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The opportunity supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
The foundation welcomes applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.
- Award Amount: $650K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 13, 2023
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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What About Federal Funding?
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Considering applying for federal funding this academic year? The Berkeley Research Development Office (BRDO) has launched a quarterly newsletter featuring information on federal funding opportunities, policy updates, and proposal writing resources and advice. Sign-up here to subscribe. |
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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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BARD projects, conducted cooperatively by American and Israeli scientists, cover all phases of agricultural research and development, including integrated projects and strategic or applied research.
Areas of priority for the coming years include: Improved Efficiency of Agricultural Production; Plant, animal, and agricultural environment defense; Agricultural production challenges in increased marginal conditions; Food quality, safety, and security; Soil & water, quality, and quantity; Agricultural Engineering/Precision Agriculture; Sustainable Agri-environmental management.
- Award Amount: $310K - $600K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 13, 2023
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The goal is to provide early support for exploratory ideas considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism. This funding mechanism is particularly suitable for investigators new to the autism field, though applicants are encouraged to consult with experts in autism research to ensure their projects are relevant to the human condition. Priority will be given to applications that propose research to link genetic or other ASD risk factors to molecular, cellular, circuit or behavioral mechanisms and set the stage for development of novel interventions.
- Award Amount: $300K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 14, 2023
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The Research Scholars Program in HIV is designed to support basic research in the field of HIV, in North America and globally. Areas of research may include, but are not limited to: Basic, behavioral and epidemiological research; Management of complications, comorbidities and/or co-infections; Prevention; Health economics outcomes research.
- Award Amount: Up to $180K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 16, 2023
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Proposals are sought that increase knowledge in chemistry, physics, and biology through study, research, and publication. Areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad. It is important to the Foundation that the work proposed be novel in its insights and unlikely to be underway elsewhere.
- Award Amount: Up to $30K
- Deadline: Applications are due September 15, 2023
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The $2.5 million prize is the world’s largest annual humanitarian award presented to nonprofit organizations judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering. The prize is intended to recognize and advance the recipient organization’s efforts, call attention to the worldwide need for humanitarian aid, and encourage others to expand their support.
- Prize Amount: Up to $2.5M
- Deadline: Nominations are due September 27, 2023
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ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, publicly-engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources.
- Award Amount: $60K (over 12 months)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 28, 2023
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Although open to a wide range of topics, the following are potential areas for grant applications: creating models for identifying behavioral markers of gambling problems among internet players in general and among specific bettors to distinguish players with gambling problems from players with no problems, identifying the most valid and reliable algorithms to detect problem gambling patterns, evaluating responsible gambling strategies used by online gaming companies for safety and effectiveness, and testing the effectiveness of responsible gambling messaging with customers such as warning messages when self-imposed limits on budget and time have been exceeded.
- Award Amount: $75K per year (up to 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due September 29, 2023
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Electric Power Research Institute is soliciting proposals from graduate and undergraduate universities to focus research that will transform the energy industry. They encourage proposals that are focused on exploring and/or accelerating decarbonized (clean) energy solutions (i.e. Methods and technologies to decarbonize energy), or economy-wide decarbonization that impacts the energy industry. This call for proposals aims to catalyze clean energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities at colleges and universities around the globe by awarding research funding and providing access to EPRI’s expertise.
- Award Amount: ~$200K (average award)
- Deadline: Applications are due October 1, 2023
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The ICRG invites investigators to apply for a grant in support of research on responsible gambling and prevention strategies to reduce gambling-related harms. The safety and effectiveness of Voluntary Self-Exclusion is a priority but other topics in this area are also welcome.
- Award Amount: Up to $207K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due October 16, 2023
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In an effort to support open source software for science, cycle 6 of the essential open source software program seeks letters of intent to apply for funding for software projects that are essential to biomedical research.
- Award Amount: $50K - $200K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due October 17, 2023
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Contact Us.
Meet the team and connect with the liaison who supports your unit.
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Early Career Faculty?
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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