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Featured Funding Opportunities
The Foundation is currently accepting proposals focused on evaluating programs that have the potential of helping to close the opportunity and resulting achievement gaps associated with race and family income.
  • Award Amount: Up to $400K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Proposals due December 1, 2022
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with David Siegfried
The initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods. The formation of new connections between reproductive scientists and investigators who are involved in other areas is particularly encouraged.
  • Award Amount: Up to $500K (over 4 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due December 1, 2022
  • Interested applicants are encouraged to work with Sylvia Bierhuis
Congratulations!
Shout out to the Othering & Belonging Institute, Terner Center, and the California Policy Lab for receiving $1.8M from the James Irvine Foundation in support of housing policy research.
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 supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.
  • Award Amount: Up to $175K
  • Deadline: Applications due November 9, 2022
  • Additional RSF funding opportunities available by clicking "All Funding Opps" below.
This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.
  • Award Amount: Up to $175K
  • Deadline: Applications due November 9, 2022
  • Additional RSF funding opportunities available by clicking "All Funding Opps" below.
The program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships. Anticipated research will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching happen.
  • Award Amount: $400K (over 3 years)
  • Deadlines:
    • Letters of Intent due November 9, 2022
    • Full applications due December 7, 2022
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with David Siegfried
The foundation provides research grants which support studies that will increase our understanding of suicide or test treatments and other interventions that save lives. 
  • Award Amount: $50K to $1.5M (depending upon grant type)
  • Deadline: Applications due November 15, 2022
The foundation awards grants for research projects focused on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve health, nutrition, and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. Priority is given to projects with broad applicability to the general population on a regional or national level.
  • Award Amount:Up to $350K (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due November 15, 2022
Translation Grants in Buddhist Studies support translations of important Buddhist texts for the benefit of contemporary audiences who currently do not have access to them in their own languages. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $50K 
  • Deadline: Applications due November 16, 2022
The foundation is seeking proposals to bring the most advanced mass spectrometry detection capabilities and sensitivity levels into a lightweight, inexpensive, and easily operated system that could be portable or deployed on airborne platforms, in unattended monitoring stations, or operated by citizen scientists, for long-term analysis of the chemical composition of the atmosphere. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $1M (over 3 years)
  • Deadline: Applications due November 18, 2022
The foundation will provide support for approximately 20 creative mid-career individuals and their research teams to advance our understanding of physical phenomena. Applicants must have received tenure at their U.S. institution within the previous five years. 
  • Award Amount:Up to $1.25M (over 5 years)
  • Deadline: Pre-proposals are due November 30, 2022
  • Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to partner with Aaron Diaz
The program will award funding to organizations or programs that enhance financial literacy among women and underrepresented communities or improve access to knowledge and tools among women and underrepresented communities.
  • Award Amount: Varies (Most under $100K)
  • Deadline: Proposals are due November 30, 2022
The program aims to help women overcome persistent gender stereotypes and bias in these fields by providing them with funding for research projects that will culminate in scholarly publications. Grants are open to women scholars conducting basic research in engineering, medicine, or the physical or biological sciences. 
  • Award Amount: Up to $35K 
  • Deadline: Applications are due December 1, 2022
The Chemical Sciences Prize is awarded to an individual in a selected area of chemistry to recognize exceptional and original research that has advanced the field in a major way. 
  • Award Amount: $250K 
  • Deadline: Nominations are due December 1, 2022
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