Dana Foundation’s Neuroscience & Society Pilot Grants program strives to foster collaboration between students, neuroscience and society scholars, funders, policymakers, professionals, and communities in pursuit of advancing knowledge and co-creating neuroscience-informed solutions to complex societal problems. OFR Contact: Heidi Jurgens. Amount: Up to $150,000. Deadline: 5/24/24 (LOI).

The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by accelerating key technologies, addressing regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges, driving economic growth, creating and retaining quality jobs, expanding equitable pathways into careers, and strengthening national competitiveness and security. Amount: $15M over 2 years, with funding

The Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Their goal for this program is

The Hulsebosch Hope Foundation (HHF) seeks to provide program grants to mid-sized, growth-oriented 501(c)(3) public charities in the City of Chicago that offer creative ways to enhance life and opportunity in under-resourced communities, particularly on the south and west sides of Chicago. There are two different processes for applying for a 2024 HHF Program Grant:

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art across three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing. The grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. Amount: 15k-50k. Deadline: 5/15/24.

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. Amount:

Spencer Foundation’s Racial Equity Research Grants are designed to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. Studies should aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality in education and seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter.

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Lost Cities is an interdisciplinary funding program that aims to place current problem situations facing shrinking and entirely abandoned “lost cities” in historical context. It focuses not on the question of which factors led to a city’s abandonment, but rather on the abandoned cities themselves, as well as the different forms of

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Democracy Funding Program includes two focus areas: 1) Democracy as a Utopia, Experience and Threats and 2) Transformations of Democracy/The Contours of Future Democratic Society. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not specified; based upon award type and length. Deadline: 5/29/24.

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s General Research Grants provides support for the historical humanities, in particular research projects in the fields of Archaeology, History of Art, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, and Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang.