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.

College of Health Professions

Title: Retirement Research Grant
Sponsor: The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF)
Due Date: LOI-5/1; Proposals-5/5, 8/5
Description: Funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network.
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: 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: 10/13/2023
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: 10/13/2023, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6/16, 10/16 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 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: 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: 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.
Title: AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program (R03)
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 6/16/2023
Description: AHRQ, in partnership with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), invites applications for funding to support innovative patient-centered outcomes research small pilot projects in Learning Health Systems (LHS) that evaluate the outcomes of embedded research and evaluate the processes by which embedded research can enhance impact, stakeholder engagement, and other health system-identified outcomes of interest.
Title: Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders (R03 Clinical Trail Optional)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/16, 2/16, 6/16 through March 2024
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research grant applications to support research designed to elucidate the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). An R03 grant supports small, discrete, well-defined projects that can be completed in two years and that require limited resources. An R03 grant application may not contain extensive detail or discussion. R03 applications may include development of new research methodologies or technology, secondary analysis of existing data, and pilot or feasibility studies. Preliminary data are not required, particularly in applications proposing pilot or feasibility studies.
Title: Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 10/16, 2/16, 6/16 through March 2024
Description: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research grant applications to support research designed to elucidate the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development. Exploratory, novel studies that break new ground or extend previous discoveries toward new directions are appropriate for this mechanism. No preliminary data are required but may be included if available.
Title: AHRQ Conference Grant Programs
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 05/01/2023, 08/01/2023, 11/01/2023
Description: Supports planned conferences that help further AHRQ's mission to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Title: AHRQ Small Research Grant Program
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 06/16/2023
Description: Supports ongoing small research projects. The R03 grant mechanism covers an array of health services research 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: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Small Research Program (R03)
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Due Date: 06/16/2023, 10/16/2023
Description: Supports the development and understanding of 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.
Title: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through February 2025
Description: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood. These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
Title: Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 11/03/2025
Description: Through this award, investigators will endeavor to develop a mature and sustainable research infrastructure to support projects that address key interdisciplinary aging research questions.
Title: Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
Due Date: 11/03/2025
Description: Develops novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.
Title: Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets in Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Due Date: 2/28, 10/28 through October 2025
Description: Encourages R21 applications that propose to conduct secondary analyses using existing human datasets in areas relevant to the National Heart, Lung, Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders Institute (NHLBI) scientific mission. The FOA aims to stimulate the use of existing human datasets to investigate novel scientific ideas, and/or generate new models, systems, tools, or technologies that have the potential for significant impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research. Generation of new primary data is not allowed.
Title: Small Research Grants for Analyses of Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Data (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through October 2025
Description: Seeks proposals for small research projects focused on analyses of childhood cancer and/or structural birth defects genomic datasets generated by the Kids First program and/or associated phenotypic datasets.
Title: AHRQ Small Research Projects to Advance the Science of Primary Care
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: LOI due 05/17/2023; Application due 06/16/2023
Description: Supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program 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: Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets
Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
Due Date: 02/16, 06/16, 10/16 through 2025
Description: Supports the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (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.
Title: Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes
Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
Due Date: 01/09/2026
Description: Solicits innovative research to optimize HIV prevention and care which is aligned with NIMH Division of AIDS Research (DAR) priorities. Applications may include formative basic behavioral and social science to better understand a step or steps in the HIV prevention or care continuum, and/or the initial development and pilot testing of innovative intervention approaches.
Title: Hillman Innovation Programs
Sponsor: The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Due Date: 05/23/2023
Description:
Seeks proposals for innovative, early stage nursing-driven interventions that: Challenge conventional strategies for delivering and improving care to marginalized populations in the United States; Demonstrate potential as a best-in-class intervention; Narrow gaps in health equity; and show potential for scalability.
- Hillman Emergent Innovation: Accelerates the development of bold, early stage (untested or minimal-evidence) interventions.
- Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life: Accelerates the development of bold, early stage (untested or minimal-evidence) interventions focused on serious illness and end of life care.
- Hillman Innovations in Care: Advances innovative, evidence-based models of care that are ready to grow.
Title: Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/26/2023, 09/28/2023
Description: Provides research grant support for faculty investigators who have prior experience in leading externally funded, independent research but are not currently funded by any NIH Research Project Grants with the exception of SuRE or SuRE-First awards.
Title: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/25/2023
Description: Supports educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. The educational activities should have a primary focus on research experiences and curriculum or methods development.
Title: Grants Programs
Sponsor: Retirement Research Foundation
Due Date: 11/01/2023
Description: Supports services, education, research, and advocacy projects related to the elderly and their retirement. Priority projects have regional or national impact. Requests for support of projects focusing on advocacy, research, education, or training will be considered from anywhere in the U.S.
Title: Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 1/25, 5/25, 9/25 annually
Description: Supports a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and priority research interests of AHRQ.
Title: Making Health Care Safer in Ambulatory Care Settings and Long-term Care Facilities
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Due Date: 1/25, 5/25, 9/25 annually
Description:
Funds large research demonstration and implementation projects that pertain to ambulatory care settings and long-term care facilities with a focus on implementing evidence-based processes to improve patient safety, especially those involving transitions in care.

AHRQ is interested in studies in these two settings that develop, utilize, and evaluate strategies to implement existing measures, metrics, tools or practices that have already been validated and have been shown to be efficacious in improving patient safety sites.
Title: AD/ADRD Clinical Trials Short Course
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/25/2023
Description: supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
Title: NIAID Research Education Program Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce
Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Due Date: 05/25/2023
Description: Supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.
Title: Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/26/2023
Description: Provides support to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, mentoring, and career development elements to prepare trainees for the completion of research-focused higher degree programs in biomedical fields.
Title: Short Courses for Mental Health Related Research
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Due Date: LOI due 30 days prior to deadline; Application due 5/25 through 2025
Description: Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
Title: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through 2026
Description: Supports translational and clinical research to (1) advance precision medicine in pregnant persons, lactating persons, and children through the development of novel tools, models, and other technologies that could have a direct clinical or health impact; (2) enhance the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of drug action, including the role of pediatric ontogeny and the dynamic physiological changes that occur during pregnancy and lactation; and (3) discover and develop novel therapeutics or enhance the usage of existing drugs or drug repurposing for safer and more effective medications in pregnant and lactating persons, neonates, and children.
Title: Hevolution Foundation Scientific Conferences Fund
Sponsor: American Federation for Aging Research
Due Date: 07/31/2023
Description: Supports high quality conferences, scientific meetings, and workshops relevant to its mission to drive efforts to extend healthy human lifespan and understand the processes of aging.
Title: McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
Sponsor: American Federation for Aging Research
Due Date: 07/31/2023
Description: Supports studies focusing on clinical translational research and another award toward understanding basic biological mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss.
Title: Accelerating Advancements in Women’s Health
Sponsor: Pfizer Global Medical Grants
Due Date: LOI due 05/10/2023
Description: Supports the global healthcare community’s independent initiatives (e.g., research, quality improvement or education) to improve patient outcomes in areas of unmet medical need that are aligned with Pfizer’s medical and/or scientific strategies.
Title: Playmaker Grant
Sponsor: The Aircast Foundation
Due Date: 06/03/2023
Description: Aims to advance exploratory projects by providing start-up funding, seed money, bridge/gap funding, or supplemental funding for an ambitious investigative team. Criteria and metrics utilized in the proposed study must be determined by best scientific evidence and designed to improve the understanding of an emerging or novel technology in orthopaedic sports medicine.
Title: Developmental Sciences
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/31/2023
Description: Supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
Title: Data Visualization of Structural Racism and Place
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Due Date: 06/02/2023
Description: Funds up to five interdisciplinary teams that each consist of researchers/data producers, data scientists, communications experts, designers, and national social change networks/alliances or national-level social change organizations. Funding will support the creation of data visualizations as tools to provide an understanding of structural racism’s impact on place, health, and wellbeing.
Title: Magistro Family Foundation Research Grant
Sponsor: Foundation for Physical Therapy Research
Due Date: LOI: 06/01/2023
Description: Grants of $100,000 over up to two years will be awarded in support of research projects dedicated to evaluating the effectiveness of interventions most delivered by physical therapists, as determined by current practice standards developing innovative physical therapist interventions and evaluating their effectiveness. Preferred consideration will be given to studies that examine interventions’ therapeutic effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. FPTR supports only those intervention studies in which physical therapists provide the interventions or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.
Title: Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 06/16, 10/16, 02/16 through February 2026
Description: Supports innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship, and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects. This includes, but is not limited to, studies to improve knowledge of the impact of climate change related environmental effects on cancer risks, control and behaviors.
Title: Behavioral Interventions Scholars—Graduate Student Program
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families
Due Date: 06/04/2023
Description: Supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are using approaches grounded in behavioral science or behavioral economics to examine research questions of relevance to social services programs and policies. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to apply a behavioral science or behavioral economics lens to issues facing families in the United States with low incomes, and to foster faculty mentorship of high-quality doctoral students.

College of Education

Title: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 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: The Racial Equity Research Grants
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Due Date: 08/09/2023
Description: Supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education.
Title: William T. Grant Scholars Program
Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
Due Date: 07/05/2023
Description: This career development program supports promising early-career researchers with interests in reducing inequality or understanding the use of research evidence.
Title: Proposals for Program Evaluations
Sponsor: Brady Education Foundation
Due Date: 04/01, 08/01, 12/01 through 2025
Description: Seeks proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.
Title: Fulbright Teacher Exchange Programs
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
Due Date: 05/19/2023
Description: Provides professional learning programs for elementary and secondary (K-12) educators in the United States and around the world. Fulbright Teachers develop their educational practice and bring global knowledge, skills, and perspectives to their schools.
Title: Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Dissertation Grants
Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
Due Date: 05/19/2023
Description: Supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students working on child care policy issues in partnership with a Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) agency or administrator and with faculty mentors. These grants focus on building capacity in the research field by: addressing questions relevant to child care policy decision-making and program administration, supporting applied research experiences through collaboration with CCDF agencies, and fostering mentoring relationships between faculty members and doctoral students.
Title: Early Childhood Education Grants
Sponsor: The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Due Date: LOI due 05/31/2023
Description: Provides seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children.
Title: William T. Grant Scholars Program
Sponsor: Grant (William T.) Foundation
Due Date: 07/05/2023
Description: Supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Title: Policy Fellowship
Sponsor: Society for Research in Child Development
Due Date: 06/30/2023
Description: Supports fellowship programs for child development researchers. Both fellowships provide opportunities for researchers to come to Washington, DC and use developmental science outside of the academic setting to inform public policy.
Title: Vision Grants
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Due Date: Applications Open mid-June 2023; LOI: 08/15/2023; Full Proposal: 09/14/2023
Description: The Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as core that visionary, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research projects require time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan.
Title: Modeling and Simulation Program (MSP)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Due Date: 06/23/2023
Description: The MSP is designed to promote the study of modeling and simulation at institutions of higher education (IHEs) through collaboration with new and existing programs, and specifically to promote the use of technology through the creation of accurate models that can simulate processes or recreate real life, by--
- Establishing a task force at the Department to raise awareness of and define the study of modeling and simulation;
- Providing grants to IHEs to develop new modeling and simulation degree programs; and
- Providing grants for IHEs to enhance existing modeling and simulation degree programs.

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: 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.
Title: Economic Literacy Grants Program
Sponsor: Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, Inc.
Due Date: LOI accepted anytime, recommended deadlines are 3/10 and 9/10, annually
Description: Supports a wide range of projects aimed at increasing economic literacy, especially the best way to teach the subject (research, curriculum development); the impact of economic education (policy studies, measurement of economic understanding); and encouragement of youth/young adults to participate in the economic system after finishing school (research, conferences, outreach programs).
Title: Research Report Stipends
Sponsor: IBM Center for The Business of Government
Due Date: 09/01/2023
Description: Stimulates research and facilitates discussion of new approaches to improving the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local, and international levels. Solicits proposals that result in reports for government leaders and public managers in the following eight research areas: restoring trust in government, addressing equity, developing actionable insights, driving agility, accelerating digital, fostering resilient institutions, reimagining the government workplace.
Title: Research Grants and Fellowship Programs
Sponsor: Hagley Museum and Library
Due Date: 06/30/2023, 10/31/2023
Description: Provides fellowships to use Hagley's collections in American economic, business, industrial and technological history.
Title: Fellowship and Internship Programs
Sponsor: American Institute for Economic Research
Due Date: 07/01/2023
Description: Support scholars in fields of economics, political science, philosophy, history, and law.
Title: Grant Program
Sponsor: Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Due Date: 07/01/2023
Description: Supports research addressing civility and informed citizens, free markets, constitutional and capital campaigns. The foundation is committed to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it.
Title: Behavioral Interventions Scholars—Graduate Student Program
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families
Due Date: 06/04/2023
Description: Supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are using approaches grounded in behavioral science or behavioral economics to examine research questions of relevance to social services programs and policies. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to apply a behavioral science or behavioral economics lens to issues facing families in the United States with low incomes, and to foster faculty mentorship of high-quality doctoral students.

Fisher College of Science & Mathematics

Title: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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.
Title: Grants-in-Aid and Research Grants
Sponsor: Whitehall Foundation
Due Date:LOI: 1/15, 4/15, 10/1, Application Deadline: 6/1, 9/1, 2/15. If any of the above dates fall on a holiday or weekend, the next business day will be the deadline.
Description: Supports basic research in vertebrate and invertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology in the U.S.
- Grants-in-Aid: provide up to $30,000 for one year to researchers at the assistant professor level or senior researchers who have not received significant funding.
- Research Grants: range from $30,000-$75,000 per year for up to three years to established researchers of any age who have not received significant funding.
Title: Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/3/2023
Description: Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues.
Title: INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Clinical Research Short Course
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 06/27/2023, 06/27/2024, 06/27/2025
Description: Encourages applications that develop creative and innovative short courses to train the next generation of DS researchers in state-of-the-art clinical research skills that will improve the understanding of the co-occurring clinical features in DS and support development of new treatments for health conditions experienced by those with DS.
Title: Specialty Crop Research Initiative
Sponsor: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Due Date: 06/12/2023
Description: Addresses the critical needs of the specialty crop industry by awarding grants to support research and extension that address key challenges of national, regional, and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of food and agriculture, including conventional and organic food production systems.
Title: Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Support for Fieldwork
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Full Proposal: 06/01/2023
Description: Supports scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean with logistics provided by OPP's Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics Section (AIL). Antarctic fieldwork is supported only for research that must be performed, or is best performed, in Antarctica.
Title: Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 09/14/2023
Description: Seeks to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics). The ExLENT program will support inclusive experiential learning opportunities designed to provide cohorts of diverse learners with the crucial skills needed to succeed in emerging technology fields and prepare them to enter the workforce ready to solve our Nation’s most pressing scientific and societal challenges.
Title: Carderock Research Projects
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense/Naval Surface Warfare Center-Carderock
Due Date: 11/14/2023
Description: Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division is interested in receiving proposals for the following Basic Research Opportunity Areas:
- College - University Student and Faculty Research Projects: NSWCCD is interested in receiving proposals directed toward student or faculty general research projects where the focus is upon technologies and capabilities outlined in the Doing Business with Carderock website under the Partnering with Carderock tab. NSWCCD is especially, but not solely, interested in research projects dealing with Machine Learning, Data Analytics & Modeling, Data Visualizations, Cyber Security, Complex Systems & Organizational Dynamics, Operations Analysis and Military Utility/Impact Analysis, Knowledge Management & Retention, and Web Presence with Tool Implementation strategies (both for Business Operations and Technical applications).
- College - University Student Capstone and Senior Research Projects: SWCCD seeks proposals for novel research projects whose intent is the development of future naval scientists and engineers. NSWCCD is especially interested in technical projects dealing with Hydrodynamics (specifically the interaction of fluid flow over rough or bio-fouled surfaces), Unmanned Vehicle Dynamics & Control, tool development for Automated Ship Design, Extreme Environment Materials Development (e.g. Ultra-high Temperature Erosion & Corrosion), Automated & Advanced Materials Processing and Characterization (including Modeling & Simulation), and Structural Health Monitoring.
Title: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2022 (ROSES-2022)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Due Date: Various deadlines by program through 5/12/2023
Description: Through this ROSES NRA, NASA encourages the participation of the space and Earth science communities in SMD’s research and technology programs. These programs form the foundation of both the basic and applied research that allows NASA’s space and Earth science programs to be properly planned and carried through to the successful interpretation of data and its application to the needs of end users.
Title: Research Opportunities in Aeronautics 2023 (ROA-2023)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Due Date: Various deadlines by program through 1/31/2024
Description: Solicits foundational and system-level research in support of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This NRA covers a variety of topics in aeronautics fundamental research that are being pursued by NASA personnel.
Title: Research Opportunities in Physical Sciences (ROPS)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Due Date: Various deadlines by program through 8/31/2025
Description: This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits physical science research to be conducted in a variety of venues, such as aboard the International Space Station (ISS), other space stations, free flyers, suborbital flights, Gateway, lunar surface, or performed as ground-based research (e.g., on Earth-based reduced-gravity platforms, in ground facilities, conducted as computational and theoretical investigations).
Title: Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 02/18/2025
Description: The aim of this solicitation is to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire Earth. The Biology Integration Institutes (BII) program supports collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.
Title: Smart and Connected Communities
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals accepted at anytime
Description: Supports strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning. Proposals must meaningfully integrate across both social and technological research dimensions and should include community engagement elements.
Title: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 02/01/2024
Description: Supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects. CICI seeks proposals in three program areas:
- Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): Projects in this program area should support novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration, encourages the adoption of security into the scientific workflow, and helps create a holistic, integrated security environment that spans the entire scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
- Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): Projects in this program area should leverage instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts that can help support reproducible security research, testing and evaluation.
- Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): Projects in this program area should improve the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. The TCR area further encourages transition activities that advance the deployment and use of reproducibility in CI, workflows, and data.
Title: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program Instrument Acquisition or Development
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 11/16/2026
Description: Provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.
Title: 2023 Human Exploration Research Opportunities (HERO)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Due Date: 11/19/2023
Description: Seeking proposals to provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration.
Title: Refuge Enhancement Non-Infrastructure
Sponsor: Department of the Interior
Due Date: 09/10/2023
Description: Successful projects will be related to identified FWS priorities or projects at national wildlife refuges that enhance the visitor experience, promote wildlife-dependent outdoor recreation, provide sustainable wildlife habitat, provide career training and mentoring opportunities, and engage the community in special events and other opportunities to participate in wildlife-dependent outdoor recreation on FWS lands and waters.
Title: Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow (IMPAQT)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Due Date: 06/05/2023
Description: Invites submissions of Abstracts for innovative exploratory research concepts in the technical domain of quantum computing applications.
Title: Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 5/25/2023
Description: The purpose of this solicitation is to broaden participation in innovation ecosystems that advance emerging technologies (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics) by supporting capacity-building efforts at institutions of higher education (IHEs) interested in growing external partnerships. IHEs eligible to apply for funding under this solicitation are only those considered as neither R1 nor R2 institutions according to the 2021 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Title: Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 07/10/23; 11/13/23; 03/11/24; 07/09/24; 11/12/24
Description: Invites applications proposing new tests, animal models, techniques, etc. to advance research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its related dementias (ADRD) that need additional preliminary data with broader dissemination to establish them for more general use in this research field.
Title: FY23 Recovery Implementation
Sponsor: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Due Date: 09/30/2023
Description: The principal objective of this Recovery Implementation funding opportunity is to support the implementation of priority recovery actions for federally endangered and threatened species. The ESA conveys the importance of recovery plans as a central organizing tool for guiding each species’ recovery process by requiring their development for every listed species. Recovery plans establish an overall recovery vision that, among other things:
- Defines the point at which protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are no longer needed,
- Identifies and prioritizes the most effective and feasible suite of recovery actions that will promote species survival and recovery,
- Provides the public and policy makers with an overall estimate of the time and cost to recover species, and the ability to measure success and resources needs, and
- Aids the Service in working with others to improve the status for imperiled species.
Title: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T35)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/25, 09/25, 01/25 through May 8, 2026
Description: Seeks applications to develop and/or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral students interested in careers in biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research. Many NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) use this NRSA program exclusively to support intensive, short-term research training experiences for health professional students (medical students, veterinary students, and/or students in other health-professional programs) during the summer.
Title: Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: 01/16/2024
Description: Seeks proposals for novel architecture concepts, systems, technologies, and capabilities that enable leap-ahead improvements for future tranches of currently planned proliferated architecture capability layers, or enable new capability layers to address other emerging or evolving warfighter needs.
Title: Nanoscale Interactions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Accepted anytime
Description: Supports research to advance fundamental and quantitative understanding of the interactions of nanomaterials and nanosystems with biological and environmental media. Annual deadline: proposals are accepted anytime.
Title: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 3/15 annually
Description: Supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
Title: Seeding Solutions
Sponsor: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Due Date: 06/28/2023
Description: Seeks to award approximately ten meritorious applications, prioritizing those projects that emphasize a commitment to cross-sector partnerships. To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas or AgMission.
Title: Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/26/2023, 09/28/2023
Description: Provides research grant support for faculty investigators who have prior experience in leading externally funded, independent research but are not currently funded by any NIH Research Project Grants with the exception of SuRE or SuRE-First awards.
Title: Travel Grants and Mentoring Travel Grants
Sponsor: Association for Women in Mathematics
Due Date: 10/01/2023
Description: Supports travel grants for women mathematics researchers and educators. The goal of this FOA is to enable women to attend conferences in fields supported by the NSF's Mathematical Sciences Division.
Title: Grants Program
Sponsor: Environmental Research and Education Foundation
Due Date: 12/01/2023
Description: Supports research and education on solid waste management, greater sustainability, environmental stewardship, efficiency, and increased knowledge. Solicited proposals must respond to annual research agendas. Focus areas include waste minimization; recycling; waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products; strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses; and landfilling.
Title: Grants and Fellowships
Sponsor: Lalor Foundation
Due Date: 11/01/2022
Description: Supports basic postdoctoral research in mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.
Title: Partnerships for Innovation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 09/05/2023
Description: Offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.
- Technology Translation: allows NSF-funded researchers to further develop their NSF-funded research with promising commercial potential and societal impact.
- Research Partnerships: supports technology development activities through a multi-organization collaboration.
Title: NIAID Research Education Program Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce
Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Due Date: 05/25/2023
Description: Supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.
Title: Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 05/26/2023
Description: Provides support to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, mentoring, and career development elements to prepare trainees for the completion of research-focused higher degree programs in biomedical fields.
Title: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: The primary objective of the RARE program is to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. By providing re-entry points to active academic research, the RARE program will reinvest in the nation’s most highly trained scientists and engineers, while broadening participation and increasing diversity of experience.
Title: Defense Established Program To Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR)
Sponsor: Department of Defense
Due Date: 11/20/2023
Description: DEPSCoR's objectives are to:
- increase the number of university researchers in eligible States/Territories capable of performing science and engineering (S&E research responsive to the needs of the DoD; and
- enhance the capabilities of institutions of higher education (IHE) in eligible States/Territories (listed below) to develop, plan, and execute (S&E) research that is relevant to the mission of the DoD, and competitive under the peer-review systems used for awarding Federal research assistance;
- increase the probability of long-term growth in the competitively awarded financial assistance that IHE in eligible States receive from the Federal Government for S&E research.
Title: Faithful Integration and Reverse-engineering and Emulation (FIRE)
Sponsor: Department of Defense
Due Date: Abstract encouraged and due 03/31/2023; Application due 05/19/2023
Description: Seeks to develop tools that provide a transformative end-to-end capability from system acquisition to exploitation, including preparation.
Title: Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of ALloy Structures (METALS)
Sponsor: Department of Defense
Due Date: Abstract encouraged and due 04/14/2023; Application due 06/09/2023
Description: Solicits innovative research proposals in the area of material testing and design optimization. The Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of ALloy Structures (METALS) program will develop foundational technologies enabling material as an explicit, continuous variable in structural design.
Title: Training for Improving Plastics Circularity (TIPC) Grant Program
Sponsor: Department of Commerce
Due Date: 07/17/2023
Description: Seeks to advance the development of coursework and hands-on training resources in polymer measurement methods, manufacturing, and systems thinking that will promote a skilled workforce to support expansion and increased scale of circular domestic plastics industries.
Title: HRI Competitive Grants Program
Sponsor: Horticultural Research Institute
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Supports research on green industry-related issues to address significant problems, regulatory issues, or emerging opportunities in the nursery and landscape industry; encourage environmentally responsible management practices; increase nursery crop producers' business or financial expertise; or improve and expand the market for plant material.
Title: Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 06/30/2023
Description: Provides support for new faculty to initiate and build independent research programs by enhancing research capacity in alignment with NSF's goals of broadening participation by expanding the types of institutions that submit proposals to BIO and expanding opportunities to groups underrepresented in the biological sciences. 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.
Title: Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 06/06/2023
Description: Supports groups of researchers based in a sub-area of the mathematical sciences or linked by a multidisciplinary theme to support training at educational levels from undergraduate to postdoctoral within that focus. RTG awards are intended to support training programs that have strong potential to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other NSF-supported disciplines.
Title: Perception, Action, and Cognition
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 06/15/2023
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: Advanced Tracking Architectures Using Artificial Intelligence
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Seeks proposals to research, design, develop, test, evaluate, and deliver innovative technologies and techniques for Next Generation Target Tracking architectures which exploit a wide array of data sources and leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
Title: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/26/2023
Description: Supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of their organizations' mission.
Title: CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/21/2023
Description: Supports the creation of new CISE community research infrastructure with integrated tools, resources, user services, and community outreach to enable innovative CISE research opportunities to advance the frontiers of the CISE core research areas. Funds support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering.
Title: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Ed and HR (IUSE: EHR)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/19/2023
Description: Supports projects that build on both fundamental research in undergraduate STEM education and prior research and development that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed efforts.
Title: Cottrell Scholar Awards
Sponsor: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Due Date: 07/01/2023
Description: Funds early career, tenure-track assistant professors in bachelor- and Ph.D.-granting departments of astronomy, chemistry, and physics. Applicant proposals must contain a research plan, an educational plan and a clear statement on how the CSA will help applicants become truly outstanding teacher-scholars and future academic leaders.
Title: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program
Sponsor: Department of Labor
Due Date: 07/07/2023
Description: Funds projects that propose to develop a skilled workforce leading to or supporting middle- to high-skilled career pathways in advanced manufacturing; information technology; and professional, scientific, and technical occupations that support renewable energy, transportation, and broadband.
Title: Compartmentalization and Privilege Management (CPM)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense—DARPA
Due Date: 10/03/2023
Description: The objective of the CPM program is to develop a set of tools, along with supporting hardware and software infrastructure, to automatically restructure legacy complex software systems into performant limited-privilege compartments that prevent initial penetrations from turning into successful cyber-attacks. CPM technology will provide the capability to restructure a system into one that would prevent such campaigns from moving beyond their initial penetration.
Title: CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/17/2023
Description: The SFS Program welcomes proposals to establish or to continue scholarship programs in cybersecurity. A proposing institution must provide clearly documented evidence of a strong existing academic program in cybersecurity. In addition to information provided in the proposal narrative, such evidence can include ABET accreditation in cybersecurity; a designation by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE), in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) or in Research (CAE-R); or equivalent evidence documenting a strong program in cybersecurity.
Title: Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage System Program
Sponsor: USDA—National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Due Date: 05/25/2023
Description: Supports the development of improved alfalfa forage and seed production systems. Proposals submitted to ASAFS should address one or more of the following priorities: (1) Improving alfalfa forage and seed yield through better nutrient, water and/or pest management; (2) Improving persistence of alfalfa stands by lessening biotic or abiotic stresses; (3) Improving alfalfa forage and seed harvesting and storage systems to optimize economic returns; (4) Improving estimates of alfalfa forage quality as an animal feed to increase forage usage in animal feeds; and/or (5) Breeding to address biotic and abiotic stresses that impact forage yield and persistence and the production of seed for propagation.
Title: Potato Breeding Research
Sponsor: USDA—National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Due Date: 05/18/2023
Description: Support potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) research programs that focus on varietal development and testing and potato varieties for commercial production. As used herein, varietal development and testing is research using conventional breeding and/or biotechnological genetics to develop improved potato varieties. Aspects of evaluation, screening and testing must support variety development.
Title: 2023 STEM Talent Challenge
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce—Economic Development Administration
Due Date: 06/12/2023
Description: EDA’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is seeking applications from eligible applicants to create and implement innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) work-based learning models (such as Registered Apprenticeships) that complement their respective region’s innovation economy. The STEM Talent Challenge seeks to develop or expand regional workforce capacity to support high-growth, high-wage entrepreneurial ventures, industries of the future (which usually includes industries that leverage emerging technologies), and other innovation—driven businesses that have a high likelihood of accelerating economic competitiveness and job creation in their respective regions and in the United States.
Title: Faculty Development in geoSpace Science
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 09/08/2023
Description: Seeks proposals to integrate topics in geospace science including solar and space physics and space weather research into natural sciences or engineering or related departments at U.S. institutions of higher education (IHE). FDSS also stimulates the development of undergraduate or graduate programs or curricula capable of training the next generation of leaders in geospace science.
Title: Quantum Information Sciences
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense—Air Force Research Laboratory
Due Date: White Papers Due: September 30 through 2026
Description: Solicits proposals for research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of Quantum Information Sciences supporting the implementation and use of Command, Control, Communications, Computers & Intelligence (C4I)-related information and communications technologies and techniques. This effort seeks to advance and assess advanced algorithm designs and technologies harnessing emerging quantum computing techniques, and to investigate entanglement distribution across a heterogeneous quantum network, to support AFRL/RI’s C4I mission.
Title: University Leadership Initiative (ULI)
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Due Date: 07/06/2023
Description: Provides the opportunity for university teams to exercise technical and organizational leadership in proposing unique technical challenges in aeronautics, defining multi-disciplinary solutions, establishing peer review mechanisms, and applying innovative teaming strategies to strengthen the research impact. Research proposals are sought in six ULI topic areas.
Title: Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime
Description: Supports innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation, as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and stochastic disturbances.
Title: Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime
Description: Supports fundamental research on organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials with an emphasis on synthesis and structure-property relationship studies.

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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: 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.
Title: NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies
Sponsor: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Due Date: 6/7/2023
Description: Supports projects that promote access to America's historical records to encourage understanding of our democracy, history, and culture. This solicitation seeks proposals for its planning grant program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies. With an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions.
Title: Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 8/3/2023
Description: Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues.
Title: Centennial Center Research Grants
Sponsor: American Political Science Association
Due Date: 4/15 and 6/15 annually
Description: Supports APSA members to conduct research in all areas of political science. Provides Spring and Summer Centenniel Center Research Grants to support the research of political scientists who are employed at institutions that do not grant PhDs in Political Science or related fields. Applicants must be APSA members.
Title: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through February 2025
Description: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood. These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
Title: Social Psychology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/15/2023
Description: Supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology. Projects funded by the Social Psychology Program support the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense. Proposals considered by the Social Psychology Program must communicate both the intellectual merit of the science and its broader societal impacts.
Title: Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 04/13/2023; JustGrants deadline 04/27/2023
Description: NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in three topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that provide services for victims of crime; 2) research on supporting victims of community violence; and 3) financial costs of crime victimization. Applicants must submit proposals that address one of the three topic areas.
Title: Research and Scholar Programs
Sponsor: Russell Sage Foundation
Due Date: LOIs due 07/26/2026, 11/09/2023
Description: Supports research in the social sciences. Awards support basic social science research to improve social policies. Program areas include: 1) Inequality; 2) Future of Work; 3) Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and 4) Behavioral Economics.
Title: SJI Grant Programs
Sponsor: State Justice Institute
Due Date: 08/01/2023, 11/01/2023
Description: Supports research, demonstrations, and training to improve judicial administration of the state courts. Preference is given to projects that have national significance.
- Project Grants: support innovative education and training, demonstration, and technical assistance projects that can improve the administration of justice in state courts locally or nationwide.
- Strategic Initiatives Grants: address national court issues as they occur, and develop solutions to those problems.
Title: Research and Evaluation on Sentencing and Resentencing
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 05/16/2023; JustGrants deadline 05/30/2023
Description: Seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform our understanding of the impact of sentencing and resentencing policies and prison release frameworks on individuals, communities, and public safety.
Title: Grants-in-Aid Program
Sponsor: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Due Date: 10/15/2023
Description: Supports scientific research in social problem areas related to the basic interests and goals of SPSSI, related to the psychological aspects of human problems of the group, the community, and nations. Funds particularly support projects that are not likely to receive support from traditional sources.
Title: Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 05/16/2023; JustGrants deadline 05/30/2023
Description: Seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects. Specifically, this solicitation seeks proposals to advance knowledge and understanding in the following two categories: (1) preventing and addressing hate crimes; and (2) school-based hate crimes. Within the first category, preventing and addressing hate crimes, NIJ is particularly interested in funding research and evaluations to: (1) improve hate crime prevention efforts; (2) improve reporting of hate crimes and hate incidents; and (3) understand and address the needs of victims and their communities.
Title: Short Courses for Mental Health Related Research
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Due Date: LOI due 30 days prior to deadline; Application due 5/25 through 2025
Description: Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
Title: Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Traiing & Technical Assistance Support
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 05/22/2023; JustGrants deadline 06/05/2023
Description: Provides resources to support evidence-informed violence intervention and prevention programs in communities across the United States. This solicitation includes four funding categories: 1) Training and Technical Assistance to Support CVIPI Evaluation Capacity Building and Researcher and Practitioner Partnerships; 2) Training and Technical Assistance to Support Violent Crime Problem Analyses of Jurisdictions not Funded under the OJP FY22 and FY23 CVIPI Solicitations; 3) Site-Based Evaluations of Programs Funded under the OJP FY22 and FY23 CVIPI Solicitations, and 4) Other Community-Violence Research and Evaluations.
Title: Research Grants and Fellowship Programs
Sponsor: Hagley Museum and Library
Due Date: 06/30/2023, 10/31/2023
Description: Provides fellowships to use Hagley's collections in American economic, business, industrial and technological history.
Title: Research on Juvenile Justice Topics
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 05/29/2023; JustGrants deadline 06/12/2023
Description:
Seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform policy and practice in the field of juvenile justice. Specifically, this solicitation seeks proposals for studies that advance knowledge and understanding in the following three categories:
1. Research and evaluation of legislative and administrative policy changes affecting youth involved in the justice system. Applicants must address one or more of the following three specified juvenile justice issues:
  1. Providing community-based alternatives to youth incarceration, with a focus on very high need/risk youth who have traditionally been held securely.
  2. Sealing and expungement of juvenile justice records.
  3. Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system.
2. Research to assess dual system youth data capacity and service delivery across juvenile justice and child welfare systems.
3. Analysis on the use of the valid court order exception.
Title: Youth Mentoring Research and Evaluation
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 05/30/2023; JustGrants deadline 06/13/2023
Description:
Seeks applications for rigorous youth mentoring research and independent evaluation projects that address one or both of the following two topical areas:
1. Barriers/impediments for youth involved in the justice system to access mentoring services.
2. Mentoring programs that serve youth involved in the justice system.
Title: Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives
Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 06/06/2023; JustGrants deadline 06/20/2023
Description:
Seeks rigorous, applied research and evaluation projects examining the impact of:
1. Police accountability practices;
2. The shifting and sharing of police functions;
3. Police training; and
4. Police officer health and wellness programs on an array of police performance outcomes (e.g., officer intervening and reporting of misconduct, excessive or unnecessary use of force, civilian complaints, officer and civilian injuries, police accountability and transparency, public trust and confidence in the police, and quality of police-community relationships).
Title: Digital Projects for the Public
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: 06/14/2023
Description: Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
Title: Perception, Action, and Cognition
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 06/15/2023
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: Diversity & Inclusiveness in Philosophy
Sponsor: American Philosophical Association
Due Date: 06/30/2024
Description: Funds projects aiming to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy. The APA board of officers strongly prefers proposals that convincingly demonstrate their potential to decisively impact diversity and inclusion within philosophy.
Title: The Trust Grant in Honor of Eric A. Harris, EdD, JD
Sponsor: American Psychological Foundation
Due Date: 06/1/2023
Description: Supports an early career psychologist or graduate student for research or projects in the area of ethics and risk management.
Title: Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Fund
Sponsor: American Psychological Foundation
Due Date: 06/15/2023
Description: Supports research and demonstration activities that promote the understanding of the relationship between self-identity and academic achievement with an emphasis on children in grade levels K–8.
Title: Society for General Psychology Mary Whiton Calkins Grant
Sponsor: American Psychological Foundation
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Encourages research that fits into the broad category of general psychology with a particular interest in research that combines multiple subfields within the discipline or addresses overarching themes.
Title: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: Optional draft due 06/06/2023; Application due 07/18/2023
Description: Grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving/providing intellectual access to humanities resources. NEH encourages digital projects that codify, unite, integrate, or aggregate humanities collections and resources. Projects may also develop a reference work or tool or integrate tools and reference works with digital collections to provide context to humanities materials and to facilitate discovery.
Title: Social Psychology
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/17/2023
Description: Supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the lifespan. Among the many research topics supported are attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations, group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, the social psychology of health, and the psychophysiological correlates of social behavior.
Title: PEN/Heim Translation Fund
Sponsor: PEN America
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Grants will be awarded to support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama originally written by a single individual that has not previously appeared in English in print or has appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation.
Title: Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
Sponsor: PEN America
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: The organization invites applications for the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History. Two grants of $15,000 will be awarded to recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. The submitted project must be the work of a single individual, written in English. It must be a work of literary nonfiction or an unpublished work-in-progress work of literary nonfiction (scholarly/academic writing is not eligible). Works must not be published prior to April 1, 2025, as the grants are intended to support the completion of a final book.
Title: Linguistics Programs
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/17/2023
Description: Supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.
Title: Developmental Sciences
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 07/31/2023
Description: Supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
Title: Encouraging Citizen Involvement
Sponsor: Herb Block Foundation
Due Date: LOI: 06/01/2023
Description: Seeks to help ensure a responsible, responsive democratic government through citizen involvement. Proposals may focus on citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates.
Title: Changemakers in Family Planning
Sponsor: Society of Family Planning
Due Date: 06/05/2023
Description: Aims to respond to institutionalized racism in family planning by providing dedicated support to scholars of color. Awardees will not be expected to conduct original research as part of this grant; rather, awardees will be granted support related to research interests, skills development, mentorship, and networking. The expected deliverable at the end of the award period is the completion of career development activities.
Title: Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: Optional Draft: 05/24/2023; Proposal: 06/28/2023
Description: Small and mid-sized cultural organizations are keepers of history and culture, sources of lifelong learning, and community place makers. Public Impact Projects grants seek to assist you in meeting your community’s needs by expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of your public programs. These awards support a variety of activities that focus on enriching interpretive strategies, strengthening interpretive skill sets or enhancing community engagement with public-facing programs. This program aims to meet small and mid-sized organizations where you are by supporting projects that are appropriate in scope and content to each organization’s resources and community needs.
Title: Short-Term Virtual Academic Research Fellowships
Sponsor: American Antiquarian Society
Due Date: 05/31/2023
Description: Seeks applications for a pilot fellowship program intended to address the equity and access issues faced by a range of scholars in using the research collections. These virtual fellowships will be offered as a bridge to assist those scholars who cannot work onsite at AAS in moving forward with their work.
Title: Archaeometry (AMTRY)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 12/01/2023
Description: The goal of the Archaeometry program is to fund projects in two main categories:
- To develop or refine anthropologically relevant archaeometric techniques. Examples include the development of methods to identify specific types of organic residues on ceramics or development of field applicable analytic techniques.
- To support laboratories which provide relevant services. This includes support of service laboratories which, for example, may provide dating trace element, isotopic and dendrochronological analyses. It also includes support for data archives, which function to strengthen basic archaeological infrastructure.
Title: Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: 08/15/2023
Description: Seeks proposals to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale.

College of Fine Arts & Communication

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.
Title: AMS Subventions for Publications
Sponsor: American Musicological Society (AMS)
Due Date: Deadlines are in mid-February and mid-August, annually
Description: Support the expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, articles, and works in non-print media. The goal is to defray costs not covered by publishers. Proposals that utilize newer technologies and/or are from scholars in the early stages of their careers are encouraged.
Title: Furthermore Grants in Publishing
Sponsor: J.M. Kaplan Fund
Due Date: 09/01/2023
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.
Title: Challenge America
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts
Due Date: Grants.gov Due: 04/27/2023; Applicant Portal Due: 5/2-16/2023
Description: Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved.
Title: History of Art Grants
Sponsor: Kress Foundation
Due Date: 09/01/2023
Description: 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. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.
Title: Digital Art History Grants
Sponsor: Kress Foundation
Due Date: 09/01/2023
Description: Fosters new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
Title: Convening Grants
Sponsor: Terra Foundation
Due Date: Proposal: 06/16/2023
Description: Supports visual arts projects that question and broaden understandings of American art and transform how stories of American art are told. We encourage projects that generate knowledge and interpretive frameworks, center artists, scholars, and communities who have been systemically excluded from narratives, practices, and presentations of American art, and commit to inclusive and equitable practices across project development and implementation in order to lead to structural change.
Title: Millard Meiss Publication Fund
Sponsor: College Art Association of America
Due Date: Biannual deadlines of March 15 and September 15
Description: Supports presses in the publication of projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit that may not generate adequate financial return. Applications for publication grants will be considered only for book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Applications are judged in relation to two criteria: (1) the quality of the project; and (2) the need for financial assistance.
Title: College/University and Amateur Performance
Sponsor: Weill (Kurt) Foundation for Music
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Funding of up to $15,000 may be requested by colleges, universities, and amateur performing arts organizations in support of general production expenses for performances of Kurt Weill’s and/or Marc Blitzstein’s stage works, and to cover musical expenses in connection with performances of Weill’s or Blitzstein’s concert works.
Title: The Women’s Film Preservation Fund
Sponsor: New York Women in Film & Television
Due Date: 06/15/2023
Description: Seeks proposals for the preservation or restoration of American films, from any era, in which women have held significant creative positions, including, but not limited to, writer, director, producer, editor and performer.
Title: Artistic Production Grants
Sponsor: VIA Art Fund
Due Date: LOI due 05/18/2023
Description: Supports new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner.
Title: Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Date: Optional Draft: 05/24/2023; Proposal: 06/28/2023
Description: Small and mid-sized cultural organizations are keepers of history and culture, sources of lifelong learning, and community place makers. Public Impact Projects grants seek to assist you in meeting your community’s needs by expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of your public programs. These awards support a variety of activities that focus on enriching interpretive strategies, strengthening interpretive skill sets or enhancing community engagement with public-facing programs. This program aims to meet small and mid-sized organizations where you are by supporting projects that are appropriate in scope and content to each organization’s resources and community needs.
Title: Short-Term Virtual Academic Research Fellowships
Sponsor: American Antiquarian Society
Due Date: 05/31/2023
Description: Seeks applications for a pilot fellowship program intended to address the equity and access issues faced by a range of scholars in using the research collections. These virtual fellowships will be offered as a bridge to assist those scholars who cannot work onsite at AAS in moving forward with their work.
Title: Grants for Arts Projects
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts
Due Date: Grants.gov deadline 07/06/2023; Applicant Portal deadline 07/18/2023
Description: Supports the creation of high-quality art, public engagement with the arts, lifelong learning in the arts, and community development through the arts.
Title: Creative Arts Exchange
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
Due Date: 05/31/2023
Description: Arts-based international people-to-people exchanges that support and further State foreign policy objectives. FY 23 themes: Film (American Film Showcase), Music (American Music Abroad), and Musical Collaboration as Civic Engagement (OneBeat).
Title: PEN/Heim Translation Fund
Sponsor: PEN America
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Grants will be awarded to support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama originally written by a single individual that has not previously appeared in English in print or has appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation.

General & Multiple Disciplines

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: 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: Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
Sponsor: National Archives and Records Administration
Due Date: Optional draft: 8/15/2023; Application: 11/2/2023
Description: Seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. 25% cost share is required.
Title: Grants for Scholars
Sponsor: Institute for Humane Studies
Due Date: Applications accepted anytime
Description: Programs provide a forum for scholars across the ideological spectrum to convene, collaborate, and challenge ideas. Whether hosting an event or partnering with scholars to launch their own programs, projects foster widespread human progress.
Title: Large Grant for Research on Gambling Disorder and Responsible Gambling
Sponsor: International Center for Responsible Gambling
Due Date: Application due 07/14/2023
Description: Supports research investigations of gambling disorder and responsible gambling. Seeks proposals of high scientific merit from investigators who show promise of disseminating their work at high-impact conferences and in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Title: Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Due Date: 06/30/2023
Description: Program accepts unsolicited research proposals that address one of the following research priorities: Support Underserved Communities; Ensure Access to and Increase the Production of Affordable Housing; Promote Homeownership; Advance Sustainable and Equitable Communities; Lead Hazards and other hazards. Research projects must be funded at least 50 percent by philanthropic entities and/or federal, state, or local government agencies.
Title: Grants Program
Sponsor: American College Personnel Association
Due Date: 07/01/2023
Description: Supports proposals from ACPA members to enhance the student affairs profession and to generate and disseminate knowledge of students in higher education. Of primary interest are proposals related to student learning and professional development.

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.
Title: U.S. Embassy Brussels PAS Annual Program Statement
Sponsor: Department of State
Due Date: 08/14/2023
Description: Invites proposals for projects that strengthen ties between the United States and Belgium by highlighting shared values and promoting bilateral cooperation. Grant proposals must convey an American cultural element, support a priority program area, or include a connection with American expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s) in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
Title: Humboldt Research Fellowships
Sponsor: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Due Date: Accepted anytime
Description: Supports a variety of fellowships for outstanding researchers in all fields to promote research collaboration with colleagues in Germany. Award winners expected to collaborate on research projects with established academics in Germany.
Title: Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
Due Date: 09/30/2023
Description: Seeks proposals that strengthen ties between the U.S. and Iraq through programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation.
Title: U.S. Embassy Budapest
Sponsor: Department of State
Due Date: 07/31/2023, 09/30/2023
Description: Invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Hungary through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives
Title: U.S. Embassy Haiti’s 2023 Grants
Sponsor: Department of State
Due Date: 06/30/2023
Description: Invites proposals for programs that generate public awareness of U.S. foreign assistance efforts but fall outside the structure of other established U.S. assistance projects. The program is intended to be flexible and allow the mission to respond directly to requests from local entities and communities for assistance with projects that have immediate impact and further mission policies and objectives.
Title: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Sponsor: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Due Date: 06/01/2023
Description: Supports proposals to bring scholars and professionals from abroad to U.S. colleges and universities that infrequently or never have the opportunity to host visiting scholars. In addition to teaching courses, scholars give campus-wide and community lectures, help initiate international programs, and contribute to curriculum development.
Title: Grants
Sponsor: United States-Japan Foundation
Due Date: LOI due 06/30/2023
Description:
Supports cooperation between the U.S. and Japan through three programs:
- Communication/Public Opinion: funds projects that raise awareness and address issues that affect bilateral relations and stimulate quality media coverage
- Pre-college Education: supports improved instruction about Japan in U.S. schools and the U.S. in Japanese schools through creative curriculum development and teacher training
- U.S. Japan Policy: funds projects in foreign policy, trade relations, energy and the environment, managing globalization, national identity, and understanding institutions.
Title: Institutional Grants
Sponsor: Japan-United States Friendship Commission
Due Date: 07/01/2023
Description: Supports reciprocal research programs between the U.S. and Japan in support of the continuation of close friendship and cooperation. Awards will be made on the basis of academic or professional excellence evaluated in relation to national and cultural needs for certain professional fields; existing gaps in understanding; and availability or lack of other sources of support.
Title: Bicentennial Swedish American Exchange Fund
Sponsor: Consulate General of Sweden
Due Date: 05/30/2023
Description: Provides two-to-four-week intensive research exchanges within the fields of politics, public administration, working life, human environment, mass media, business and industry, education, and culture. Program specifically intended for professional enrichment and not applicable to work related to academic degrees, programs, or conferences.
Title: Digital Guide on Internationalization: Simplifying U.S.-India HEI Collaboration and Partnerships
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State—U.S. Mission to India
Due Date: 06/19/2023
Description: Seeks proposal to carry out a program to create a Digital Guide on Internationalization: Simplifying U.S.-India Higher Education Institution (HEI) Collaboration and Partnerships, which will assist individuals interested in creating linkages between higher education institutions in the United States and India.