Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Internal Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of formal expertise. The program is intended to enable scholars in thehumanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication. OFR Contact: Chloe

Joyce Foundation’s Advancing Racial Equity and Economic Mobility in the Great Lakes program invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. The Foundation accepts applications in the areas of Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility,Environment, Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform,

Spencer Foundation’s Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP) Grants Program is intended to support education research projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships. Research-Practice Partnerships will involve the participation of a wide variety of practitioners and researchers working in an assortment of configurations, contexts, and institutions. The Foundation anticipates that research conducted by RPPs will result in

Mind & Life Institute’s Varela Grants fund 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

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: geared toward real-world impact on equity; drawing on research across disciplines and methods; reliant on meaningful and equitable collaboration with practitioners, policymakers, communities, and other stakeholders; and focused

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Developing Recommendations for Disaggregating Data within the Asian American Population will support a multifaceted research project that yields recommendations for actionable Asian American subgroup categories to be applied in the collection and analysis of race and ethnicity data. The goal of this award is to develop community-informed and evidence-based recommendations for

Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood’s Early Childhood Grants supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the U.S. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration, and childcare. Grants are

American Council of Learned Societies’ Fellowship Program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and/or writing. The fellowship is open to scholars at all postdoctoral career stages, working on or

Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health, especially on vulnerable populations. The program provides flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers

Northwestern faculty are invited to participate in the 2024 Sony Research Award Program. This Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers.  There are two awards: The Sony Faculty Innovation Award and The Sony Focused Research Award. Full professors, associate professors, and assistant professors are