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The GVP grant program works to advance promising approaches to achieving a higher-value healthcare system. This program aims to test approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to their patients and communities.
- Award Amount: Up to $400k (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Letters of Intent (LOIs) due by May 16, 2024
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
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The foundation invites applications for research projects to identify solutions to common issues and problems in the field of children’s health, nutrition, and/or development. Priority focus areas include: Pediatric Health; Pediatric Nutrition; and Environmental Hazards (Nutrient Competitors).
- Award Amount: Up to $350k
- Deadline: Concept papers due by May 15, 2024
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Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding basic researchers who have strong potential to become leaders in their fields. Scholars are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through their mentoring efforts and understanding of systemic exclusion and marginalization in science of trainees from different backgrounds. While pursuing excellence in their own research, Scholars work to create an inclusive lab climate that serves as a model within their own institutions and beyond.
- Award Amount: Up to 30 early career faculty will be selected to join the 2025 cohort. Scholars can receive up to $8.6M over the 10-year period.
- Deadline: Applications due by May 15, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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These grants are awarded twice annually to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Artistic Production Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify our three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement.
- Award Amount: $25k - $100k
- Deadline: Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) due by May 16, 2024
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The program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. They seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.
- Award Amount: $125k - $500k (over 1 - 5 years)
- Deadlines:
- Intent to apply due by May 22, 2024
- Full proposals due by June 18, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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The goal of this RFP is to highlight the real-life stories about water scarcity by funding on-the-ground, community-led conservation projects addressing freshwater scarcity challenges through impactful solutions.
Grants are reserved for select projects located in one of the 20 water scarcity/water gap hotspots, as defined by the modeled water gaps in the World Water Map.
- Award Amount: Up to $50k (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications due by May 25, 2024
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The initiative, supported by the Ford Foundation’s Technology & Society Program and the MacArthur Foundation’s Technology in the Public Interest, invites proposals that are working to bring about transformational change at the intersections of disability, justice, and technology.
The RFP includes the following areas of focus: transform and identify the ways technology can/should be used to uphold disability rights and justice at the intersection of tech and civil rights; democratize tech development, provide collective and equitable access to digital infrastructure, and mobilize cross disability solidarity in the tech sector; and expand the participation, leadership, and thought partnership of overlooked and under-resourced people with disabilities in all areas of the technology sector.
- Award Amount: $50k - $100k (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Proposals due by May 29, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The aim is to fund studies that understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Funding priority will go towards research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges.
- Award Amount: Up to $75k (over 1 -5 years)
- Deadlines:
- Intent to apply due by May 29, 2024
- Full proposals due by June 27, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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As an incubator of promising research and development projects, the foundation funds projects that are likely to improve the welfare of young children in the United States. "Welfare" is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.
The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale.
- Award Amount: Unspecified
- Deadline: Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) due by May 31, 2024
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The ICRG invites applications to study the impact of safer gambling messaging including its impact on gambling behavior and use of responsible gambling tools.
The field of addictions has long recognized the power of language in treatment, public discourse and public health policy and has advocated for removal of negative, stigmatizing messaging to people struggling with addiction. At the same time, it is important that messages promoting safer gambling have the intended impact at reducing gambling-related harm.
- Award Amount: Up to $350k (over 36 months)
- Deadline: Applications due by June 3, 2024
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The program seeks to ensure a responsible, responsive democratic government through citizen involvement. Proposals may focus on citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates.
- Award Amount: Up to $25k
- Deadline: Letters of Intent (LOIs) due by June 4, 2024
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Michelson Prizes are awarded annually to support early-career investigators working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. Applicants must be 35 or younger at the time of submission. Early career independent investigators, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows (including residents and interns), and other researchers currently in training positions are eligible for these awards.
- Award Amount: $150k
- Deadline: Applications due by June 9, 2024
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with Aaron Diaz
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Note: Funding opportunities supporting individual applicants are listed by deadline, with new opportunities (ie. opportunities that were not listed in our previous digest) highlighted in orange text.
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This fellowship will give Native knowledge holders and knowledge makers the funding and connections necessary to maximize their potential and realize their vision.
The fellowship is open to both emerging and experienced leaders and thinkers from a wide variety of fields, including agriculture, food systems, youth leadership development, natural resource management, climate change, economic development, journalism, language and cultural revitalization, traditional and contemporary arts and more.
- Award Amount: 10 fellowships of $75k each (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications due by May 7, 2024
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The purpose of this fellowship is to encourage emerging linguists, in collaboration with their Indigenous partners, to responsibly share annotated materials in a sustainable public forum for equitable access to ongoing and finished research, both for community members and for other scholars.
This fellowship aims to create a culture of archiving and Open Access sharing in linguistics, as is common in many other disciplines.
- Award Amount: Up to $30k
- Deadline: Applications due by May 10, 2024
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Published authors who identify as art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists, or writers in an outside field engaged in contemporary visual arts are invited to apply. Grants will be awarded in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
- Award Amount: $15k - $50k
- Deadline: Applications due by May 15, 2024
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Contact Us.
Meet the team and connect with the liaison who supports your unit.
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Prospect Library
This curated list of prospects will help you identify potential funding opportunities by research area.
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Ongoing Funding Opps.
Funding opportunities that are continually accepting applications, and annual calls for proposals.
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Faculty Fellowships
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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For upcoming training opportunities, prospect libraries and additional resources, visit our website:
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