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The opportunity supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
The foundation welcomes applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.
- Award Amount: $650K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 13, 2023
- 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 program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, for projects ranging from one to five years. This goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K (over 1 - 5 years)
- Deadline: Applications due August 9, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The goal of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is to build the evidence base investigating how preemption policies at the state level may affect racial justice and health equity.
Research should focus on how state-level preemption impacts local authority; apply a racial equity lens to the policy research processes and outcomes; and include community groups and/or members, especially those from historically marginalized communities, as leaders or partners in all stages of the research.
- Award Amount: $30K - $450K
- Deadline: Applications due August 10, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program will award funding to empower diverse investors such as organizations or programs that enhance financial literacy among women and underrepresented communities or improve access to knowledge and tools among women and underrepresented communities; and to support diverse entrepreneurs with the resources to strengthen and scale their businesses and contribute to the prosperity of society, including organizations and programs
that equip women and diverse founders with mentoring and resources, and improve access to capital for women and diverse founders.
- Award Amount: Unlimited (Average amount is $75K)
- Deadline: Applications due August 11, 2023
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The BOLT program's objectives include advancing internet development, improving internet access and connectivity worldwide, and promoting responsible innovation. The program is designed to support teams of innovators working on expanding the possibility of Internet connectivity and access globally through the development of prototypes and pilots.
- Award Amount: $300K
- Deadline: Applications due August 18, 2023
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The Foundation supports research and innovative programs that engage the public, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. They invest in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions.
Priority areas of funding include: Philosophy & Theology; Life Sciences; Public Engagement; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Human Sciences; Mathematical & Physical Sciences; and Culture & Global Perspectives.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted (up 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due August 18, 2023
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The Health Data for Action (HD4A) program will support innovative research that uses the available data to answer important research questions and inform health policy. Eligible research projects can focus on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: national practice patterns in long-term care; public health surveillance and population health; rehospitalization rates; the opioid epidemic; maternal and infant health; etcetera.
- Award Amount: Up to $100K
- Deadline: Applications due August 18, 2023
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The foundation will award small, early-stage grants to promote growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K
- Deadline: Applications due August 30, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The program provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are encouraged to apply.
- Award Amount: $375K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The program supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit our fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries.
- Award Amount: Up to $25K
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
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The Korea Foundation’s Support for Policy-oriented Research Program provides grant support for research projects or programs in the U.S. that provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on diplomatic security, political, social, and economic issues on Korea.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The Korea Foundation’s Support for Policy-oriented Research Program provides grant support for research projects or programs in the U.S. that provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on diplomatic security, political, social, and economic issues on Korea.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications due August 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The program is intended to foster the early career development of researchers who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The specific target group are researchers who have transitioned from graduate work in the physical/ mathematical/ computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences.
- Award Amount: $560K (over 5 years)
- Deadline: Applications due September 1, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The program will fund research that supports EndoFound’s mission to develop new diagnostic tools and treatments, and ultimately find a cure for endometriosis. EndoFound grants provide researchers with seed funding to initiate promising projects which then have an exponential effect. EndoFound grants are also critical to supporting young researchers, who continue on to find solutions for patients for years to come.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications due September 1, 2023
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The program supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
We welcome applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development.
- Award Amount: $650K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 13, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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Wellcome’s mental health strategic aim is to drive a transformative change in our ability to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety, depression and psychosis, in ways that reflect the priorities and needs of people who experience these problems.
This call will fund research that advances scientific understanding of the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders.
- Award Amount: Up to £4 million ($5.2M USD)
- Deadline: Applications are due November 14, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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