low-Income Countries (LICs). PEDL will support approaches that promise to produce credible research results that will be useful for policy-making. It will promote research related to private enterprises of all sizes and will initially focus on four research themes:
- Market frictions, management and organizations
- Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms
- High growth entrepreneurship
- Social compliance and the environment
Title: Academic Programs
Sponsor: Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation
Due Date: Proposals submitted by the 1^st of any month are typically reviewed within 30 days
Description: Awards research grants to industry consultants and academics in all fields of interest to the equipment finance industry. Open Request for Proposals: Calculating Cost of Capital for Companies and Transactions in the Equipment Finance Industry; Cyber Risk and Security Trends in the Leasing and Finance Industry; The Growth of Fraud in Equipment Finance.
Title: Academic Research Grant Program
Sponsor: Institute of Management Accounts
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The Research Grant Program awards grants for innovative research proposals relating to primary management accounting activities such as decision support, planning, and control.

Fisher College of Science & Mathematics

Title: Security and Preparedness (SAP)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to global and national security. Research proposals are evaluated on the criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts; the proposed projects are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) international relations, global and national security, human security, political violence, state stability, conflict processes, regime transition, international and comparative political economy, and peace science.
Title: Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/2/22
Description: Supports projects that foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whole, most often those cutting across multiple sub-disciplines. Funds support working research sessions, such as conferences and symposia, as well as larger initiatives focused on enhancing and developing the mathematical sciences at the national scale. Funds also support a limited number of unsolicited training projects aimed at the undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral levels that include a core mathematical sciences research component for trainees.
Title: Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards in Chemical Sciences
Sponsor: The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Due Date: 8/4/22
Description: Supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at undergraduate institutions. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. The award is based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergraduates, as well as a compelling commitment to teaching, and provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.
Title: Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions
Sponsor: The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Due Date: 8/4/22
Description: Supports proposals to bring a leading researcher to a primarily undergraduate institution to give a series of lectures in the chemical sciences. Lecturer is expected to substantially interact with undergraduate students and faculty over the period of the visit. Will provide funds to host the speaker and support summer research opportunities for two undergraduate students. Eligible departments grant a BS or MS degree in chemistry, but not a Ph.D. Award total is $18,500.
Title: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/18/22
Description: Seeks proposals to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.
Title: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/12/22, 8/11/23, 8/9/24
Description: Seeks proposals applied research and development program with goals to advance the equitable and inclusive integration of technology in the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) from pre-kindergarten through high school. The program’s objective is to support all students’ acquisition of the foundational preparation in STEM disciplines.
Title: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/25/22
Description: Supports development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models through regular research awards, Awards for conferences, workshops, and community-development activities, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, and Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplements. Proposals should be methodologically innovative, be grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences.
Title: Computational Diversity for Cyber Security
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: White Papers: 8/30/2022
Description: The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research, development, integration, test, evaluation and delivery of technologies/techniques that exhibit computational diversity. There are two technical objectives of this BAA.
- The first is to develop a secure microcontroller in an Application Specific Integrated Circuity (ASIC) form factor that can be embedded in large platforms including space assets or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), as well as more resource-constrained IoT devices and sensors, without modification.
- The second objective is to investigate the primitives, logic functions and software tool chains that would be necessary to allow code to be compiled on a computationally diverse hardware computing architecture, more advanced than an ASIC.
Title: Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 9/26/2022
Description: Notice seeking proposals to support basic research on the character and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core, their influence on the evolution of the Earth as a whole, and on processes operating within the deep interior that affect or are expressed on the Earth's surface. Projects may employ any combination of field, laboratory, and computational studies with observational, theoretical, or experimental approaches.
Title: Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 12/1/2022-12/30/2022
Description: With a focus on enhancing research capacity and broadening participation of new faculty of biology at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs), and other universities and colleges that are not among the nation's most research-intensive institutions, the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) offers the Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) program. The BRC-BIO program aims to a) broaden participation by expanding the types of institutions that submit proposals to BIO, and b) expand opportunities to groups underrepresented in the biological sciences, including Blacks and African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities, especially those serving at under-resourced institutions. Awards will provide the means for new faculty to initiate and build independent research programs by enhancing their research capacity. These projects might also include biology-focused research collaborations among faculty within the same institution, across peer-, or research-intensive institutions, or partnerships with industry or other non-academic partners that advance the candidate's research program. By providing this funding opportunity, BIO recognizes the national urgency to broaden, strengthen, and diversify the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. In particular, these awards will build capacity for research at institutions that have a primary focus on teaching and undergraduate education, or that have limited capacity for research. Projects should enable the establishment of sustainable research programs for faculty and also enrich undergraduate research experiences and thereby grow the STEM workforce. BRC-BIO welcomes proposals from principal investigators who share NSF's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Title: Mentored Summer Programs for Junior Faculty from Diverse Backgrounds
Sponsor: Partnerships to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research (PRIDE)
Due Date: Applications currently accepted for Summer 2022
Description: Mentored Summer Programs offering research experiences, skills development and grant writing training for Junior Faculty from Diverse Backgrounds. Research topics vary by program but are centered on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders research; methodologies include health disparities, genetic and others relevant to these topics.
Title: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Due Date: Rolling Deadline through 8/30/2023
Description: We are particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large scale disruptions that will immediately impact human health and delivery of health care. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.
Title: Research Associateship Programs
Sponsor: National Research Council
Due Date: 8/1/2022
Description: Supports basic and applied research by graduate students, recent Ph.D.s and senior researchers at federal laboratories and research facilities. Stipends support research in chemistry; earth and atmospheric sciences; engineering and applied sciences; biological, health, and behavioral sciences; neuroscience; biotechnology; math; space and planetary sciences; and physics.
Title: Travel Grants
Sponsor: Association for Women in Mathematics
Due Date: 10/1/2022
Description: The Mathematics Travel Grants provide full or partial support for travel and subsistence for a meeting or conference in the applicant’s field of specialization.
Title: Laboratory Equipment Donation Program (LEDP)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Due Date: Application reviews and grant awards will be performed on a first-received, first-qualified basis.
Description: Awards grants of used energy-related laboratory equipment for use in energy-oriented educational programs in the life, physical, and environmental sciences, technology, and engineering. Applicant institution not required to have a currently funded project with DOE to participate.
Title: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Small and Medium Proposals: 1/1/2022-12/31/2022
Description: Supports the development of the core system science needed to engineer complex cyber-physical systems (CPS) that people can use or interact with and depend upon. The program aims to foster a research community committed to advancing research and education in CPS and to transitioning CPS science and technology into engineering practice.
Title: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports efforts to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. Research areas must fall within the scope of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. Track 1 reengages investigators in a competitive funding opportunity with accommodations for gap in record that are a result of the research hiatus. Track 2 retrains investigators for whom the research hiatus has led to the need for new or updated techniques, such that retraining is required to return the investigator to competitive research activity.
Title: ONR: Navy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: Applications are accepted and processed on an on-going basis
Description: Sponsors program at Naval R&D centers & labs to increase the involvement of creative & highly trained scientists & engineers from academia & industry to scientific & technical areas of interest & relevance to the Navy. Supports about 40 new postdoc appointments/year. Current interests include: computer science, artificial intelligence, plasma physics, acoustics, chemistry, materials science, optical sciences, condensed matter & radiation sciences, electronics science, environmental sciences, marine geosciences, remote sensing, oceanography, and marine meteorology.
Title: Full Spectrum Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cyber Operations Technology
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime through 9/30/2022
Description: Supports research, development, integration, test and evaluation of technologies/techniques to expand cyber operations technologies within the Department of Defense. Focus areas include methods of integration, improving coordination, and advancing the capability to conduct cyberspace operations in a multitude of environments. Concepts at the intersection of the areas of Signals Intelligence, Electronics Warfare and Cyber Operations technologies are sought.
Title: Full Spectrum Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cyber Operations Technology
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime through 9/30/2022
Description: Supports research, development, integration, test and evaluation of technologies/techniques to expand cyber operations technologies within the Department of Defense. Focus areas include methods of integration, improving coordination, and advancing the capability to conduct cyberspace operations in a multitude of environments. Concepts at the intersection of the areas of Signals Intelligence, Electronics Warfare and Cyber Operations technologies are sought.
Title: Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime after 10/15/2021, Investigators are advised that the dates from April 15^th to June 15^th should, optimally, be avoided for submissions.
Description: Research supported by the Division of Materials Research (DMR) focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of materials, materials discovery, design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and materials-related phenomena. DMR awards enable understanding of the electronic, atomic, and molecular structures, mechanisms, and processes that govern nanoscale to macroscale morphology and properties; manipulation and control of these properties; discovery of emerging phenomena of matter and materials; and creation of novel design, synthesis, and processing strategies that lead to new materials with unique characteristics. These discoveries and advancements transcend traditional scientific and engineering disciplines. DMR supports research and education activities in the United States through funding of individual investigators, teams, centers, facilities, and instrumentation. Projects supported by DMR are not only essential for the development of future technologies and industries that address societal needs, but also for the preparation of the next generation of materials researchers.
Title: Research on Interventions that Promote the Careers of Individuals in the Biomedical Research Enterprise (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: LOI: 9/13/2022, 9/13/2023, Application: 10/13/2022, 10/13/2023
Description: Encourages applications that propose research designed to test interventions to enhance research-oriented individuals' interest, motivation, persistence and preparedness for careers in the biomedical research workforce. Funded projects are expected to produce research findings that will guide the implementation of interventions in a variety of academic settings and career levels to enhance the diversity of the biomedical research workforce.
Title: Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Required)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 6/25, 10/25, 2/25 through May 8, 2024, AIDS: 9/7, 1/7, 5/7 through May 8, 2024
Description: Supports small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for undergraduate students, and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions.The three objectives of this FOA are to:
- Provide support for meritorious research at undergraduate-focused institutions or institutional components;
- Strengthen the research environment at these institutions/components; and
- Give undergraduate students an opportunity to gain significant biomedical research experience through active involvement in the research.
Title: NSF/NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG, MPS
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Supplement proposals accepted any time
Description: Provides supplements to allow faculty & students receiving NSF support to participate in research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology laboratories (the Chemical Science & Technology Laboratory & the Materials Science & Engineering Laboratory & Physical Measurement Laboratory & User Facilities are the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology & the Center for Neutron Research). Chemistry, materials research, molecular biology, bioengineering, & chemical engineering are centralized at these NIST laboratories.
Title: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports fundamental research on hard and soft materials, and materials-related phenomena; the development of associated analytical, computational, and data-centric techniques; as well as predictive materials-specific theory, simulation, and modeling for materials research. Focus areas include: advancing the understanding of emergent properties and phenomena of materials and condensed matter systems; developing materials-specific prediction and advancing understanding of properties, phenomena, and emergent states of matter associated with hard or soft materials; developing and exploring new paradigms to advance fundamental understanding of materials and materials related phenomena, or; fostering research at interfaces among relevant sub disciplines.
Title: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime; Approved PIs have up to 1 year from RARE approval to submit their Track 1 or Track 2 proposal. There is no deadline for this solicitation.
Description: Supports efforts to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. Research areas must fall within the scope of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. Track 1 reengages investigators in a competitive funding opportunity with accommodations for gap in record that are a result of the research hiatus. Track 2 retrains investigators for whom the research hiatus has led to the need for new or updated techniques, such that retraining is required to return the investigator to competitive research activity.
Title: Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Deadline depends on the program to which the proposal is submitted
Description: Promotes university-industry partnerships through project funds, fellowships, and traineeships to support an eclectic mix of linkages. This is not a separate program, but rather a designation that can be added to any standing NSF opportunity. Special interest is focused on opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting, and to bring industry perspectives and interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects.
Title: Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports the development of tools, approaches and infrastructure necessary for direct tests of cause and effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses and fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable.
Title: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects (MCB)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports quantitative, mechanistic, predictive, and theory-driven fundamental research designed to promote understanding of complex living systems at the molecular, subcellular, and cellular levels. While recognizing the need for thorough and accurate descriptions of biological complexes and pathways, the priority of the Division is to support work that advances the field by capturing the predictive power of mechanistic, quantitative, and evolutionary approaches. Proposals are solicited to support research relevant to the four MCB core clusters:
Title: Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports research to understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. The activities within this program combine observations, theory, and modeling.
Title: Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Sponsor: The Simon’s Foundation
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.
Title: Travel Grant Program
Sponsor: Bio-Techne
Due Date: Awardees are selected monthly, submit anytime
Description: Offers travel funding to attend scientific meetings and conferences. COVID-19 Note: No travel grants will be paid until travel and events are back to regular schedules. We will continue to select monthly recipients, but the checks will be postponed.
Title: Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports meritorious requests for infrastructure that promote research and education in areas supported by the Division.
- Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field investigations and student research training opportunities in the Earth sciences. The maximum request is $500,000. The maximum request for upgrade of research group computing facilities remains $75,000.
- Development of New Instrumentation, Techniques or Software that will extend current research and research training capabilities in the Earth sciences. The maximum request is $500,000.
- Community Facility Support to make complex and expensive instruments, systems of instruments or services broadly available to the Earth science research and student communities. There are no maximum request limitations but potential proposers of new Community Facilities must contact cognizant Program Officers before submission.
Title: Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports research involving studies of cloud physics; atmospheric electricity; radiation; boundary layer & turbulence; the initiation, growth, & propagation of gravity waves; all aspects of mesoscale meteorological phenomena, including their morphological, thermodynamic, & kinematic structure; development of mesoscale systems & precipitation processes; & transfer of energy between scales.
Title: Hydrologic Sciences
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports research on the fluxes of water in the environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy transport function of the water cycle, from rainfall to runoff to infiltration and streamflow; evaporation and transpiration; the flow of water in soils and aquifers; and the transport of suspended, dissolved, and colloidal components. Studies may address physical, chemical, and biological processes that are coupled directly to water transport.
Title: Geophysics Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports basic laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational research in the physics of solid earth to explore its composition, structure, and processes. Topics include seismicity, seismic wave propagation and nature and occurrence of geophysical hazards; Earth's magnetic, gravity, and electrical fields; Earth's thermal structure; geodynamics; geophysical studies of active deformation, including geodesy, and theoretical and experimental studies of Earth materials.
Title: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify landscapes over a variety of length and time scales. Encourages research that investigates quantitatively the coupling and feedback among such processes, their rates, and their relative roles, especially in the contexts of variation in climatic and tectonic influences and in light of changes due to human impact.
Title: Climate and Large-Scale Dynamcs (CLD)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Program has two goals: to advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate atmosphere’s synoptic and planetary circulation, weather, and climate; and to sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research. Research topics include theoretical, observational, and modeling studies of the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere; and synoptic scale weather phenomena.
Title: Aeronomy
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports research from the mesosphere to the outer reaches of the thermosphere and all regions of the Earth’s ionosphere. The Aeronomy Program seeks to understand phenomena of ionization, recombination, chemical reaction, photo emission, and the transport of energy, and momentum within and between these regions. The program also supports research into the coupling of this global system to the stratosphere below and magnetosphere above and the plasma physics of phenomena manifested in the coupled ionosphere-magnetosphere system, including the effects of high-power radio wave modification.
Title: Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports fundamental research in mechanics as related to the behavior of deformable solid materials and respective structures under internal and external actions. Areas of emphasis include advances in theory, experimental and computational methods in mechanics, and the use of contemporary mechanics methods to address modern challenges in materials and structures.
Title: Comcast Innovation Fund
Sponsor: Comcast Cable
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description:
- Open Source Development Grants: Funds new or continued development of open source software in areas of interest to Comcast or of benefit to the Internet and broadband industries.
- General Research Grant: Provides an unrestricted award of funds to support researchers, usually at colleges and universities. These grants are focused on supporting excellent technical research in a wide variety of fields that are relevant to the broadband industry and/or to Comcast specifically.
- Target Research Grants: More narrowly tailored and typically study more specific issues than general research grants.
- Useful & Interesting Things Grants: Funds work that contributes to the Internet novel and useful ways. Applicants can be individuals who are working on ideas, or technologies, or approaches that are useful and valuable to the Internet. Sometimes it’s a conference that’s being organized, or a new piece of hardware that’s being invented. Either way, it helps advance the growth of the Internet and the Internet Community.
Title: Small Grants Program
Sponsor: Monarch Butterfly Fund
Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime
Description: Welcomes proposals from organizations or individuals for activities that support conservation of monarch butterflies or their habitat.
Title: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports hypothesis-driven research that increases our understanding of surface Earth processes and environmental change. The program supports all aspects of the study of life based on the geologic record of fossil organisms, modern sedimentary processes (including organic and inorganic processes) and deep-time records of these processes, and the science of dating and measuring events and processes of the geologic past.
Title: Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports activities that develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs within theADIIS Directorate through measurements, standards, data, industry and technology studies, and technology research and development (R&D). Specifically, the ADIIS Grant Program seeks to support technology innovation and service to American industry in the following fields: bioscience, chemistry, dimensional metrology, electronics, engineering, infrastructure, information technology, manufacturing, manufacturing metrology, materials science and engineering, nanotechnology, neutron research, optics, and physics.
Title: General Grants
Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
Due Date: Accepted on a Rolling Basis and Reviewed Quarterly
Description: Supports the Corporation’s strategic business goals, primarily in the focus areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and military and veteran causes.
Title: Tectonics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere (i.e. above the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary). The Program focuses on deformation processes and their tectonic drivers that operate at any depth within the continental lithosphere, on time-scales of decades/centuries (e.g. active tectonics) and longer, and at micro- to plate boundary/orogenic belt length-scales.
Title: Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Fellowships are awarded to highly qualified early career investigators to carry out an independent research program. The research plan of each Fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of AGS disciplines. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years with Fellowships that can be taken to the institution of their choice. The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with experience in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions and help establish them in leadership positions within the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences community.
Title: Antarctic Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports scientific research in Antarctica. Program goals include: expand fundamental knowledge of the Antarctic region; improve understanding of interactions between the Antarctic region and global earth systems; and utilize the unique characteristics of the Antarctic continent as an observing platform.
Title: Petrology and Geochemistry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports basic research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation, and subsequent petrologic and geochemical modification via igneous and metamorphic processes. Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology.
Title: Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports innovative research in circuit and system hardware and signal processing techniques. CCSS also supports system and network architectures for communications and sensing to enable the next-generation cyber-physical systems (CPS) that leverage computation, communication, and sensing integrated with physical domains.
Title: Arctic Research Opportunities
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports research about the Arctic, including field and modeling studies, data analysis, and synthesis about the arctic region. Goal is to gain better understanding of the Arctic's physical, biological, geological, chemical, social, and cultural processes, and the interactions of ocean, land, atmosphere, biological, and human systems in the Arctic. Funding tracks include: Arctic Natural Sciences; Arctic Social Sciences; Arctic System Science; and Arctic Observing Network.
Title: Transitions to Excellence and Cellular Biosciences Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: This funding mechanism is designed to facilitate and promote a PI's ability to effective adopt empowering technologies that might not be readily accessible in the PI's current research environment or collaboration network. Transformative research likely spans disciplines and minimizing the practical barriers to doing so will strengthen research programs poised to make significant contributions. The award is intended to allow mid-career or later-stage researchers (Associate or Full Professor, or equivalent) to expand or make a transition in their research programs via a sabbatical leave or similar mechanism of professional development and then develop that research program in their own lab.
Title: Nanoscale Interactions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The goal of the Nanoscale Interactions program is to support research to advance fundamental and quantitative understanding of the interactions of nanomaterials and nanosystems with biological and environmental media. Materials of interest include one- to three-dimensional nanostructures, heterogeneous nano-bio hybrid assemblies, dendritic and micelle structures, quantum dots, and other nanoparticles. Collaborative and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
Title: Plant Biotic Interactions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Notice seeking proposals for research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and pests. This program supports projects focused on current and emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant plants.
Title: Infrastructure Capacity for Biology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Notice seeking proposals to support the development, expansion, or improvement of infrastructure that will enable fundamental research within the biological sciences. Infrastructure supported under this solicitation may include cyberinfrastructure, instrumentation, biological collections, living stocks, field stations, marine labs, or other resources that are shared and openly accessible.
Title: Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Program aims to catalyze new science and engineering discovery pathways through early-stage collaborative activities between disciplinary scientists and engineers as well as developers/implementers of innovative cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities, services, and approaches.
Title: Plant Genome Research Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports genome-scale research that addresses challenging questions of biological, societal and economic importance. PGRP encourages the development of innovative tools, technologies and resources that empower a broad plant research community to answer scientific questions on a genome-wide scale. Emphasis is placed on the scale and depth of the question being addressed and the creativity of the approach.
Title: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Program focuses on geochemical processes in terrestrial Earth’s surface environmental systems, as well as the interaction of geochemical and biological processes. The program supports field, laboratory, theoretical, and modeling studies of these processes and related mechanisms at all spatial and temporal scales.
Title: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Small, Medium, and EDU Projects: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both encouraged.

College of Liberal Arts

Title: Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports empirically grounded research that will improve understanding of the general principles and processes that underlie human social and cultural diversity, taking place at any scale from the household to the global. Funds support basic, theory-testing, and generalizable research that also addresses pathways from theory to policy. A project can be proposed to be carried out by a single researcher or a research team.
Title: Faculty Funding Opportunities
Sponsor: Institute for Humane Studies
Due Date: 8/1/22
Description:
Awards range of research fellowships and grants to support the research, publication, or convening of outstanding graduate students and faculty with interest in teaching, researching, and applying classical liberal ideas and principles in the humanities and social sciences. Supports study in a variety of fields, including economics, philosophy, law, political science, history, and sociology.
- Discourse Initiative Research Grants: Awarded to projects that hold significant promise for advancing a deeper understanding of the liberal tradition. Grants are awarded to projects that align with IHS core topics including but not limited to key challenges within a free society, cultural challenges within a liberal society, contentious topics within the liberal tradition, liberalism in times of crisis, and liberalism and its critics.
- Grant for Free Speech and Open Inquiry: Awarded to faculty interested in fostering free speech and civil discourse in academia through research, campus events, and curricula. Relevant subject areas include the history and theory of free speech, its philosophical and legal defenses, the importance of open inquiry and intellectual diversity in higher education, and much more.
- Sabbatical Research Fellowship: A highly competitive grant awarded to faculty in need of sabbatical leave. Strong preference is given to junior faculty and those without other sabbatical opportunities. Areas of interest include research in the classical liberal intellectual tradition, free/open markets, individual rights, private property, peace, prosperity, self-determination/autonomy, and other related themes.
Title: Sociology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports basic research on social organization: societies, institutions, groups, demography and processes of individual and institutional change. Encourages investigations on fundamental social processes, such as research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology.
Title: Abilene Travel Grants Program
Sponsor: Eisenhower Foundation
Due Date: 8/12/22
Description: Supports travel to Abilene, Kansas, not to exceed $1,000, where researchers may use the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential library. Allows research of primary sources in history, government, economics, communications, and international affairs.
Title: Summer Stipends
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: 9/21/22
Description: Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. Please note that TU can only nominate two faculty members per year.
Title: Research Fellowships
Sponsor: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Due Date: 9/15/2022
Description: Supports short-term research at the Johnson Library, which houses the papers of LBJ's career. Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies offers two $5,000 fellowships annually to support scholarly work in presidential studies and to honor Middleton’s contributions to the Presidential library system. Moody Research Grants are allocated at $60,000 and offer $600 to $3,000 to grantees to help defray living, travel and related expenses incurred while conducting research at the LBJ Library during the grant period.
Title: Research Fellowships in Early American Economy and Society
Sponsor: Library Company of Philadelphia
Due Date: 11/1/2022
Description: Offers three fellowships in residence to promote scholarship in early American economy and society. Postdoctoral research fellowships, with a stipend of $50,000 (annual deadline: 11/1); dissertation-level fellowships, with a stipend of up to $25,000 (annual deadline: 3/1); and one-month fellowships with stipends of $2,000 each for scholars at all levels (annual deadline: 3/1). Topics include the history of early American commerce, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, gender economy, and political economy.
Title: Research Travel Grants Program
Sponsor: Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
Due Date: 9/15/2022
Description: Provides approximately 12 awards of up to $2,200 for travel and living expenses to use the library's archival materials relating to 1960-70s U.S. domestic and economic policies, foreign affairs and national politics.
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/13/2022
Description: Supports highly innovative, interdisciplinary projects aimed at advancing rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time. Emphasis is on integration of cognitive sciences, basic sciences, and engineering for insights into healthy functions of brain, cognition, and behavior.
Title: Pilot Effectiveness Trials for Treatment, Preventive and Services Interventions (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: LOI: 30 days prior to the application due date, Deadlines in mid-October, mid-February, and mid-June through 2024
Description: Supports pilot research consistent with NIMH's priorities for preventive and therapeutic interventions with previously demonstrated efficacy, for use with broader target populations or for use in community practice settings, and research on the development and preliminary testing of innovative services interventions. Applications should provide evaluation approaches to improve mental health.
Title: Fund for Trans Generations (FTG)
Sponsor: Borealis Philanthropy
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The FTG is committed to providing rapid-response funding to trans-led organizations responding to emerging needs in their communities.FTG's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund supports mutual aid and care support networks; healing and virtual wellness spaces; online/virtual programming needs; living stipends for members and/or staff; survival needs (i.e. food, rent support, shelter, utilities); and organizing and advocacy. FTG also offers general rapid support funding to organizations and communities in need of additional resources to respond quickly to organized opposition and unanticipated events.
Title: Congressional Research Grants
Sponsor: The Dirksen Congressional Center
Due Date: Applications are accepted anytime, awards are made quarterly in January, April, July, and October
Description: Invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress.
Title: W.F. Albright Associate Fellowships
Sponsor: W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime
Description: Applicants for Associate Fellowships must be conducting research in a field within the scope of the Albright’s mission: i.e., anything ancient Near Eastern from prehistory to the Islamic period, including but not limited to: archaeology, classics, anthropology, architecture, art history, philosophy, philology, biblical studies, epigraphy, historical geography, language, literature, and religion.
Title: Special Call for Proposals: Pedagogies for Social Justice and Civic Engagement
Sponsor: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Due Date: Rolling Deadline
Description: Requests small grant proposals up to $5000 for projects that are focused on pedagogies that encourage students to critically engage with learning experiences involving social justice and civic engagement.
Title: Grant for Online Japanese Studies
Sponsor: Japan Foundation New York
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime (must be submitted at least 1 month prior to the start date of the project)
Description: Supports online projects related to Japanese Studies. The following are examples of the types of projects this program can support: online symposium, seminars, and workshops; expansion of digital archives; creation of web contents; digital exhibitions, etc.
Title: Historical Archives Program (HAP)
Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The objective is to encourage the preservation of unpublished personal research materials of established anthropologists considered of value for research on the history of anthropology. HAP grants (maximum $15,000) are offered to individuals, to assist senior scholars at the end of their careers (or their heirs) with the expense of preparing and transferring their unpublished research materials for archival deposit.
Title: Latin America Program
Sponsor: Open Society Foundations
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The Latin America Program addresses rights and governance issues in Latin America and the Caribbean through grant making, network building, and collaboration with partners. We focus on supporting Latin American and Caribbean efforts to defend democracy and increase governmental transparency, protect minority rights, reduce homicides, and reform drug policy.
Title: Grants for Projects up to $5,000
Sponsor: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports programs for full-time religion and theology faculty of IHEs and in theological schools. Grants are for projects that enhance religious and theological teaching, learning and research.
Title: High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. It is required that the proposed activity be clearly high risk in nature. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program.

College of Fine Arts & Communication

Title: Media Projects: Development and Production Grants
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: Application: 8/10/22
Description: Encourages projects that feature multiple formats to engage the public in the exploration of humanities ideas in the following areas: interactive digital media; film and television; and radio. Development grants (up to $75,000) enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production. Production grants (up to $700,000) enable producers and scholars to continue their engagement with humanities topics. Chairman's Special Awards (up to $1 million) are also available.
Title: Furthermore Grants in Publishing
Sponsor: J.M. Kaplan Fund
Due Date: 9/1/2022
Description: Supports nonfiction books about art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. Grants apply to writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, printing and binding. Makes grants between $1,500 and $15,000. There is some emphasis on New York City and state. Proposals to which a publisher is already committed are usually preferred.
Title: Millard Meiss Publication Grants
Sponsor: College Art Association
Due Date: 9/15/2022
Description: Supports book-length scholarly manuscripts that have been accepted by a commercial or university publisher but that cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Works must focus on art history, visual studies, or related subjects. Museum catalogues, excavation reports, articles, collections of previously published essays, or multi-author volumes are ineligible. Awards typically between $3,000 and $7,000. Commercial, university, and museum presses are all eligible. Applicants must hold CAA membership.
Title: Curatorial Grant Program and Fellowships
Sponsor: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Due Date: 9/1/2022
Description: Supports curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations and other cultural organizations that originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual art. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogs, education, audience development, and other related activities. Also supports creation of work through artist in residence programs, the work of choreographers and performing artists when the visual arts are an element of a production, and equitable access to resources. Awards generally range from $10,000-$200,000. Fellowships up to $50,000.
Title: Art History Grants
Sponsor: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Due Date: 9/1/2022, 12/15/2022
Description: History of Art Grants: supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.
Title: Japanese-Language Education Project Grant
Sponsor: Japan Foundation, Los Angeles
Due Date: Now accepting applications for nationwide/statewide/regional projects which will start and finish between 4/1/2022 and 3/15/2023. Applications should be submitted two months prior to the project start date
Description: Provides financial assistance for projects which promote Japanese language education in a wide area (nationwide/statewide/region-wide), not exceeding $5,000. The project should benefit multiple Japanese language programs and as many teachers as possible.
Title: Grant for Online Japanese Studies
Sponsor: Japan Foundation New York
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime (must be submitted at least 1 month prior to the start date of the project)
Description: Supports online projects related to Japanese Studies. The following are examples of the types of projects this program can support: online symposium, seminars, and workshops; expansion of digital archives; creation of web contents; digital exhibitions, etc.
Title: Knight Foundation Funding
Sponsor: Knight Foundation
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
Description: Seeks innovative ideas that advance informed and engaged communities. Program areas include journalism, community, and the arts.
Title: Arts and Cultural Heritage
Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Due Date: Inquires can be made anytime, full proposal due upon invitation, final review of those proposals takes place at meetings of the Board of Trustees in March, June, September, and December
Description: Seeks to nurture exceptional creative accomplishment, scholarship, and conservation practices in the arts, while promoting a diverse and sustainable ecosystem for these disciplines. The program supports the work of outstanding artists, curators, conservators, and scholars, and endeavors to strengthen performing arts organizations, art museums, research institutes, and conservation centers.
Title: JustFilms
Sponsor: Ford Foundation
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime, Full Proposal due upon invitation
Description: Supports artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these projects.
Title: Responsive Grants
Sponsor: Henry Luce Foundation
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
Description: Seeks to support a wide range of collection-based projects that advance the understanding and presentation of art of the United States. Eligible collection areas include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, naïve and outsider art, traditional and studio crafts, architecture, design, and all aspects of Native American arts.

General & Multiple Disciplines

Title: Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/15/22
Description: Supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to public policy and the provision of public services. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) the study of individual and group decision-making, political institutions (appointed or elected), attitude and preference formation and expression, electoral processes and voting, public administration, and public policy.
Title: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/24/22
Description: Supports undergraduate research participation through two mechanisms. REU Sites support independent projects to initiate and conduct research projects involving several undergraduates. REU Supplements support the addition of undergraduates to ongoing, new, or renewal NSF-funded projects (deadlines vary).
Title: Perception, Action, and Cognition
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/1/2022
Description: Supports research on perception, action and cognition, with emphasis on research strongly grounded in theory. Topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control and developmental issues. Program encompasses a range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.
Title: Distinguished Scholars Grants
Sponsor: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Due Date: 8/1/2022
Description: The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
Title: Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/3/2022
Description: Program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.
Title: Action Research Projects
Sponsor: Sociological Initiatives Foundation
Due Date: 8/16/2022
Description: Supports projects that link research with a concrete social action strategy in order to find solutions to social problems. Applications are encouraged from academic-community partnerships and from academics that organize or link to a constituency through their research. SIF has funded projects in the areas of civic participation, community organizing, crime and law, education, health, housing, immigration, labor organizing, and language/literacy.
Title: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/16/2022
Description: Supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales.
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/13/2022
Description: Supports highly innovative, interdisciplinary projects aimed at advancing rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time. Emphasis is on integration of cognitive sciences, basic sciences, and engineering for insights into healthy functions of brain, cognition, and behavior.
Title: Perception, Action, and Cognition
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Research Proposals: 7/15/2022-8/1/2022
Description: Supports research on perception, action and cognition, with emphasis on research strongly grounded in theory. Topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control and developmental issues. Program encompasses a range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.
Title: Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 7/15/2022-8/1/2022
Description: Supports research on perception, action and cognition, with emphasis on research strongly grounded in theory. Topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control and developmental issues. Program encompasses a range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.
Title: Major Initiatives
Sponsor: Teagle Foundation
Due Date: Concept papers are accepted on a rolling basis for the Knowledge for Freedom and Education for American Civic Life programs. The Teagle Foundation's fiscal year begins on July 1 and its Board of Directors reviews all grant requests when it meets in November, February, and May. Full proposals will be due upon invitation. Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts concept papers are due 8/27.
Description:
The Teagle Foundation's commitment to strengthening liberal arts education and ensuring its benefits are broadly accessible infuses all of our grantmaking. Our grant initiatives foreground the role of faculty--as teachers in the classroom, as masters of the curriculum, and as agents of change--to transform undergraduate education.
- Knowledge for Freedom: supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility.
- Education for American Civic Life: supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities.
- Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts: supports statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts.
Title: Research Grant Program
Sponsor: Internet Society Foundation
Due Date: Statements of Interest accepted anytime.
Description: Supports global research collaborations that advance understanding of the Internet and its value for all. Areas of Focus: Greening the Internet and the Internet Economy.
Title: Capital/Operating/Program Grants
Sponsor: Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Due Date: LOIs accepted throughout the year
Description: These grants serve a range of populations primarily within the Foundation’s priority communities. Most grant requests should align with one of the four core focus areas: Housing, Health, Jobs, or Education. The Community Services focus area is intended for community organizations operating multiple programs that meet a range of needs, spanning these four core focus areas.
Title: Hayek Fund for Scholars
Sponsor: Institute for Humane Studies
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Supports students and faculty who are researching and teaching ideas within the classical liberal tradition inside the bounds of the social sciences and humanities by funding a wide range of research and career-advancing activities. From paying for PhD application fees to conference presentation travel* to the purchase of crucial data sets, this unique fund helps cover an extensive array of expenses.
Title: Arnold Bentley New Initiatives Fund
Sponsor: Sempre: Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research
Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
Description: Support new, interdisciplinary initiatives concerned with the advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education.
Title: Grant Programs
Sponsor: Nathan Cummings Foundation
Due Date: LOIs are accepted anytime and reviewed within 60 days. Applications are reviewed three times/year.
Description: Supports innovative organizations that share the vision of a society that measures its success by how it treats those who have the least, and that works to close the gap between America’s promise and its imperfect practice. Focus areas include: Inclusive Clean Economy, Racial and Economic Justice, Corporate and Political Accountability, Voice, Creativity and Culture.
Title: Amplifying, Disseminating, and Increasing the Public Reach of Research and Practice Supported by BTtoP
Sponsor: Bringing Theory to Practice
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: BTtoP’s mission is grounded in three commitments. We believe that undergraduate education should be holistic and transformative, nurturing active and integrative learning, personal well-being, preparation for meaningful work, and democratic citizenship. We believe that “educating the whole student” must include students of all backgrounds, interests, and educational settings. And we believe that the first two commitments require significant change in higher education. Fundable activities include: campus visits and convenings, presentations and reports about research and innovative practice, public and high-visibility writing, media and digital projects.
Title: Various Grants
Sponsor: David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Due Date: Requests Accepted Anytime
Description: The problems the foundation seeks to solve are complex, requiring long-term commitment to create lasting change. Funds requests for: Conservation and Science; Children, Families, and Communities; Population and Reproductive Health; Organizational Effectiveness; Mission Investing.
Title: Fluor Foundation
Sponsor: The Fluor Foundation
Due Date: Initial LOIs are reviewed on an ongoing basis
Description: Fluor considers requests for operating, program, capital or endowment support. Priority is given to organizations that feature employee volunteer participation. Areas of focus include: Education (emphasis on STEM), Social Services, Community and Economic Development, and the Environment.

International

Title: Fellowships in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Sponsor: W.F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research (Jerusalem)
Due Date: Deadlines vary by program, but most are due in October or January
Description: Supports students and scholars in ancient Near Eastern studies, including fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, Bible, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology and religion or related disciplines from pre-history, through early Islamic period. Typically awards up to 20 fellowships annually. Research period should be continuous, without frequent trips outside the country. Residence at the Albright Institute is required for most awards.
Title: Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)
Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development
Due Date: Applications Reviewed on a Rolling Basis
Description: Open innovation inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions of people around the world. It also means that game-changing ideas and solutions come from anyone, anywhere, and at any time. Provides flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions. We look for solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability.