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The Foundation Relations & Corporate Philanthropy team's bi-monthly digest includes opportunities for funding, upcoming events, and the latest foundation-related news. 

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Featured Funding Opportunity
The foundation is interested in proposals that address the biological mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The foundation is particularly interested in proposals incorporating new approaches and those providing potential paths for therapeutic interventions.
  • Award Amount: Up to $225K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due January 1, 2023
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with Aaron Diaz
Congratulations!
Shout out to Aaron Streets, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Computational Biology, and Biophysics, recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Science Diversity Leadership Award!
Funding Opportunities
Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
 
The Unity for Humanity program empowers real-time 3D creators to make the world a better place by helping bring their visions to life and amplifying their impact. Unity is offering funding, mentorship, and technical support for RT3D social impact projects. 
  • Award Amount: Varies ($500K will be awarded total)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 9, 2022
The foundation is interested in proposals that address the biological mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The foundation is particularly interested in proposals incorporating new approaches and those providing potential paths for therapeutic interventions.
  • Award Amount: Up to $300K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 12, 2022
The Fund gives grants that promote the elimination of nuclear weapons, prevent the emergence of new nuclear states, and build regional peace and security.
  • Award Amount: Up to $250K
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 14, 2022
The program will award approximately 75 predoctoral fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in the U.S.
  • Award Amount: $27K per year (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2022
The program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge.
  • Award Amount: $100K
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2022
The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art
conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.
  • Award Amount: $25K
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2022
The program supports innovative research on mechanisms that initiate and propagate pain in the nervous system. Research projects should be directed toward the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness.
  • Award Amount: $150K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2022
SHIC is soliciting proposals to investigate cost-effective, innovative technologies, protocols, or ideas to implement biosecurity during the wean-to-harvest phase of production. Priority will be given to collaborative projects that include pork industry, allied industry and/or academic public/private partnerships, that demonstrate the most urgency and timeliness of completion.
  • Award Amount: Up to $200K
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 16, 2022
Fight Climate Change is a global competition harnessing AR and VR (XR) solutions to help fight climate change. Submissions that demonstrate a creative, functional, and and impactful XR-based solution to help humanity in the fight against climate change will be evaluated. Priority funding in these 4 categories: Replace, Visualize, Educate, and Optimize.
  • Award Amount: $100K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 31, 2022
Neukom Fellows are interdisciplinary positions for recent PhDs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit part of the work that is pursued.
  • Award Amount: $65K
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 17, 2022
The foundation will award grants in support of projects with the potential to improve feline health, particularly regarding domestic cats. Studies that apply to all cats and aspects of feline health are encouraged, including shelter medicine and behavior. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $35K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 31, 2022
The foundation is accepting nominations for the post-doctoral fellowships in the following areas: Child and Adolescent ADHD; and Child and Adolescent Depression. Only candidates in departments of psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, or developmental pediatrics who have been nominated by their Department Chair may apply for a fellowship.
  • Award Amount: $60K (over 2 years) 
  • Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2023
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. To that end, the foundation invites applications which will support exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $300K (over 2 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due January 12, 2023
The foundation is 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. Priority will be given to projects improving access to high quality mental health care for children and adolescents.
  • Award Amount: $200K (over 2 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due January 13, 2023
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