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Shout out to the Division of Social Sciences on an award from the Hewlett Foundation to establish the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, led by Paul Pierson and supported by the Social Science Matrix.
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Shout out to the Division of Student Affairs for receiving $500K from the Crankstart Foundation in support of their Postsecondary Access & Success Portfolio! The Fiat Lux Scholarship creates opportunities for resilient students with unique life experiences to make a profound impact at Berkeley.
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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 award celebrates an individual aged 18 to 30 who has contributed meaningfully towards ending extreme poverty in their community through their leadership, dedication, and innovation. The winner will be someone who can demonstrate measurable impact of their work over the last three to five years, and who has advanced one or more of the UN’s Global Goals.
- Award Amount: Up to $250K
- Deadline: Applications are due January 20, 2023
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The award will fund academic investigators developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make.
- Award Amount: Up to $500K (over 5 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due February 10, 2023
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The Conservation Grants 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, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies.
- Award Amount: Up to $100K
- Deadline: Applications are due March 1, 2023
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The brain holds some of science’s greatest mysteries. The foundation supports collaborations that will focus on cutting-edge idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of brain function.
- Award Amount: Up to $250M (over the next 10 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due March 8, 2023
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The program provides support for organizations to plan and present temporary exhibitions drawn primarily from works not in their permanent collections. To be considered, visual art projects should focus on arts of the United States, including Native American arts.
- Award Amount: $25K - $250K
- Deadline: Applications are due March 10, 2023
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The program advances scientific innovation by supporting researchers who break new ground in basic and biomedical research. Investigator competitions are open to researchers in basic and biomedical sciences, plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology.
- Award Amount: $8M (over 7 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due March 21, 2023
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Grants are focused on advancing knowledge in the life sciences by sponsoring scientific research and applying learnings and discoveries to benefit mankind. Basic scientific research, some with potential translational application, is central to this goal and fundamental to our operating principles.
- Award Amount: Unrestricted
- Deadline: Next review for Letters of Intent is March 31, 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: $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: 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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Early Career Faculty?
Funding opportunities for late postdoctoral investigators & new faculty members.
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