The Spencer Foundation invests in research to improve education, broadly conceived. We have identified a critical need for innovative, methodologically and disciplinarily diverse, large-scale research projects to transform education systems for equity.

The Templeton Foundation invests in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. Further, the Foundation funds innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity.

RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address the effects of social

The Hartwell Foundation’s Individual Biomedical Research Award seeks to stimulate discovery in early-stage, transformative biomedical research that is strategic or translational in nature with the potential to benefit children in the U.S. OFR Contact: Sarah Fodor Amount: $300,000 Deadline: 6/1/23 (Internal LOI)

The Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports scholarship for early career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce. Eligible researchers must have received their doctoral degrees between 1/1/14-6/30/22. For more information, please

This program aims to enhance and support new and novel efforts by data creators and/or data users to effectively communicate, using data, how conditions of place are shaped by structural racism in ways that negatively impact community health. To learn more about this opportunity, please see the announcement for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. OFR

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs is accepting applications for the Digital Projects for the Public program. This program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.

SFARI’s mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. This program prioritizes research that produces foundational knowledge about the neurobehavioral differences associated with ASD, many of which will inform or relate to the development and refinement of tools needed

This interdisciplinary funding program aims to place current problem situations facing shrinking and entirely abandoned “lost cities” in historical context. It focuses not on the question of which factors led to a city’s abandonment, but rather on the abandoned cities themselves, as well as the different forms of their interpretation, instrumentalization, and coding in various

This foundation supports 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. Like other Spencer programs, this program is “field-initiated” in that proposal