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Featured Funding Opportunity
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The Educating Character Initiative aims to equip a wide range of public and private institutions of higher education with the resources needed to integrate character education into their distinctive institutional contexts, curricula, and cultures. The broader aspiration is to foster a robust network that recognizes the value of educating character within higher education.
- Award Amounts:
- Institutional Impact Grants - up to 10 grants between $100k - $1M
- Capacity Building Grants - up to 20 grants of up to $50k
- Teacher-Scholar Grant - up to 5 grants of $15k
- Deadline: Applications are due February 29, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
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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 aims to quantify addiction susceptibility to a range of substances, inclusive of prescription opioids, and develop individualized treatments guided by biological markers. The goal — reduce the risk of addiction and double treatment success.
- Award Amount: Up to $50m (over three years)
- Deadline: Abstracts are due December 21, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The program seeks to support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. Projects funded will have a real-world, practical impact. Applicants must have a doctoral-level degree.
- Award Amount: Up to $300k (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due January 2, 2024
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The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation.
- Award Amount: Up to $30K
- Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2024
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The program funds research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
- Award Amount: $100k - $1M (over 2 - 4 years) for Major Research Grants and $20k - $50k (over 1- 2 years) for Officers’ Research Grants
- Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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This program funds research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
- Award Amount: $100k - $600k (over 2 - 3 years) for Major Research Grants and $25k - $50k (over 1 - 2 years) for Officers’ Research Grants
- Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The foundation seeks to support the next generation of outstanding cognitive aging scientists. The TTI program welcomes applications from early-career scientists planning to do work consistent with SCPAB’s scientific mission. A previous background in aging research is not required; candidates with a background in fields including neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, cell biology and the physical and information sciences are encouraged to apply. Applicants are required to focus their scientific proposal on their plans for their future lab and independent research program, not the remainder of their postdoctoral position.
- Award Amount: $85k salary + $10k for professional development annually (up to 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The SFARI Bridge to Independence (BTI) program engages talented early-career scientists to pursue research in autism and facilitates their transition into independent faculty positions at a research institution. They seek to support the next generation of top autism researchers. The BTI Award program welcomes applications that span the breadth of science that SFARI supports, including genetics, molecular mechanisms, circuits and systems, and clinical science.
- Award Amount: Up to $600k (over 3 years) plus an annual salary of up to $85k
- Deadline: Applications are due January 10, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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The foundation is interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The goal is to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.
The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest.
- Award Amount: Up to $100k (over 2-3 years) for Research Grants
- Deadline: Applications are due January 15, 2024
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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. In particular, KTGF is interested in improving access to high quality mental health care and prevention for children and adolescents.
- Award Amount: $200k (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due January 15, 2024
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The Humanities for All program supports virtual and in-person interpretive exhibits, community dialogue and discussion series, workshops and participatory activities, presentations and lectures, conversations and forums, and interactive and experiential activities. Eligibility is limited to California-based nonprofit organizations and non-federal public agencies.
Note: Awards must be matched with an equivalent amount of cash or in-kind resources over the life of the project.
- Award Amount: $10K - $25K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due January 16, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Margaret Guerrero
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Through the program, higher education institutions worldwide can apply to support teaching positions in Buddhist studies. The proposed position should be a new position. If the proposed position replaces retirement or otherwise vacated position where Buddhist studies at the institution would be significantly affected without award funds, the proposal should make that case. The establishment of the position must contribute significantly to the institution, which means establishing a curriculum in Buddhist studies where none has existed or where such a curriculum was in clear and urgent need of support.
- Award Amount: $300k (over 4 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due January 18, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Margaret Guerrero
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The American Epilepsy Society invites applications for its Postdoctoral Research Fellowships program, which awards stipends to postdoctoral trainees conducting research into the causes, treatment, and consequences of epilepsy under a mentor with expertise in epilepsy research. Proposals will be accepted across the spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical epilepsy research.
- Award Amount: $50k
- Deadline: Applications are due January 18, 2024
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Through grants and peer learning opportunities, ArtsHERE aims to invest in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming to increase arts participation for underserved groups/communities and share insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.
- Award Amount: $65k - $130k
- Deadline: Applications are due January 19, 2024
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Proposals to the Large Research Grants on Education program must be for academic research projects that aim to study education. Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Large Research Grant on Education must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession.
- Award Amount: $125k to $500k (over one to five years)
- Deadlines:
- Intent to Apply: January 24, 2024
- Full Proposal: February 27, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program was established to support innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.
- Award Amount: $125k to $500k (over one to five years)
- Deadlines: Applications due by February 1, 2024
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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Faculty Fellowships
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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Ongoing Funding Opps.
Funding opportunities that are continually accepting applications, and annual calls for proposals.
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