Arnold Ventures’s Policy Innovation Days aims to support collaborations between campus-based researchers with expertise in causal policy and program evaluation, and their state and local governments partners to co-host events. This program will enable agencies and researchers to incubate potential research and evaluation collaborations. Funding may cover event costs like travel, lodging, space rental, and

Greenwall Foundation’s Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas supports research that explores emerging or unanswered problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The Foundation is particularly interested in proposals that address: 1) Trust in science, medicine, and public health; 2) Bias and discrimination against patients or clinicians, which may be

Jacobs Foundation’s Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize aims to recognize exceptional researchers, whose scientific contributions can be considered as a cornerstone for the advancement in any scholarly discipline aiming at improving learning, development, and living conditions of children and youth. Applicants must have a history of research that led to major, ground-breaking contributions to the

Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants on Human Origins aims to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Wallace Foundation’s Arts Organizations Founded By/With/For Communities of Color supports research studies that can address important unanswered questions related to the organizational well-being of arts organizations of color. An additional aim of this program is to support early career scholars of color through their inclusion as part of the research teams. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft

Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to invest in early career scholars whose research agendas are policy relevant, related to how inequality affects economic growth, and who are interested in engaging with non-academic audiences. The organization is interested in research that illuminates the policies that help or hinder more equitable growth in the United States,

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)’s Azrieli Global Scholars provides unrestricted research support to exceptional early-career researchers in the first five years of starting a full-time research position from across the natural, biomedical, life and social sciences and the humanities. Programs accepting applications include: 1) Boundaries, Membership & Belonging; 2)Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration;

Henry Luce Foundation’s Democracy, Ethics and Public Trust Initiative welcomes proposals focused on information ecosystems, communities and governments, and confidence in democracies. The Information Ecosystems Grants opportunity aims to support news gathering and publishing initiatives to enable journalists and audiences to produce and interpret news more effectively. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not Specified.

Brady Education Foundation’s Research Project Program seeks to support applications that evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive outcomes for children (birth through 18 years). The aim is to identify ways to close the educational opportunities gaps associated with race, ethnicity and income. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: Not specified. Deadline: 12/1/24

Newhouse Faculty Fellowships at Wellesley College offer faculty the chance to devote themselves primarily to their own research and participate actively in the intellectual life of the larger Wellesley community. Amount: Up to $50,000/2 semesters. Deadline: 12/6/24.