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Wellcome Trust: Genomics in Context Awards
Deadline: 3/16/2026
These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to catalyse research discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics. Funded projects will be given the time and resources to create new research agendas and explore innovative ways of working. Funding amount: Up to £500k (over 1-2 years). A key goal of the scheme is to evidence the benefits of broader and earlier collaboration across different areas of research in genomics and its contexts, and to showcase the diverse contribution of different disciplines and key stakeholders.
Charles Koch Foundation: Future Of Work
Deadline: N/A
Empowering people to engage in work that leads to lives of meaning and contribution. Their support focuses on identifying, exploring, and removing the barriers that keep individuals from realizing their unique potential. Funding: unrestricted.
Charles Koch Foundation: Liberalism
Deadline: N/A
The program supports faculty who ask questions, exchange knowledge, advance new theories, and teach ideas and classical liberal principles that help create conditions necessary for all people to find purpose and unlock their potential. Investments help society’s leaders learn and apply these principles to create value for themselves and others, as well as generate ideas and talent needed to solve the United States’ biggest problems while remaining committed to classical liberal convictions of human dignity, openness, and liberty. Funding: unrestricted.
Open Technology Fund Internet Freedom Fund
Deadline: N/A
OTF supports technology projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance to enable all citizens to exercise their fundamental human rights online. This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings. Average grants between $50K – $200K.
Open Technology Fund: Rapid Response Fund
Deadline: N/A
This fund provides emergency support to journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations facing digital threats and attacks. Funding: average grant amount between $50k – $200k
Rosenberg Foundation
The foundation makes grants in four priority areas – Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation. The foundation works closely with social justice advocates, policy makers and other thought leaders throughout the state to identify the strategies that will best help us achieve positive impact in California within each program. As such, most of our grantee partners are identified and contacted by foundation staff first. In addition, we frequently invest in emerging initiatives and organizations, and are committed to long-term relationships with our grant partners. Funding: No amount limitations.
Teagle Foundation: Knowledge for Freedom
Deadline: N/A
The initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. The Knowledge for Freedom initiative is designed to be adaptable enough to reflect the assets and needs of each institution and coherent enough to create a community of shared practice among programs across the nation. Funding: $100k – $300k (over 3 years).
Teagle Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations: Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
Deadline: N/A
The program will support statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts. Funding amount: Up to $350k (over 2 – 3 years).