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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.
 
The request for proposals is focused on research with the potential to advance the health of animals living in sagebrush and grassland ecosystems. Two types of grants will be awarded: Established Investigator and Pilot Study.
  • Award Amount: $20k - $100k (over 36 months)
  • Deadline: Applications are due November 29, 2023
The foundation is committed to advancing international dialogue, mutual understanding, and respect through supporting cultural exchange projects by individuals and organizations between Asia and the US and between Asian countries. Current grant opportunities include: New York Fellowship; Individual Fellowship; Graduate Fellowship; and an Organization Grant.
  • Award Amount: Varies
  • Deadline: Applications are due November 30, 2023
CZI seeks to support projects that will advance the fields of single-cell biology and data science. Projects may include dedicated efforts to democratize access and usability of existing single-cell datasets, demonstrate utility by leveraging existing single-cell datasets to address impactful and challenging biological questions, and develop methods that enable greater biological insight and other major challenges brought forward.  
  • Award Amount: Up to $400k for Expanded Projects, and $200k for Focused Projects (both over 18 months)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 5, 2023
Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality. Other areas of interest are climate change and environmental impact on pregnancy, complications associated with ART, and epigenome-wide association studies.
  • Award Amount: $500k (over 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 5, 2023
The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50K for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our 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 one to five years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 6, 2023
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried 
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 
The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) in mathematics, astronomy or theoretical physics and have played a leading role in developing or maintaining scientific software in one or more of these fields.
  • Award Amount: $50k + 50% of salary (over 5 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 8, 2023
The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.
  • Award Amount: Up to $50k
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2023
The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European works of art from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, and for activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience.
  • Award Amount: Up to $50k
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 15, 2023
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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