Wallace Foundation’s Landscape Study of Community-Based Youth Arts Programs with Workforce Development Components emphasizes developing young people’s social capital and worklife skills. Competitive proposals will include a landscape analysis to characterize the existing field of community-based youth arts programs that include a paid internship element. Funded projects will then utilize their landscape analysis to identify

Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants on Human Origins aims to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, and behavior. The funder prioritizes funding for the exploratory phases of promising new research projects and innovative, multidisciplinary approaches that expand the boundaries of the field’s current understanding. PhD candidates are eligible to apply. OFR

Greenwall Foundation’s Making a Difference in Real-world Bioethics Dilemmas supports research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The Foundation is particularly interested in proposals that address the following: 1) Bias and discrimination against patients or clinicians, which may be based on a

Chicago Community Trust’s Arts & Culture for Community Wealth program seeks proposals for innovative and emerging projects that leverage arts and culture as catalysts to build individual and community wealth. This funding opportunity seeks to address this need by supporting projects that integrate arts and culture into public spaces and drive economic growth in underinvested

Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)’s Social Science Research Grants is accepting LOIs under these core programs and special initiatives: 1) Future of Work, 2) Social, Political, and Economic Inequality, and 3) Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility After the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling on Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Up

J. M. Kaplan Fund (Furthermore)’s Grants in Publishing assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. The organization looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises

Arnold Venture’s Strengthening Evidence—Support for Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies aims to build the body of proven, effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous RCTs across the spectrum of social policy. AV is interested in supporting relevant, rigorous work that can ultimately inform decisions and improve

Arnold Ventures’s Building Evidence— Support for Causal Studies to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies aims to identify and evaluate bout potentially effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous, causal research using quasi-experimental methods that aligns with key AV policy areas, including higher education, career education and training, infrastructure, contraceptive choice and

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime and paving the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. To achieve that vision, RWJF is deepening its focus on dismantling structural racism, one of the biggest barriers to health

The Herb Block Foundation invites applications for its Encouraging Citizen Involvement program, which aims to ensure a responsible, responsive democratic government through citizen involvement. Proposals may focus on citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates. Amount: Between