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Featured Funding Opportunity
The Sloan Foundation is focused on advancing historical scholarship on the practices and institutions of natural and social science, engineering, and technology in order to better understand and strengthen the research enterprise.

Areas of priority include: the changing nature of interdisciplinary research and collaborative team structures; the role of instrumentation, data, and computational tools within and across disciplines; the formation and development of professional societies, conferences, and scholarly communication systems; the establishment and evolution of fellowship and training programs; and the formation and development of research funding agencies. 
  • Award Amount: $75K - $250K
  • Deadline: Letters of Intent are due March 16, 2023
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Margaret Guerrero
Funding Opportunities
Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
 
FFAR will award 10 meritorious applications providing solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerating innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas, which include: Soil Health; Sustainable Water Management; Next Generation Crops; Advanced Animal Systems; Urban Food Systems; Health-Agriculture Nexus; and AgMission.
  • Award Amount: $300K - $1M 
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 8, 2023
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
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
Up to 6 grants totaling $500K will be awarded to organizations that support small businesses and entrepreneurs. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations that work with entrepreneurs and small business owners and serve one or more counties in the greater San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma). 
  • Award Amount: Up to  $500K (over 2 years) 
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 15, 2023
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, research-focused disciplines in which policy is a key lever for change (e.g., urban planning; political science; economics; anthropology; education; social work; sociology). 
  • Award Amount: Up to $30K per year (for up to 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 15, 2023
The Data Science Collaborative Research Programme aims to support synergistic research collaborations rooted in data science and computational science with immediate or potential future applications within areas of relevance to NNF’s strategy.
  • Award Amount: Up to DKK 30M (over 5 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 16, 2023
The fund will support organizations dedicated to advancing democratic goals and strengthening democratic institutions. NED is interested in proposals from nonpartisan programs that aim to promote and defend human rights and the rule of law, support freedom of information and independent media, strengthen democratic ideas and values, and strengthen a broad-based market economy.
  • Award Amount: Up to $50K
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 20, 2023
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
Tina’s Wish awards annual grants to researchers proposing new ideas and concepts specifically for the early detection or interception of ovarian cancer. Applicants must be working in a school of public health or a recognized non-profit scientific research facility in the United States. Applicants must have attained the faculty position of Assistant Professor or higher.
  • Award Amount: $400K (over 2 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 24, 2023
This global award recognizes the contributions of both a promising Early-Career Scientist and an outstanding Senior Scientist to biomedical science and is intended to support their commitment to innovative research. This call for nominations includes the following focus areas: Neuroscience, Regenerative Medicine, Rare Diseases, Gastroenterology, and Cancer Immunology.
  • Award Amount: $200K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due March 31, 2023
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
The award is intended to buttress the slow reading movement that recognizes and cherishes the lasting values of the well-made illustrated book and the special sense of intimacy it affords. Fields considered include the fine arts and the natural and built environments, and related public issues.
  • Award Amount: $25K
  • Deadline: Applications are due April 1, 2023
The mission of this program is to support and disseminate research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and advance nutrition security and health equity. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $275K
  • Deadline: Proposals are due April 5, 2023
The program aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. 
  • Award Amount: $50K
  • Deadline: Applications are due April 12, 2023
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
Note: Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, there are no deadlines.
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
**Updated broken link from previous digest
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
The foundations four priority funding areas include: Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation. The foundation works closely with social justice advocates, policy makers and other thought leaders throughout the state to identify the strategies that will best help us achieve positive impact in California within each program.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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
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
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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