Mind & Life Institute’s Varela Grants funds rigorous examinations of contemplative practices with the ultimate goal that findings derived from such investigations will provide greater insight into contemplative practices and their application for reducing human suffering and promoting flourishing. Preference is given to proposals that incorporate first-person contemplative methods (e.g., introspective investigation and reports on

William T. Grant Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)’s 2025 Data Analysis is an award whose goal is to increase use of large, publicly available data resources by supporting investigators to allocate time and personnel toward working in and publishing from these previously collected data. Applications should leverage existing publicly accessible datasets to ask new questions and extract

Launched in 2023, with Stanford University as a key partner coordinating the initiative, the Learning Variability Network Exchange Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) brings together researchers from around the world and provides them with a framework to enable them to gather information on how children’s learning varies, within and across individuals, groups, and cultural contexts.

The purpose of this interagency program solicitation from the National Science Foundation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Amount: $1,200,000 ($300,000 per year). Deadline: 10/3/25.

The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence is a limited submission opportunity that aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. A center supports collaboration among scholars to explore a specific topic through research,

Greenwall Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics (LIMITED SUBMISSION) is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community

Carnegie Corporation’s Reducing Nuclear Dangers program aims to reduce nuclear dangers by funding projects focused on: 1) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Dangers, 2) Future of Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament, 3) Open-Source Information and Strategic Risk Modeling, 4) Next-Generation Capacity Building, and 5) Crisis Management, Stability, and Escalation Control. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft

William T. Grant Foundation’s Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and Improving the Use of Research Evidence are two grants that each support research aimed at improving the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. These two grants help 1) build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, and practices that aim to

Spencer Foundation’s Vision Grants are designed to provide scholars and collaborators with the time, space, resources, and support to plan a large-scale study or program of research. They help enable real-world impact on equity, encourage research across disciplines, and help create meaningful collaboration with practitioners, policymakers, communities, and other stakeholders as they transform educational systems