Funding

Discipline(s): All

The Graduate School's Office of Research and Projects (ORP) is offering this monthly e-newsletter of foundation-sponsored grant opportunities available to support the diverse research and creative activities of all faculty.

Les Paul Foundation
Grant Opportunity: General Grants
Summary: Awards grants to programs and projects that encourage innovation in music production and/or performance and to innovative STEM and STEAM programs for students and others in challenging situations. Provides grants for medical research related to curing tinnitus and hearing impairment issues.
Grant Cap: $2,000
Deadline: September 15, 2025
For More Information: Link 

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Grant Opportunity: Fellowship
Summary: The fellowship is open to scholars at all postdoctoral career stages, working on or off the tenure track, who have earned a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences by the application deadline. Tenure: six to twelve months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2026 and July 1, 2027, and to be completed by December 31, 2027. Six months of the fellowship tenure must be consecutive, but any remainder of the fellow’s award term can be taken separately at a later date within the eligible award window.
Grant Cap: $60,000
Deadline: September 25, 2025
For More Information: Link

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Exploring Equitable Futures Call for Proposals
Summary: The purpose of this Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.
Grant Cap: There is no set award amount. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed project—including direct and indirect costs—for the entire duration of your grant.
Deadline:  All applications must be submitted before October 15, 2025, 2:00pm cst
For More Information: Link

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
Summary: The purpose of this call for proposals (CFP) is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding. We will award up to $5 million for Rapid Response Research grants to help at least partially offset federal funding losses to existing research. Rapid Response Research funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. While we will not re-scrutinize the scientific merits of projects that have lost federal funding, our intent is to support research consistent with Evidence for Action’s mission to advance community-centered, action-oriented racial and Indigenous health equity research that focuses on structural solutions that are innovative, push beyond the status quo, and target root causes.
Grant Cap: Awards may range from $50,000 to $200,000 each. You may only request funding equivalent to the amount that was guaranteed and remained unspent on your federally funded project at the time of termination.
Deadline: October 1, 2025, 2:00pm cst
For More Information: Link

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