The National Science Foundation’s Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL) program is to support early-stage research in emerging technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs in authentic (real-world) educational environments. RITEL supports future-oriented exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and

Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund provides seed grants to Northwestern University faculty to speed up the commercialization of innovative and high-potential research in the life sciences.  The Fund will advance translational research discoveries in both engineering and medicine with the potential to have a meaningful and immediate impact on society. Amount: $100,000-$300,000/one

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation’s Howard Fellowship is an independent agency that is administered at Brown University. It grants yearly unrestricted fellowships to assist in the intellectual and artistic growth of early mid-career individuals. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $40,000. Deadline: 11/1/25.

National Geographic Society’s Building Resilience in Agriculture is a program that invites proposals for projects that will have measurable outcomes on the resilience of farms, farming communities, and natural ecosystems in the farming landscapes to the realities of changing climates and extreme weather events. Eligible projects will demonstrate two or more of the following outcomes:

Caplan Foundation’s Early Childhood Grants support 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. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter (Evanston campus

Terra Foundation’s Convening Grants is available 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 the

Mind & Life Institute’s Varela Grants funds 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

William T. Grant Foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)’s 2025 Data Analysis is an award whose goal is to increase use of large, publicly available data resources by supporting investigators to allocate time and personnel toward working in and publishing from these previously collected data. Applications should leverage existing publicly accessible datasets to ask new questions and extract

Launched in 2023, with Stanford University as a key partner coordinating the initiative, the Learning Variability Network Exchange Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) brings together researchers from around the world and provides them with a framework to enable them to gather information on how children’s learning varies, within and across individuals, groups, and cultural contexts.