American Psychological Foundation’s Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grants are designed to enable and enhance development of identified gifted and talented children and adolescents and encourage promising psychologists to continue innovative research and programs in this area. OFR Contact: Mike McMahon. Amount: $39,000. Deadline: 3/6/26.

Templeton World Charity’s Listening and Learning Planning Grants fund research that aims to understand and map the phenomenon of polarization and/or depolarization globally. This initial call will fund a planning period to develop a proposal and network to carry out a project understanding, or measuring and mapping polarization between and within societies and cultures in

The Alumnae of Northwestern University is soliciting faculty-sponsored proposals for its 2026-2027 Academic Enrichment Grant, the goal of which is to enrich the intellectual and cultural learning experience of undergraduate students and the entire University community by bringing distinguished guest scholars, speakers, and artists to campus for lectures, master classes or performances during the next

Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund provides seed grants to Northwestern University faculty to speed up the commercialization of innovative and high-potential research in the life sciences.  The Fund will advance translational research discoveries in both engineering and medicine with the potential to have a meaningful and immediate impact on society. Amount: $100,000

The Office of the Provost supports excellence in faculty scholarly and creative work through the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts (HSSA) Grant. Faculty in these areas of study are eligible for these grants awards, which are intended to provide funding in fields with little external or start-up funding. To apply, please visit the About the

The Career Development and Writing Support Grant provides funds toward the career development program, writing support program, or other service of choice that best supports faculty career development or writing and publication. Amount: Up to $4,000. Deadline: 2/27/26.

Doris Duke Foundation’s Artists Make Technology Lab invites proposals for bold ideas in the performing arts that engage digital tools, innovative data practices, and emerging production methods. This program is interested in proposals where artistic vision leads the exploration of new tools or approaches, including collaborations that bring technologists into artist-centered creative processes. Applicants with

J. M Kaplan Fund’s Furthermore Grants support the publication of nonfiction books related to the arts, history, natural and built environment, and public issues. The funder seeks work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft

Craig Neilsen Foundation’s Psychosocial Research (PSR) portfolio supports the study of people’s psychological and social wellbeing and research to develop and test interventions that improve an individual’s mental, behavioral, and social welfare following spinal cord injury (SCI). The goal is to build and disseminate solutions that individuals, caregivers, clinicians, and communities can incorporate to address

Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) is aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Ideal projects will have co-PIs with expertises from both the humanities and AI and will address research questions from both domains. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Up to $800,000. Deadline: