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Upcoming Training Opportunity
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FRCP Grant Writing Workshop
Join the Foundation Relations & Corporate Philanthropy team for an exclusive, in-person grant writing workshop. This immersive learning experience is designed for both faculty and staff members. With a limited enrollment of up to 16 participants, we hope to facilitate in-depth discussions and ample opportunities for hands-on workshopping. If you are eager to participate, please express your interest by responding here!
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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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Proposals should address the biological mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This includes proposals that provide mechanistic insights into neurological functions at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level across different species, including humans and vertebrate and invertebrate model organisms. A new additional area of interest is the contribution of the environment to brain disorders.
- Award Amount: Up to 4 awards of $100K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due November 6, 2023
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The program supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for low- and moderately paid workers and their families in the U.S. The foundation seeks research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. Proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers will be prioritized.
- Award Amount: Average grant is $175K
- Deadline: Applications are due November 7, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The foundation will accept letters of intent under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.
It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects (a) of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the U.S. and (b) of the 2023 Supreme Court decision on race-conscious affirmative action and the relative merits of different models to promote diversity and the educational attainment and economic mobility of underrepresented and lower-income students.
- Award Amount: Average grant is $175K
- Deadline: Letters of inquiry (LOIs) are due November 7, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
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The AMS established the Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship to further excellence in mathematics research and to help generate wider and sustained participation by Black mathematicians.
- Award Amount: $50K
- Deadline: Applications are due November 8, 2023
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The program aims to address oral health care inequities by working with partners actively engaged with historically underserved communities and transforming systems to improve oral health outcomes for these communities. Organizations with demonstrable trust and established relationships within high-risk senior communities, particularly low-income communities of color, will be prioritized.
- Award Amount: $5M (over 5 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due November 10, 2023
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The Center seeks to broaden the field of gun violence research to include more researchers and organizations that work closely with communities affected by gun violence. The Spring 2024 Funding Opportunity aims to invest in efforts that advance evidence for interventions that reduce the incidence and impact of community gun violence and firearm suicide and promote well-being and healing where it is needed most. There are three categories of grantmaking being considered, with varying amounts and timelines for funding.
- Award Amount: $60K - $600K ( over 1 - 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due November 14, 2023
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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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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 total costs for Expanded Projects and $200K total costs for Focused Projects (both over 18 months)
- Deadline: Applications are due December 5, 2023
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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
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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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
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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
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