Arnold Ventures’s Cell Phone Policies in K-12 Schools is an RFP that seeks to support rigorous, causal research on the academic, behavioral, and mental health impacts of cell phone policies in K-12 schools in the United States. The program studies that generate actionable insights for policymakers, as well as school and district leaders, who are

Spencer Foundation’s Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and disrupting racial inequality in education and work to reimagine generative possibilities to advance educational equity. This program encourages proposals that focus on the following areas: (1) youth and educator mental health that explores possibilities that promote resilience, center

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. OFR Contact: Mike

American Psychological Foundation’s Direct Action Visionary Grants seek to fund innovative interventions, based on psychological knowledge, that directly address pressing needs of communities. Projects should support APF’s four Visionary Priorities: Serve Marginalized Communities, End Prejudice & Stigma Prevent Violence, and/or Explore Mind-Body Health Connections. OFR Contact: Mike McMahon. Amount: $60,000. Deadline: 4/30/26.

ACLS’s Collaborative Grants in China Studies will fund innovative pilot activities that initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China Studies. The group may apply for a grant to design and pilot activities that solve specific, pressing challenges in the field over a 12- to 18-month period. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $120,000.

WT Grant Foundation’s William T Grant Scholars Program supports early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Scholars should tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth. Applicants identify new methods, disciplines, or content they want to learn, and propose five-year research plans that foster their growth in those

AFAR’s McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss make up to two awards: One to support studies focusing on clinical translational research and another award toward understanding basic biological mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss.OFR Contact: Michelle Melin-Rogovin (Feinberg faculty) or Michael Kelley (Evanston campus faculty). Amount: $750,000. Deadline: 4/15/26

Google.org Impact Challenge’s AI for Government Innovation – Transform how Public Services Function for Social Good is interested in proposals leveraging generative and agentic AI to help governments solve complex societal challenges across health, resilience, and economy — including public infrastructure and affordability. They will consider compelling proposals outside of these topics with strong alignment

Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 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 a particular research topic, discipline,

The Falk Catalyst Research Award Program provides seed funding to support high-risk, high-reward translational research that addresses critical scientific and therapeutic roadblocks and can be transferred to clinical practice in the near term. If successful, these projects will have high impact outcomes that open new avenues for treating, curing, and improving the lives of individuals