National Geographic Society’s Storytelling Grants’ Climate Pledge seeks to turn the power of storytelling toward illuminating climate resilience and solutions around the world. This RFP seeks stories that move beyond data and charts to highlight the lived experiences of communities navigating climate change and the trailblazers reimagining a sustainable future. Areas of interest include:  1)

Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Global Initiative Grants program helps support innovative projects that meet a need not already addressed by the Foundation’s other programs and that benefit the discipline of anthropology by creating the conditions for anthropologists to do better work. From 2026–2030, Global Initiative Grants will give priority to innovative projects in public anthropology that are designed

One Mind’s Rising Star program invites early-career investigators in neuroscience, psychiatry, and related disciplines to apply for $300,000 research grants designed to advance the understanding, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions and psychiatric disorders. OFR Contact: Mike McMahon (Evanston campus faculty) or Michelle Melin-Rogovin (Feinberg faculty). Amount: $300,000. Deadline: 4/27/26.

The Sloan Foundation’s Pivot Fellowship supports researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity, and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. The fellowship will enable today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field and will consist

The National Science Foundation’s TechAccess: AI-Ready America supports the development of state- or territory-level Coordination Hubs that: 1) connect partners across sectors; 2) strengthen planning and deployment of AI resources; and 3) rapidly scale access to AI tools, knowledge, and infrastructure. NSF has announced three rounds of proposals for Coordination Hubs under the TechAccess: AI-Ready America program. This announcement

National Endowment for the Arts’ Grants for Arts Projects* enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. NEA also supports arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and

The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities will provide internal funding for pilot/exploratory projects that consider an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health, or healthcare policy. The aim is to support preliminary work that will provide a foundation for obtaining funding that supports larger research projects. Contact: Bryan

The goal of the Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant is to provide internal funding for projects that explore bioethics problems associated with any type of artificial intelligence in healthcare, including issues related to bias, privacy, confidentiality, data sharing, implementation and what it means to be human in this era of technology. Contact: Bryan Morrison.

The Chicago Community Trust has launched the Resilient Chicago Fund. This RFP is designed for organizations or partnerships that want to rethink, redesign, or test new ways of delivering essential benefits and services within food, shelter, healthcare, or safety systems. Proposals should show a willingness to challenge long‑standing assumptions and explore models that offer a

The Coefficient Giving’s Effective Careers Program program aims to support initiatives devoted to providing mentorship, advice, and opportunities to help people pursue highly impactful careers. Any organization or project contributing to effective career development is eligible to apply. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: not specified. Deadline: 4/20/26.