Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime and paving the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. To achieve that vision, RWJF is deepening its focus on dismantling structural racism, one of the biggest barriers to health

The Herb Block Foundation invites applications for its Encouraging Citizen Involvement program, which aims to ensure a responsible, responsive democratic government through citizen involvement. Proposals may focus on citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates. Amount: Between

The Tow Foundation has issued a request for proposals for its 2025 Innovation Fund, which awards grants in support of efforts to improve youth mental health and well-being and serve young people between the ages of 0-25, as well as their families. Amount: $300,000 to $1,000,000. Deadline: 5/23/25.

PEN America invites applications for the PEN/Bare Life Review. These grants will bolster literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers, recognizing that the literature of migration is of inherent and manifest value. Works supported include literary nature, including fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: 6/1/25.

PEN America champions the freedom to write, recognizes the power of the word to transform the world, and works to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. The PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to

The Eisner Prize Fellowship is open to anyone in the United States working to innovate in the area of intergenerational connection – whether that be through research, programs, technology, or other efforts advancing the field. Young people, people of color, and those working with historically marginalized communities are particularly encouraged to apply. Amount: $50,000. Deadline:

National Geographic Society’s Enduring Impacts – Archaeology of Sustainability seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates to ultimately contribute to mitigating contemporary environmental crises. Competitive projects will have positive, measurable, and sustainable benefits that may include strengthening community land tenure or resource rights, empowering connections with traditional foodways

National Geographic Society’s The Big Questions aims to support innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization and other storytelling proposals to help people consider some of the greatest questions of our time.  Proposals may investigate human origins, as well as look into the future of human/machine interaction and shifts in human consciousness, the physical, scientific, and

Joyce Foundation’s Core Programs 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 Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility,Environment, Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform, and Journalism. LOIs must be submitted at least 6-8 weeks

National Geographic Society’s American Keystone Species Grant invites proposals for conservation research or conservation projects focused on ecological, cultural, or economic keystone species in the United States. This program is interested in the key themes of connectivity, blending Indigenous and academic science approaches, new technology for biodiversity monitoring and/or human- wildlife conflict management, past human