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Funding Opportunities
Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
 
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
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
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
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
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.
Grants will be awarded in support of projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, developing and disseminating scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogs and publications, and technical and scientific studies. The program also supports 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.
  • Average Award Amount: Average Grants between $25k - $65k
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 1, 2024
This year’s eligible projects will help incentivize, build the case for, and provide the means necessary to shift the United States food system away from factory farming to practices that benefit animals, farmers and all those impacted by our current food system.
  • Award Amount: Up to $30k
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 5, 2024
Funds organizations and people who drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts, create a stronger and more resilient nuclear field, build new partnerships with intersecting issues, and support transformational thinking and activities. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $50k
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 5, 2024
The fund will support research, pilot projects, and research-based programs related to the psychological understanding of gifted children and adolescents. Efforts to enable and enhance the development of identified gifted and talented children and adolescents and encourage promising psychologists to continue innovative research and programs in this area will be supported.
  • Award Amount: Up to $50k
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 6, 2024
This is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from a wide range of nonclinical research-focused disciplines in which policy is a key lever for change. HPRS is designed for students from a variety of fields/disciplines (e.g., urban planning; political science; economics; anthropology; education; social work; sociology; engineering; geography; lab/bench sciences) who are committed to ensuring their research is aligned with the health needs of communities. 
  • Award Amount: Up to 40 scholars will be selected for the 2024 cohort; which awards $30k per year (over 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 7, 2024
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
The Collaborative Change Initiative was created to honor legendary philanthropist Warren Hellman. The initiative also reflects the priorities of the current Hellman Foundation leaders, who are driven by an agenda for fairness and justice for Bay Area communities and believe in the power of collaboration as a strategy to impact these goals.
  • Award Amounts: 
    • Launch Grants: Up to $495K (over 3 years)
    • Growth Grants: UP to $825K (over 5 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due by March 15, 2024
  • Interested applicants must work with David Siegfried.
The Genentech Health Equity Innovation Fund will catalyze efforts to eliminate inequities in patient health outcomes. Through the 2024 Innovation Fund, they are seeking to fund teams focused on measurably and sustainably closing racial/ethnic inequities in healthcare to create a future where: 
  1. All patients – especially those marginalized by our healthcare system – define and attain their highest levels of health supported by a system that is accountable for delivering high-quality competent care.
  2. The medical/scientific workforce is diverse, inclusive, thriving and accountable to all patients.
  • Award Amount: Up to $750k (over 18 months - 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due by April 15, 2024
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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