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.

Russell Sage Foundation (RSF): Social Science Research Grants 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. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that

RRF Foundation for Aging: Responsive Grants funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies, and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter Amount: Not specified; recent grants have ranged from approximately $30K-$250K (see recent awards here) Deadline: 11/1/23 (LOI)   

 Early Career fellowships support scholarly research in all disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Research may be conducted on any topic related to cultures, histories, and societies in China, and their influence and impact on communities, countries, and cultures around the world, as required by the research plan. Research on Hong Kong,

 The Spencer Foundation views partnerships as an important approach to knowledge generation and the improvement of education, broadly construed. Over the long term, we anticipate that research conducted by RPPs will result in new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching

Launched in 2021, CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives—Amplifying Unheard Voices is a program designed to support efforts to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang . Amount:

The aim of CIFAR’s Future Flourishing program is to raise and attempt to answer the question: “What does it mean to live (well) without human exceptionalism?” This program welcomes applications by future Global Scholars who are interested in 1) examining a new definition of the human and what it means to live well. We are

The Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund will support translational research in the life sciences that is not at a stage to qualify for funding by existing sources—and primarily intended for research that falls into the gaps not supported by government funding. Due 10/2/23.