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Featured Funding Opportunity
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The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Priority funding will go to studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
- Award Amount: $500K (Expanded Projects) & $250K (Focused Projects)
- Deadline: Applications are due June 1, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner 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 MIT Solve community seeks eight technology-based solutions with the potential to help communities create quality low-carbon homes at scale or adapt to more extreme weather.
- Award Amount: $10K - $200K
- Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 9, 2023
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Science benefits from an exchange of ideas, knowledge and approaches across disciplines. In this spirit, the fellowship will enable today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field and will consist of one training year where the fellow will be embedded in a lab of a mentor to learn the new discipline and its culture.
- Award Amount: $10K + year of salary support
- Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 15, 2023
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The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Priority funding will go to studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
- Award Amount: Up to $75K
- Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 16, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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The opportunity supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art in the following three categories: articles, books, and short-form writing. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles.
- Award Amount: $15K- $50K
- Deadline: Applications are due May 17, 2023
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The fellowship is open to both emerging and experienced leaders and thinkers from a wide variety of fields, including but not limited to agriculture, food systems, youth leadership development, natural resource management, climate change, economic development, journalism, language and cultural revitalization, traditional and contemporary arts.
- Award Amount: $75K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due May 17, 2023
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Through this new water cohort, the IBM Sustainability Accelerator will be supporting availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation. IBM will look to support projects that help improve equitable access to safe drinking water for all, improve water quality by reducing pollution, increase water-use efficiency across all sectors, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, increase sanitation management, and reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Applications are due May 31, 2023
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AWS aims to empower nonprofit organizations to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their projects and support organizations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the program, AWS seeks proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programs that utilize technology in a new or expanded way. The program offers two distinct award categories for nonprofits to receive support based on their organizational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys: Go Further, Faster Award and Momentum to Modernize Award.
- Award Amount: $20K - $150K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 1, 2023
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The foundation seeks proposals on the priority focus area of Economic Mobility. The June round will focus on needs of community; including affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization and small business resiliency.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 23, 2023
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
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Note: Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, there are no deadlines.
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The program aims to create a more equitable and humane justice system. Current funding approaches are focused on sentencing reform and community reinvestment.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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E4A awards grants to encourage and support innovative, rigorous research on the impact of programs, policies, and practices on health and well-being, with a particular focus on research that will help advance health and racial equity.
Award Amount: $25K - $300K
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The program aims to create a more equitable and humane justice system. Current funding approaches are focused on sentencing reform and community reinvestment.
Award Amount: $25K - $300K
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The foundations four priority funding areas include: Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation. The foundation works closely with social justice advocates, policy makers and other thought leaders throughout the state to identify the strategies that will best help us achieve positive impact in California within each program.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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A central goal of U.S. evidence-based policy reform is to focus funding on social programs that have credible evidence of meaningful positive effects on people’s lives. This initiative seeks to spur expanded implementation of such programs in order to make significant headway against U.S. social problems.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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Arnold Ventures is accepting letters of interest focused on testing criminal justice programs and practices. The ultimate goal of this effort is to build credible evidence about “what works” to improve criminal justice outcomes and, in particular, grow the number of criminal justice interventions rigorously shown to better people’s lives.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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The program funds research and educational projects that empower underserved Americans with the knowledge, skills and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life. Applications that use data to advance understanding of the relationships among financial literacy, financial capability and financial well-being will be prioritized.
Award Amount: $50K - $100K
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The program supports projects and people working on open and accessible technology-focused projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies. Applications that use data to advance understanding of the relationships among financial literacy, financial capability and financial well-being will be prioritized.
Award Amount: Average grant is $50K - $200K
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