NAEd/Spencer Foundation’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Education/Learning Sciences supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. Through professional development, funding, and mentorship from senior scholars, the fellowship enhances the career and research opportunities of the fellow. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: $70,000. Deadline: 11/9/2024.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Fellows program is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional mid-career health professionals, behavioral/social scientists, and others with an interest in health and health policy. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: $175,000. Deadline: 11/5/2024 (Pre-proposal).

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation: Howard Fellowship is an independent agency that is administered at Brown University, grants yearly unrestricted fellowships to assist in the intellectual and artistic growth of early mid-career individuals. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $35,000. Deadline: 11/1/2024.

Council for Library Information Resources’s Digitizing Hidden Special Collections is a grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program is designed to support efforts to digitize materials that deepen public understanding

Arnold Ventures’s Strengthening Evidence offers support for RCTs to evaluate social programs and policies. Arnold Ventures (AV) is a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through evidence-based policy solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. AV focuses on improving systems where outcomes are falling short, incentives are misaligned, and the time is

The overarching objective of Jacobs Foundation’s Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) is to identify how individual variability, group heterogeneity, and contextual variability influence children’s learning and development. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: up to $820,000. Deadline: 10/6/24.

Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar – Academic Freedom and Democracy in the American University. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $300,000. Deadline: 9/30/24 (Internal proposal).

ICRG’s Gambling Disorders and Prevention requests applications for a series of grants that aim to help individuals and families affected by gambling disorder. Their mission is to prevent the onset of gambling problems through high quality scientific research and evidence-based educational programming on gambling disorder and responsible gambling. Contact: Nicole Mancini. Amount: $187,500-$437,500 (Varies by

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research’s Post-PhD Research Grants funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Their goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The

RRF’s grant eligibility criteria differs by its five categories of project type – some projects are limited to Illinois (Direct Service, Organizational Capacity Building), whereas others require national reach (Advocacy, Professional Education, Research) if not in Illinois. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not specified; recent grants have ranged from $30K-$500K (see recent awards here).