Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. Two grant programs are accepting applications. The application portal will open on December 1. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not specified (recent grants have averaged $16,000).

The BBRF Distinguished Investigator Grants provide support for experienced investigators (full professor or equivalent) conducting neurobiological and behavioral research. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter (Evanston campus faculty) or Michelle Melin-Rogovin(Feinberg faculty). Amount: $100,000. Deadline: 12/5/23.

The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation is a private foundation that supports early-stage investigators engaged in biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. (LIMITED SUBMISSION). OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: $500,000. Deadline:12/7/23 (Internal proposal).

The Terra Foundation supports visual arts projects with a focus on art of the United States and Indigenous art of North America that question and broaden understandings of American art and transform how its stories are told.OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $10,000-$25,000. Deadline: 12/8/23 (LOI)

In the interest of maintaining a grantmaking portfolio that supports inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import, the Higher Learning program at the Mellon Foundation (focused on the humanities and social justice) invites ideas for research and/or curricular projects focused on any of the following three areas: 1) Cultures of US Democracy,

The Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants on Education program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, inside and outside of schools, including internationally. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: Up to $50,000. Deadline: 12/6/23.

Brady Education Foundation’s Promoting Positive Cognitive and/or Achievement Outcomes for Children seeks Existing Program and Evaluation Research Project proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: Not specified (grants average approximately $100,000). Deadline:

CART encourages exploratory and development Alzheimer’s disease research projects within the U.S. by providing 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. OFR Contact: Michelle Melin-Rogovin  (Feinberg faculty) or Sarah Fodor(Evanston campus faculty). Amount:

This research initiative aims to understand (1) the information and practice gaps that caregivers, professionals, and other invested parties face when making decisions and supporting late talking children; (2) how state-of-the-science information about developmental trajectories, potential outcomes, and evidence-based practice options for late talking children are being disseminated to caregivers, professionals, and other invested parties

The goals of this initiative are to spark researchers to create the infrastructure necessary to bring together and make publicly available existing data on different populations of late talking children and to analyze integrated data sets in novel ways to address broader questions about developmental trajectories in late talking children. Due: 2/1/24.