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Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
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The Systems for Action call for proposals will provide funding for a new cohort of research studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. Each study funded under this CFP must identify a specific form of systemic racism that limits health and wellbeing for affected populations; and investigate a novel systems alignment strategy for solving the problem that engages relevant representatives from medical care, public health, and social services systems.
- Award Amount: Up to $100K (over 1 year) for developmental studies
- Deadline: Applications due by February 7, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The Nasdaq Foundation will award funding to empower diverse investors such as organizations or programs that enhance financial literacy among women and underrepresented communities, or improve access to knowledge and tools among women and underrepresented communities.
- Average Award Amount: ~$75k (grants are unrestricted)
- Deadline: Applications due by February 9, 2024
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This call for proposals will support actionable research that augments data on the intersection of financialization and structural racism to help counter the harms of financialization in the healthcare system.
Proposed projects should fall into one of three priority topic areas: (1) policy and systems, (2) narratives and storytelling, and (3) financialization and structural racism.
- Award Amount: $100k - $300k (over 12 to 18 months)
- Deadline: Proposals due by February 12, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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Aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations, the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences are presented to highly promising, early career scientists. They support young investigators engaged in basic research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Areas of priority include: cellular and molecular neuroscience, neural systems, and Translational research.
- Average Award Amount: $300k (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications due by February 15, 2024
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The Graham Foundation welcomes applications from organizations for its Production and Presentation Grants. Through the program, grants will be awarded to assist with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment in order to promote dialogue, raise awareness, and develop new and wider audiences.
- Average Award Amount: Up to $30k
- Deadline: Applications due by February 15, 2024
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The funding opportunity is part of the foundation’s Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative (EPiQS), which aims to catalyze breakthroughs in the science of quantum materials. The strategic intent of this fellowship funding is to strengthen materials synthesis efforts at leading U.S. universities and to enable talented early-career researchers to establish robust synthesis research programs in their new academic labs.
- Average Award Amount: Two fellows will receive up to $1.2M
- Deadline: Applications due by February 16, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz.
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The goal of this call is to fund research on policies that can advance the full social, economic, and civic inclusion of immigrant children and families. The intention is to spotlight policies that can transform systems/structures that ensure equal access to goods and services, including public benefits, irrespective of immigration status.
- Average Award Amount: Up to $450k
- Deadline: Applications due by February 16, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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The Discoveries in Safety Grants Program funds research that aligns with their mission of building a safer and more sustainable world. Through an open and competitive process, ULRI funds scientific discovery that addresses their three grand challenges:
(1) Building resilience for a sustainable future,
(2) Advancing individual and societal health in the 21st century
(3) Promoting safety at the human-digital interface.
- Average Award Amount: Up to $600k (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications due by February 16, 2024
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Priority will be given to projects focusing on contributions to environmental sustainability through development of green analytical technologies, methods, or laboratory working environments. The program promotes research excellence, and encourages strong collaborative relationships with emerging academic leaders early in their career.
- Average Award Amount: $120k (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications due by February 23, 2024
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The HIC program provides grants to advance leading edge, nursing-driven interventions that improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations. These populations include Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), the economically disadvantaged, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, rural populations, immigrant and refugee populations and other groups that encounter obstacles to accessing quality healthcare services.
- Average Award Amount: Two 3-year $600K grants awarded each cycle
- Deadline: Applications due by February 27, 2024
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The foundation supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit their fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries.
- Average Award Amount: $25k
- Deadline: Applications due by February 28, 2024
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The Educating Character Initiative aims to equip a wide range of public and private institutions of higher education with the resources needed to integrate character education into their distinctive institutional contexts, curricula, and cultures. The broader aspiration is to foster a robust network that recognizes the value of educating character within higher education.
- Award Amounts:
- Institutional Impact Grants - up to 10 grants between $100k - $1M
- Capacity Building Grants - up to 20 grants of up to $50k
- Teacher-Scholar Grant - up to 5 grants of $15k
- Deadline: Applications are due February 29, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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Grants will be awarded to institutions who wish to strengthen their ability to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts. These grants may be especially useful for institutions that are just beginning to explore how to educate character, that are envisioning discrete projects that do not require substantial funding, and/or that need support to plan for a larger grant application to the Educating Character Initiative or another funding organization in a future year.
- Average Award Amount: Up to 20 grants of up to $50k each
- Deadline: Applications due by March 1, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried.
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The program supports scholarly projects with the potential to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.
- Average Award Amount: $20k - $65k
- Deadline: Applications due by March 1, 2024
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Contact Us.
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Prospect Library
This curated list of prospects will help you identify potential funding opportunities by research area.
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Ongoing Funding Opps.
Funding opportunities that are continually accepting applications, and annual calls for proposals.
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Faculty Fellowships
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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For upcoming training opportunities, prospect libraries and additional resources, visit our website:
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