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The YSP program supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant, and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce.
- Award Amount: $180K - $225K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 13, 2023
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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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 program seeks breakthroughs that will enable more resilience as we age. By exploring and addressing the biological roots of frailty and age-related disease, we can enjoy fuller, healthier years for as long as we live. They are soliciting abstracts and proposals for work over three years in at least one of their 3 thrust areas.
- Award Amount: $60M in total funding over 3 years (award amounts will vary by project)
- Deadline: Abstracts are due May 25, 2023
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The program aims to enhance the support, resources, and community necessary for participants with historically underrepresented backgrounds (HURs) to thrive professionally and personally. In turn, researchers will be better able to contribute to and expand health equity-related research and evidence that dismantles systemic and structural barriers to health and wellbeing.
- Award Amount: Up to $260K (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due May 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
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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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Expanding educational opportunities for women in STEM and advancing America’s leadership in the sciences. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) was a trailblazer in the arts, journalism and public affairs. The program provides support to women in STEM fields and advances work to close the gender gap in STEM disciplines and across leadership roles in higher education.
- Award Amount: $500K
- Deadline: Applications are due May 31, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with Aaron Diaz
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The foundation is launching an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to Solar Radiation Management. SRM is an emerging collection of approaches, including stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), marine cloud brightening (MCB), and cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), designed to modify the Earth’s radiative balance and cool the planet.
- Award Amount: $1.5M (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Letters of intent (LOIs) are due May 31, 2023
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AWS aims to empower nonprofit organizations to prioritize technology as a mission-critical component of their projects and support organizations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the program, AWS seeks proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programs that utilize technology in a new or expanded way. The program offers two distinct award categories for nonprofits to receive support based on their organizational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys: Go Further, Faster Award and Momentum to Modernize Award.
- Award Amount: $20K - $150K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 1, 2023
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CZI seeks to support two-year collaborative research projects focused on measuring metabolism across organelles and cells. The ability to characterize temporally and spatially the broad molecular profiles, heterogeneity, and phenotypic diversity of organelles and cells and how they interact within and as systems are key to measuring human biology, understanding disease mechanisms, and finding treatments and cures. This program aims to accelerate innovative discoveries in metabolism and metabolic physiology in health and disease.
- Award Amount: $500K for Expanded Projects; $250K for Focused Projects
- Deadline: Applications are due June 1, 2023
- Individuals interested in applying are strongly encouraged to partner with Sylvia Bierhuis
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Funding will support the creation of data visualizations as tools to understand structural racism’s impact on place, health, and well-being. Data visualization, or tools that make it easy to visualize complex measures, can be a powerful means to communicate data showing structural racism’s impact on communities and contextualize the legacy of racism.
- Award Amount: Will fund up to 8 interdisciplinary teams grants ranging from $100K - $250K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 2, 2023
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The program is accepting applications related to Human Immunology and Vaccine Research, including research aimed at tackling the current roadblocks in human vaccine development and expanding our limited understanding of key immune processes that are fundamental to successful vaccine and immunotherapy development (e.g., immune memory, immune receptor recognition, tissue-specific responses, host-microbe interactions, underlying genetic mechanisms, genetic susceptibility, etc.).
The Michelson Prizes are intended to draw early-career investigators from a wide range of disciplines, and to support novel ideas with applications across diseases.
- Award Amount: Up to $150K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 2, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to partner with Aaron Diaz
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The foundation aims to raise awareness of immigrant contributions to the United States and foster appreciation of the arts and sciences. To that end, the foundation aims to support emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals in the biomedical sciences and the arts who have demonstrated outstanding achievements early in their careers. Priority funding areas for 2024 include: biomedical science and design.
- Award Amount: $50K (6 awards total)
- Deadline: Applications are due June 12, 2023
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The foundation seeks proposals on the priority focus area of Economic Mobility. The June round will focus on needs of community; including affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization and small business resiliency.
- Award Amount: Up to $50K
- Deadline: Applications are due June 23, 2023
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This program supports multi-disciplinary teams of PIs with expertise in both human and animal research to perform coordinated cross-species studies to advance our understanding of ASD-relevant behaviors and their underlying neurobiological mechanisms, with the potential for developing novel biomarkers or interventions.
- Award Amount: $400K (over 2 - 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due June 15, 2023
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The Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards were developed as a funding mechanism to catalyze new collaborations and scientific partnerships and springboard early-stage projects that are bold, creative and “out-of-the-box.” The Collaborative Pairs mechanism focuses specifically on pairs of investigators.
- Award Amount: $200K (over 18 months)
- Deadline: Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due June 22, 2023
- Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with Sylvia Bierhuis
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The goal of the program is to bring award recipients and CooperVision scientists together to explore new areas of technology advancement. Proposals should demonstrate significant potential for research discoveries within the key focus areas. 2023 focus areas include: Understanding Childhood Myopia Development; Technologies to Prevent Myopia Onset; Strategies to prevent development of symptomatology in new contact lens wearers; and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Contact Lens Fitting and Diagnostics.
- Award Amount: Up to $100K for the Seedling Award (over 1 year); and up to $400K for the Translational Research Award (over 2 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due June 23, 2023
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The program provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are encouraged to apply.
- Award Amount: $375K (over 3 years)
- Deadline: Applications are due August 23, 2023
- Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Aaron Diaz
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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 Mercury Project now invites proposals to evaluate the causal impacts of online or offline interventions designed to increase demand for vaccinations consistent with national priorities, including childhood vaccines, HPV, polio, measles, and Covid-19 vaccinations, in low- and lower-middle income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Award Amount: Unrestricted
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At this moment, the FTG has only rapid response funding available. The FTG rapid response fund will provide support for situations that require immediate response and for proactive activities that pursue strategic opportunities.
Average Award Amount: $10K
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The SEED initiative is a new program that provides supplements to existing grants for the recruitment of new lab members from American underrepresented minority groups at the postdoctoral level. The goal of this award is to increase diversity and fight inequity.
Award Amount: Up to $100K per year (for up to 3 years)
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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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The program seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. Priority areas of focus include: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, they welcome ideas that offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.
Award Amount: Average grant is $315K (over 1 to 3 years)
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E4A awards grants to encourage and support innovative, rigorous research on the impact of programs, policies, and practices on health and well-being, with a particular focus on research that will help advance health and racial equity.
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: $25K - $300K
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The program goal is to foster research and education on public policy issues that affect individual freedom and economic liberty. The foundation seeks to develop solutions to the country’s most important and challenging domestic policy issues including: tax and budget policy; cost-benefit analysis; the legal system; the environment; social welfare, etc.
Award Amount: $25K - $300K
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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 global research collaborations that advance understanding of the Internet and its value for all. This program is intended for research that is applied and open, meaning the research seeks to answer a real-world question and should be openly published and made available to the scientific community at no cost. Focus areas include: Greening the Internet, Internet Economy, a Trustworthy Internet, and Decolonizing the Internet.
Award Amount: $200K
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