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The WITH Foundation was created to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities.

Through the foundation, grants will be awarded for efforts that complement this mission and demonstrate how they will accomplish this overarching goal. Programs that improve the delivery of healthcare to adult consumers with developmental disabilities should include at least one of the following: improve health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs; address the current inadequate reimbursement system; advance innovations in formal care coordination; enhance advocacy regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care to advance systemic change; increase understanding of supported decision-making in healthcare settings; national efforts in digital health that support designers and developers to include the perspectives/experiences of the IDD community within the design process, to create better technology for all; social policy research; and identify and overcome barriers to high-quality healthcare access.

During this grant cycle, WITH will consider grants of up to $100,000, giving preference to organizations that share the foundation’s core values and work to support comprehensive healthcare for adults with I/DD. Additionally, WITH will consider research-focused grants of up to $200,000, recognizing research’s pivotal role in propelling positive change in disability healthcare.

Applicants must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service. While San Francisco Bay Area applications may be given preferential consideration, applications from other areas in the United States are not excluded.

Letters of intent are due December 8, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. PT, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due January 31, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. PT.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Established in 1997, the Temper of The Times Foundation aims to promote the use of standard marketing concepts for increasing awareness about wildland conservation and restoration initiatives. Recognizing that organizations working to protect the environment, in general, have limited access to paid media, the foundation provides funds to underwrite advertising designed to promote the conservation and restoration of native wildlife, plants, and ecosystems in the United States. The foundation also supports earned media campaigns and other efforts to communicate about conservation and restoration initiatives and actions.

The foundation will award grants of between $5,000 and $15,000 for projects that will lead to measurable outcomes for wildland ecosystem conservation and restoration in the United States. Grants may be used to fund the production of print, radio, or television ads, to pay for advertising space or airtime, or to produce or distribute pamphlets, books, videos, or press packets. As grants are for wildland ecosystem advertising campaigns, not for general organizational support, they may not be used to cover costs associated with the production of organization newsletters, membership campaigns, or staff salaries. In addition, the foundation cannot fund lobbying efforts or candidates for political office.

To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit organization defined as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying for this opportunity.

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Co-founded in 1994 in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the Simons Foundation aims to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, championing basic science through grant funding, support for research, and public engagement. The foundation believes in asking big questions and providing sustained support to researchers working to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

The foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Targeted Grants in MPS program. The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics, and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis. The program provides flexible funding for up to five years, with the funding level and duration flexible and based on the type of support requested in the proposal. There is no recommended or assumed funding level for this program.

Applications may be submitted by established U.S. and foreign public and private educational institutions and stand-alone research centers. Principal investigators (PIs) and co-investigators must have a PhD and a tenure-track or tenured position at said institutions or centers at the time of application. There are no citizenship or department requirements for PIs.

Applicants will be notified of a decision within two months of the LOI submission and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The purpose of this call for proposals (CFP) is to support Indigenous-led systematic inquiry to enhance the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples and generate approaches to improve health equity. This will be achieved by funding community-prioritized investigation, elevating and integrating Indigenous cultures and knowledge-building practices. To support a diverse range of projects tailored to different phases of development and scope, awards will be made through two tracks:

Track 1: Initiating and Developing Research Capacity and Infrastructure
There is not an explicit budget cap for awards funded under this track, but we expect that grants will be in the approximate range of $100,000–$400,000 total. We anticipate much of the grant duration to involve relationship-building, trust development, and community feedback processes. Proposals must demonstrate a clear plan for ongoing and sustained collaboration and continued work with newly engaged partners.

Track 2: Supporting Later-Stage, Sustained Research Efforts
There is not an explicit budget cap for awards funded under this track, but we expect grants will be in the range of approximately $500,000–$750,000 total. We expect project teams to demonstrate established, equitable partnerships with Indigenous communities who can begin testing a solution or strategy as part of their project.

Preference is for award durations between two and three years (24–36 months), but durations of up to five years (60 months) will be considered with reasonable justification.

Eligibility and Selection:
Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are Tribal entities (including those that are state recognized, federally recognized, or have no formal recognition status) or Indigenous-Serving Organizations, including Urban Indian Organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
RWJF strives to support research teams with diverse lived experiences, including diversity of lived experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and seniority. We particularly encourage the following individuals to apply:
Project directors who are American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or otherwise Indigenous to the United States or its territories;
Researchers from organizations that are underrepresented among RWJF grantee institutions, including Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-Serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, Asian American/Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions, and other Indigenous-Serving Organizations; and
First-time applicants for an RWJF grant.
Applicants who have been or are currently RWJF grantees are eligible to apply.

Only one organization may serve as the lead applicant.

For Track 1, this must be a Tribal entity or Indigenous-Serving Organization.
For Track 2, this is not required to be a Tribal entity or Indigenous-Serving Organization.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is committed driving pathways to cures by supporting the MS research workforce and other research funding opportunities.

The organization has issued a request for applications for research that addresses gaps in the knowledge of the underlying biology of CNS remyelination in MS, the factors or processes that modulate this process, and methods to measure remyelination. Additionally, research into neuroprotective mechanisms with the potential to prolong neuronal viability for remyelination is encouraged. The supported research is intended to lay the foundation for the next generation of therapeutic approaches.

Grants of up to $1 million in total costs (including indirect costs where applicable) for up to three years of support will be provided and must be justified based on the scientific work plan.

In addition, the program supports the development or refinement of tools needed to support preclinical and clinical studies of remyelination and neuroprotection in MS, including in vitro and animal models that more closely reflect MS pathophysiology and clinical biomarkers with utility for measuring CNS myelination and neuroprotection. Applications proposing the testing of new or established biomarkers must include relevant components of analytical method validation to ensure that a test, tool, or instrument is adequate for its proposed context of use.

Areas of specific interest may include but are not limited to: studies of mechanisms underlying endogenous remyelination in MS, investigations into the basis of the heterogeneity of endogenous remyelination observed across lesion types and between individuals living with MS, studies of factors that modulate remyelination in MS, studies of mechanisms to provide neuroprotection or oligodendrocyte protection, in vivo and in vitro model systems that more closely mimic MS pathology with utility to study interventions supporting remyelination, clinically translatable biomarkers for the measurement of remyelination or neuroprotection, and preclinical proof of concept studies for potential therapeutic targets to promote remyelination or neuroprotection (studies could involve small molecule drugs, cell-based strategies, biologics, genetic models, or other suitable approaches).

Eligible applicants include investigators at not-for-profit research institutions. Collaborations with commercial organizations are allowed. Applicants should possess an MD, PhD, or equivalent and be considered eligible by their institution to apply for grant support. Postdoctoral fellows, residents, and other trainees are not eligible to apply.

Preliminary applications are due January 3, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application, due January 10, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity

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The Misophonia Research Fund (MRF), a program of the REAM Foundation, is dedicated to advancing a world where misophonia is scientifically understood, and effective treatments are available to help anyone suffering.

According to MRF, misophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or stimuli associated with those sounds. These stimuli, known as “triggers,” are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses generally not experienced by other people. Trigger stimuli are often repetitive and primarily, but not exclusively, include stimuli generated by another individual, especially those produced by the human body (such as chewing or sniffing). The expression of misophonic symptoms varies, as does the severity, which ranges from mild to severe impairments.

The MRF has issued an RFP for projects to understand misophonia better, characterize symptomatology and associated impairments, and assess interventional strategies to treat those with the disorder. Up to 10 grants of up to $500,000 over two to three years will be awarded. Projects should display highly rigorous scientific design, present an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, and demonstrate strong potential impact to improve the understanding, characterization, and/or treatment of misophonia.

The MRF requests proposals that address clear gaps in the field and/or that generate new knowledge about misophonia and build upon previous findings using demonstrably rigorous study methods. The scientific focus of proposals should address one or more of the following three prioritized focus areas in human, animal, or relevant research models. Proposals can focus on a specific area or may address multiple of the following areas:

Characterization of misophonia: Proposals may include a wide range of approaches to examine the following: testable theories, basic animal models, and human translational models addressing why, how, and for whom misophonia develops; underlying biological, behavioral, and/or environmental mechanisms (and their interactions) underlying the etiology, longitudinal development, maintenance, and/or treatment of misophonia; expression and trajectory of symptoms, impairment, and related phenomena, including individual variability and trends within and between populations; the use of multiple measurement methods (e.g., questionnaires, behavioral and physiological measurements) and the development of diagnostic criteria according to these measurements; the epidemiology and prevalence of misophonia, as this may inform the scope and significance of misophonia as a public health problem; individual differences in demographic factors, especially with underrepresented and marginalized populations; characterization of non-Western and/or non-US/UK/Canadian populations to understand the role of culture in misophonia; and the influence of contextual factors on the development and expression of misophonia (e.g., family, friends, school, community).

Development of objective methods: Proposals may develop or validate physiological and/or behavioral methods (i.e., objective assessments) to assess misophonia.

Clinical and/or animal model study of interventional approaches: Proposals should use rigorous experimental methods to develop and/or evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy of interventions for misophonia. Clinically-oriented proposals may collect pilot data to inform future, larger randomized controlled trials but must still include rigorously constructed control and experimental groups.

Grants of up to $500,000 will be awarded to support research projects led by independent investigators at qualifying research-based institutions that hold doctoral-level degrees (e.g., PhD, MD, PsyD, AuD). Postdoctoral researchers are eligible for a grant of up to $200,000 in total funding support for their research projects. These grants are intended to support postdoctoral researchers who will have earned their doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, MD, PsyD, AuD) by July 1, 2024, and are under the mentorship of a doctoral-level principal investigator at a qualifying research-based institution.

Letters of intent are due December 8, 2023, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due on March 9, 2024.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Klingenstein Philanthropies are soliciting applications for academic investigators conducting research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale. This application is specifically for high quality research that builds upon promising pilot work and will lead to a larger demonstration project. Requests for service projects and applications that primarily focus on expanding services or measuring quality within an organization will not be reviewed.

In particular, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation is interested in improving access to high quality mental health care and prevention for children and adolescents through the use of novel models or promising approaches, including expanding the number of professional and paraprofessional treatment personnel who are trained to deliver mental health services, delivering care in non-psychiatric settings (e.g., primary care, schools, home, or other novel settings), digital technology (e.g., the internet, apps for cell phones), and approaches that help parents access care for their children.

The primary outcomes of the project include improved access and/or reduced time to service delivery, or implementation outcomes such as stakeholder involvement, acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity. Primary outcomes should demonstrate that the project is being designed for scalability. Secondary outcomes include clinical or functional outcomes that are likely to improve when access to care is enhanced, such as decreased symptoms, burdens and maladaptive behaviors associated with mental health problems; improved educational, relational and health outcomes; or enhanced youth and family functioning.

Please review eligibility and guidelines on this RFP.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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JDRF aims to support the implementation and integration of evidence based T1D specific behavioral and psychosocial interventions into clinical practice. Therefore, JDRF solicits applications for studies and clinical trials designed to test psychosocial treatment and preventive interventions for which there is already evidence of efficacy, for use in community and practice settings.

This RFA will support clinical trials of interventions that already have feasibility, acceptability and efficacy data and are ready to go onto effectiveness and implementation trials. Projects may also only have feasibility and acceptability data and seek to utilize novel trial protocols with hybrid designs with emphasis on effectiveness and implementation outcomes.

Applications might include research to evaluate the effectiveness or increase the clinical impact of behavioral and psychosocial interventions to prevent or treat diabetes distress, anxiety, depression and/or disordered eating in T1D. Projects around provider-, organizational-, or systems-level interventions to improve access, continuity, and quality will also be considered.

LOIs should clearly describe the intervention, the preliminary data including efficacy data and, if available, data on mediators and moderators, and define the population to be studied, including mental health issue, age, and other characteristics.

Proposals should take an implementation focused approach to intervention development and testing, acknowledging that many people with T1D will receive care from providers unaffiliated with specialty diabetes or specialty psychological centers. The goal is to ensure that the resultant interventions are scalable and implementable in clinical care.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Glenn W. Bailey Foundation (GWB) invites applications for seed and continuation funding for organizations seeking programmatic funding for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education at all levels. The foundation is interested in enhancing the excitement for STEM in the classroom by funding STEM subjects and activities related to implementing high-quality curriculum and activities and promoting and supporting students interested in STEM fields and careers. Applications are invited for four new programs:

STEM Sprouts: An early education STEM) program designed to introduce young children, typically between the ages of three and 10, to the foundational concepts and skills within these four fields.

STEM Stars: Middle and high school advanced STEM program funding. Programming can take place before, during, or after school. Programs that successfully prepare interested students who wish to be fully prepared for their intended college STEM major by exposing them to advanced topics in science, engineering, computer science and more are encouraged.

STEM Scholars: A postsecondary STEM program aimed at providing colleges and universities with more funding and flexibility for their internal STEM programs. The program offers opportunities to expand on current programs or seed money to create new programs. Funding can support many activities and initiatives such as club activities, career management counselors, showcases, research projects, camps, tech talks, student clubs and organizations, lecture series, and professor continuing education programs.

Teen Tech Competition: The foundation is interested in supporting large STEM-related organizations interested in creating or continuing a tech competition for local youth. Organizations must operate under certain (but flexible) parameters and are encouraged to let the participating students lead the way in building the actual competition’s layout.

Through these programs, GWB seeks to promote and encourage students to become engaged in STEM at an early age. These programs are designed to follow learners through college and beyond. Programs are capped at either $25,000 or $50,000.

Applicants should be professors, teachers, principals, before and after care teachers, etc., and directly affiliated with an organization recognized as tax-exempt for charitable purposes by the IRS.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The mission of the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) is to advance scientific research and create educational pathways that enable sustainable innovation in sustainable waste management practices.

The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure the research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices and has identified three key priorities that focus on the impacts of solid waste management, circular and sustainable materials management, and mitigating environmental risk and/or harm:

Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions, including direct measurement, modeling, data, and methodology; impacts and reduction strategies from waste management collection and disposal options, including waste-to-energy, landfill gas to energy, etc.; and impact of waste management activities, including how they related to broader emissions in manufacturing/re-manufacturing.

Emerging Contaminants: Potential impacts of emerging contaminants on waste management operations, including leachate disposal/treatment, composting facility operations, anaerobic digestion facilities, and digestate management; fate and transport/environmental and health impacts from emerging contaminants, including those managed by waste facilities; and best practices/effective management strategies during waste collection and disposal.

Advancing Materials Circularity and Recycling: Evaluation/efficacy of policies that impact waste management or circularity; assessment of trade-offs between environmental burdens associated with circular priorities (e.g., via LCA); and understanding barriers/benefits experienced across the value chain (e.g., end market, recycled content needs).

Submitted pre-proposals must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices and at least one of the three key priorities. The priorities are equally important, and proposals will not be rated more strongly for one priority area over another. Previously awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500,000, with the average grant amount in recent years being $160,000 and the typical project duration about two years.

EREF defines solid waste to include municipal solid waste (e.g., residential, commercial, institutional), construction and demolition debris, certain industrial wastes (e.g., exploration and production), drilling/fracking waste (e.g., oil/gas waste), renewable energy infrastructure (e.g., solar panels, wind turbines) and other wastes typically managed by the solid waste industry or generated by the public not included in the above items (e.g., electronic waste, disaster debris, etc.).

This definition does not include agricultural wastes (not handled by the waste industry), mining wastes managed by the mining industry (e.g., tailings), nuclear waste, and land-applied wastewater treatment sludge.

Eligible applicants include United States or non-U.S.-based institutions, and proposals will be accepted from non-academic institutions, provided the principal investigators are qualified to conduct the research. Principal investigators typically include full-time faculty at academic institutions, post-doctoral employees, and principals or senior personnel at non-academic institutions.

Pre-proposals will be accepted from 15 days before the deadline date and up to the close of business (5:00 p.m. ET) on the deadline date. Proposals must be received during this window to be considered.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Founded in 1995 by Roger Ackerman, a Rotarian in Sumter, SC, the CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust) is a nonprofit grassroots organization that provides “seed” money for cutting-edge, high-impact research grants to help find a treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

The fund invites proposals to encourage exploratory and developmental AD research projects within the United States by providing support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to advance biomedical research substantially. Proposals should be distinct from those projects designed to increase knowledge in a well-established area unless intended to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications. This is for new projects only.

Applications may encompass a project period of up to two years with a combined budget for direct costs of up to $300,000. No indirect costs are allowed.

To be eligible, applicants must be full-time faculty (or the equivalent status) at U.S.-based public and private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories.

Letters of intent are due December 1, 2023, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full grant application, due February 9, 2024.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the world’s largest private funder of mental health research grants. BBRF awards research grants to develop improved treatments, cures, and methods of prevention for mental illness. The Foundation’s Distinguished Investigator Grant Program offers up to $100,000 for a one year period and is intended for established scientists who maintain peer reviewed competitively funded scientific programs. Extensions to the grant will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

BBRF funds the most innovative ideas in neuroscience and psychiatry to better understand the causes and develop new ways to effectively treat brain and behavior disorders. These illnesses include addiction, ADHD, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia, as well as research in suicide prevention. BBRF’s Distinguished Investigator Grant program supports basic and/or clinical investigators and is designed to stimulate the development of key personnel and resources, to facilitate the rapid initiation of research in innovative areas, and to enable investigators to create unique scientific opportunities.

Trans-diagnostic designs involving several disorders are welcome. Some disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are supported by BBRF but only if primary psychiatric disorders listed above are included in the research design and the proposal emphasizes the work’s impact on our understanding of brain and behavior disorders.

Award requirements:
Applicants must be a full professor (or equivalent), and maintain peer reviewed competitively funded scientific programs.
Applicants may not receive the award for a second time.
Funding is for one year and is up to $100,000. Funding of institutional overhead at an 8% rate (excluding equipment) is allowed and overhead must be included within the total budget request which may not exceed $100,000. Equipment, salary, and technical support are typical budget requests, but the Foundation wishes applicants to identify requirements specific to their research and setting.
Applications must be completed and submitted online by December 5, 2023 (11:59 p.m., ET). Late submissions will not be accepted.
Requests for further information will be made to selected investigators.
Notification of awards will be mailed by May 2024. It is the Foundation’s policy to provide no feedback on applications, other than funding notification.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The American Lung Association invites applications for its Allergic Respiratory Diseases Research Award.

The American Lung Association and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Allergic Respiratory Diseases Research Award represents a joint effort to encourage and support applicants holding a primary faculty appointment in a clinical allergy and immunology division of an academic medical center and conducting research advancing the understanding of allergic respiratory disease. A primary goal of this collaboration is to fund researchers at important crossroads of their careers.

The award provides $75,000 per year for up to two years in support of research in academic allergy and immunology divisions in an effort to increase research that ultimately leads to improved care and outcomes for patients with allergic respiratory disease.

To be eligible, applicants must hold a doctoral degree, be in a clinical allergy and immunology division (or clinical immunology division), be undertaking a project related to allergic respiratory disease, and have completed training. At the time of application, candidates must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding one of the following visa immigration statuses: permanent resident (Green Card), exchange visitor (J-1), temporary worker in a specialty occupation (H-1B), Canadian or Mexican citizen engaging in professional activities (TN), Australians in Specialty Occupation (E-3), or temporary worker with extraordinary abilities in the sciences (0-1). At the time of application and throughout the award, an applicant must be employed by a U.S. institution.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The mission of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is to support and advance Healthy Aging through Biomedical Research. The foundation has announced the following open call for proposals:

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
Deadline: Letter of Intent due January 25, 2024
This program was developed to provide support for postdoctoral fellows (MD, MD/PhD and PhD) who specifically direct their research towards basic aging mechanisms and/or translational findings that have direct benefits to human aging and healthspan. Postdoctoral fellows at all levels of training are eligible. Up to ten one-year fellowships of $75,000 will be awarded in 2024.

Glenn Foundation Discovery Award
Deadline: Letter of Intent Due February 15, 2024
The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) in collaboration with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), has established the Glenn Foundation Discovery Award. This Award was created to support research projects with strong potential to develop pioneering discoveries for understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline. Relevant proposals from any branch of biology are eligible. This funding program specifically seeks to include principal investigators who may not have previously worked in the area of aging, but whose research and expertise are applicable to understanding the biological mechanisms of normal aging and its relevance to age-associated health decline.

Projects that characterize aging as a disease, or that focus on specific diseases are discouraged unless the research plan provides direct connections to the biology of aging and/or the prospect of a translational discovery relevant to improving human healthspan.

Up to two three-year awards will be made in 2024. Each award is for $525,000 payable in annual installments of $175,000 per year, of which a maximum of 8% may be used for indirect expenses or institutional overhead (not to exceed $12,963 per year).

Recipients of this award are expected to attend the combined AFAR Grantee Conference and Glenn Workshop on Biology of Aging. The purpose of the meetings is to promote scientific and personal exchanges among recent AFAR and GFMR grantees and other invited scientists in aging research.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to these opportunities.

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The Teagle Foundation invites applications for the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, a grant program to revitalize the role of the humanities in general education, and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the power of the humanities, help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty.

This initiative is dedicated to the proposition that transformative texts—regardless of authorship, geography, or the era that produced them—perform a democratizing function in giving students the analytical tools and historical awareness to interrogate themselves and the culture and society by which we are all partially formed. Such texts give students access to a wide range of lived experiences and form the basis for creating a common intellectual experience that fosters a sense of community.

Planning grants will provide support for faculty at participating institutions to achieve the following: Establish criteria for inclusion of works of literature and philosophy and generate a consensus list of transformative texts, along with a policy for how texts from the consensus list will be used across sections of the gateway course, with an eye to creating a common intellectual experience for students; design coherent pathways through general education; lay the curricular groundwork for the proposed program, including achieving any necessary approvals by the appropriate academic governance committees; engage the leadership and faculty of professional schools, where appropriate, so the program is accepted as part of their majors’ degree plans; establish a clear strategy for faculty professional development and scale-up, particularly to ensure there are enough sections of the course(s) designated as the gateway to your program to ensure a significant share of the incoming undergraduate student body participates in a common intellectual experience; and whenever possible, pilot courses featuring transformative texts.

Implementation grants provide support for institutions to enact concrete plans for comprehensive and sustainable curriculum development or redesign efforts and may be used as follows: To provide one-time stipends for faculty time committed to developing their readiness to teach in core-text-based courses; course releases to design and implement general education pathways; and other similar expenses likely to arise in a major curricular reform effort; to defray the cost of outreach to academic advisors who help guide students in their course enrollment, particularly at large institutions where academic advising is usually carried out by professional staff instead of faculty; and to support the work of recruiting students, addressing library resources, and similar expenses.

Through the program, implementation grants of up to $300,000 over 24 months will be made to each funded project participating in this initiative, with the size of the award based on the project’s scope. Planning grants up to $25,000 over six to 12 months are strongly encouraged to lay the groundwork for successful curricular reform and faculty professional development.

This funding opportunity is available to regionally accredited private not-for-profit and public higher education institutions. The initiative welcomes the participation of various institutions—community colleges, liberal arts colleges, regional comprehensive institutions, and research universities.

Concept papers are due December 1, 2023, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit proposals and are expected to finalize their applications by early April 2024.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Spencer Foundation aims to investigate how broadly conceived education can be improved worldwide. The foundation believes research is integral to improving education, making education systems more equitable, and increasing learning opportunities across the lifespan.

The foundation invites applications for its Small Research Grants Program, which will support education research projects with budgets of $50,000 or less that are not longer than five years.

The program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their careers and anticipates that proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines that investigate questions central to education, including education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics, history, or neuroscience. Projects may utilize various research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, ethnographies, design-based research, participatory methods, and historical research.

The foundation is open to projects that might incorporate data from multiple and varied sources, span a sufficient length of time to achieve a depth of understanding, or work closely with practitioners or community members over the project’s life.

To be eligible, principal investigators and Co-PIs must have earned a doctorate in an academic or professional field or demonstrate appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. PIs must be affiliated with a non-profit organization or public/governmental institution willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Established in 1945, the Shubert Foundation is America’s oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on Broadway.

The foundation invites applications from a broad spectrum of arts organizations, from large to small, covering a wide range of locations, from urban to rural. The foundation is especially interested in supporting professional resident theatre and dance companies that develop and produce new American work. Not-for-profit, professional theaters in the United States are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation general operating support grants.

The foundation grants only to professional organizations with an established track record and a history of fiscal responsibility. Community theaters are not eligible for funding. The foundation exclusively provides general operating support. Funds are not provided for project support, allocated for capital or endowment campaigns, nor to individuals or conduit organizations.

Theaters are evaluated individually and with appropriate allowance for size and resources. The standard for awarding these grants is assessing each organization’s operation and contribution to the field. Artistic activity, service to the community, and fiscal responsibility are factored into each evaluation, as is the company’s development of new work. Emphasis is placed upon a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Applicants must be United States organizations with current 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to be eligible.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing the study, preservation, and enjoyment of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the early 19th century. The foundation is accepting applications for the following:

The History of Art Grants
The History of Art Grants program 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.

Conservation Grants
The Conservation Grants program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European works of art 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, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Since 2009, the Rita Allen Foundation has awarded the annual Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain, which recognizes early-career leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the treatment of chronic pain.

Through the program, early-career investigators will be awarded $150,000 over three years in support of innovative research that focuses on basic science mechanisms of pain. Proposed research projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to developing new analgesics for managing pain. The entire award is made available to projects specifically chosen by the recipient; university overhead (i.e., indirect costs) is not supported.

Applicants must have received committed start-up funds and independent laboratory space from their institution, be within three years of the start date of a tenure track position or equivalent (senior postdocs and associate professors are not eligible), and must conduct their research and be appointed at an institution in the United States or Canada.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today.

The foundation invites applications for the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders, which aims to grow the global base of movement disorder specialists (neurologists with additional training in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders) by training movement disorder clinician-researchers who can provide expert care and lead scientific advances. The program will award eight two-year fellowships of $180,000 each to academic centers to identify and train a new movement disorder clinician-researcher. Funds may cover the fellow’s stipend, benefits, and travel allowance, as well as coursework, conferences, and other relevant educational and training opportunities.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Grass Foundation recognizes and supports efforts to use neuroscience to unite thoughtful people across various socioeconomic and geographic barriers.

The foundation invites applications for its 2024 Grass Fellowship program. Administered by the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the fellowship program supports investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their careers, providing 14-week fellowships and support including a stipend, laboratory space, animals, equipment, and supplies for a summer in residence at MBL. In addition, the investigator, his/her spouse or legal domestic partner, and dependent children are provided housing and round-trip travel to the MBL.

Fellows will function as an intellectual and social group within the MBL scientific community while sharing space in the Grass Laboratory. In a weekly private seminar series, investigators at MBL will discuss their work with fellows. In addition, a yearly Forbes Lecturer will spend a portion of the summer in the Grass Lab interacting with fellows. Childcare benefits are available and supported by the foundation.

Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The foundation also has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. Comparative and integrative neuroscience have been of particular interest in recent years. Anthropogenic environmental impacts—including climate change, chemical and sensory pollution, and ocean acidification—may impact the brain at the cell and circuit level in poorly understood ways. In partnership with the Grass Foundation, the Kavli Foundation supports Grass Fellows who explore this area through their research related to neurobiology and changing ecosystems.

Applicants must be early-career investigators (late-stage predoctoral trainees and beyond). Those demonstrating a commitment to pursuing a research career will be given priority.

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The Autism Science Foundation invites applications for its Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Awards from graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing careers in basic and clinical research relevant to autism spectrum disorders.

The proposed training should be scientifically linked to autism but may be broadened to include training in a closely related area of scientific research. The foundation will consider all areas of related basic and clinical research, including but not limited to human behavior and co-occurring medical conditions across the lifespan (language, learning, behavior, communication, social function, motor skills & planning, epilepsy, sleep, repetitive disorders); neurobiology (anatomy, development, neuroimaging); pharmacology; studies that address disparities in access, care, and research; improving research in underserved communities; neuropathology; genetics and gene/environment interactions; epigenetics; immunology; molecular and cellular mechanisms; studies employing model organisms and systems; intervention research (behavioral, pharmacological or a combination of the two), and studies of treatment and service delivery.

ASF welcomes scientific research in all fields; however, it is especially interested in projects that address previously under-researched communities. These include profound autism, those with severe and challenging behaviors, and autism disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups or those with socioeconomic challenges.

Awards are over one year and include $35,000 for predoctoral students and $50,000 for postdoctoral students.

The proposed mentor must hold a tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment (or equivalent) at an accredited higher education or health/medical/research institution and be an established and active investigator in some aspect of autism research.

To be eligible, applicants for predoctoral awards must be enrolled students in good standing in a program leading to a research doctorate, such as a PhD or ScD, or a dual degree, such as an MD/PhD, in an academic department at an accredited university or health/medical institution. Applicants for postdoctoral awards must have completed their doctoral or medical degree and have been accepted as a postdoctoral fellow in good standing in a program as of the award start date (July through September 2024). Both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens, regardless of their affiliation or enrollment location, are eligible to apply.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) and AFAR provide up to $150,000 for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty (MDs and PhDs) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts on the biology of aging. These investigators study a broad range of biomedical and clinical topics related to aging.

The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging research. GFMR and AFAR support research projects concerned with understanding the basic mechanisms of aging rather than disease-specific research. Projects investigating age-related diseases are supported if approached from the point of view of how basic aging processes may lead to these outcomes. Projects concerning mechanisms underlying common geriatric functional disorders are also encouraged, as long as these include connections to fundamental problems in the biology of aging. Projects that deal strictly with clinical problems such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible.

Projects investigating mechanisms of, or putative therapies for, Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias, are not eligible for this award and investigators should consider applying instead to the Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in Alzheimer’s Disease (R03).

Projects investigating ger-omics should apply for The Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty (currently under review for funding in 2024).

It is anticipated that approximately 10 grants of up to $150,000 each will be awarded in 2024. Applicants may propose to use the award over the course of one or two years as justified by the proposed research. Up to 8% of funds may be budgeted for overhead or indirect costs (not to exceed $11,111). Funding will begin July 1, 2024.

The applicant must be an independent investigator with independent research space as described in a form completed by the Dean or Department Chair, and must be no more than 10 years beyond the start of postdoctoral research training as of July 1, 2024. For Awards funded by the GFMR preference will be given to investigators who are in the first 3 years of a faculty appointment.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Over the past century, ACLS has supported individual scholars and scholarly teams around the world in their pursuit of research with the potential to advance knowledge in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Our current focus includes providing more pathways for those who have traditionally had less access to external research support and scholarly resources, including first-generation scholars, people from historically marginalized communities, and non-tenure track faculty. The ACLS is currently accepting applications for the following:

Fellowships for Research on the Liberal Arts
The AVDF/ACLS Fellows for Research on the Liberal Arts program will provide funding and data training for up to five scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available College and Beyond II (CBII) database. The CBII database includes more than one million student records, 50 million course enrollments, and alumni surveys for 2,800 respondents. The five AVDF/ACLS Fellows for Research on the Liberal Arts will each receive $45,000 toward their projects, participate in a two-day data training led by the research team at ICPSR, and convene for a subsequent symposium to share their findings with one another and invited journalists.
Digital Justice Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for newly formulated projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.

Digital Justice Grants
ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants ($10K-$25K) and Development Grants ($50K-$100K) support projects that pursue any of the following activities:
Engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people.
Explore or experiment with new materials, methodologies, and research agendas by way of planning workshops, prototyping, and/or testing products.
Cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge and strategic approaches to content building and knowledge dissemination.
Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to these opportunities.

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Allen Foundation, Inc. grants are limited to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.

The policies and priorities of Allen Foundation, Inc.:
To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.
The connections between diet and health remain a basic and primary priority, and consideration has always been given to projects that benefit nutritional programs in the areas of education, training, and research. Low priority has traditionally been given to proposals that help solve immediate or emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. The foundation does not under any circumstances sponsor professional conferences, seminar tables, discussion panels, or similar events.

The foundation welcomes proposals that develop and advance: (1) the inclusion of mandatory courses in nutrition in medical schools; (2) bringing the promise of nutrigenomics or nutritional genomics to realization; and (3) the promotion of environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsive, and sustainable food and agricultural systems.

Academic research under an Allen Foundation grant must be conducted under the leadership of a principal investigator (PI) who is a full-time regular faculty member with tenure or on tenure track. Research projects that are pre-clinical or translational in nature, i.e., utilizing animal models, as well as human/clinical studies are eligible for consideration for possible funding.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Energy and Environment program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues. The program is currently soliciting Letters of Inquiry for interdisciplinary, collaborative, social and natural science research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars to examine under-explored questions related to issues associated with critical minerals and metals for the low-carbon energy transition in the United States. Three to four full proposals are expected to be invited from submissions received in response to this Call. Grant amounts are expected to be between $500,000 and $750,000 over a 2-3 year period.

The goal of this Call is to be broadly relevant to a wide range of social science scholars, disciplines, and approaches, particularly those projects that involve researchers from engineering and natural science disciplines, as well as those that draw on a variety of conceptual frameworks and methodologies, ensuring that novel research is generated, students are trained, networks are strengthened, and information is disseminated to inform decision-making.

The intention is to advance interdisciplinary, collaborative scholarship focusing on underexplored empirical research questions related to critical minerals and metals in the United States. Attention by the research community is also needed to address questions relevant to historically under-represented or marginalized regions and populations. In particular, there is a need for research investigating opportunities to ensure the benefits from mineral and metal supply chains reach Native and Indigenous communities, communities of color, economically vulnerable communities, or other vulnerable populations that have been historically overlooked or excluded from decision-making processes.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Simons Foundation grantmaking efforts focus on mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences, neuroscience and autism research. The following funding opportunities are currently open: 

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
Amount: 50% salary support plus $50,000 yearly allowance
Deadline: Letter of Intent due December 8, 2023
The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.

Simons Foundation for Autism Research (SFARI) Bridge to Independence Award Program
Amount: Postdoc award: Annual $85,000 salary plus $10,000 annual allowance;
Faculty Research Award: $600,000 over three years
Deadline: January 10, 2024
SFARI is invested in supporting the next generation of top autism researchers. This award engages talented early-career scientists to pursue autism research by facilitating their transition to research independence and providing grant funding at the start of their faculty positions at a U.S. or Canadian research institution.

Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Transition to Independence Award
Amount: $85,000 salary support and $10,000 allowance for two years, followed by a $600,000 commitment over 3 years with assumption of tenure track professorship
Deadline: January 10, 2024
This award engages talented early-career scientists from diverse and/or historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue research in systems and computational neuroscience and facilitates their transition into independent faculty positions at research institutions within or outside the U.S.

Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB) Transition to Independence Award
Amount: $85,000 salary support and $10,000 allowance for two years, followed by a $600,000 commitment over 3 years with assumption of tenure track professorship
Deadline: January 10, 2024
This award aims to facilitate the transition of the next generation of outstanding scientists from historically underrepresented groups to research independence in the field of cognitive aging.

Travel Support for Mathematicians
Amount: Up to $8,400 in the form of a gift will be provided per year for up to five years
Deadline: January 31, 2024
The goal of the program is to stimulate collaboration in the mathematics field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to these opportunities. 

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The Terra Foundation supports visual arts projects with a focus on art of the United States and Indigenous art of North America that question and broaden understandings of American art and transform how its stories are told.

Recognizing current and historical inequities in the presentations and understandings of American art history, the Terra Foundation encourages convenings that address these disparities and exclusions at institutions worldwide. 

Grant support is available for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field. We also welcome requests for convenings intended to inform projects in their early stages, which will benefit from the learning and practice that can be developed through dialogue.  

This program is open to organizations within and outside of the United States. Convenings held in person and/or online are eligible for support. 

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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The mission of the Teagle Foundation is “to support and strengthen liberal arts education, which we see as fundamental to meaningful work, effective citizenship, and a fulfilling life.”

The foundation invites applications for the Education for American Civic Life initiative, which supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. 

According to the foundation, colleges and universities often assume that their incoming students have received prior preparation on fundamental topics such as the formation of the American Republic or the drafting of the United States Constitution, contention over its meaning, and its amendment over time. On this assumption, they miss critical opportunities to help undergraduates develop a mature understanding of the history and fragility of democracy. 

Through the Education for American Civic Life initiative, the foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education by partnering with institutions offering bold and coherent initiatives that endow students with the content, skills, and sensibility to participate in a political system designed for self-governance. While progress has been made at many institutions of higher education to promote civic action and various forms of community service as part of the undergraduate experience, the foundation is especially concerned with grounding such action and service in comprehensive civic knowledge through teaching, reading, debate, and discussion centered in the curriculum.

The foundation aims for ambitious projects that confront gaps in undergraduates’ civic knowledge and prepare them for the intellectual demands of democratic participation. Successful proposals will promote learning about the formation of the American Republic, the crafting of its Constitution, the history of contention over the interpretation of the Constitution, the development of representative political structures, and the principles of democracy. The initiative is focused on funding in two areas: (1) anchoring significant questions in democratic thought in local history and community and (2) strengthening preparation for public service. Grants of varying amounts, ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 over 24-to-36-months, will be made to each funded project participating in the initiative.

The foundation invites the participation of various institutions, including community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and comprehensive and research universities. Requests from both single institutions and multiple institutions partnering together will be considered.

Concept papers are due December 1, 2023; upon review, a limited number of applicants will be invited to submit full proposals.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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The goal of CART is to encourage exploratory and developmental AD research projects within the United States by providing support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data, but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research.

Proposals should be distinct from those projects designed to increase knowledge in a well-established area unless it is intended to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.

The CART Fund annually invites interested applicants from within the United States only to submit a letter of intent that includes sufficient detail to communicate the importance of your study as well as information on its feasibility.

Applications may encompass a project period of up to two years with a combined budget for direct costs up to $300,000. No indirect costs are allowed. Full-time faculty (or the equivalent status) at U.S.-based public and private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories, are eligible. This is for NEW projects only. Applications will be deemed ineligible from for-profit and organizations outside the United States, as well as those already supported by regular or program grants.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) seeks to support projects that will advance the fields of single-cell biology and data science. Grantees will be expected to interact with existing groups to build community and accelerate progress. Applications are encouraged from computational experts outside the field of single-cell biology, but with expertise relevant to overcoming current bottlenecks and driving discoveries in the single-cell biology field.

Projects may include: dedicated efforts to democratize access and usability of existing datasets; demonstration of utility by leveraging existing datasets to address impactful and challenging biological questions; and developing methods that enable greater biological insight and other major challenges brought forward. This request for applications is the last of three currently planned cycles, with successful projects receiving 18 months of funding support.

Applications for two types of grants are welcome and will be reviewed independently. The maximum budgets for proposed projects are $400,000 total costs for Expanded Projects and $200,000 total costs for Focused Projects. All project awards will be for an 18-month duration. The goal of this opportunity is to create a network of projects that address broad computational challenges and needs within single-cell biology at a variety of scales. Applicants may highlight existing or prospective collaboration among projects, but should note that all applications will be reviewed for their individual merit and impact. 

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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Building upon the original goals of the BWF Preterm Birth Initiative, a recently convened Pregnancy Think Tank has helped shape the next generation of BWF preterm birth awards. Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality.

Other areas of interest are climate change and environmental impact on pregnancy, complications associated with ART, and epigenome-wide association studies.

BWF seeks to expand the scope of this award mechanism to capture these and other pregnancy outcomes as we believe they will be mutually informative and accelerate discovery. Each award will continue to provide up to $500,000 over a four-year period ($125,000 per year).

The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods. The formation of new connections between reproductive scientists and investigators who are involved in other areas is particularly encouraged.

For eligibility requirements, please refer to the complete RFP.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity, and family income. The Foundation pursues its mission by promoting collaboration among researchers, educators, and other stakeholders via the funding of research projects and program evaluations that have the potential of informing private funders and public policy.

Foundation is currently accepting Research Project (RP) proposals and Existing Program Evaluation (EPE) 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.

Existing Program Evaluation (EPE proposals)
The primary aim must concern evaluating the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) with the goal of informing ways to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity, and income.
Secondary aims may also focus on one or more of the following:
What works for whom, under what conditions: Investigate variations in program effects; that is, test for moderation effects that inform whether effects are stronger for certain groups and/or under certain conditions than other groups or conditions.
Reasons for effects: Investigate mechanisms through which effects occur; that is, test for mediation effects that inform why the program is effective.
Cost-benefit analyses: Compare the total costs of the program (start-up and ongoing operational costs) with its estimated monetary benefits to determine the net cost or benefit associated with the program.
Research Project (RP) proposals
The Primary and any secondary aims must concern obtaining information that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and/or family income.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity. 

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The AGA invites applications for the Research Scholar Award, through which the AGA aims to support early-career investigators working toward independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research. Through the program, grants of $100,000 per year for three years will be awarded to early-career faculty (i.e., investigator, instructor, research associate, or equivalent) working toward an independent career in digestive disease research. Applicants performing any research (basic, translational, clinical) relevant to digestive disorders are eligible to apply.

To be eligible, applicants must hold an MD, PhD and/or equivalent degree (e.g., MBChB, MBBS, DO) and a full-time faculty or equivalent position at an institution in North America (U.S., Canada, or Mexico) by the start date (i.e., July 2024) of this award.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to these opportunities. 

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Evidence for Action (E4A) 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. Our focus on racial equity means 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, 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.

This funding is geared toward studies about “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop at characterizing or documenting the extent of a problem.

The application process begins with the submission of an application and a two-page letter of intent (LOI). Applicants will generally receive notice within six to nine weeks of applying as to whether they are invited to submit a full proposal. Full proposals will be due two months from the date of notification. Funding recommendations will generally be made within eight weeks of receipt of the full proposal.

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EnAccess funds and supports Open Innovation in Energy Access. They believe that Open Innovation is necessary in order to achieve universal energy access.

EnAccess currently has two funding mechanisms and accepts applications on a rolling basis:

Innovation Pilots for Energy Access – up to $250,000
For projects that are ready to be built and prototyped in a real environment. Think: Hardware, Software, Business Models that need market validation from the Energy Access Sector. These projects create shared solutions for problems that are commonly faced across the industry. Most hardware and software projects would likely fit in this category – if you’re ready to write the code, or order equipment to put together with your hands, this is the right spot for you.

Moonshots Concepts for Energy Access – up to $50,000
Moonshot concepts research high potential opportunities that might inspire new thinking in the industry. Working on a new concept could be open ended and highly uncertain (see one of our published projects, AgriGrid, as an example). We don’t always know how these projects will turn out, but are happy to take risks on ideas that we find promising. One example might be a series of discussions that explore opportunities to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in energy access. The results of this kind of exploration could be a whitepaper describing an innovation roadmap for the industry, a research webinar, a concept note for a new organization, or a prototype tool analyzing data from various organizations.
“Tech” projects may fit into this category too. Your idea might have the end results of being a new type of chip, software, or hardware – but before you are ready to actually make something like that, you need to flush out the idea. If this is where you’re at, this is the right category for you.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to one of these opportunities.

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The Autism Science Foundation regularly awards grants and fellowships to autism researchers studying a variety of issues aimed at finding solutions for people with autism.

One year pre-doctoral and post-doctoral, and two year post-undergraduate fellowships are available for qualified applicants interested in autism research. The foundations seeks proposals that seek an understanding of the biological mechanisms of brain development, promote earlier detection, develop new personalized treatment approaches, and improve the quality of life for those with autism.

All scientists funded through this mechanism will participate in ASF’s “Open Access Publications” program, through which peer-reviewed, published research funded by the Autism Science Foundation is made available to the public free of charge via PubMed through a collaboration between the Health Research Alliance, ASF, and the National Libraries of Medicine.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The American Lung Association has focused on driving excellence and innovation through research. Today, through the ALA Research Institute, they continue to support trailblazing research, novel ideas and innovative approaches with the goal of eliminating lung disease and improving life for those living with lung disease. The following awards are open for applications:

Allergic Respiratory Diseases Award:
Amount: $75,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Jointly funded with the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), this award supports allergic respiratory disease research by investigators with a primary faculty appointment in an allergy-immunology division.

Catalyst Award:
Amount: $50,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
For mentored early career scientists ascending toward independence, this award supports junior investigators conducting basic science, behavioral, clinical or translational research into lung health and disease.

Dalsemer Interstitial Lung Disease Award:
Amount: $50,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
For mentored early career scientists ascending toward independence, this award provides seed monies to junior investigators for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease.

Hasting Innovation Award for Interstitial Lung Disease:
Amount: $75,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
This award is geared toward independent investigators conducting basic, clinical or translational research in interstitial lung disease. Must have held an NIH K- or R-type award within three years prior to applying, but not more than one R01.

Innovation Award:
Amount: $75,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
This award is geared toward independent investigators who are conducting basic science, behavioral, clinical or translational research in lung health or disease. Must have held an NIH K- or R-type award within three years prior, but not more than one R01.

Public Policy & Public Health Award:
Amount: $50,000/year for up to two years
Deadline: December 15, 2023
This award is designed to stimulate and inform important public policy debates around healthy air and lung disease. The intent is to support research on and evaluation of existing public policy and public health programs, as well as pilot new ideas.

Please contact Gwen Allouch if you are interested in applying to these opportunities.

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The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. This program especially supports projects that engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people. In this way, the program seeks to address the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. 

The program offers two kinds of grants: Digital Justice Seed Grants for projects at early stages of development; and Digital Justice Development Grants for projects that have advanced beyond the start-up or early phases of development. All grantees have the opportunity to receive tailored coaching from the Nonprofit Financing Fund in order to plan for the long-term stewardship and sustainability of their projects.

The program is made possible by a generous grant from The Mellon Foundation.

Please contact Sara Salmon if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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Open Philanthropy is currently seeking proposals from applicants interested in growing the community of people motivated to improve the long-term future via the kinds of projects described below:

1) Programs that engage with promising young people
OP is seeking proposals for programs that engage with young people who seem particularly promising in terms of their ability to improve the long-term future (and may have interest in doing so). Examples include aptitudes for conducting research, advancing into top institutional roles, founding or supporting organizations, communicating ideas, and building communities of people with similar interests and goals, among others. Downstream, OP hopes these individuals will be fits for what they believe to be priority paths for improving the long-term future, such as AI alignment research, technical and policy work reducing risks from advances in synthetic biology, career paths involving senior roles in the national security community, and roles writing and speaking about relevant ideas, among others.
OP is interested in supporting a wide range of possible programs, including summer or winter camps, scholarship or fellowship programs, seminars, conferences, workshops, and retreats.

2) Projects aiming at widespread dissemination of relevant high-quality content
OP is also seeking proposals for projects that aim to share high-quality, nuanced content related to improving the long-term future with large numbers of people. Projects could cover wide areas such as effective altruism, rationality, longtermism, or global catastrophic risk reduction, or they could have a more specific focus. They are interested in supporting people both to create original content and to find new ways to share existing content.
Potential project types include:
Podcasts
YouTube channels
Massive open online courses (MOOCs)
New magazines, webzines, blogs, and media verticals
Books, including fiction
Strategic promotion of existing content (with the permission of the creators of the content, or their representatives), especially those that have historically drawn in promising individuals
If interested in one of the project types above, submit a brief pre-proposal here. Open Philanthropy will reach out if they are interested to learn more about your project. Open Philanthropy is open to and encourages highly ambitious proposals for projects that would require annual budgets of millions of dollars, including proposals to scale existing projects that are still relatively small.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks efforts to bring to life a vision of a new social contract for children and families–one that recognizes our collective interdependence, the need for shared prosperity, and the inherent value and dignity of all families and children–to truly promote the health and wellbeing of children and families above all else.

The foundation will fund projects that address structural issues that hinder children and families from thriving in our economy. They are interested in frameworks, ideas, models, or approaches that demonstrate an alternative economic vision that positions families at the center–challenging the idea that the value of families can only be understood in connection to work or production. The foundation is looking for creative solutions and alternatives that address structural or systemic issues that impact families having the resources they need to thrive.

Through this program, the RWJF aims to:
1. Support a more expansive or provocative understanding of our economy by accelerating the visibility, uptake, and learning from promising new ideas, frameworks, models, or approaches that target structural racism in the economy and that drive resources to children and families.
2. Contribute to an evidence base that expands understanding of what it looks like to have the wellbeing of children and families prioritized in our economic decisions.
3. Elevate promising and innovative models, their connections to current approaches, and how they might demonstrate a path forward from incremental improvement toward systems transformation.

This request for proposals is not intended to support programs, services, or interventions that address individual
behavior for families to access resources within the existing economic system, nor basic safetynet issues (e.g., financial coaching, literacy programs, access to food relief). RWJF explicitly seeks efforts to transform the experience of families–their ability to sustain their families through full participation in the economy and related social systems.

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The Autism Science Foundation invites applications for its 2023 Suzanne Wright Research Accelerator Grants.

These grants are designed to expand the scope, speed the progress, increase efficiency, or improve the final product dissemination of active autism research grants. This mechanism also allows the creative use of data that has not been analyzed to ask questions relevant to autism research. The funding is not meant to support a project fully but to leverage existing resources to accelerate the discovery of research findings. Projects that do not fit the mechanism’s goal or adhere to the proposal preparation instructions will be returned without review.

Grants of up to $7,500 will be awarded to enhance, expand, and enrich grants currently funded by other sources (including ASF). This award may cover staff salary. All projects must have prior IRB approval. No portion of these funds shall be used to cover indirect university costs.

Proposals are invited from all areas of autism research. The foundation is especially interested in proposals that address profound autism and specifically invites researchers from universities that have not received funding from ASF before, including HBCUs.

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Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
Amount: 5 years of 50% of salary plus yearly $50,000 ($250,000)
Deadline: LOI due December 8, 2023

The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path. 
Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) in mathematics, astronomy or theoretical physics and have played a leading role in developing or maintaining scientific software in one or more of these fields. 

SEED Program (EDI-related)
Amount: $300,000 over three years
Deadline: Rolling

The SFARI Supplement to Enhance Equity and Diversity (SEED) is a program that provides supplements to existing grants for the recruitment of new lab members from American underrepresented minority groups at the postdoctoral level. For the purposes of this supplement, eligible groups include the following: African American/Black; Latin American/Hispanic; Native American/Alaskan Native; Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander (including Filipino).
The goal of this award is to increase diversity and fight inequity. SFARI Principal Investigators (PIs) are encouraged to recruit candidates for this supplement not only at their home institution, but also at historically Black colleges and universities and other institutions with high minority enrollment.

Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Amount: Funding and duration is flexible. Should be based on the type of support requested Deadline: Rolling, LOI submission required

The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.
Applications may be submitted by established U.S. and foreign public and private educational institutions and stand-alone research centers. PIs and co-Investigators must have a Ph.D. and a tenure-track or tenured position at said institutions or centers at the time of application. There are no citizenship or department requirements for PIs. 

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The Hunt Foundation envisions a natural environment that is understood and respected as a web of interconnections of which human beings are a part, where people live in harmony within the Earth’s ecological systems, where biodiversity is preserved as an integral component of economic and technological progress, and where human impact on Earth serves to maintain sustainable processes.

The foundation supports strategic activities that create incentives for environmentally responsible decisions in the private sector. The Environment Committee will consider grant requests for specific projects or programs that improve the environment at a multi-state, national, and/or systems level. Typical costs funded include project management, contracted services, education and outreach programs, applied research, and innovations that could lead to public policy solutions. Foundation priorities are:

Climate and Energy – To reduce the consequences of climate change in the United States, primarily through:
Increasing the affordability and use of cleaner and renewable energy sources, and
Reducing demand for carbon-intensive energy sources and carbon-intensive goods and services
Toxics and Waste – To reduce damage to the environment and human health caused by the manufacture, use, and disposal of consumer and industrial products. Typical strategies include green chemistry, sustainable design, sustainable manufacturing, and product stewardship.

Clean Water – To protect and restore the quality of freshwater, coastal, and nearby oceanic areas of the United States.

The Foundation prefers strategies that:
Promote incentives and other private sector economic levers to encourage environmentally responsible decisions
Encourage compatibility between environmental protection, economic development, and technical innovations
Create opportunities for collaborative, cross-sector problem-solving; including action plans, certifications, and assessment tools
Create methods for individuals and community groups to be better environmental stewards

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The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.

The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues.

Applicants must be an employee or affiliate of either an academic institution or a think tank.

Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects. It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)

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The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance.

Grants awarded through the Cross-Species Studies of ASD request for applications (RFA) are intended to support multi-disciplinary teams of PIs with expertise in both human and animal research to perform coordinated cross-species studies to advance our understanding of ASD-relevant behaviors and their underlying neurobiological mechanisms, with the potential for developing novel biomarkers or interventions.

Applicants may request a maximum of $400,000, inclusive of 20 percent indirect costs, for each year of funding over a period of two (2) to three (3) years.

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The CSWEP-SSRC Women in Economics Research Consortium invites proposals to rigorously evaluate potentially scalable interventions designed to increase the numbers and success of women in the economics profession. They particularly encourage proposals that involve collaborations with implementing partners on college and university campuses.

The SSRC also encourages replications of previously evaluated interventions, especially replications that evaluate the scalability and external validity of previously evaluated interventions. Projects may begin as early as September 2023 and have timelines of up to 18 months. (No-cost extensions will be available to enable longer periods of observation). Budgets should not exceed $200,000 in total costs, with indirect costs not exceeding a total of 10% of direct costs.

Proposals will be reviewed by external reviewers chosen in consultation with CSWEP leadership. Proposals will be reviewed and award decisions will be made on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to submit proposals earlier rather than later.

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o attain its ultimate goal of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained and dedicated medical scientists, the Foundation grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research.

Candidates who hold, or are in the final stages of obtaining a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree and are seeking beginning postdoctoral training in basic biomedical research are eligible to apply for a fellowship. The Foundation accepts applications from candidates who have no more than ONE year of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the deadline for submitting the application (June 15, 2023), and who have received a Ph.D. (or D.Phil. or equivalent) degree no more than TWO years before the deadline, or an M.D. degree no more than THREE years before the deadline.

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The Borealis Philanthropy Fund for Trans Generations invests in trans-led organizing to support a future where transgender, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary people live with freedom, safety, and self-determination.

The FTG provides significant resources to emerging trans-led groups with limited access to national funding streams. The FTG prioritizes funding for organizations addressing health and healing, education, anti-violence, employment, housing, criminalization, leadership development, grassroots organizing, movement building, mutual aid and direct services, and arts and culture.

At this moment, the FTG has only rapid response funding available. The FTG rapid response fund will provide support for situations that require immediate response and for proactive activities that pursue strategic opportunities.

Organizations and fiscally sponsored projects based in trans communities that are facing high levels of harm and who have limited access to foundation support will be prioritized. Request examples may include the following: communications, advocacy, and organizing training to defeat anti-trans legislation; direct actions that confront transphobic legislation, attempts to dismantle trans protection, or other activities aimed at harming trans communities; travel support for a timely trans convening or training opportunity; and a new project or network that is doing proactive movement-building work and needs support to lay the groundwork for this.

Project budgets should not exceed $600,000; a project based at an organization with a budget larger than $600,000 may apply as long as it is trans-led. Organizations or projects may apply for a rapid response grant at any time and receive only one grant every 12 months. Grant amounts will not exceed $10,000 per organization, with an average size grant being $3,000 to $5,000.

To be eligible, organizations or projects must be trans-led, and organizations must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or fiscally sponsored. Projects must be based in the United States and U.S. territories.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a call for proposals for Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health, emphasizing advancing racial equity. According to RWJF, achieving racial equity is impossible without focusing on the foundational and structural drivers of health, often referred to as the social determinants of health (e.g., housing, education, built environment, economic opportunity, law enforcement, and others). Therefore, the fund partners with researchers, practitioners, community leaders, advocates, and policy makers to develop evidence about what works to dismantle or remedy unjust systems and practices and produce more equitable outcomes for people and communities of color.

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. The foundation is 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 how 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.

This funding is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop characterizing or documenting a problem’s extent.

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying for this opportunity.

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Institutions of higher education (IHEs) face a complex set of financial, technological, political, social and demographic challenges that have intensified significantly over the last decade.

Traditional focus on revenue generation has failed to address the fundamental need many institutions of higher education have to transform their educational and business models in ways that can help drive student success and social mobility, especially for students of color, students from low-income families, and other underserved populations.

The Transformational Partnerships Fund helps institutions explore partnerships in a thoughtful, timely way by offering:

• A safe, confidential space for IHEs to discuss and explore strategic partnerships;
• Information about the continuum of partnership options and support in identifying the strategies best suited to each institution’s unique circumstances;
• Referrals to appropriate experts who are well-versed in academic partnerships;
• Catalytic grants (up to $100,000 per exploration) to engage third-party technical assistance providers knowledgeable in law, finance, governance, fundraising, human resources, and other related fields;
• A visible advocate to share knowledge about the value of transformational partnerships and work in conjunction with other stakeholders interested in the success of IHEs.

TPF provides institutions with relevant resources collected from its advisors, its network, and other third parties. University and college leaders can approach TPF with the assurance that all discussions will remain confidential until an appropriate and mutually agreed time.

Each institution must determine how best to proceed; partnerships are not always the answer. Nevertheless, TPF seeks to build awareness of and advocate for the role partnerships can play as a proactive strategy to be considered by mission-driven, student-centered institutions.

Please contact Daniel Hadley if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Rising Tide Foundation, which aims to promote freedom to improve the quality of life everywhere, was created with the belief that those who are most vulnerable to critical issues and who are willing and ready to take on responsibility are the most effective agents of change and should contribute as members of society with a spirit of freedom to solve their own problems.

To that end, the foundation invites applications for its Freedom in Practice program, which will award grants in support of projects that articulate and promote the core beliefs of the foundation, have the potential to eliminate obstacles that impede creative individuals, and give a “hand-up” rather than just a “hand-out.” Specifically, the foundation seeks projects aimed at developing private-sector solutions to societal problems; offering solutions to the problems created by government and “crony capitalist” interventions; offering strategies for making such interventions unnecessary and unattractive going forward; enhancing individuals’ capacities for self-determination, individual choice, and peaceful, voluntary cooperation in society; and discovering methods to teach freedom in more effective ways or to new audiences.

Letters of Intent are accepted on a rolling basis, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.

Please contact Daniel Hadley if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The Global Innovation Fund invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling up of new products, services, business process, or policy reforms that are more cost-effective than current practice and targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.

GIF defines ‘innovation’ broadly to include new business models, policy practices, technologies, behavioural insights, or ways of delivering products and services that benefit the poor in developing countries — any solution that has potential to address an important development problem more effectively than existing approaches.
We accept applications working in any sector in any developing country.

Any type of organisation may apply. It is recommended that individual innovators, entrepreneurs, or researchers apply through an affiliated organisation.

We seek out innovations we believe have the greatest potential to improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty and only select those innovations which:
1. Are focussed on the poor.
2. Are novel approaches which are not commonplace.
3. Can improve upon alternatives solutions.
4. Are backed by evidence of potential impact.
5. Can be widely applied in many different settings.
6. Have the potential to scale to reach millions of people.
7. Are led by strong and dynamic teams.
8. Are ready for investment.
9. Will generate new knowledge on what works.
10. Have a clear role for GIF.

Please contact Daniel Hadley if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.

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The mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color.

Funding program areas include:
Health Care Delivery System Reform
Health Care Coverage and Access
Advancing Health Equity
Controlling Health Care Costs
Federal and State Health Policy
International Health Policy and Practice Innovations
Advancing Medicare
Tracking Health System Performance
Medicaid

Within these programs, preference is given to proposals that seek to: clarify the scope of serious and neglected problems; develop, test, and evaluate the impact of practical, innovative models for addressing such problems; disseminate tools and models of care that have been proven to be effective; or analyze the impact of particular policies or trends. To review descriptions of funding priorities and lists of recently approved grants, please click on the programs above.

Please let Gwen Allouch know if you are planning to apply for this opportunity.

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The Jones Foundation supports vital research in reproductive medicine through annual and multi-year funding grants. At the direction of the Board of Directors, the Jones Foundation currently supports translational research projects, educational programs and ethical seminars.

This prize is designed to recognize those whose contributions to public policy and/or medical education have significantly advanced the specialty of reproductive medicine.

The Foundation strives to provide resources to the scientific community so that there may be intellectual, creative and well prepared scientific leaders in the global environment of the 21st century by:

• Fostering the development of innovative, high-quality research by new and established investigators in the field of reproductive medicine.

• Educating the general public, including physicians, administrators and legislators, about the issues of public policy topics that will assist the general public and others in making informed decisions regarding fertility treatment and reproductive medical issues.

• Serving as catalyst to scientific investigators by reviewing and selecting for an annual Award, one or more significant research projects that advanced the field of reproductive medicine.

The Medical Executive Committee of the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Foundation will review the credentials of the nominees and the awardee will be notified.

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The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance.

Objectives
With the understanding that diversity in the scientific workforce is an important element for the goal of advancing autism science, SFARI announces a new program that will provide supplements to existing grants for the recruitment of new lab members from American underrepresented minority groups at the postdoctoral level. For the purposes of this supplement, eligible groups include the following: African American/Black; Latin American/Hispanic; Native American/Alaskan Native; Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander (including Filipino).

The goal of this award is to increase diversity and fight inequity. SFARI Principal Investigators (PIs) are encouraged to recruit candi­­­­­­­­dates for this supplement not only at their home institution, but also at historically Black colleges and universities and other institutions with high minority enrollment. SFARI will not award supplements to fund current lab members, even if they are not funded by the original SFARI award.

To facilitate the academic success and independence of selected postdoctoral research associates, SFARI will organize networking opportunities with peer awardees, other SFARI grantees (including both early career and senior investigators) and SFARI staff.

As a condition for accepting the grant, the mentor and candidate must agree to work together to submit one or more applications for federal and/or non-federal postdoctoral fellowship awards before the end of the second year. Continuation of the award for a third year of funding is not contingent on success in these applications, but writing such proposals is an important part of training for future in science.

Level and Duration of Funding
Current PIs may request up to $100,000 per year for up to three years. This is intended to cover the full salary and fringe benefits of the selected postdoctoral research associate, travel and other professional development opportunities for the postdoctoral research associate, and the associated indirect costs. Funds may also be used to purchase additional lab supplies needed to accommodate the research plan but are limited to $10,000 per year.

PIs will be required to provide annual updates to SFARI on the new lab member’s productivity as part of their required project progress reports.

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A central goal of U.S. evidence-based policy reform is to focus government and philanthropic funding on social programs and practices (“interventions”) that have credible evidence of meaningful positive effects on people’s lives. The imperative for doing so is clear: Most social interventions are unfortunately found not to produce the hoped-for effects when rigorously evaluated – a pattern that occurs not just in social spending but in other fields, such as medicine and business. Thus, without a strong focus on evidence-based interventions, it is hard to see how social spending can successfully address poverty, educational failure, violence, drug abuse, and other critical U.S. problems.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation’s (LJAF) Moving the Needle initiative seeks to spur expanded implementation of such interventions in order to make significant headway against U.S. social problems. Specifically, the initiative is designed to encourage state or local jurisdictions, or other entities, to:
1. Adopt social interventions shown in well-conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to produce large, sustained effects on important life outcomes;
2. Implement these interventions on a sizable scale with close adherence to their key features; and
3. Determine, through a replication RCT, whether the large effects found in prior research are successfully reproduced so as to move the needle on important social problems.

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The program’s primary aim is to build bridges between the two cultures of science and the humanities and to develop a common language so that they can better understand and speak to one another–and ultimately to grasp that they belong to a single common culture.

The Foundation has established a nationwide strategy that focuses on books, theater, film, television, radio, and new media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology for the lay public.

– Books
– Film
– New Media
– Radio
– Television
– Theater

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American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas.

1. Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning. Improving systems of preparing, recruiting, and developing teachers and education leaders to serve the needs of diverse learners;

2. New Designs to Advance Learning. Developing whole-school models that provide more effective learning environments for diverse learners;

3. Public Understanding. Supporting research on strategies that can drive parent and family engagement in education;

4. Pathways to Postsecondary Success. Improving alignment in student learning expectations between K-12 and postsecondary education; improving postsecondary education

5. Integration, Learning, and Innovation. Advancing integrated approaches across the Corporation’s portfolios and the field that enable greater collaboration, coherence, and dynamism;

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