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The goal of this program is to enhance quality of life for individuals and their families living with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) through grants to support innovative programs/projects that improve participation and independence. Areas of focus include: assistive technology, education, employment, independent living, rehabilitation, and arts, sports and recreation.

LOIs are due January 1, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due May 1, 2020.

View the Creating Opportunity & Independence Grants opportunity 

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. The McKnight Scholar Awards encourage neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Applicants for the McKnight Scholar Awards must demonstrate interest in solving important problems in relevant areas of neuroscience, including the translation of basic research to clinical neuroscience. Awards are given to exceptional young scientists who hold the M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree and who are in the early stages of establishing an independent laboratory and research career. 

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The Thriving Cultures Program seeks to foster the conditions in which artists, culture-bearers, designers, and media-makers of color can maximize their potential as leaders, agents of social change, and designers of just systems and communities. 

Please note, Surdna is not currently accepting unsolicited LOIs for this program, but expects to in early 2019.

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The Inclusive Economies Program seeks to foster the creation of an inclusive and equitable economy in which people of color can maximize their potential as leaders, creators and innovators across sectors. This program supports business start-up and growth, as well as equitable economic development.

Please note, Surdna is not currently accepting unsolicited LOIs for this program, but expects to in early 2019.

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The Sustainable Environments Program seeks to support communities of color and low-wealth communities to direct infrastructure and land use investment dollars, drive decision-making processes and design policy solutions because those who are disproportionately impacted by environmental and climate inequity have the most powerful solutions to resolve these inequities. The Foundation focuses on two core areas: environmental and climate justice, and land use through community power.

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This award program accepts inquiries throughout the year, and it's three core programs include: Criminal Justice, Youth Justice, and Workers' Rights.

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The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

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This program supports research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered problem in clinical, biomedical or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The program aims to fund projects that promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact. Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. Successful teams commonly involve a bioethics scholar and persons with on-the-ground experience with the bioethics dilemma, for example, in clinical care; biomedical research; biotechnology, pharmaceutical, big data, and artificial intelligence companies; or public service.

LOIs are due January 6, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due March 9, 2020.

View the Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas opportunity

The purpose of the Physician Scientist Fellowship (PSF) program is to: 1) support physician scientists in subspecialty training to lead and conduct an outstanding clinical research project; 2) ensure research time protection to enable development of research skills; and 3) facilitate strong mentorship relations. The PSF award aims to support research during final years of subspecialty fellowship and aid in the transition into a research faculty appointment.

A clinical research project, defined as the scientific investigation of the etiology, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease using human subjects, human populations or materials of human origin, must be proposed in any disease area. Included in the definition are studies that utilize tissues or pathogens only if they can be linked to a patient.

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The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. The Foundation is open to applications from design-based research teams, network improvement communities, and placed-based research alliances. In addition to pre k-12 school systems, the Foundation especially encourages applications from partnerships that include scholars and institutions of higher education, rural geographic locations, and partnerships that deeply engage community-based organizations and families. 

Applicants must complete the Intent to Apply form by January 8, 2020. Full proposals are due January 31, 2020.

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This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.

View the Digital Extension Grants opportunity

View the Hannah H. Gray Fellows Program opportunity

The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

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The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Most grants range between $3,000-$15,000. Proposals of up to $25,000 will be considered.

Applications are accepted on January 10th and July 15th annually.

View the Research Grants on Human Origins opportunity

These grants are intended to provide support for the investigation of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect etiology to brain function and behavior. Risk and novelty are welcome but are not required criteria for the proposal to be considered meritorious. Competitive applications will have preliminary data or other relevant groundwork that justifies substantial investment on the proposed topic

View the SFARI Research Award opportunity

The David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering provide the nation’s most promising early career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. Packard Fellows must be faculty members within the first three years of their faculty career who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years.

This is a limited submission opportunity. Internal letters of intent are due January 13, 2020. If selected to move forward, the sponsor deadline will be April 20, 2020.

View the Fellowships for Science and Engineering opportunity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for a new RFA for collaborative pilot projects to explore innovative, interdisciplinary approaches for addressing key challenges in the biology of neurodegenerative diseases. The purpose of the pilot project award is to give the collaborating teams the freedom to explore new, out-of-the-box, potentially transformative ideas. CZI is looking for teams and proposals that are addressing a critical problem in neurodegeneration in an innovative, bold way. Applications from collaborations involving clinicians, those that bring together researchers from different fields, and those with a tool and technology focus, are encouraged. Each collaborative pair must include at least one early- or mid-career investigator.

Teams of two investigators will be awarded 18-month pilot awards. Successful pilot projects will be eligible to apply for an additional $1.6M per pair over four years (for a total of $1.75M in funding). Collaborative pairs cannot have previously received joint funding together.

View the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network Collaborative Pairs opportunity

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method.

The Intent to Apply form must be completed by January 14, 2020. The full proposal is due February 7, 2020.

View the Research Grants on Education - Large opportunity

These awards aim to better our understanding of this complicated condition with an eye for better treatments and cures for those who suffer from Ménière’s disease. Topics of interest include: the mechanisms of endolymphatic hydrops; genetics of Ménière’s disease; development and validation of biomarkers, including imaging and/or electrophysiologic and behavioral measures for its diagnosis and measurement of therapeutic effectiveness; animal models of Ménière’s disease; and the development of novel therapeutics.

View the Ménière's Disease Grants opportunity

This program provides support for career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows for stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.

View the Biomedical Postdoctoral Enrichment Program opportunity

The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

View the Life Science Grants-in-Aid opportunity

The Whitehall Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology.

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The Ken Griffin Alpha-synuclein Imaging Competition seeks to accelerate work to develop a selective alpha-synuclein PET tracer. MJFF encourages multidisciplinary teams to apply to this program and is particularly interested in collaborations between academic and industry groups that have access to diverse compound libraries. Projects can include compound screening, tissue binding studies, lead identification and optimization, in vivo testing in appropriate animal models, and first-in-human testing of candidate tracers. Funding prioritization will be given to those teams that show the greatest promise for delivering a selective tracer for human testing at the end of the funding period.

$8.5M is available for the total program, with an additional $1.5M possible for a most promising project.

An informational webinar can be viewed here.

View the Ken Griffin Alpha-synuclein Imaging Competition opportunity

The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $5,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: $150,000-$600,000
• Prevention Beyond the Pipeline, award amount: $50,000-$3,000,000
• Drug Discovery, award amount: $150,000-$600,000 

LOIs are due January 17, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due February 7, 2020.

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Grant applications that focus on studying the underlying mechanisms by which aging processes contribute to the development of arthritis are being sought. 

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In a collaborative effort, the Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) and the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) are seeking grant applications that focus on studying psoriatic arthritis.

View the Psoriatic Arthritis Grant opportunity

ANRF seeks applications focused on studying arthritis and related autoimmune diseases including, but not limited to osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, gout, scleroderma, fibromyalgia and ankylosing spondylitis.

View the Arthritis Research Grants opportunity

This grant is intended to stimulate collaboration in the field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.

View the Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians opportunity

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. 

Grants are made in the areas of:

• early childhood welfare
• early childhood education and play
• parenting education

Grants typically range between $25,000 and $50,000. LOIs are due January 31, 2020. 

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The Jane Coffin Childs (JCC) Memorial Fund for Medical Research supports research into the causes and treatment of cancer. The Fund has taken a broad approach to the study of cell growth and development, emphasizing the study of the basic biology and chemistry of the underlying processes. Applicants in general should not have more than one year of postdoctoral experience and MDs should not have received their degree more than three years prior to the date the application is due. 

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The Ruth K. Broad Foundation seeks applications focused on advancing understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, with particular interest in the potential relationship to Alzheimer’s disease.

View the Award for Advancing Understanding of Neurodegenerative Disorders opportunity

The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine.

Note: Investigators must be nominated by the institution in order to apply.

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In partnership with the W. T. Grant Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation has launched a call for proposals for the Educational Opportunity Monitoring Project, aiming to obtain new insights from population-based academic performance data. The Foundations seek proposals for studies that can plausibly identify the effects of policies, practices, and conditions on achievement inequality or the effects of achievement gaps on other outcomes and forms of inequality will be preferred over descriptive or correlational studies. Of particular interest are studies aimed at understanding how to reduce educational inequality or subsequent forms of inequality.

Postdoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors who received their PhD on or after August 31, 2012 are eligible to apply. Applications from scholars underrepresented in the social sciences are encouraged.

View the Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States opportunity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications in support of open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. The goal of the program is to support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement for these critical tools. Projects should demonstrate prior impact and the potential for continued improvement. Applications in two categories will be considered:

• Domain-specific software for analyzing, visualizing, and otherwise working with the specific data types that arise in biomedical science (e.g., genomic sequences, microscopy images, molecular structures). 
• Foundational tools and infrastructure that enable a wide variety of downstream software across several domains of science and computational research (e.g., numerical computation, data structures, workflows, reproducibility). 

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The program provides unrestricted research support of $100,000 CAD, leadership training, mentorship, and opportunities for highly-promising early-career researchers in the first five years of a full-time research position to collaborate with colleagues from diverse disciplines.

Scholars’ research interests must complement or contribute to the themes and goals of an eligible CIFAR research program. In 2020, the CIFAR research programs eligible to accept applications are:

Child & Brain Development
Learning in Machines & Brains
Quantum Information Science
Quantum Materials

View the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars opportunity

The Leukemia Research Foundation exclusively funds New Investigators – individuals beginning to establish their own laboratories that are no longer under the tutelage of a senior scientist mentor. Preference is given to proposals that focus on leukemia, lymphoma, MDS, and multiple myeloma. New Investigators are considered to be within seven years of their first independent position. 

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The Hearing Health Foundation accepts applications for its Emerging Research Grants program in seven priority areas: general hearing health, central auditory processing disorders, hearing loss in children, hyperacusis, Meniere's disease, ototoxic medications, tinnitus, and Usher syndrome. Only early career scientists may apply in the general hearing health category. 

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The Joyce Foundation invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the following program areas:

• Culture
• Democracy
• Education & Economic Mobility
• Environment
• Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform

LOIs are to be submitted at least 6-8 weeks in advance of the full proposal deadline (April 8, 2020). 

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Grants must be used for domestic or international travel to another lab to learn new research techniques or begin or continue a collaboration to address biomedical questions. Special consideration will be given to applicants who have doctorate level training in the physical, mathematical, or engineering sciences and are working on biomedical problems.

View the Biomedical Collaborative Research Travel Grants opportunity

These awards are presented to highly promising, early career scientists and are aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The fellowship awards promote higher risk projects.

View the Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience opportunity

The Economic Opportunity Challenge will award $10 million to scale a game-changing solution aimed to improve the financial health of low-income families. It  will fund the most transformative evidence-based solution to address barriers to improved economic opportunity, security, and/or mobility for individuals residing in the United States. The Foundation seeks proven, data-driven solutions ready to serve as a model for implementation across the country.

Applications will be assessed according to magnitude of impact, strength of evidence, likelihood of success, and potential for scale.

Five finalists will be named, one of which will receive $10M in funding and the remaining finalists will each receive $100,000. 

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The William T. Grant Scholars Program awards $350,000 over five years for early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. We encourage Scholars to tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth. Applicants identify new methods, disciplines, or content they want to learn, and propose five-year research plans that foster their growth in those areas. We recognize that early career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take such risks, so this award includes a mentoring component. Potential Scholars should have a promising track record of conducting high-quality research, but want to pursue a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers.

Northwestern's internal deadline for LOIs is February 19, 2019. If selected to move forward, the funder mentor and reference letter is June 12, 2019, and the proposal will be due July 2, 2019.

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This award supports research projects directed towards the molecular biology of pain and/or basic science topics related to the development of new analgesics for the management of pain due to terminal illness. Eligible candidates will have completed their training and provided persuasive evidence of distinguished achievement or extraordinary promise in basic science research in pain. Candidates should be within the first three years of their appointment at the faculty level.

The application portal for the 2020 award will open on November 20, 2019. 

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards to be used for exploring the basic biology and translational potential of stem cells. The goal of this initiative is to foster bold and innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of stem cell research, and advance understanding and use of stem cells in the development of treatments for human disease.

View the Stem Cell Investigator Awards opportunity

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is soliciting applications from early career investigators for Innovator Awards in Neuroscience. The goal of this initiative is to foster truly bold, innovative scientists with the potential to transform the field of neuroscience. Applicants are encouraged in all areas of neuroscience and do not need to be working in areas related to stem cells. Investigators must have completed their MD, PhD, and/or DPhil degree and be within 5 years of starting a faculty or comparable position on June 1, 2020.

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The Thomas Jefferson Fund supports cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and fosters forward-looking collaborative research that addresses the most pressing global challenges. The Thomas Jefferson Fund aims to encourage innovative research of the highest quality and new collaborations, and especially seeks to support projects involving young researchers (post-docs, PhDs). Applications are accepted in: Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; and Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-HSS projects). Awards are up to $20,000 over two years.

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Production and Presentation Grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs.

If applying for publication support, the organization should have a committed publisher for the work, that is, a publisher with whom you have a contractual agreement to publish your project.

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The Lyle Spencer Research Awards Program supports intellectually ambitious research projects oriented to improving the practice of education with budgets between $525,000 and $1 million and durations of up to five years. The Foundation envisions a broad conception of educational practice that encompasses formal and informal learning as well as the institutional, policy, and normative frameworks that influence and are influenced by learning and developmental processes. Proposals must have a clearly articulated commitment to lasting improvement.

LOIs are due February 27, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due at a to-be-determined date.

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Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The organization looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.

Applications are accepted on March 1 and September 1 annually.

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The Digital Art History program supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history, including classroom applications and online publishing. This program further supports the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources. 

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due March 1; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 1.

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The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilizations. 

View the Wayne F. Placek Grants for LGBT Issues opportunity

The Bridge to Independence award program engages talented early-career scientists in autism research by facilitating their transition to research independence and providing grant funding at the start of their professorships. The award is aimed at Ph.D. and M.D. -holding scientists who are currently in training positions but intend to seek tenure-track research faculty positions during the upcoming academic year.

The BTI Award program welcomes applications that span the breadth of science that SFARI normally supports, including genetics, molecular mechanisms, circuits and systems, and clinical science.

Applications from scientists working on autism-related projects are encouraged, but the award is also open to researchers who are not currently working on autism but who are interested in starting research projects in this area and who have expertise that could be brought to bear on autism.

View the Autism Research Initiative - Bridge to Independence opportunity

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

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These awards are for groups of researchers who want the time and resources to shape the direction of their future work. The development programs will lay the foundation for research that takes risks and pushes academic boundaries.

This program will support emerging or established research groups working in health-related humanities, social sciences, or bioethics. The research can be focused in one discipline, interdisciplinary, or focused on a  theme or issue.

The research development program you propose must: 

• lead to a significant and sustainable research agenda that takes risks and pushes academic boundaries
• develop the careers of the people in your research group 
• build a diverse and collaborative research community

At least one, but no more than six, co-applicants must be a part of the proposal. 

Preliminary applications are due March 3, 2020. Site visits will occur in fall 2020. Invited full proposals will be due in January 2021, and decisions made the following April.

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This grant program funds research on novel interdisciplinary approaches for investigating and nurturing wholesome mental qualities related to Prosociality, Empathy, Altruism, Compassion, and Ethics (PEACE). The program supports research projects that advance our understanding of the mechanisms, implementation, and outcomes of contemplative strategies to promote wholesome mental qualities and positive social action. In addition, the Mind & Life Institute encourages the development of measures to rigorously assess these qualities and behaviors in real-world contexts.

Projects do not need to include an actual contemplative intervention, but the research must be able to inform the development of contemplative interventions, or increase our understanding of whether and how contemplative practice might promote PEACE qualities. 

LOIs are due March 4, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due July 31, 2020.

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This program will provide support for instrumentation acquisition, development, and maintenance; support for data science collaborations within research teams; and costs for the proposed research programs. 

Proposals should be centered around core biological problems and a research program that is enabled by the dynamic, 3D, and long-term imaging capabilities of advanced light-sheet microscopy. Proposals shall include one-page descriptions of up to 3 distinct research project(s) to which the light-sheet capability will be applied that will represent significant advances within this larger research program. Additional consideration will be given to proposals that include other imaging, sensing, or analysis technologies as an integral part of one or more of the proposed research project(s).

Pre-proposals are due March 6, 2020. Invitations to the full proposal stage are expected to be made in June 2020.

View the Instrumentation Grant for Advanced Light-Sheet Microscopy and Data Science opportunity

The Foundation is primarily seeking letters of inquiry proposing highly innovative work related to the field of civic science, which seeks to promote broad engagement with science and evidence to help inform solutions to society’s most pressing problems. Submissions might draw on the fields of science communication, public support for science, effective science policy, misinformation, institutional trust, deliberative democracy, and related fields.

The Foundation is interested in ideas that bridge research and practice in the civic science field, and submissions that seek to work with underserved audiences and incorporate diverse perspectives are of particular interest.

LOIs are due March 6, 2020. Invitations to the full proposal stage will be made approximately eight weeks later.

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) invites new investigators to submit proposals in competition for one $10,000 grant underwritten by an endowment fund in memory of the late Dr. Dennis Klatt. The grant can be used to initiate new research or supplement an existing research study. Funds may be requested for a variety of purposes—for example, equipment, subjects, research assistants, or research-related travel.

The next competition will open in 2020.

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The Alzheimer's Association is accepting LOIs for the following competitions within their International Research Grant Program . LOIs are due March 8, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due April 29, 2019.

• Clinician Scientist Fellowship (AACSF), award amount: up to $175,000
• Clinician Scientist Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AACSF-D), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Fellowship (AARF), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D), award amount: up to $175,000
• Research Grant (AARG), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant to Promote Diversity (AARG-D), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant--New to the Field (AARG-NTF), award amount: up to $150,000
• Research Grant to Promote Diversity--New to the Field (AARG-D-NTF), award amount: up to $150,000
• Zenith Fellows Award (Zenith), award amount: up to $450,000

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) invites new researchers to submit proposals in competition for up to ten research grants of $10,000 each. The New Investigators Research Grant competition is designed to help further new investigators' research activities by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research investigations. Investigators must have completed a PhD or equivalent research doctorate within the past five years. Research, while not limited in topic, should be focused to match the one-year scope and should have clinical relevance to audiology and/or speech-language pathology.

Investigators planning to apply must complete the Intent to Submit form, a simple four-question survey, by March 8, 2019. Applications are due April 17, 2019.

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These research grants are intended to encourage research that will impact the delivery of services to individuals with communication disorders. Research should directly advance our knowledge of the efficacy of treatment and assessment practices in speech-language pathology and audiology, or investigate the implementation of evidence into practice.

Investigators planning to apply must complete the Intent to Submit form, a simple four-question survey, by March 8, 2019. Applications are due April 17, 2019.

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The broad goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program is to produce diverse interdisciplinary leaders who conduct and apply high-quality, community-engaged, action-oriented, equity-focused health research in order to drive improvements in the health of communities. This opportunity seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being. 

The program will recruit and select applicant organizations represented by teams of three people: two mid-career researchers and one community member to become IRL program fellows. IRL teams will join together as a diverse cohort of fellows that will participate in a three-year program.

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• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs are due March 15 annually for the full proposal deadline of May 1.

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Academic program funding is available for in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980) that take place:

• In Chicago or outside the United States, or
• In the United States and examine American art within an international context, with at least half of the participants coming from outside the United States.

Additionally, the foundation welcomes applications for international research groups that involve 2 to 4 faculty members from two or more academic institutions, at least one of which must be located outside the United States. Groups should pursue specific research questions that will advance scholarship and meet in person two or more times. This opportunity excludes projects on architecture and commercial film/animation.

This application cycle is for programs taking place after January 1, 2021. LOIs are due March 16, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due June 15, 2020. 

View the Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants opportunity

Fellowships are available for theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Applicants must have completed at least an MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent. Level 1 applicants (basic and physician scientists) must have received their degrees no more than 18 months prior to the deadline. Level 2 applicants (physician scientists-Mc, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent) must have completed their residencies and clinical training, be board eligible, and able to donate at least 80% of their time to these activities.

View the Damon Runyon Fellowship Award opportunity

The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth or contributing to one of the Jacobs Foundation’s thematic priorities. This includes, but is not limited to educational sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political sciences, linguistics, neurosciences, and medical sciences.

There are two categories of funding:

• Jacobs Early Career Research Fellowship, for highly talented young scholars earning their PhD within the past 7 years
• Jacobs Advanced Research Fellowship, for innovative mid-career researchers earning their PhD within the past 15 years

LOIs are due March 17, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due June 30, 2019.

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The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. They do not focus on a particular disease, but all funded projects deal directly with children's health. Those eligible to apply include physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program; physicians who completed their residency program no more than one year before the date of submission of the Concept Paper; or postdoctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the Concept Paper. 

Concept papers are due March 17, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due May 8, 2020.

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The HHMI Investigator Program supports approximately 300 Investigators at more than 60 research institutions across the United States. Investigators are recognized for pushing the bounds of knowledge in biomedical research. HHMI selects people, not projects, who ask tough questions in science and develop new tools and methods that make it possible to ask previously unapproachable questions.

Applicants must hold an MD or PhD, have a substantial commitment from their institution (such as a tenure-track faculty position), have a track record of peer-reviewed funding, among other requirements. Please see the full program announcement for additional information about the competition and eligibility requirements.

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The NARSAD Young Investigator Grant enables promising investigators in neuroscience and psychiatry to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. Funding is intended to help young investigators gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants. 

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Program grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring together scientists preferably from different disciplines (e.g. from chemistry, physics, computer science, engineering) to focus on problems in the life sciences.

• Young Investigators' Grants are awarded to teams of researchers, all of whom must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent.
• Program Grants are awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers, who are in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research. They must have full scientific and financial responsibility for their own laboratories. Grants are meant to develop new lines of research through the collaboration.

Applications must be initiated by March 19, 2020. LOIs are due March 30, 2020.

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The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) supports supports innovative basic research
into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches
that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Awards are made to international (preferably intercontinental) teams of 2 to 4 members. HFSP encourages projects that are at the frontiers of knowledge and therefore entail risk. The participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics has made biological research increasingly quantitative and will continue to do so.

All members of a Young Investigators’ grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent.

Teams will receive up to $450,000 per year for the whole team depending on the size of the team.

Applications must be initiated by March 19, 2020. LOIs are due March 30, 2020.

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The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. To this end, the McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award assists scientists working to apply the knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders that affect memory or cognition.

 View the Memory and Cognitive Disorders opportunity

The goal of the portfolio is to develop sound data to inform and disseminate best practices that produce better outcomes, improving quality of life for people living with SCI. This research explores the interrelation of behavioral, social and psychological factors that influence participation, health practice, lifestyle, and support systems in community and clinical settings.

Postdoctoral Fellowships are up to $150,000 for two years. Pilot grants are up to $200,000 for two years. Studies and demonstration projects are up to $400,000 for three years.

LOIs are due March 25, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due July 29, 2020.

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Proposed projects should utilize sensor technologies to monitor and analyze energy or environmental systems at a granular level in the United States. Proposals should also demonstrate original data collection and analysis, or the combination of existing sensor-generated datasets in innovative, impactful ways. Collaborations between departments and/or across universities in the areas of environmental science, ecology, atmospheric science, civil and environmental engineering, geography, computer science, data science, energy systems modeling, etc, are encouraged.

Projects must be led by early- and mid-career scholars at the level of assistant or associate professor. Projects should demonstrate cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research. Proposals should also demonstrate training of students in these interventions, engagement with cross-sector stakeholders, and an ability to leverage support from other sources.

LOIs are due April 1, 2019.

View the Sensor Technologies to Monitor Energy or Environmental Systems opportunity

Proposed projects should have potential for significant advancements in knowledge of net-zero interventions and negative emissions technologies in the United States. Collaborations between departments and/or across universities in the areas of chemistry, biology, physics, environmental science, ecology, atmospheric science, civil and environmental engineering, energy systems modeling, etc, are encouraged.

Projects must be led by early- and mid-career scholars at the level of assistant or associate professor. Projects should demonstrate cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research. Proposals should also demonstrate training of students in these interventions, engagement with cross-sector stakeholders, and an ability to leverage support from other sources.

LOIs are due April 1, 2019.

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The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

• Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g. serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged)
• Preventing violence
• Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity)
• Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status)

Preference will be given to pilot projects that, if successful, would be strong candidates for support from major federal and foundation funding agencies, and “demonstration projects” that promise to generalize broadly to similar settings in other geographical areas and/or to other settings.

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The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due April 1, 2020. Invited full proposals will be due August 1, 2020.

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Grants support studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral, or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities.

Applications are accepted in April and November each year.

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Arthur Vining Davis Foundations support for private colleges and universities is grounded in Arthur Vining Davis’ conviction that “an educated society strengthens democracy through principled, thoughtful and compassionate leadership”. The Foundations’ philanthropy to private higher education concentrates on private colleges and universities with a primary academic mission in the liberal arts and sciences, rather than career or vocational studies.

The most competitive proposals will emphasize one or more of the following areas:

• Leadership development for faculty, students, and senior leaders;
• Diversity, inclusion, and support for underserved education constituencies;
• Interfaith literacy and leadership for curriculum, student, and faculty research;
• Environmental stewardship and sustainability in research, curriculum, and experience; and
• Student and faculty intellectual inquiry, including faculty development and support for student-faculty undergraduate research.

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The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s broad objective to advance the chemical sciences and engineering. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical understanding, insight, and innovation in the field.

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This program supports the digitization of rare and unique content in collecting institutions, holding collections of high value for research, teaching, and learning. 

View the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives opportunity

The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $5,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: $150,000-$600,000
• Prevention Beyond the Pipeline, award amount: $50,000-$3,000,000
• Drug Discovery, award amount: $150,000-$600,000 

LOIs are due April 10, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due May 8, 2020.

View the Core Requests for Proposals opportunity

The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

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The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. The Foundation does not support research focused primarily on disease(s) unless it will also provide insights into normal functioning.

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Grants will support the development of imaging markers for use in disease-modifying clinical trials. Imaging is a powerful tool that can be used to visualize the structure and function of the brain in living subjects. While a variety of imaging techniques are available, including positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), none have been demonstrated to be a sensitive, specific and reliable biomarker test for the presence and progression of PD.

Applications must focus on developing robust and precise imaging markers.

• Priority targets for this program are alpha-synuclein and neuroinflammation, but applications may focus on other promising therapeutic targets.
• Imaging modalities can include PET, SPECT and MRI.
• Projects should aim to develop novel imaging biomarkers as opposed to prospectively collecting data using existing technologies. Prospective data collection is appropriate only if a novel imaging technique or tracer is being tested. Novel data analysis techniques may be proposed but should utilize existing data sets.
• Examples of projects that are appropriate for this program include development of novel PET or SPECT tracers, early validation of new tracers, and development and validation of novel MRI techniques.

View the Imaging Biomarkers to Track Disease Progression and Therapeutic Efficacy opportunity

Grants will support studies that explore the role of astrocytes in Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology and the potential for astrocyte-focused therapeutics. The goals of this funding program are to further understanding of astrocyte biology in Parkinson’s and to rationalize the pursuit of astrocyte-specific targets and/or pathways for the treatment of the disease.

Preference will be given to applications that focus on or include the following:

• Role of astrocytes in initiating and/or propagating Parkinson’s disease pathology, including alpha-synuclein spread, dopaminergic neuron death, inflammation and senescence
• Consequences of dysfunction and/or mutations of common PD targets, including alpha-synuclein, LRRK2, GBA, PRKN and PINK1
• Manipulation of astrocyte activity and/or astrocyte-specific pathways to assess the potential of targeted astrocyte therapies on disease biology and/or symptoms
• Parkinson’s disease models with high construct validity to human PD, including patient-derived material (such as iPSCs or cerebral organoids) and/or well characterized animal models and primary cells; Examination of human brain samples to answer specific hypotheses is also acceptable
• Targets, pathways and mechanisms proposed for investigation should have reasonable links to PD.

View the Biology of Astrocytes in Parkinson's Disease opportunity

The Michael J. Fox Foundation will award one-year grants for research to advance the development, optimization and validation of assays to quantify oligomeric alpha-synuclein in human body fluids. These biofluids may include blood, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva and tears. 

• Immuno-assays should have a renewable source of the antibodies used. Optimization and/or adaptation of existent assays to different biological matrices will also be considered.
• Projects should propose to develop or optimize assays with superior performance in quantifying oligomeric alpha-synuclein and, at the end of the grant, should be able to present several performance parameters for further validation such as robustness, precision, trueness, uncertainty, limits of detection and quantification, dilutional linearity, parallelism, recovery, selectivity, and sample stability.

View the Assay Development and Validation for Quantifying Oligomeric Alpha-Synuclein opportunity

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Collaborations program funds interdisciplinary, synergistic research efforts across multiple laboratories. Investigative groups within a collaboration will focus on the same conceptually unified topic but will incorporate different scientific disciplines and multiple levels of analysis, and will include a robust data-sharing infrastructure.

For this opportunity SFARI welcomes proposals that will use an array of modern technologies to examine sex differences in brain function, within and across species, including humans, to identify key differences in gene, cell and circuit function that account for the observed differential sensitivities of the two sexes to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A successful collaboration must enhance our understanding of the biological bases for sex-specific differences in ASD and set the stage for development of novel interventions.

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The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to early career investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals at the assistant professor level who have been in their positions for less than three years. Pew Scholar awards provide a total of $300,000 over four years.

Northwestern's internal application deadline is April 29, 2019. The sponsor proposal deadline is October 17, 2019.

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The goal of this program is to test new approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to their patients and communities. In order to be eligible, investigators must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services. 

LOIs are due April 30, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 16, 2019.

View the Greater Value Portfolio opportunity

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

Applications are accepted December 31, April 30, and August 31 annually.

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Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. 

Applications are accepted May 1 and November 1 annually.

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The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding sexual and reproductive health.

Concept papers are due May 1 and November 1 annually.

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This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

Pre-proposals are due on May 1 and December 1 annually. 

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The ACT Fellowship program equips recently tenured philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement with empirical science, such as in the fields of physics, psychology, biology, genetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, or sociology. All fellows must have a faculty mentor in their cross-training discipline.

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The Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators.

Studies should be related to either normal human brain development or specifically identified disease states. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease.

Internal LOIs are due May 6, 2019. If selected to move forward, the Sponsor LOI will be due June 25, 2019.

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The Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) portfolio focuses on research designed to improve understanding and advance the current treatment of acute and chronic spinal cord injury. The goal of the portfolio is to address gaps in the field and advance novel approaches to improving function and developing curative therapies after spinal cord injury. The program encompasses mechanistic, preclinical modeling, translational and/or clinical research. The Foundation offers postdoctoral fellowships (up to $150K), two-year pilot research grants for new investigators (up to $300K), and three-year senior research grants (up to $600K).

LOIs are due May 6, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 11, 2019.

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The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

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This call for proposals focuses on teachers learning to facilitate high quality communication in K-12 classrooms. Proposals should bridge gaps in the topics represented in the currently funded projects or that complement the current projects by focusing on subject matter content or teacher and classroom populations that may be underrepresented. Desired outcomes include refined theories of teachers as learners and, through knowledge acquired by the research, improvements in programs predicated on the factors contributing to teachers’ uptake and effective use of evidence-based educational practices in the context of their classrooms.

Pre-proposals are due May 8, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 14, 2019.

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Given the challenges of understanding and finding therapies for brain illnesses and injuries, the One Mind Rising Star Awards encourage the community of researchers to innovate in their basic and translational science to benefit patients, while supporting the research of emerging leaders in the field.

The overarching goal is to award promising, early career investigators an opportunity to enhance or accelerate research on major neuropsychiatric disorders, such as anxiety, addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, post traumatic stress, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. 

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This Foundation provides grants to journalism institutions throughout the United States. The Foundation gives special preference to programs focusing on ethics and new media within the following four program areas: Investigative Reporting, Professional Development, Oklahoma Journalism, and Special Opportunities. 

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Grant-making interests are focused on nutrition and/or health-related research having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children from the first year before birth to age 3.

Concept papers are due May 15 and November 15 annually.

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The ‘A’ Award is a four-year grant designed for the early independent career scientist who wants to establish a career in pediatric oncology research. The ideal applicant has an original project that is not currently being funded. Demonstration of a future commitment to pediatric cancer investigation as well as institutional support for the career development of the investigator are critical components of a successful application. 

Applicants must be within five years of their first faculty appointment and must have an MD, PhD or dual MD, PhD (DO, MBBS or equivalent).

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This funding opportunity will support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking on income supports for low-income families. Income supports may reduce poverty in households with young children; provide critical resources to help families support children’s development; diminish families’ stress levels; and thereby advance health equity. Evidence generated through funded projects should inform practice and policy, and guide practitioners and policymakers (federal, state, and local) in setting priorities and allocating resources.

View the Building Evidence on Income Supports for Low-Income Families with Young Children opportunity

This initiative intends to increase the research efforts in Phase I and Phase II (Proof of Concept) clinical trials directed toward Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias internationally. This new grant mechanism aims to fill the gap in Alzheimer’s disease drug development by providing support for early phase studies of potential Alzheimer’s therapeutics; this can include validation of biological markers of disease progression in the context of evaluating a potential therapy.

LOIs are due May 23, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due July 31, 2019.

View the Part the Cloud: Translational Research Funding for Alzheimer's Disease opportunity

This special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context supports innovative research on decision making across the social sciences that examines causes, consequences, processes, or context from a behavioral or alternative perspective. Scholars in psychology, political science, sociology, and other social science fields who are pursuing questions consistent with the aims of the Foundation are welcome to apply. This initiative complements RSF’s long-standing Behavioral Economics (BE) Program.

LOIs are due May 23, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 15, 2019.

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This initiative will support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations.

LOIs are due May 23, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 15, 2019.

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This  special initiative supports innovative social science research on the social, economic and political effects of the Affordable Care Act. The Foundation is especially interested in funding analyses that address the extent to which the ACA has affected outcomes such as financial security and family economic well-being, labor supply and demand, participation in other public programs, and family and children’s outcomes.

This will be the final funding round for this initiative.

LOIs are due May 23, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 15, 2019.

View the Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act opportunity

Grants will be made under the following programs: Race, Ethnicity & Immigration / Behavioral Economics / Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.

LOIs are due May 23, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 15, 2019.

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The Capita Foundation mission is to support innovative research that works toward the prevention and cure of hearing disorders.

Applications must be received before June 1 annually.

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The Water Environment & Reuse Foundation Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research recognizes outstanding achievement and creative vision through the Paul L. Busch Award. The award seeks to distinguish individuals poised for greater recognition of their innovative, ongoing contributions to water quality advancements.

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Priority for conference and workshop grants will be given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Workshops, defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology, will involve a small group of scholars meeting for a sufficient period of time to deal intensely with the project. It is expected that workshops will result in a publication.

Applications are accepted on June 1  and December 1 annually.

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The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Mallinckrodt Research Grant applicants should be in the first to fourth year of a tenure-track faculty position. The funds are designed to provide faculty members who hold MD and/or PhD degrees with support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. These awards are usually $60,000 per year for three years. 

Internal LOIs are due June 3, 2019. If selected to advance, the sponsor deadline is August 1, 2019.

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Career Catalyst Research Grants provide opportunities for scientists who have held faculty positions for no more than five years. This program supports hypothesis-driven research projects that have significant potential to advance our understanding of breast cancer, lead to reductions in incidence and mortality, and move us toward the goal of a world without breast cancer.

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The Diagnostics Accelerator aims to accelerate the development of affordable and accessible biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, and other related dementias. This RFP solicits projects to develop and validate digital biomarkers (defined as objective, quantifiable physiological and behavioral data that are collected, measured and analyzed by means of digital devices such as portables, wearables, or ambient sensors) for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Proposals addressing a range of potential clinical uses are of interest, especially technologies for early assessment and those aiding in diagnosis and monitoring treatment response or rate of disease progression. 

LOIs are due June 7, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 16, 2019.

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This program funds transformational research focused on increasing the impact of the Falk Medical Research Trust's funding and provides support in moving insights gained from basic science into clinical practice. The Catalyst Research Award provides one-year seed funding to help investigators lay the foundation for the Transformational Award. 

Internal proposals are due June 10, 2019. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal deadline is July 25, 2019.

This program supports policy and practice-relevant research that is focused on the early learning and development needs of the nation's children who are growing up under conditions of economic insecurity and social exclusion.

LOIs are due June 10, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 15, 2019.

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This RFP focuses on supporting empirical research to understand the ways that for-profit anchors advance health and well-being in the communities where they are located. Funded studies are expected to include rigorous empirical research that will inform the business case for why and how more companies serve as anchor institutions in their immediate surrounding geographies. Studies will also inform future RWJF strategies to motivate companies to act in a way that promotes health and well-being. 

View the Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses to Build a Culture of Health opportunity

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work.

Grants cover costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs.

Grant amounts are not specified; however, they averaged $25,000 in 2017.

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The Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the discovery and refinement of theoretical and mathematical tools contributing to the continued development of the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. The program's emphasis is on the development and application of the theory and tools used in the study of complex research questions and not on particular fields of research per se. JSMF is also interested in projects attempting to apply complex systems approaches to coherently articulated questions where such approaches are not yet standard but could open up new paths to progress.

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Open, but not limited to, early career researchers. 

These awards grant support to individuals for cutting-edge biomedical applied research that may potentially benefit children. Based upon submitted nominees, the foundation will select ten investigators to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for three years at $100,000 per year. For each nominee selected for funding, the sponsoring participating institution will also receive a Hartwell Fellowship to fund one postdoctoral candidate of their choice who exemplifies the values of the Foundation.

Internal LOIs are due June 13, 2019; proposals July 11th. If nominated, the sponsor proposal will be due September 15, 2019. 

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The Simons Foundation invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support research on fundamental problems in marine microbial ecology. The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes, and vice versa, as well as applicants with experience in modeling or theory development. Applicants should have received their Ph.D. or equivalent degree within three years of the fellowship’s start date. Preference will be for applicants with no more than one year of postdoctoral experience.

View the Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology opportunity

• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs are due June 15 for the full proposal deadline of August 1.

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The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

At least three research grants of $60,000 will be awarded to enable the recipients to research and write a book. 

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The Searle Scholars Program awards research grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level and whose appointment is their first tenure-track position at a participating academic or research institution. Candidates should have begun their appointment as an independent investigator at the assistant professor level on or after July 1, 2018. 

Internal LOIs are due June 18, 2019. If selected to move forward, the sponsor deadline is September 27, 2019.

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The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method.

Intent to Apply forms must be completed by June 20, 2019. Full proposals are due July 17, 2019.

View the Research Grants on Education - Large opportunity

The mission of this grant program is to support projects that work with students to enhance learning
and increase learning opportunities both inside and outside of school. Grants may support the following purposes:

• To fund projects that demonstrate the educational and student development value of a specific course of study
• To support demonstration projects that illustrate the value of classroom learning in the context of real-life situations
• To encourage greater family participation in school and community activities
• To expand the use of technology for teaching and learning

View the Student Development and Achievement opportunity

The Oberkotter Foundation funds programs that promote listening and spoken language for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Foundation seeks to address the needs, gaps, and barriers families face in locating and accessing information and services in their community.  Grants to universities average $300,000.

LOIs are due June 30, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 31, 2019.

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The Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed toward a cure for paralysis or the secondary medical conditions, and technologies associated with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D). Funding is available for laboratory research, clinical and functional studies of the effects of SCI/D, design and development of assistive technology, and fellowships for postdoctoral scientists, clinicians, and engineers. 

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The Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. This is a two-year award with the potential to be renewed for an additional two years ($800,000 total over four years).

View the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards opportunity

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

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The Cottrell Scholar program develops outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members whose primary appointment is in a department of astronomy, chemistry or physics. Eligibility is limited to faculty members who started their first tenure-track appointment anytime in calendar year 2017.

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JDRF is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. These awards are designed to provide crucial support to investigators who plan to pursue a career in diabetes-related clinical investigation. Awards are made in the later stages of training and include the ability for recipients to transition to independent faculty or research appointments. Clinical researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 5 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. The successful candidate will have an MD or MD/PhD, hold an appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine, and conduct human clinical research. 

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JDRF is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. The Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to attract qualified and promising health scientists, to provide an opportunity to receive full time research training, and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position. Generally, the most recent doctoral degree (PhD, MD, DMD, DVM, or equivalent) will have been received no more than 6 years before the application is submitted. 

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is focused on funding and catalyzing research that will lead to a cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), improving the quality of life and relieving the burden for people living with T1D, and preventing the disease. Career Development Awards are designed to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and given them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas. The Career Development Award is intended for individuals at an early stage of their independent academic career. Researchers who have received their first faculty-level appointment less than 3 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award. The applicant must hold an academic faculty-level position (including assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of submission of the proposal. 

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• Directly measure changing high-elevation environmental conditions, including temperature, precipitation, and wind strength/direction, with a focus on the most consequential data gaps.
• Examine downstream impacts of climate change, such as glacial lake outburst floods, landslides, and drought.
• Boost the resilience of vulnerable communities in these mountain regions by piloting and implementing culturally appropriate, community-based climate adaptation solutions addressing changing water resources or other climate impacts.
• Tell the stories of how communities, individuals, and/or wildlife in these regions are adapting to a changing climate. Storytelling applicants should focus on finding innovative ways to show how recent climate changes are affecting local communities or ecosystems through photography, film, data visualization, reporting, or other methods. Projects that include a component that benefits local audiences or incorporates local voices are strongly encouraged

View the Extreme Environments: Alpine Climate Change opportunity

• Teach students and other citizen scientists about the planet using experiential, crowdsourced technology
• Encourage students and other citizen scientists who engage with these technologies and projects to build the attitudes, skills, and knowledge necessary to become stewards of the planet and contribute to solving real-world issues
• Generate data and/or develop open-source technologies that contribute to scientific inquiry and advance our understanding of the planet

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The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $5,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: $150,000-$600,000
• Prevention Beyond the Pipeline, award amount: $50,000-$3,000,000
• Drug Discovery, award amount: $150,000-$600,000 

LOIs are due July 10, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due August 7, 2020.

View the Core Requests for Proposals opportunity

The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) seek to accelerate and support innovative small molecule and biologic drug discovery programs for FTD. The funding priorities are:

• Lead optimization of novel disease-modifying compounds, including medicinal chemistry refinement and in vitro ADME.
• In vivo testing of novel lead compounds, biologics, or repurposed drug candidates in relevant animal models for pharmacokinetics, dose-range finding, target engagement, in vivo efficacy, and/or preliminary rodent tolerability studies.

LOIs are due July 12, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due August 10, 2019.

View the Accelerating Drug Discovery for Frontotemporal Degeneration opportunity

The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award supports investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters.

LOIs are due July 15, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 15, 2019.

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The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Most grants range between $3,000-$15,000. Proposals of up to $25,000 will be considered.

Applications are accepted on January 10th and July 15th annually.

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Research grants support new and innovative studies that are relevant to the cause, pathogenesis, or treatment of the hereditary or sporadic ataxias.

LOIs are due July 16, 2018

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The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical care, biomedical research, and public policy, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.  The goal of the program is to develop the next generation of bioethics leaders.

The award covers 50 percent salary support for three years.

This is a limited submission opportunity managed by the Office of Research Development. Internal LOIs are due July 22, 2019. If selected to move forward, the sponsor LOI will be due September 23, 2019.

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The Simons Foundation invites nominations for Simons Investigators in Mathematics, (Theoretical) Physics, (Theoretical) Astrophysics and Theoretical Computer Science. Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. 

The nominees are judged on their potential for innovative new contributions to science over the coming years. 

Internal LOIs are due July 22, 2019. If selected to move forward, the sponsor proposal will be due October 31, 2019. 

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The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking to increase access to early care and education (ECE) for low-income families. ECE is defined as formal and informal nonparental care for children birth to age 5. Families have access to ECE when they are able to find affordable ECE that supports their child’s development and meets the families’ needs.

brief proposals are due July 25, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 10, 2019.

View the Building Evidence on Access to Early Care & Education for Low-Income Families opportunity

The goal of the Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia (LuceSEA) is to strengthen the study of Southeast Asia in American higher education by providing resources for the creation of models, strategies and partnerships that not only bolster existing program structures but also take them in new directions.

LuceSEA aims to encourage innovation in the study of Southeast Asia through support for:

• work in new and emerging areas of inquiry and the expansion of direct engagement with scholars and institutions in Southeast Asia;
• the enhancement of scholarly infrastructure for teaching and research relevant to Southeast Asia; and
• collaborations and networks that link academic centers to each other and with partners outside academia.

Deadlines
Internal LOI Due: July 30, 2019
Internal Proposal Due: August 13, 2019
Sponsor LOI Due: September 27, 2019
Sponsor Proposal Due: January 21, 2020

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*This is a limited submission opportunity managed by the Office of Foundation Relations.

Serious interdisciplinary research often requires established scholar-teachers to pursue formal substantive and methodological training in addition to the PhD. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. The program is intended to enable scholars in the humanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication.

Internal applications are due July 31, 2018. If selected, the full proposal deadline to the funder is October 5, 2018.

This funding opportunity is to support actionable research that advances health equity in the areas of nutritional disparities, nutrition, and food security. Three types of grants will be awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program with the aim of providing advocates, decision-makers, and policymakers with the evidence needed to address the key social determinants of health and inequalities that underlie poor dietary patterns and related health consequences.

Concept papers are due July 31, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 2, 2019.

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The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due August 1, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due December 1, 2020.

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The W. T. Grant Foundation funds research that increases our understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

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• Cross religious, geographic, and academic boundaries
• Advance scholarship that critically examines received assumptions about religion, secularity, and public culture
• Work inventively at the intersections of theological inquiry and the multidisciplinary study of religion

Grants may fund a wide range of possible activities, including (but not limited to):

• Publicly engaged humanities and social science research
• Support for the next generation of scholars, teachers, and public intellectuals
• Creative uses of digital technologies and new publication platforms
• Multi-institutional collaborations of various kinds

Deadlines
Internal Letter of Intent Due: August 5, 2019
Internal Proposal Due (by Invitation): August 27, 2019 
Sponsor Letter of Inquiry Due: October 15, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal (by Invitation): February 15, 2020

View the Advancing Public Scholarship on Religion and Theology opportunity

The Foundation provides support to emerging investigators to promote scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapy practice. Research projects in any specialty may be supported. The Foundation supports only those intervention studies in which the interventions are provided by physical therapists, or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.

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The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program supports basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. Scholars are nominated by premier research institutions and then selected by the Rita Allen Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. 

Northwestern's internal deadline is August 9, 2019. If selected to move forward, the funder proposal will be due October 23, 2019.

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The Beckman Young Investigator Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

The BYI program funds scientists early in their careers who have not yet received a major award from another organization and are pursuing projects that are truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. 

To be eligible, candidates must have achieved a tenure track appointment between 8/6/2016 and 8/6/2019.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is leading efforts to transform our health and health care systems by strengthening the ways in which health care, public health, and social service systems all work together to support people to live their healthiest lives possible. This solicitation hopes to establish clear principles that set a high standard for the health care sector to provide equitable care that fully addresses people’s physical, emotional, and social needs; and guidance for implementing care delivery that is fully responsive to patients’ goals, needs, and life circumstances.  

There are two components to this program. Applicants can apply to one or both components.

• Part I: Clear Principles that set a high standard for the health care sector to provide equitable care that fully addresses people’s physical, emotional, and social needs; and 
• Part II: Guidance for implementing care delivery that is fully responsive to patients’ goals, needs, and life circumstances, using maternal morbidity and mortality as a case example. 

Brief proposals are due August 15, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 14, 2019. 

View the Health Care's Role in Meeting Patients' Needs opportunity

Fellowships are available for theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Applicants must have completed at least an MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent. Level 1 applicants (basic and physician scientists) must have received their degrees no more than 18 months prior to the deadline. Level 2 applicants (physician scientists-Mc, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent) must have completed their residencies and clinical training, be board eligible, and able to donate at least 80% of their time to these activities.

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These awards are specifically related to the study of Meniere's disease. 

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The Foundation typically funds six (6) to ten (10) regular research grants that investigate various aspects of hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear. Priority is given to investigators early in their careers who need seed funds to generate results and data that can be used to support applications for larger grants (i.e., NIH grants) in the future.

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The Foundation welcomes proposals that address Core Funding Areas: Science and the Big Questions; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; and Genetics. If selected to advance to a full proposal, it will be due 1/17/20.

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The Foundation welcomes proposals that address Core Funding Areas: Science and the Big Questions; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; and Genetics. If selected to advance to a full proposal, the deadline will be determined.

View the Small Grants opportunity

This special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context supports innovative research on decision making across the social sciences that examines causes, consequences, processes, or context from a behavioral or alternative perspective. Scholars in psychology, political science, sociology, and other social science fields who are pursuing questions consistent with the aims of the Foundation are welcome to apply. This initiative complements RSF’s long-standing Behavioral Economics (BE) Program.

LOIs are due August 21, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 21, 2019.

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This initiative will support innovative social science research that brings new data and methods to bear on questions of interest in the Foundation's core programs: Behavioral Economics; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social Inequality.

LOIs are due August 21, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 21, 2019.

View the Computational Social Science opportunity

Grants will be made under the following programs: Future of Work / Behavioral Economics.

LOIs are due August 21, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 21, 2019.

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This initiative will support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations.

This will be the final funding round for this initiative.

LOIs are due August 21, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 21, 2019.

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VentureWell awards faculty grants to colleges and universities for the purpose of strengthening existing curricular programs and/or building new courses and programs in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Through these grant funds, VentureWell supports creative pedagogical approaches that generate student teams working on technology solutions to real-world problems, with the goal of the strongest teams applying to participate in VentureWell’s E-Team Program.

VentureWell encourages proposals that involve students, faculty and advisors from engineering, science, business, design, and liberal arts disciplines, as well as groups traditionally underrepresented in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including women and minorities. Proposals may include plans for creating or improving an individual course, course sequence, minor, major, certificate program, incubator, accelerator, and other co- and extracurricular programs.

Internal LOIs are due August 27, 2019. If selected, the sponsor proposal will be due November 6, 2019.

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The Translational Research Program (TRP) puts recipients on the bench-to-bedside fast track when it comes to finding better treatment and cures for leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society funds new and innovative research that shows high promise for translating basic biomedical knowledge to clinical application.

LOIs are due August 31, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 31, 2019.

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LLS’s Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grant program is intended to bring together established investigators from one or several institutions to develop a focused research program, foster new interactions and cooperation, and enhance interdisciplinary research among the participants. The overall goal of this mechanism is to enhance the development of innovative strategies for the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of blood cancers. Strategies that move discoveries from the bench to the clinic are of high importance as are integrated translational projects.

LOIs are due August 31, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due February 15, 2020.

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The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.  The average award is $150,000.

Applications are accepted December 31, April 30, and August 31 annually.

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The Career Development Program offers the opportunity to take part in basic, clinical, or translational research to help understand and treat hematologic malignancies and relevant premalignant conditions.

Eligibility forms due September 1, 2019. Abstracts are due September 13, 2019.

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Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The organization looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.

Applications are accepted on March 1 and September 1 annually.

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The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning.

LOIs are due annually on September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

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The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

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The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due September 1. Invited full proposals will be due October 1.

These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research.

Pre-proposals are due September 4, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due January 8, 2020.

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The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation. There are two tracks for fellowships:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences will allow chemists to pursue advanced research within the core areas of fundamental chemistry, such as chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials research. The fellowship is not intended to fund proposals that are supported by traditional NIH mechanisms in the fields of chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry.  
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation will allow researchers in chemistry to conceptualize, develop and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials science. 

The award amount is $180,000 over two years for salary, fringe benefits and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships will receive an additional one-time amount of up to $100,000. Fellows receiving the year 3 renewal award will receive an additional $90,000.

View the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences/Chemical Instrumentation opportunity

The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. 

The online application will open on May 6, 2019.

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The Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, and the Weston Brain Institute seek proposals to stimulate analyses across Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative diseases to increase understanding of pathogenesis similarities and differences. Funding from this program may support but is not limited to projects that aim to develop and/or advance innovative data models, biomarker discovery, assay standardization, genetic profiling, harmonize existing data set phenotypes, analyze cross-disease or longitudinal analyses of existing data, inclusion of other neurodegenerative diseases related to PD and AD, or imaging development.

View the BAND opportunity

This program is intended to:

• evaluate analysis tools for, and risks from, implementing and/or changing corrosion control treatment (CCT)
• explore the potential impact of various source water or treatment changes to CCT
• develop a framework for how to assess current CCT and under what circumstances CCT should be re-evaluated.

Impacts to both lead and copper should be explored through proposed projects.

View the Analysis of Corrosion Control Treatment for Lead and Copper Control opportunity

The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance.

The goal of the Pilot Award is to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses. Appropriate projects for this mechanism include those considered higher risk but with the potential for transformative results. In particular, the  Foundation seeks applications that propose research to link genetic or other ASD risk factors to molecular, cellular, circuit or behavioral mechanisms of ASD. 

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Diagnostics Accelerator is soliciting projects to develop biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias accessible from the periphery. Proposals addressing a range of potential clinical uses are of interest, especially tests for early screening and diagnosis, clinical trial enrichment, quantification of patient responses to therapeutics, or prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease.

View the Diagnostics Accelerator: Peripheral Biomarkers Program opportunity

The David H. and Beverly A. Barlow Grant supports innovative basic and clinical research on anxiety and anxiety related disorders conducted by graduate students and early career researchers. To be eligible, applicants must be a graduate student or early career researcher (no more than 10 years postdoctoral).

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The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of medical research in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers. The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. They do not focus on a particular disease, but all funded projects deal directly with children's health. Those eligible to apply include physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program; physicians who completed their residency program no more than one year before the date of submission of the Concept Paper; or postdoctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the Concept Paper. 

Concept papers are due September 15, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due November 6, 2020.

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The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Fellowships awarded for scholars whose research is in one of the eight SRF fields: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field. Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 16, 2019.

Note: In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must be officially nominated by a department head or other senior researcher.

Please contact Heidi Jurgens in OFR if you are interested in applying to this funding opportunity.

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The Moore Foundation seeks to support outstanding inventors and innovators who create new tools, technologies, processes, or approaches with a high potential to accelerate progress in the Foundation's three main areas of interest: 1) scientific research, 2) environmental conservation, and 3) patient care. The program focuses on supporting scientist-inventors at a critical stage of research to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. The Foundation seeks to provide freedom and support to promising inventors with the most compelling ideas to pursue creative work.

Internal LOIs are due September 19, 2019. By invitation, internal proposals will be due October 14, 2019, and the sponsor application deadline is December 13, 2019.

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The Targeted Grants to Institutes program is intended to support established institutes or centers in mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international science community. The aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.

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The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.

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The Career Development Award provides research funding to clinical investigators, who have received their initial faculty appointment, as they work to establish an independent clinical cancer research program.

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MJFF supports promising research toward breakthroughs for Parkinson's patients. The Foundation's emphasis is on funding translational and clinical research, they also support high-risk/high-reward discovery work. Core Funding Programs include: Target Advancement, Therapeutic Development, and Outcome Measures. 

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The Simons Fellows program is intended to make research leaves more productive by enabling their extension from one academic term to a full academic year.

Fellowships will be awarded for up to 50% (max of $100,000) of the Fellow's current academic year salary.

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The goal of the program is to conduct original research and test emerging best practices for increasing the frequency and quality of conversations about the costs of care. This work takes a broad definition of costs, including out-of-pocket costs to patients, and attention to indirect costs of receiving treatment, such as child care, time away from work, and transportation to medical appointments. All of this is in support of the Foundation’s goal to advance health equity.

Specifically, this program intends to fund studies that can build the evidence base in order to advance the following goals:

• Providers and care teams become more effective at discussing costs of care, and can connect patients with appropriate resources to make care more affordable.
• Patients feel supported by provider systems in addressing cost concerns when they make care decisions, have a financial need, and/or need to plan for upcoming costs.
• Policymakers and health care leaders are aware of the barriers that current policy creates in supporting cost conversations, and know what to do to address those barriers.

LOIs are due September 30, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due October 28, 2019.

The Moore Foundation and Simons Foundation seek to support novel research on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, including understanding the processes that may have led to the emergence of the first eukaryotic common ancestor (FECA) and how FECA evolved into the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). These grants will advance understanding of the evolutionary, ecological and biological mechanisms that may have allowed emergence of the first eukaryotic cells almost two billion years ago and should aim to demonstrate progress towards clarifying or eliminating eukaryogenesis hypotheses. The funders also seek to support development of new hypotheses with potential to reveal novel but potentially unexpected insights into eukaryogenesis.

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The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides awards for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research.

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The Life Sciences Research Foundation aims to identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of basic life sciences.

Note: Individuals who have held a PhD or MD degree for more than 5 years at time of application are not eligible.

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This award was created to encourage young clinical and scientific investigators to pursue a career in the field of ataxia research.

LOIs are due October 1, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 1, 2019.

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The Foundation supports scholarly research in the life sciences. The program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. 

View the Life Science Grants-in-Aid opportunity

The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. The Foundation does not support research focused primarily on disease(s) unless it will also provide insights into normal functioning.

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• Engage in career development activities and mentorship that will enhance their research capacity;
• Develop a research project that examines existing policies or policy changes that can influence population health, well-being, and equity;
• Produce and translate timely research results; and
• Collaborate with other researchers to create a healthier, more equitable future for all people in America.

LOIs are due October 2, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due January 2, 2020.

View the Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Policy and Law Research opportunity

CZI seeks to support up to 10 Imaging Scientists who will work at the interface of biology, microscopy hardware, and imaging software at imaging centers across the United States. “Imaging Scientists” might be engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, or biologists who have focused on technology development in either microscopy or data analysis fields. The primary goal of the program is to increase interactions between biologists and technology experts. The Imaging Scientists will have expertise in microscopy hardware and/or imaging software.

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The Defending Basic Freedoms program helps safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, to help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. The Herb Block Foundation will also consider contemporary societal issues that may arise. 

LOIs are due October 3, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due December 12, 2019.

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The aim of the Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The questions addressed by the collaboration may be concrete or conceptual, but there should be little doubt that answering them would constitute a major scientific milestone. 

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This program will support Indigenous and other local communities in enhancing their cultural and environmental practices to strengthen global forest protection. Projects that support two-way learning and co-creation of solutions are particularly encouraged. Projects must align with at least one of the following approaches:

• Capacity Building: Building core organizational capacities and knowledge of community-based organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups that are engaged in forest conservation and sustainable management
• Empowerment through Networks: Building or strengthening networks of local leaders, enabling them to share knowledge and best practices directed at improving sustainable forest management; Leveraging networks to elevate the voices of local communities in multistakeholder dialogues with government, the private sector, and other key parties
• Support to Community-Led Conservation: Increasing the impact of existing forest conservation projects that have the potential to increase carbon storage and/or community and forest resilience to the impacts of climate change. Projects should be led by local and Indigenous leaders.

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The ADDF offers funding to researchers for Alzheimer's drug discovery, clinical trials, and biomarker development research. Core request for proposals include:

• Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT), award amount: up to $5,000,000
• Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Development, award amount: $150,000-$600,000
• Prevention Beyond the Pipeline, award amount: $50,000-$3,000,000
• Drug Discovery, award amount: $150,000-$600,000 

LOIs are due October 9, 2020. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due November 6, 2020.

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Through this opportunity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to explore how cutting-edge ideas and emerging trends could help or hinder progress toward a Culture of Health in the United States. The Foundation is open to topics ranging from emerging technologies, to strategies for changing norms and behaviors. Research, pilot projects, demonstration projects, network-building, and more are eligible.

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The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) seeks to fund researchers who will use the IRIS data to address questions about the social and economic returns to investments in research. 

Proposals submitted for IRIS Researcher Awards must emphasize the use of IRIS data in projects that address open issues in the study of science and technology and in science policy. Topics of particular interest include but will not be limited to: (1) new methods to estimate social and economic return on investment for funding from various sources (federal, philanthropic, industrial, and institutional); (2) studies about the relationship between research training, career outcomes and the downstream productivity of employers; (3) research on the relationship between different funding sources and mechanisms and the structure and outcomes of collaboration within and across campuses; (4) analyses of the distinctive contribution university research makes to regional economic development and resilience; and (5) examinations of the effects different funding sources and mechanisms have on research teams and the productivity and efficiency of the academic research enterprise as a whole.

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Post-doctoral fellowship awards are to serve as a bridge from post-doctoral positions to junior faculty positions. Applicants should have completed at least one year of post-doctoral training, but not more than two at the time of application, and should have shown a commitment to research in the field of Ataxia.

LOIs are due October 15, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due November 15, 2019. 

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The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition.

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The GRAMMY Foundation awards grants to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations.

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The Joyce Foundation invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the following program areas:

• Culture
• Democracy
• Education & Economic Mobility
• Environment
• Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform

LOIs are to be submitted at least 6-8 weeks in advance of the full proposal deadline (December 4, 2019).

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This program provides start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. The program supports new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions. 

PIs must be working in the area of studies of brain function to be eligible (e.g., molecular and clinical neuroscience; neural, sensory, motor cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease). Proposals must describe a new research project not already funded by other sources.

Internal LOIs are due October 21, 2019. If selected to move forward, the Sponsor LOI will be due January 7, 2020.

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The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. 

This is a limited submission opportunity. Internal letters of intent are due October 22, 2019. If selected to move forward, the sponsor deadline will be February 6, 2020.

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The Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society program aims to amplify the broad potential of doctoral education in the humanities by supporting doctoral faculty as they pursue publicly engaged scholarship and advocate for diverse professional pathways for emerging PhDs. 

Scholars & Society fellowships invite faculty who teach and advise doctoral students to pursue research projects while in residence at a US-based cultural, media, government, policy, or community organization of their choice. The goal of the fellowship year should be to conduct a major research project in the humanities or humanistic social sciences that treats a significant issue or grand challenge in society—such as democratic governance, technological change, racism, climate change, economic inequality, migration and immigration, etc.

Each fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000; plus funds of up to $6,000 for research, travel/optional relocation, and related project costs; $10,000 to support the fellow's host organization; and $15,000 to sponsor on- and off-campus programming in the year following the fellowship.

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Luce/ACLS fellowships support research on any aspect of religion in an international context and encourage scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences to connect their specialist knowledge with journalists and media practitioners. This program welcomes proposals that explore connections between religion and the environment, gender rights, health and medicine, migration and immigration, politics and economic policy, and media and entertainment, among others. The ultimate goal of the research should be a significant piece of scholarly work by the applicant and concrete steps to engage journalistic and media audiences.

This program does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

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These fellowships are intended to support an academic year of research and/or writing by early career scholars from around the world for a project that will make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

Applicants must have a PhD that was conferred between September 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018.

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The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution who will advance our understanding through experiments, modeling or theory. Projects focusing on the microbiomes of invertebrates or vertebrates or on paleontological records will not be considered this year. Investigators with backgrounds in different fields are encouraged to apply.

Reference letters must be received by October 30, 2019. Letters of intent are due November 5, 2019.

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The Michelson Prizes are awarded to young investigators who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research across major global diseases. 

The 2020 Michelson Prizes will focus on transformative research in human immunology, with trans-disease applications to accelerate vaccine and immunotherapeutic discovery. The funders are seeking high-impact and highly innovative research that has the potential to be applied across many diseases and to significantly expand our understanding of the human immune system.

Applicants must be 35 years or younger on October 31, 2019.

Pre-applications are due October 31, 2019. Notifications for full applications will be made in December 2019, with prizes awarded in June 2020.

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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career.

Full proposals are due November 1, 2019.

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The Howard Foundation supports fellowships in selected fields for early mid-career individuals (applicants should have completed their formal studies in the past 5 to 15 years) who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. Support is particularly intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. 

The 2020-2021 program will support Fiction, Poetry, and Playwriting and Theatre Studies.

Subsequent selected fields are as follows:

• 2021-2022: Creative Nonfiction and History
• 2022-2023: Photography and Film Studies
• 2023-2024: Music Performance and Musicology/Ethnomusicology
• 2024-2025: Emerging Arts and Science and Technology Studies 

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Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas.

Applications are accepted May 1 and November 1 annually.

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The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding sexual and reproductive health.

Concept papers are due May 1 and November 1 annually.

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Grants support studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral, or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities.

Applications are accepted in April and November of each year.

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The goal of the program is to accelerate advances in fundamental and translational research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to understand the mechanisms underlying the etiology and pathogenesis as well as innovative approaches to better diagnose, prevent or delay the progress of the disease. Preference is made for exciting pilot projects that would not, at their present stage, be competitive for large government or industry awards. Typically, these awards are made to early stage investigators, or to more established investigators who are proposing particularly innovative research.

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Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of RWJF that helps to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. Studies conducted through the S4A program test innovative mechanisms for aligning delivery and financing systems for medical, social, and public health services, with a focus on the effects of these mechanisms on health and health equity.

S4A uses a wide research lens that includes and extends beyond medical care and public health to incorporate social service systems—such as housing, transportation; education; employment; food and nutrition assistance; child and family support; criminal and juvenile justice; and economic and community development. Stakeholders from the medical, social, and public health systems must be engaged.

Optional (but strongly encouraged) LOIs are due October 4, 2019. Full proposals are due November 6, 2019.

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The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China Studies in North America through fellowships and grants designed primarily for scholars early in their careers. Early Career Fellowships (up to $50,000) are available for scholars who are preparing their PhD dissertations for publication, or who are embarking on new research projects. Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants (up to $15,000) are available for scholars of different disciplines to investigate texts that constitute essential points of entry to Chinese periods, traditions, communities, or events in contemporary or historical times.

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Grants will be awarded to researchers for innovative investigator-initiated glaucoma-related research projects. The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.

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The Treat FTD Fund is a joint effort by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Fund and the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration to support clinical development of novel or repurposed drugs for FTD disorders. The targeted population should include both genetic and sporadic forms of any FTD disorder. Applications that target some of the underlying mechanisms that may contribute to the sporadic forms of the disease are encouraged. The program will support clinical proof-of-concept and pilot proof-of-mechanism studies, as well as Phase 0/1 studies in healthy volunteers assessing pharmacodynamics outcomes.
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The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Mallinckrodt Foundation Scholar award applicants should be in the fifth to eighth year of a tenure-track faculty position. The funds are designed to provide faculty members who hold MD and/or PhD degrees with support to move the project forward to the point where other independent funding can be obtained. Candidates may have an R01. 

The internal LOI is due November 12, 2019. If selected, the  funder deadline is January 15, 2020.

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The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is a global effort to create a reference map of all cell types in the human
It is an ambitious goal to generate a fundamental reference for biomedical research. Together with the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will continue to fund the HCA community. CZI seeks to continue the work of the HCA community with a focus on interdisciplinary work and collaboration through the formation of 3 year Seed Networks. The Helmsley Charitable Trust invites applications that will construct a detailed atlas of the human gut.

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The Gates Foundation seeks creative, compelling ideas from individuals and organizations from all sectors in the U.S. to elevate diverse voices and broaden the national conversation about poverty and economic mobility. In collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Raikes Foundation, Gates seeks to build on the understanding of poverty gleaned from the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty initiative and to combat inaccurate assumptions about poverty, deservingness, income, and wealth gaps that are widespread and harmful. 

The Foundation is interested in proposals for creative, scalable, strategic new ways to generate awareness of the structural and historic barriers to economic mobility; to communicate that poverty is not just something that happens to other people and everyone is deserving of the chance to move out of it; and to change the predominant misconceptions about poverty in a way that creates the conditions for effective programs and policies to be adopted by the public and private sectors.

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The Gates Foundation is seeking innovative solutions that accelerate the improvement of coverage, reach, efficiency, and effectiveness of health campaigns. Specifically, the Foundation is looking for innovations in approaches, practices, or tools that dramatically improve the planning and microplanning, implementation/operations, and monitoring and evaluation that will lead to improved effectiveness of campaigns. Gates is especially interested in novel approaches that draw on innovation from large-scale delivery models outside of the health sector, which may include interventions used in the private sector.

Solutions should be transformative, novel, or innovative; potentially used by various health campaigns beyond the campaign in which the innovation is originally conceptualized or tested; could be used in various low- and middle-income countries; and more.

View the Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns opportunity

The Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media and to engage audiences beyond the academy. 

Proposals are sought for collaborative projects hosted at US-based accredited institutions of higher education with research and curricular strengths in journalism and communication and in the humanistic and social science fields concerned with the study of global religions (including, but not limited to, anthropology, area studies, history, languages and literature, political science, religious studies, and sociology). Applicants must propose activities that connect humanities and social science programs within their institution with journalism schools, departments, or initiatives, or with external media organizations.

View the Programming Grants - Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Collaborative opportunity

Research fellowships offer support for research and writing in Buddhist studies for scholars who hold a PhD degree, with no restrictions on time from the PhD. These fellowships provide scholars time free from teaching and other responsibilities to devote full-time to research and writing on the project proposed. There are no restrictions as to the location of the work conducted. Applicants must identify a significant scholarly product (monograph, series of journal articles, etc.) that will result from the fellowship.

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• focus on important and emerging areas of research
• have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies
• are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary
• demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm
• have the potential for transformative impact, such as the foundation of a new field of research, the enabling of observations not previously possible, or the altered perception of a previously intractable problem
• do not focus on clinical or translational research, treatment trials, or research for the sole purpose of drug development
• fall outside the mission of public funding agencies (PIs must already have applied / provide proof from a program officer that project is outside program focus)
• demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project’s success.

One-page concept papers are due November 15, 2019. If selected as the nominee, the Phase I application will be due May 1, 2020.

Please contact Sarah Fodor if you are interested in applying for this opportunity.

This Foundation provides grants to journalism institutions throughout the United States. The Foundation gives special preference to programs focusing on ethics and new media within the following four program areas: Investigative Reporting, Professional Development, Oklahoma Journalism, and Special Opportunities. 

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The Parkinson’s Foundation seeks clinical, pre-clinical or basic research proposals that will directly impact the understanding of Parkinson’s or its treatment from promising early career scientists. Successful projects should include novel PD research hypotheses and be inventive in methodology or approach. The award acts as a bridge to ensure promising early career scientists stay in the Parkinson’s research field, helping to solve, treat, and end the disease.

LOIs are due November 15, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due February 18, 2020.

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Grant-making interests are focused on nutrition and/or health-related research having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children from the first year before birth to age 3.

Concept papers are due May 15 and November 15 annually.

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CZI seeks applications from collaborative teams for two-year pilot projects aimed toward identifying unifying principles that underlie tissue homeostasis and inflammation at the single cell level. Project teams should bring together two to three researchers in different experimental, computational, or medical domains (e.g., physicians, experimental biologists from different fields, technology developers, or computational scientists). These teams will address local cell properties and interactions in inflamed tissues and compare them to the properties and interactions of similar cells in healthy tissues, as well as increase our understanding of the cell types that mediate inflammation and their interactions in space and time. New collaborations are welcome and early-career scientists (within six years of their first faculty appointment) are encouraged to apply.

See CZI’s Medium post for additional background and information.

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The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early career physician scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.

Pre-proposal applications are due November 19, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due March 13, 2020.

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Applications to this program are made jointly by a U.S. and an Israeli researcher(s) who would like to work together. Prior cooperation between the PIs is not a prerequisite, and the establishment of new research teams is welcomed by the BSF. The following areas are eligible for submission: biomedical engineering, health sciences (medicine), life science, psychobiology. The 2019 program guidelines can be found here

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NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career faculty working in critical areas of education research. This non-residential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education.

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This opportunity will explore the degree to which health equity is impacted or results from current models of collaboration incorporating health care, public health, and social services. Studies should include a focus on health equity by examining how cross-sector alignment can advance the opportunity for everyone to have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Grantees will be expected to participate actively both in research dissemination and translation mechanisms organized by the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) and RWJF, including blogs, podcasts, research meetings, and policy briefings, among others.

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The Bridge to Success for Mid-Career/Senior Investigators awards are targeted to mid-level and senior investigators in sleep and biological rhythms who need ‘bridge’ funding while re-applying for research support.

The Bridge to Success for Mid-Career/Senior Investigators Award is designed to assist established sleep investigators who have been independently supported by the NIH or other government research grants for at least five years, but whose recent grant proposals are unlikely to be funded. A Bridge to Success Mid-Career/Senior Investigator Award will provide support for one year to help an independent investigator stay in the field of sleep and circadian research while reapplying for external funding.

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The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) “Bridge to Success” awards are designed to provide ‘bridge’ funding to promising early-career sleep scientists who have applied for a career development award such as a K-award grant from the NIH, a Career Development Award from the VA, or an equivalent career development grant from another federal or non-federal entity. Individuals who previously submitted an application for review, but whose applications are unlikely to be within the funding range, are eligible to apply.

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This initiative will support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations.

LOIs are due November 26, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due March 12, 2020.

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This special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context supports innovative research on decision making across the social sciences that examines causes, consequences, processes, or context from a behavioral or alternative perspective. Scholars in psychology, political science, sociology, and other social science fields who are pursuing questions consistent with the aims of the Foundation are welcome to apply. This initiative complements RSF’s long-standing Behavioral Economics (BE) Program.

LOIs are due November 26, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due March 12, 2020.

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Grants will be made under the following programs: Race, Ethnicity & Immigration / Behavioral Economics / Social, Political, and Economic Inequality

LOIs are due November 26, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due March 12, 2020.

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This research program addresses scholars of all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in five thematic areas: Challenges of New Technologies; Public Policy and Human Security; Patterns of Conflict Resolution between the State and Traditional Actors; Non-governmental Actors as Partners and Contenders of the State; and Security and Communication Strategies between Doctrine Formation and Implementation.

Grants cover costs for personnel travel, materials and/or other costs.

Grant amounts are not specified; however, they averaged $48,000 in 2017.

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Through Education for American Civic Life, the Foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education through faculty-led efforts within the curriculum grounded in the issues that define and challenge American democracy. While grappling with matters of civic knowledge, it is the Foundation’s intention for projects to also mitigate uncivil speech and behavior. Successful proposals are expected move beyond mere additions to the course catalog and reflect an approach to integrative learning that serves the student body and can be sustained beyond the life of the grant. 

Concept papers are accepted on a rolling basis, but applicants are encouraged to apply by December 1, 2018.

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Priority for conference and workshop grants will be given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Workshops, defined as working meetings that focus on developing and debating topical issues in theoretical anthropology, will involve a small group of scholars meeting for a sufficient period of time to deal intensely with the project. It is expected that workshops will result in a publication.

Applications are accepted on June 1  and December 1 annually.

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The Foundation seeks to support projects to develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities (minority ethnic groups, low-income families), as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.

Grants have ranged from $25,000 to $790,000.

LOIs are due December 1, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due April 1, 2020.

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This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

Pre-proposals are due on May 1 and December 1 annually. 

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• Advocacy: Achieving enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults

LOIs (optional) are due December 1 annually for the February 1 full proposal deadline.

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The Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Awards are two-year research grants to be awarded to cancer scientists at the beginning of their investigative careers. These grants are intended to support scientists who have little or no established funding "track records" and who have not yet qualified for significant external research support at the time of submission. The Cancer Research Foundation is particularly interested in funding research focused on decoding the mechanics of cancer, its development, diagnosis and treatment, using genomics, informatics, molecular engineering, or image-oriented research, among other scientific disciplines.

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The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. These awards encourage and support scientists working on the development of novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. The Endowment Fund is interested in how a new technology may be used to monitor, manipulate, analyze, or model brain function at any level, from the molecular to the entire organism. 

LOIs are due December 2, 2019. If selected to move forward, full proposals will be due April 27, 2020.

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The Foundation established a program designed to recruit outstanding U.S. Specialty Board-eligible physicians into cancer research careers by providing them with the opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor after they have completed all of their clinical training.

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The goal of the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust (CART) fund is to encourage exploratory and development Alzheimer's Disease research projects within the United States. This is accomplished by providing financial support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research. These projects should be distinct from those designed to increase knowledge in a well established area unless they intend to extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications.

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The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Gates Foundation, seeks research proposals focused on diagnosing and addressing structural barriers to economic mobility in the United States. RSF is interested in novel uses of new or under-utilized data, and creative uses of administrative data. Proposals might include exploratory fieldwork, a pilot study, field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, ethnographies, or the analysis of existing data.

This opportunity is designed to support tenure track assistant professors and associate professors who have been in the rank for less than seven years. Applications from underrepresented (including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity) scholars in the social sciences will be prioritized. Assistant professors can apply for grants up to $30,000; associate professors can apply for grants up to $50,000. Only faculty who have not previously received a research grant or visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply. 

The funded researchers will be invited to submit their findings at a conference at the Russell Sage Foundation the following year, with investigators, mentors, advisory committee members, and other experts in attendance.

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The Spencer Foundation’s Conference Grant program is designed to provide support to scholars for small research conferences and focused symposia. The conference grant program intends to bring together researchers whose substantive knowledge, theoretical insight, and methodological expertise can be assembled in ways that build upon and advance best practices in education research.

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Academic program funding is available for in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980) that take place:

• In Chicago or outside the United States, or
• In the United States and examine American art within an international context, with at least half of the participants coming from outside the United States.

Additionally, the foundation welcomes applications for international research groups that involve 2 to 4 faculty members from two or more academic institutions, at least one of which must be located outside the United States. Groups should pursue specific research questions that will advance scholarship and meet in person two or more times. This opportunity excludes projects on architecture and commercial film/animation.

This application cycle is for programs taking place after September 1, 2020. LOIs are due December 6, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due March 6, 2020.

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The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture.

LOIs are due December 15th; if selected to move forward, the full proposal will be due on January 15th.

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The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era.

LOIs are due December 15th; if selected to move forward, full proposals will be due January 15th.

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AFAR provides awards to junior faculty (M.D. and Ph.D.) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts.

LOIs are due December 16, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due in early April.

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This initiative provides timely support to a small number of research projects that are relatively high risk but which offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging. 

LOIs are due December 16, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due in April 2020.

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The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

Applications are accepted December 31, April 30, and August 31 annually.

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The Oberkotter Foundation funds programs that promote listening and spoken language for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Foundation seeks to address the needs, gaps, and barriers families face in locating and accessing information and services in their community.  Grants to universities average $300,000.

LOIs are due December 31, 2019. Invited full proposals will be due February 28, 2020.

View the Program Support Grants for Listening and Spoken Language opportunity