Chicago Community Trust’s Community & Civic Leadership Grant* will support organizations and leadership programs that cultivate community and public sector leaders who are ready to advance efforts that build wealth and improve opportunities for all Chicagoans. This funding opportunity is best suited for leadership development programs with an established history of cultivating leaders from and

Terra Foundation’s Convening Grants is offering funding for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field. Requests for convenings intended to inform projects in their early stages, which will benefit from

Graham Foundation’s Grants to Organizations supports innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry. Production and Presentation Grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation.

Kress Foundation’s is offering funding for its following programs: 1) History of Art Program, which supports scholarly projects designed to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century, and 2) Conservation Program, which supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates

Russell Sage Foundation will accept letters of inquiry under the core programs for Future of Work and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. The foundation will also accept LOIs for its special initiative, implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Conscious Admissions.The Foundation encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration, but all LOIs and proposals

The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities 2026-2027 Artist in Residence Program, which is part of its larger Artist Engagement Initiative, is to facilitate greater interaction between artistic practice and humanities conversations and teaching on campus. Visiting artists will engage with students and faculty around shared interdisciplinary concerns, contributing fresh perspectives onto current research and teaching

826 National Youth Writing is excited to invite eligible youth-serving organizations and schools to apply for grants through the Write to Thrive Fund. This initiative connects programs with 826 National’s writing-and-SEL curriculum and training, strengthening their capacity to support young people’s creative expression, mental health, and well-being. Amount: of $20,000. Deadline: 1/21/26.

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s History of Art grant program supports scholarly projects that enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants awarded support projects that incorporate the use of digital methodologies and tools that create and disseminate specialized knowledge. These may include archival projects, development

Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for

Albertine Foundation’s Transatlantic Research Partnership (TRP) program aims to encourage innovative research that builds a transnational, long-term relationship and involves Ph.D. candidates and early-career PIs. Applicants must include at least two scholars affiliated respectively with a French and a US research institution and they must apply as vice-PIs. French and US research centers abroad are eligible. Applicants