Spencer Foundation’s Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Addressing the Harms of Financialization in Healthcare: This call for proposals will support actionable research that augments data on the intersection of financialization and structural racism to help counter the harms of financialization in the healthcare system. We seek proposals for research projects that bolster advocacy campaigns and organizing efforts; build

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Systems and Services Research to Address Systemic Racism: This call for proposals will provide funding for research to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $100,000 (Developmental Research); $500,000 (Impact Research). Deadline: 2/7/24

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. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount:

Klingenstein-Simons: Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports innovative research by early career investigators who seek to understand the mechanisms underlying any of a wide range of neurological and behavioral disorders, that may lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. OFR Contact: Heidi Jurgens (Evanston campus faculty) or Michelle Melin-Rogovin  (Feinberg faculty). Amount: $225,000. Deadline: 2/15/24.

OpenAI–Superalignment Fast Grants: Superhuman AI systems will be capable of complex and creative behaviors that humans cannot fully understand. For example, if a superhuman model generates a million lines of extremely complicated code, humans will not be able to reliably evaluate whether the code is safe or dangerous to execute. Existing alignment techniques like RLHF

NSF’s Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies in practice, focusing especially on the key technologies specified in Section 10387 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Amount:Total

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the first-ever Accelerating Research Translation (ART) investment — more than $100 million to teams at academic institutions across the nation. The primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and to enhance their role in regional

NU Alumnae Grants offered through the Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Grants Committee is soliciting proposals to support projects not included in the University’s budget. Past funding has supported the purchase of unique equipment and supplies, the creation of exhibits, conferences, symposia, innovative programs and support for research. Applications are available at: https://forms.gle/DpGuu5ssyxu4Ftgr6. Please note: A

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policies for Action funds research on policies that can advance the full social, economic, and civic inclusion of immigrant children and families. The intention is to spotlight policies that can transform systems/structures that ensure equal access to (and take-up of) goods and services, including public benefits, irrespective of immigration status. OFR