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Featured Funding Opportunity
This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the outcomes of young people in the United States. The foundation welcomes descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use, as well as evaluations of deliberate efforts to increase routine and beneficial uses of research in decision-making.
  • Award Amount: $100K - $1M (over 2 - 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 3, 2023 
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried 
Funding Opportunities
Note: Funding opportunities are listed by deadline. New Requests for Proposals (RFPs) since our last digest are highlighted in orange text.
 
The program aims to accelerate applications of quantum computing in health and demonstrate quantum-enabled solutions to address pressing human health challenges.
  • Award Amount: $1.5M - $5M
  • Deadline: Abstracts are due April 27, 2023 
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with Sylvia Bierhuis
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. 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. 
  • Award Amount:  $125K - $500K (over 1 - 5 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due April 27, 2023 
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried 
The Innovation Prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice. 
  • Award Amount: $175K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due April 28, 2023
Program seeks research proposals to investigate cost-effective and innovative technologies, protocols, or ideas to enhance biosecurity during the wean-to-harvest phase of pig production. 
  • Award Amount: $200K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due April 28, 2023
The program supports a variety of research activities exploring the etiology, prevention, and treatment of gambling disorder and the development and evaluation of responsible gambling strategies, such as pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.
  • Award Amount: $40K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 1, 2023
The program funds initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination in order to help broaden and enhance their options in life.
  • Award Amount: $35K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 1, 2023
Grants will be awarded in support of advancements in the field of aging through various pathways, including advocacy, direct service, research, professional education and training, and organizational capacity building. Priority funding areas include: 
  • Award Amount: Unrestricted 
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 1, 2023
The foundation supports innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.
  • Award Amount: $750K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 1, 2023
This program's research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The foundation welcomes descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality, intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality, and studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.
  • Award Amount: $100K - $600K (over 1 - 2 years)
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 3, 2023
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried 
The foundation will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) 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.

Additionally, the foundation will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address the effects 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 United States.
  • Award Amount: $100K - $600K (over 1 - 2 years)
  • Deadline: Letters of Inquiry are due May 3, 2023
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried 
The MIT Solve community seeks eight technology-based solutions with the potential to help communities create quality low-carbon homes at scale or adapt to more extreme weather. 
  • Award Amount: $10K - $200K 
  • Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 9, 2023
The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Priority funding will go to studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education.
  • Award Amount: Up to $75K
  • Deadline: Intent to apply forms are due May 16, 2023
  • Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried 
Through this new water cohort, the IBM Sustainability Accelerator will be supporting availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation. IBM will look to support projects that help improve equitable access to safe drinking water for all, improve water quality by reducing pollution, increase water-use efficiency across all sectors, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, increase sanitation management, and reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
  • Award Amount: Unrestricted
  • Deadline: Applications are due May 31, 2023
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