The Coleman Foundation seeks to support and learn from groups working in other areas of the local ecosystem that are 1) supporting entrepreneurs’ tech-based, high-growth businesses to grow and operate their ventures in the greater Chicago region, 2) piloting innovative programs that address access to capital for entrepreneurs in the greater Chicago region, and/or 3)

Smith Richardson Foundation’s Strategy & Policy Fellows aims to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in the fields of American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and postdocs who are

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Democracy Grants includes two focus areas: 1) Democracy as a Utopia, Experience and Threats aims to place problematic issues in broader historical context and considers the history of conflicts over the foundation of the social order; 2) The Contours of Future Democratic Society focuses on analysis of the present situation and predictions

Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, inside and outside of schools, including internationally. The program aims to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. OFR Contact:

Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s The Economic Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act seeks proposals for research that will equip scholars and policymakers with evidence-based insights on how the Inflation Reduction Act’s policy design, coordination, and implementation affects equitable economic outcomes related to the economics of the clean energy transition. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount:

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Forced Migration Grant aims to support internationally oriented, multidimensional research projects on forced migration that address questions receiving insufficient attention in the relevant debates so far. Proposals that engage in comparisons across regions and time periods, as well as those that incorporate intersectional perspectives and issues are encouraged. Cooperation with local knowledge-producers

Spencer Foundation’s Racial Equity Research Grants are designed to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Studies should aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality in education and seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. The Foundation is interested

LUCE/ACLS is offering a collaborative grant for innovative pilot activities that initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China studies. The collaborative grant will serve to test and refine promising solutions; to produce recommendations for those activities to be adopted at scale in universities and colleges; and to establish clear strategies for long-term sustainability.

William T. Grant Foundation’s Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers who received their doctorate within the past 7 years and are in career-ladder positions. Applications should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand their expertise in improving the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States, reducing

Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) provides philanthropic resources to (1) catalyze groundbreaking, domain-specific research outcomes from humanities scholars through the integral application of AI-inspired tools and techniques; and (2) produce insights and techniques from the humanities that will advance the development of AI generally. Priority areas include Heterogeneity and Contextual Understanding, and