This year’s Chapman Prize will be awarded to a charitable individual or organization who has contributed most significantly to the improvement of economic prosperity in the United States. Contributions may include creating safe and affordable housing, effective workforce development, social entrepreneurship programs, and/or financial literacy programs to build thriving, sustainable communities. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: 9/30/25.

The mission of the Adolf Busch Award is to recognize and honor organizations that use music to address social injustice, inequity and lack of opportunity. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: 10/1/25.

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University is offering fellowships for their 2026-27 Year of Survival. They are designed for those conducting interdisciplinary research projects exploring the literary, historical, ethical, and political registers of survival. Survival can be individual or collective, shaped by cultural imperatives, ideological commitments, or existential negotiations in the face of

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