Intramural Funding Opportunities
There are a myriad of opportunities at AU for faculty to obtain intramural support for their research, scholarship, and creative activities. This funding can come from the Office of the Provost as well as in the academic units.
Intramural funding from the Office of the Provost
Dean of Academic Affairs Faculty Support Awards
- International Faculty Travel Awards Deadline: January 2012. Some funding may still be available after January.
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research
- Faculty Research Support Grants 2013-2014 Deadline: NOVEMBER 30, 2012
- Doctoral Student Research Awards Deadline: MARCH 2013. Potential Applicants! January 17, 2013: 4 - 5:00pm. Provost Conference Room - Leonard Hall, the Vice Provost will be holding a Q&A session to address graduate students' questions concerning the application process. Attendance is highly recommended!
- Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools: Masters & PhD Student Awards and Teaching Awards.
- Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center: Note - You must create an account to access the funding opportunity postings.
Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning
Intramural funding from the academic units
Frequently funding to support faculty research is available in the academic units. Inquire at the units to obtain information about specific opportunities.
Extramural Funding Opportunities
Take a look at this weekly archived listing of funding opportunities from a variety of outside institutions.
External Funding Opportunities
Government Funding Opportunities
These calendars detail the funding cycles of several awards from federal government sources.
EPA: Extramural Research
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant Applications and Deadlines
National Institutes of Health: Grant Schedule and Submission Schedule
National Science Foundation: Active Funding Opportunities
Specific Funding Opportunities
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health and Society Scholars
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation’s capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends upon collaboration and exchange across disciplines and sectors. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to: investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health; and
develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge, interventions, and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.
www.healthandsocietyscholars.org
Deadline: September 20, 2013
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA Center for WIC Nutrition Education Innovations:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/menu/DemoProjects/WICResearch/WICResearchGrant.htm
National Science Foundation
High-Risk Research in Anthropology:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5319
Deadline: Rolling
Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) - Crane-Rogers Foundation
Donors' Fellowship
http://www.icwa.org/FellowshipProgram.htm
The Institute is primarily focused on the potential of the candidate and secondarily on the project. That said, strong candidates will naturally propose and passionately pursue a project that's topical and important. The Institute is a small organization with few hard-and-fast rules, but generally it will postpone consideration of a project in a country where it currently or very recently has had a fellow. Over time, the Institute tries to achieve a good geographic distribution of fellowships and are naturally drawn to areas of the world and topics that are less well understood and have strategic or other importance to the United States. These could include thematic fellowships, for example examining questions related to economic development or the environment that could be effectively pursued using the method of the Institute's fellowships.
A proposed fellowship must hold the promise of enriching public life in the United States by enhancing the understanding of foreign countries, cultures, and trends. Public service in the United States is the Institute's ultimate purpose, out of a belief that the United States needs the knowledge and wisdom that ICWA Fellows acquire. Candidates who meet the eligibility requirements are encouraged to propose fellowships in areas that interest them. They must present a strong rationale for the topic of their proposed fellowship. Areas of particular interest to the Institute include the Arab Middle East, Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, but candidates may seek fellowships in any country.
Deadline: August 1, 2013 (Letter of interest)
Traditional Economics and Ecological Economics Research Grants
http://walker-foundation.org/grant-guidelines
The Alex C. Walker Foundation funds two categories of projects: traditional economics and ecological economics with a free-market orientation. The Foundation seeks market approaches for addressing economic imbalances and protecting our environment. The Foundation awards Economics Research Grants to: -
- nvestigate the causes of economic imbalances;
- investigate the effect of the monetary system in fostering a sustainable economy;
- investigate causes tending to destroy or impair the free-market system;
- explore and develop free-market solutions; and,
- disseminate information on the results and findings.
Deadlines: April 1, 2013; October 1, 2013
Sundance Documentary Fund Grants
http://www.sundance.org/programs/documentary-fund/
Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grants are announced twice a year. Since its inception, the Fund has supported more than 500 films in 61 countries. A committee of human rights experts and film professionals make recommendations from projects submitted by filmmakers from around the world. The Fund reviews between 1,400 and 2,000 proposals annually, choosing 35-50 for support each year. In funding such work, the Documentary Fund encourages the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society and public dialogue about contemporary issues.
The Documentary Fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide for projects that display:
· Artful and innovative storytelling techniques
· Global relevance
· Contemporary social issues
· Potential for social engagement
Deadline: February 5, 2013; July 1, 2013
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Programmes - Call for Proposals
http://www.newton.ac.uk/callprop.html
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is a national research institute in Cambridge. It aims to bring together mathematical scientists from UK universities and leading experts from overseas for concentrated research on specialised topics in all branches of the mathematical sciences, from pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, to theoretical aspects of any discipline. At any time there are two visitor programmes in progress, each with about twenty scientists in residence. Included within these programmes are periods of particularly intense activity including instructional courses and workshops.
Deadline: January 31, 2013; July 31, 2013
National Science Foundation
High-Risk Research in Anthropology
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=45615
Anthropological research may be conducted under unusual circumstances, often in distant locations. As a result the ability to conduct potentially important research may hinge on factors that are impossible to assess from a distance and some projects with potentially great payoffs may face difficulties in securing funding. This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program. Projects which face severe time constraints because of transient phenomena or access to materials may also be considered
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime. Current closing date for applications: December 31, 2014
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Grants
http://www.warholfoundation.org/grant/overview.html
Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs. The work of choreographers and performing artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element of a production.
Scholarly research undertaken in the field of contemporary art is funded through Curatorial Research Fellowships. Institutionally-affiliated curators at any stage of their careers are eligible to apply and must have the formal support of their director. It is assumed that research will lead to a significant exhibition, though this is not a requirement. Grants to curators do not preclude separate proposals from sponsoring institutions in any given grant round.
Deadlines: March 1, 2013; September 1, 2013
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Grants Program
http://www.comptonfoundation.org/what-we-support/general-criteria-application-process-apply/
The sponsor will support organizations building the long-term capacity to ignite change as well as providing rapid response and emerging opportunity funding. The sponsor has a particular interest in work happening within and between our traditional areas of work—peace, environment, and reproductive health and rights.
The two main areas of focus for the sponsor are: Transformative Leadership and Courageous Storytelling.
· Within the area of Transformative Leadership, the sponsor expects to support: Institutions that are training, convening, and coaching leaders with the above qualities; Networks of leaders working across difference in issue, approach, or constituency; Exemplary organizations that demonstrate new ways of working, creative collaboration, and transformative leadership qualities.
· Within the area of Courageous Storytelling they expect to support: Creative media (art, film/video, music, drama, writing, photography) that captures imagination, expands our understanding of critical social and environmental problems, and articulates a positive vision for the future; Exemplary and emerging leaders or efforts that command attention and convey clear narratives with passion, vision, and impact; Artist capacity building organizations that help creative artists engage with social and environmental change organizations or campaigns, or provide artists with experiences and/or information that can help them work more effectively on real world problems.
Deadline: Rolling
Philip L. Graham Fund
Grant Programs
http://plgrahamfund.org/content/application-process/application-process
The Fund's mission is to use its resources for the betterment of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and to support activities that foster improvements in the fields of journalism and communications. Grants are awarded across five interest areas, including Arts & Humanities, Community Endeavors, Education, Health & Human Services, and Journalism & Communications. The Philip L. Graham Fund follows a two-step application process. Organizations interested in applying for funding from the Philip L. Graham Fund must first submit a letter of inquiry (LOI) through our online application system.
Deadline: March 15, 2013 (letter of inquiry); Other dates: July 15 and December 6, 2013
United States Department of State
U.S. Embassy Islamabad PAS Grants Program
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=211253
The U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section (PAS) in Islamabad is soliciting proposals for grants from not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, and academic institutions that focus on one of the following priority areas:
- Expand Media Engagement: By providing journalists, professional associations, or press clubs with training in new or traditional media forms that also support objective media and professional standards in journalism.
- Strengthen People-to-People Ties: Increase mutual trust and understanding through art and cultural exchanges, and other programs that connect Americans and Pakistanis in meaningful ways.
- Increase Community Engagement: Build local capacity and generate narratives to confront ideological support for terrorism.
- Build and Strengthen Local Partners: To develop capacity of local partners through long-term, self-sustaining relationships that will support ties between U.S. and Pakistani peer institutions and U.S. goals.
Funding is available for projects that address the priority areas below and focus on Public Affair’s key audiences, including: Pakistan civil society organizations, entrepreneurs/innovators, journalists, women, and youth (14-25 years old). Grant proposals should aim to create or extend the community of reform-minded individuals and groups, and should address one or more of the five Public Affairs priority areas:
1) Strengthening Civil Society: through the promotion of local cultural heritage, traditional and modern art forms, and other forms of creative expression; support for civil society organizations, educational institutions; or the emerging leaders in these fields through linkages with U.S. counterparts.
2) Supporting Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship: through projects that promote human/workers’ rights, women’s empowerment, corporate social responsibility, access to finance, and support for entrepreneurs. Particular emphasis should be placed on strengthening chambers of commerce, entrepreneurs, and core private sector industries through interactions or linkages with U.S. counterparts.
3) Fostering Regional Stability: through projects that support academic, art and cultural, civil society, and other exchanges and projects by strengthening ties between the United States, Pakistan, and regional neighbors; thus assisting in the development of friendly, sympathetic and peaceful relations.
4) Countering Extremism by Encouraging Accurate Messaging: through projects that develop and support credible local broadcast content; counter falsehoods, messaging, and propaganda; present accurate information on U.S.-Pakistan cooperation; provide educational and recreational opportunities for Pakistani youth.
5) Supporting Public Sector Institutions: through projects that strive to improve communications capacity and professionalism for civil servants, and local and national public sector institutions; capacity building and training, and English language programs specific to civil service professions.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Toyota U.S.A. Foundation
Grants in K-12 Education
http://www.toyota.com/about/philanthropy/education/toyota_usa/
The Toyota USA Foundation is committed to enhancing the quality of K?12 education by supporting innovative programs and building partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of mathematics, science and environmental science. Organizations must be located within and serve the people of the United States.A high priority is placed on the following:
· Creative and innovative programs which develop the potential of students and/or teachers; Programs which are broad in scope and incorporate systemic approach; and,
· Cost?effective programs that possess a high potential for success with relatively low duplication of effort.
Deadline: Rolling
Jewish Life and Values Program Grants
http://www.nathancummings.org/grant-programs/jewish-life-program
The goal of this program is to promote tzedek/social justice as a core Jewish value, integral to Jewish life and the creation of a more just, vibrant, and sustainable society. Objectives include the following:
1) Jewish social justice: To strengthen the leadership, capacity, and engagement of Jews, Jewish communities, and Jewish institutions to advance social and economic justice as a lived Jewish value.
2) Interfaith: To promote interfaith coalitions that address issues of social and economic justice and amplify a progressive religious voice.
3) Israel: To advance a more just and vibrant Israel by empowering women as agents of social change; building a cross-sector, values-based environmental movement; and supporting efforts in the United States to promote the peace process.
Priority will be given to initiatives that are national in scope, have a field-building orientation, and engage younger generations.
Deadline: Rolling
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Knight International Journalism Fellowships
http://www.icfj.org/our-work/knight/overview
The Knight International Journalism Fellowships help to create news outlets and programming, training centers and schools, and innovative resources to improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world. The fellows work in Latin America/Caribbean, Central Europe/Eurasia, Asia/Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. The center targets countries where there is great opportunity to make a lasting impact. Examples of opportunities for fellowship projects:
- New leadership or improved media laws have opened a window for better journalism;
- An end to conflict has enabled the growth of independent media; and
- Digital tools have created new ways for citizens to become active participants in their societies.
Fellows should meet these requirements: strong leadership qualities; entrepreneurship; ability to identify opportunities that produce results; fluency in the language of the country; demonstrated knowledge of fellowship focus; and minimum of 10 years of journalism, multimedia technology and/or media management experience.
Deadline: Rolling
National Geographic Society
Conservation Grants
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/grants-programs/conservation-trust-application/
The objective of the Conservation Trust is to support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources. While the Conservation Trust acknowledges the need to preserve archaeological sites and artifacts, the current budget limits prevents the trust from funding such requests. The Conservation Trust's strength lies in supporting cutting edge programs that might be overlooked by other organizations, due to the risk involved in working with new investigators and in new fields.
Deadline: Rolling (pre-application required)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Humanities Program
http://www.delmas.org/programs/humanities_d.html
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis:
· a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past;
· the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and
· the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.
Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
Deadline: Rolling (letter of inquiry)
State Justice Institute (SJI)
Project Grants
http://www.sji.gov/grant-project.php
Project Grants are the centerpiece of SJI's efforts to improve the administration of justice in state courts nationwide. Project Grants are intended to support innovative education and training, demonstration, and technical assistance projects that can improve the administration of justice in State courts locally or nationwide. SJI is interested in funding both innovative programs and programs of proven merit that can be replicated in other jurisdictions. SJI is especially interested in funding projects that:
· formulate new procedures and techniques, or creatively enhance existing procedures and techniques; address aspects of the state judicial systems that are in special need of serious attention;
· have national significance by developing products, services, and techniques that may be used in other states; and
· create and disseminate products that effectively transfer the information and ideas developed to relevant audiences in state and local judicial systems, or provide technical assistance to facilitate the adaptation of effective programs and procedures in other state and local jurisdictions.
Deadlines: February 1, 2013; May 1, 2013; August 1, 2013
National Science Foundation
Science, Technology, and Society
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324
Science, Technology , and Society (STS) considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy. STS provides a range of funding opportunities designed to support the full spectrum of research, educational, and scholarly activities undertaken by scholars working on science, technology and society.
STS provides a range of funding opportunities designed to support the full spectrum of research, educational, and scholarly activities undertaken by scholars working on science, technology and society.
1) Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research support proposals for basic research or infrastructure development.
2) Scholars Awards and Postdoctoral Fellowships provide up to full-time release for an academic year and a summer to conduct basic research.
3) Conference/Workshop Support help to support national and international conferences, symposia, and research workshops that promote new research networks between researchers in STS and scientists and engineers, or between STS scholars and members of scholarly communities not normally in contact with each other. The ultimate goal of the gathering should be development of a new field of scholarship, pedagogy, or research.
4) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants provide funds for dissertation research expenses not normally available through the student's university.
Deadlines: February 1, 2013; August 1, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-128.html
The National Institute on Aging invites researchers to submit innovative R01 research grant applications on aging and the family. The objective of this research program is to expand understanding of the role of families and interpersonal relationships in the health and wellbeing of older people. This will be accomplished through increasing scientific knowledge on the effects of family and interpersonal relationships on behavioral and social processes of relevance to aging; and on how these processes change over the life course and across cohorts. A broad range of methods and approaches are encouraged.
Deadlines: February 5, 2013; June 5, 2013; October 5, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-133.html
The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory, and interventions as these relate to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' public health priorities that are outlined in its Healthy People initiative. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Deadlines: February 5, 2013; June 5, 2013; October 5, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Research Project Grant
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-260.html
The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in areas representing the specific interests and competencies of the investigator(s). The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the stated program interests of one or more of the NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on descriptions of their programs.
Deadlines: June 5, 2013; October 5, 2013
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Digitizing Historical Records
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online. Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and consist of entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as metadata for the digitized collection. To make these projects as widely useful as possible for archives, historical repositories, and researchers, the applications must demonstrate: (1) the national significance of the collections or records series to be digitized; (2) effective work flow that repurposes existing descriptive material, rather than creating new metadata about the records; (3) reasonable costs and standards for the project as well as sustainable preservation plans for the resulting digital records; and (4) well-designed plans that evaluate the use of the digitized materials and the effectiveness of the methods employed in digitizing and displaying the materials.
Deadline: June 11, 2013
Retirement Research Foundation
Core Grants
http://www.rrf.org/grants-programs/grants
The Retirement Research Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for our nation's elders. It is one of the nation's first private foundations devoted exclusively to aging and retirement issues. It awards grants each year in support of programs, research, advocacy, and training to improve the quality of life for older Americans. Funding for the Foundation's general program of grantmaking is given to efforts that:
(1) Improve the availability and quality of community-based and long-term services and supports;
(2) Provide new and expanded opportunities for older adults to engage in meaningful roles in society;
(3) Seek causes and solutions to significant problems of older adults; and
(4) Increase the number of professionals and paraprofessionals adequately prepared to serve the elder population.
Deadlines: February 1, 2013; May 1, 2013; August 1, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Women and Sex/Gender Differences in Drug and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-047.html
The purpose of this FOA issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is to advance research on male-females differences in drug and alcohol abuse and addiction and on factors specific to women. Both human and animal model studies are sought.
Deadlines: February 5, 2013; June 5, 2013; October 5, 2013
National Science Foundation
Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39
DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens.
Deadlines: July 15, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Alcohol Marketing and Youth Drinking
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-015.html
This FOA issued by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to investigate the factors that mediate and moderate the impact of alcohol advertising and other alcohol promotions on youth drinking. The nature of the relationship between exposure to alcohol marketing, including traditional and Internet-based advertisements and promotions, and youth alcohol consumption remains unclear. While the existing research suggests that exposure to alcohol advertising might be associated with the initiation of alcohol consumption and the frequency/amount of alcohol consumed, direct evidence of a link between exposure to marketing and alcohol consumption among youth is generally lacking. In one of the few studies to assess whether exposure to alcohol in commercials and movies is directly related to actual drinking behavior, researchers in the Netherlands (Engels et al., 2009) divided 40 male college students (aged 18-29) into groups and exposed them to various combinations of movie clips and commercials involving high levels of alcohol or low levels of alcohol. Subjects were then allowed to self administer alcohol.
Deadlines: February 5, 2013; June 5, 2013; October 5, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-328.html
This FOA is to encourage Small Grant Program (R03) applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18). Positive health behaviors may include:
- developing healthy sleep patterns,
- developing effective self-regulation strategies,
- adaptive decision-making in risk situations,
- practicing proper dental hygiene,
- eating a balanced and nutritious diet,
- engaging in age-appropriate physical activity, and/or
- participating in healthy relationships.
Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media.
Topics to be addressed in this FOA include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health and future health behaviors.
Deadlines: February 16, 2013; June 16, 2013
MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Residency Program
http://www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.html
The MacDowell Colony is the nation's leading artist colony. The Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. The Colony does not offer classes or instruction.
Each year 250 Fellowships, or residencies, are awarded to artists in seven disciplines Residencies are available for artists in the following disciplines: 1) Architecture; 2) Film/Video Arts; 3)Interdisciplinary Arts; 4) Literature; 5) Music Composition; 6) Theatre; and 7)Visual Arts. Artists with professional standing in their fields, as well as emerging artists, are eligible for residencies. Artists-in-residence receive room, board, and exclusive use of one of the 32 studios on the property for up to eight weeks. MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds to apply.
Deadlines: January 15, 2013; April 15, 2013; September 15, 2013
Feminist Review Trust
Research and Other Scholarly Activity on All Aspects of Gender
http://www.feminist-review-trust.com/guidelines.htm
The Feminist Review Trust exists to fund research and other scholarly activity on all aspects of gender. These are the Trust's overall objectives:
· To advance the education of the public in the subject of gender
· To alleviate poverty and hardship
· To promote equality of opportunity
· Other charitable purposes
The Trust will only accept one application from an individual or organisation per round.
Deadline: January 31, 2013; May 31, 2013; September 30, 2013
If interested in this opportunity, please review AU’s Limited Submission Policy http://www.american.edu/research/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=3325043
National Science Foundation
Documenting Endangered Languages
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816
This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months and doctoral dissertation research improvement grants for up to 24 months.
Deadline: September 15, 2013
National Science Foundation
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data.
The MMS Program supports a variety of different types of awards, including: 1) Regular Research Awards 2) Mid-Career Research Fellowships 3) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants 4) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements. The Program generally will consider no more than one REU supplement per award.
Deadlines: August 16, 2013
Arca Foundation
Grants
http://www.arcafoundation.org/index-2.html
The Arca Foundation is dedicated to advancing social equity and justice, particularly given the growing disparities in the world. The Foundation believes that a vibrant democracy requires an organized and informed citizenry that has access to information and free expression. In pursuit of these principles, Arca supports innovative and strategic efforts that work to advance equity, accountability, social justice and participatory democracy in the USA and abroad. While the Foundation's areas of focus evolve over time, the Foundation achieves its fundamental purpose by supporting efforts that affect public policy.
Deadlines: August 1, 2013
Research Grant Program
http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/grants/lsac-legal-education-grant-program.asp
The program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the program's scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way.
The program welcomes proposals for research proceeding from any of a variety of methodologies, a potentially broad range of topics, and varying time frames. Proposals will be judged on the importance of the questions addressed, their relevance to the mission of LSAC, the quality of the research designs, and the capacity of the researchers to carry out the project. Eligible investigators need not be members of law school faculties. Proposals from interdisciplinary teams of law faculty and researchers from outside law schools are strongly encouraged.
Deadlines: February 1, 2013; September 1, 2013
Cultural Anthropology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388
This program supports basic scientific research about the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Cultural anthropologists analyze human social and cultural behavior holistically.This integrated approach makes anthropology a valuable research tool for understanding the modern world. Because cultural patterns are emergent over time and space, there is no single natural scale for ethnographic and ethnological analysis. The origins of social and cultural variability may be remote from the scale at which they are observed. Therefore, research may target any appropriate scale or scales from local to regional to global. The program encourages innovative research that contributes to building spatially and temporally specific theory that extends understanding beyond individual case studies.
The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: Senior Research proposals; proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants; Cultural Anthropology Scholars awards (for research-related, post-PhD training); and CAREER proposals. The Program will also consider proposals for workshops and training programs.
Deadlines: January 15, 2013; August 15, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Behavioral and Social Genomics of Aging: Opportunities in the Health and Retirement Study (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-318.html
The Health and Retirement Study is a longitudinal, nationally representative sample of the United States population aged 50 years and older (plus spouses) with an oversample of African and Hispanic Americans and a total sample size of over 20,000). Using funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the HRS is currently conducting genome-wide scans of DNA samples from approximately 20,000 participants, using the Illumina HumanOmni 2.5 Quad chip. It is anticipated that the genotype data for the first 13,000 subjects will be released to the public via dbGaP in the fall of 2011, with data from the remaining participants to be released by the end of 2012. This FOA encourages applications taking advantage of the newly available genetic data to advance our understanding of how genetic, behavioral, and psychosocial factors affect the health and well-being of older Americans.
Deadlines: February 5, 2013; June 5, 2013
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Economic Institutions, Behavior, and Performance
http://www.sloan.org/major-program-areas/economic-performance-and-quality-of-life/economic-institutions-behavior-and-performance/
This program supports research on the structure, behavior, and performance of the U.S. economy with the goal of providing objective and nonpartisan insights that can inform and strengthen critical decisions facing leaders, policymakers, and the public.
Grantmaking is divided into four thematic sub-programs:
1) Economic Implications of the Great Recession - Projects in this sub-program study markets and governments, specifically with regard to lessons we can draw from the recent financial crisis and Great Recession. Appropriate research topics include systemic stability; international regulatory coordination; risk measurement, capital requirements, and credit ratings; labor market recovery rates and liquidity; dataset and model development concerning labor trends.
2) Behavioral Economics and Household Finance - Projects in this sub-program study individuals and households, specifically with regard to the quality of their economic decision-making. Appropriate research topics include the annuity paradox; the energy efficiency paradox; insurance markets; risk-taking, savings, and personal bankruptcy; cognitive biases; public understanding of economics and markets for financial advice.
3) Economic Analysis of Science and Technology - Projects in this sub-program study universities and groundbreaking industries, specifically regarding human capital development and applications of information technology. Appropriate research topics include labor markets for scientists and engineers; high-skilled immigration; patterns of scientific publication, collaboration, and intellectual property protection; the economics of digitization; and the international distribution of returns on high-tech investments.
4) Empirical Economic Research Enablers - Projects in this sub-program study economic researchers, specifically with regard to their needs, opportunities, incentives, and professional practices. Appropriate research topics include legal entity identifiers; data citation standards; identification and tracking systems for scholars; federal statistics; smart disclosure platforms for obfuscated markets; data and metadata management protocols; the replicability of empirical research; and the economics of knowledge contribution and distribution.
Deadline: Rolling (letter of inquiry required)
Science and Social Science
National Institutes of Health
Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Drug Abuse Research (R21) NEW!
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-297.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FOA is intended to support pilot, feasibility or exploratory research for up to 2 years in 4 priority areas, including
· responses to unexpected and time-sensitive medical system issues (e.g., opportunities to understand addiction services in the evolving health care system);
· responses to emerging drug abuse-related HIV trends and topics (e.g., rapidly evolving drug abuse-related epidemics, time-sensitive policy or environmental changes);
· responses to unexpected and time-sensitive criminal justice opportunities (e.g., new system and/or structural level changes) that relate to drug abuse and access and provision of health care service; and
· responses to unexpected and time-sensitive prescription drug abuse opportunities (e.g., new state or local efforts).
It should be clear that the knowledge gained from the proposed study is time-sensitive and that an expedited rapid review and funding are required in order for the scientific question to be answered.
Deadline: March 6, 2013. Other dates: June 4, 2013; September 9, 2013; December 9, 201
National Institutes of Health
Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Drug Abuse Research (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-297.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FOA is intended to support pilot, feasibility or exploratory research for up to 2 years in 4 priority areas, including: 1) responses to unexpected and time-sensitive medical system changes (e.g. opportunities to understand addiction services in the evolving health care system); 2) responses to emerging drug abuse-related HIV trends and topics (e.g. rapidly evolving drug-abuse related epidemics, time-sensitive policy or environmental changes); 3) responses to unexpected and time-sensitive criminal justice opportunities (e.g. new system and/or structural level changes) that relate to drug abuse and access and provision of health care service; and 4) responses to unexpected and time-sensitive prescription drug abuse opportunities (e.g., new state or local efforts). It should be clear that the knowledge gained from the proposed study is time-sensitive and that an expedited review and funding are required in order for the scientific question to be answered.
In particular, this FOA encourages innovative scientific partnerships between researchers and community or public partners (e.g., public mental health/substance abuse or health care systems; public and federally-charted community health clinic settings; AIDS-service organizations; criminal justice settings; school systems; child welfare agencies; health care providers; long-term care providers, payers, health authorities, etc.) who cannot delay policy or program changes in order to obtain baseline research data related to the implementation or impact of such changes. Research collaborations intended to answer unique and innovative questions concerning changes in a health care system or policy are of most interest. This FOA responds to the need for rapid responses to “emerging policy changes and phenomena that affect the delivery and/or effectiveness of prevention and treatment services” related to addiction care (in particular prescription drug use), HIV care, and the criminal justice setting. The FOA provides a mechanism for accelerated review and award to support opportunities for this type of initial feasibility and pilot research. The foundation is always looking for unique approaches to strengthening the U.S.-Japan relationship.
Submission Deadline: March 6, 2013. (A letter of intent is required four weeks prior to planned submisson date
Rolling and Indefinite Deadlines
The Wallace Foundation
Grant Programs
http://www.wallacefoundation.org/Learn-About-Wallace/GrantsPrograms/our-initiatives/Pages/default.aspx
The foundation supports and shares effective ideas and practices that expand learning and enrichment opportunities for all U.S. citizens. The foundation focuses on the following five areas: (1) Education Leadership; (2) After School; (3) Arts Education; (4) Summer & Extended Learning Time; and (5) Audience Development for the Arts. Eligibility: Nonprofits, schools and colleges and universities; Funding: Multiple awards ranging from $40,000 to more than $1 million each.
Deadline: Inquiry e-mails accepted year round.
Academic Research Enhancement Award:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-006.html
The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions, otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose students to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant institution.
Deadline: Open through January, 2015
Department of Health and Human Services
NIOSH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-272.html:
The purpose of the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) Research Conference Grant Program (R13) is to support high quality conferences/scientific meetings that are relevant to its scientific mission and to the public health. A conference/scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, scientific meeting, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge. Applications for training only events will not be considered under this announcement.
Deadline: December 13, 2012, and April 13, 2013
TIAA-CREF
Grants:
http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/institute/grants/index.html
The TIAA-CREF Institute Research Grant Program was established to encourage scholars to pursue rigorous and sophisticated research in areas of interest to TIAA-CREF and those we serve, such as retirement income security issues and strategic issues in higher education.
Deadline: Rolling
National Science Foundation
Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12584/nsf12584.htm
The goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE also has as its goal to seminally contribute to and inform the general knowledge base on gender equity in the academic STEM disciplines. Types of Projects:
· Institutional Transformation awards are expected to include innovative and systemic organizational approaches to transform institutions of higher education in ways that will increase the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. - IT-Catalyst awards are designed to support historically resource-challenged institutions in their efforts to conduct institutional self-assessment activities (i.e., data collection, data analysis, policy review) in order to identify specific issues in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women faculty in STEM disciplines.
· Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination awards may focus on one institution or organization, or they may be a partnership between several institutions and/or organizations. PAID projects can focus on all STEM disciplines, several disciplines, or only one discipline, including the social and behavioral sciences.
Deadline: October 04, 2013 (Institutional Transformation (IT) and Institutional Transformation Catalyst (IT-Catalyst))
General
Spencer Foundation
Research Grants
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/how-to-apply
The Foundation's research grants are organized under four areas of inquiry that identify broad topics believed to have fundamental and abiding importance for educational improvement: (1) The Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity; (2) Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Systems; (3) Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; and (4) Purposes and Values of Education. The Foundation also welcomes proposals that do not fit one of the four areas listed through its Field-Initiated Proposal program. ELIGIBILITY: Principal Investigators (PIs) applying for a Research Grant must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. PIs must be affiliated with a college, university, research facility, school district, or cultural institution that is willing to serve as the fiscal agent if the grant is awarded. Research Grant proposals from individuals are not eligible. FUNDING: Research grants are made up to $500,000.
Deadline: Rolling
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Grants Program:
http://www.comptonfoundation.org/what-we-support/general-criteria-application-process-apply/
The sponsor will support organizations building the long-term capacity to ignite change as well as providing rapid response and emerging opportunity funding. The two main areas of focus for the sponsor are: Transformative Leadership and Courageous Storytelling. The sponsor has a particular interest in work happening within and between our traditional areas of work—peace, environment, and reproductive health and rights. Within the area of Transformative Leadership, the sponsor expects to support: Institutions that are training, convening, and coaching leaders with the above qualities; Networks of leaders working across difference in issue, approach, or constituency; Exemplary organizations that demonstrate new ways of working, creative collaboration, and transformative leadership qualities. Within the area of Courageous Storytelling they expect to support: Creative media (art, film/video, music, drama, writing, photography) that captures imagination, expands our understanding of critical social and environmental problems, and articulates a positive vision for the future; Exemplary and emerging leaders or efforts that command attention and convey clear narratives with passion, vision, and impact; Artist capacity building organizations that help creative artists engage with social and environmental change organizations or campaigns, or provide artists with experiences and/or information that can help them work more effectively on real world problems.
Deadline: Rolling
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Grants:
http://www.rbf.org/content/program-guidelines
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund's (RBF) grantmaking is organized around three themes: Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development, and three pivotal places: New York City, Southern China, and the Western Balkans.
Deadline: Rolling
Arts and Humanities
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Humanities Performing Arts Program:
http://www.delmas.org/guidelines/a.html
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.
Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
Deadline: Rolling
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Research Library Program:
http://www.delmas.org/programs/research_lib_d.html
The Research Library Program concentrates primarily in those areas of its founders’ interests and aims to be fully complementary to the Foundation’s other program areas (i.e., humanities scholarship, performing arts, and Venetian history and culture).
The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public.
Deadline: Rolling
Arts and Humanities
The Spencer Foundation
Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice:
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/philosophy-in-educational-policy--practice-rfp
As part of a new institutional initiative, the Spencer Foundation will make several awards of up to $40,000 for research projects in Philosophy as it relates to educational policy and practice. They encourage applicants to understand educational policy and practice in broad terms, including issues that directly relate to K-12 schools and higher education institutions, but also concerning policies that influence children’s growth and development in the family and in other areas of social life including children’s upbringing, educational issues in family life and in the workplace, the educational effects of welfare policy. They also encourage diverse kinds of philosophical research ranging from the highly abstract to the highly applied.
Deadline: Rolling
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Grant Program:
http://www.nathancummings.org/grant-programs
The Foundation's core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
Several basic themes run through all of these programs and inform the Foundation's approach to grantmaking:
· concern for the poor, disadvantaged, and underserved;
· respect for diversity;
· promotion of understanding across cultures; and
· empowerment of communities in need.
Deadline: Rolling
National Institute of Mental Health
Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster (R21):
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-181.html
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide an expedited funding mechanism for research in the aftermath of disasters and mass casualty events. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact NIMH Program Staff before submitting a RAPID application to determine whether or not the proposed work meets the guidelines of this program, whether requested RAPID funding is likely to be available, and whether the idea should be considered for initial submission as a fully developed, non-expedited application via a regular/parent FOA. RAPID grants descried in this FOA may be used to facilitate initial research for investigators who intend to follow up with a full research application, using the preliminary time sensitive data from a RAPID grant as the basis for their subsequent application.
Deadline: Applications should be submitted within approximately six weeks of the identified disaster event.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21392&cid=XEM_A5937
The Robert Wood John Foundation has released a Call for Proposals for the Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization program. Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy, financing and organization issues. Supported projects include:
* examining significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and
* exploring or testing major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.
Deadline: Rolling
Cummings (Nathan) Foundation
Grants Program:
http://www.nathancummings.org/grant-programs
The Foundation's core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
Deadline: Rolling
Ford Foundation
Grants:
http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/organizations-seeking-grants
Each year the Ford Foundation receives about 40,000 proposals and makes about 1,400 grants. Requests are accepted in categories such as project planning and support; general support; and endowments. Types of support include grants, recoverable grants, loans and loan guarantees. Our grant making focuses on reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement.
Deadline: Rolling
Oak Foundation
Grants Programme:
http://www.oakfnd.org/node/4036
Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. The foundation funds a variety of time-bound projects, core costs, technical assistance and collaborative activities.
Deadline: Rolling
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
International Grants
http://www.tfd.org.tw/english/grants.php?id=en0300:
The TFD's international grants program is designed to assist organizations based outside of Taiwan to carry out projects to promote democracy and human rights. International non-governmental organizations, academic institutions or think tanks, and other related organizations are eligible to apply. Geographically, the program places a priority on support for projects that address the Asian region, but projects in other regions occasionally receive funding.
Deadline: Rolling
U.S. Department of Commerce
Planning Program and Local Technical Assistance Program
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=189193
Under the Planning program, Economic Development Administration (EDA) assists eligible recipients in creating regional economic development plans designed to stimulate and guide the economic development efforts of a community or region. As part of this program, EDA supports Partnership Planning investments to facilitate the development, implementation, revision, or replacement of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS), which articulate and prioritize the strategic economic goals of recipients' respective regions. In general, EDA provides Partnership Planning grants to the designated planning organization (e.g., District Organization) serving EDA-designated Economic Development Districts to enable these organizations to develop and implement relevant CEDS. In addition, EDA provides Partnership Planning grants to Indian Tribes to help develop and implement CEDS and associated economic development activities. The Planning program also helps support planning organizations with Short Term and State Planning investments designed to guide the eventual creation and retention of higher-skill, higher-wage jobs, particularly for the unemployed and underemployed in the Nation’s most economically distressed regions. The Local Technical Assistance program strengthens the capacity of local or State organizations, institutions of higher education, and other eligible recipients to undertake and promote effective economic development programs through projects such as feasibility analyses and impact studies.
Deadline: Rolling; Applications are accepted on a continuing basis and processed as received.
National Science Foundation
SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question. Requirements vary across programs.
Deadline: Various
Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
Domestic Public Policy Grants:
http://www.srf.org/grants/domestic.php
This program supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. An overarching goal of the foundation's grant making is to support projects that help stimulate and inform important public policy debates. To that end, the foundation supports research on and evaluation of existing public policies and programs, as well as projects that inject new ideas into public debates.
Deadline: Rolling (Preliminary proposal required)
Spencer Foundation
Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity:
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity
The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to more fully realize education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Expanded opportunity is important not only to a society's economic well being but to the character of its civic, cultural, and social life as well.
Deadline: Rolling (Preliminary proposal); December 1, 2012 (Invited full proposal)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Human Rights and International Justice
http://www.macfound.org/info-grantseekers/grantmaking-guidelines/human_rights-grant-guidelines/
The MacArthur Foundation believes that respect for human rights is fundamental to human security, individual well-being, and good governance; that promotion of both international and local human rights is necessary for realizing rights in diverse geographies and cultures; and that an accessible, integrated system of international justice is essential for protecting human rights around the globe. MacArthur’s grantmaking objectives in human rights and international justice include strengthening human rights inquiry and implementation internationally; encouraging the advancement of the rule of law and human rights protections in the countries of Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico; and facilitating the development of an international justice system.
Deadline: Rolling (letter of inquiry required)