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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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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 seeks research on whether rising economic inequality has affected social, political, and economic institutions, and the extent to which increased inequality has affected equality of opportunity, social mobility, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage. They seek investigator-initiated research projects that will broaden our understanding of the causes and consequences of rising economic inequalities in the United States.
- Award Amount: Up to $200K
- Deadline: Letters of Intent due July 26, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less and moderately-skilled workers and their families. They seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on the employment, earnings, and the quality of jobs of workers.
- Award Amount: Up to $200K
- Deadline: Letters of intent due July 26, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.
- Award Amount: Up to $200K
- Deadline: Letters of intent due July 26, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program seeks investigator-initiated research proposals on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. They are especially interested in innovative research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.
- Award Amount: Up to $200K
- Deadline: Letters of intent due July 26, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The program seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations.
- Award Amount: Up to $200K
- Deadline: Letters of Intent due July 26, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The foundation invites LOIs for its Beckman Young Investigator Program, which provides research support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of their careers in the chemical and life sciences to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of science research.
- Award Amount: $600K (over 4 years)
- Deadline: Applications due August 1, 2023
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The foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education by partnering with institutions offering bold and coherent initiatives that endow students with the content, skills, and sensibility to participate in a political system designed for self-governance. The foundation is especially concerned with grounding such action and service in comprehensive civic knowledge through teaching, reading, debate, and discussion centered in the curriculum.
- Award Amount: $100K - $300K
- Deadline: Applications due August 1, 2023
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Proposals are sought that build stronger theory and empirical evidence in one of the following focus areas: (1) programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and (2) strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit
youth.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K
- Deadline: Applications due August 2, 2023
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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
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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 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
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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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 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 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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Early Career Faculty?
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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