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Korea Foundation: 2026 Support for Employment of Teaching Staff
Deadline: 9/10/2025
Partial funding for the salary and employee benefits of a new teaching staff member by the recipient university’s existing salary scale (over one to three years). Provides financial support to universities seeking to hire new teaching staff to create or expand their Korean language or Korean studies programs.
William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant
Deadline: 9/15/2025
Supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The Foundation welcomes applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. Proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles are especially encouraged. Funding amount: $650k (over 3 years).
ACLS Fellowship
Deadline: 9/25/2025
Supporting outstanding scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Up to 60 fellowships of $60k each will be awarded.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
Deadline: 10/1/2025
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. The foundation will award up to $5M for Rapid Response Research grants to help at least partially offset federal funding losses to existing 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(e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. Funding amount: $50k – $200k.
Jobs for the Future Fair Chance to Advance Initiative (FC2A)
Deadline: 10/14/2025
Across the United States, more than 70 million people live with a history of arrest, conviction, or incarceration. They face barriers that severely limit their access to education and employment and undermine their opportunities for economic mobility—which in turn curb the potential for regional and national economic growth. The initiative aims to dismantle these barriers and create broader pathways to economic advancement for people with histories of incarceration by improving alignment of systems and funding mechanisms at the state level. The statewide coalitions must include leaders from the state’s corrections, postsecondary education, and workforce development systems or agencies; policy makers; and leaders whose lives have been impacted by interactions with the criminal justice system. Up to $300k for Phase 1 grants (over 24 months) for planning, network infrastructure, and coordination efforts. Up to $1.8M for Phase 2 grants (over 4 years) to implement coordinated strategies and reforms over the remainder of the period, contingent upon successful completion of Phase 1 milestones.
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF): Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants
Deadline: 10/22/2025
Supports early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and/or employed at under-resourced colleges and universities. This includes racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Between 12 to 15 grants of up to $65k (over one year) will be awarded.
Russell Sage Foundation: Implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities for Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility
Deadline: 10/29/2025
The initiative focuses on ways to promote educational attainment and economic mobility among racially, ethnically, and economically diverse groups following the court’s ruling that the declared that use of race-conscious admissions policies violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and was, therefore, unconstitutional. Funding amount: $75k – $200k (over 2 years max).
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF): Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Deadline: 10/29/2025
This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration. Funding amount: $75k – $200k (over 2 years).
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF): Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Deadline: 10/29/2025
The program encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives on questions stemming from the significant changes in the racial, ethnic, and immigrant-origin composition of the U.S. population. A primary goal is to find ways in which researchers from different social science traditions studying issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration may complement one another in productive and innovative ways. The foundation continues to encourage multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and foster an understanding of how we might better achieve the American ideals of a pluralist society. Funding: $75k – $200k (over 2 years max)
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF): Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Deadline: 10/29/2025
The program supports innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups of generations. This initiative represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues. Funding: $75k – $200k (Over 2 years max)
Wellcome Trust: Mental Health Award
Deadline: 11/11/2025
This award will fund projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness, conduct a full health economic evaluation and assess implementation and scaling strategies of psychological or social interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Wellcome funds global research, with a specific focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to advance health and well-being and provide equitable health solutions. They offer various funding opportunities, and information on their strategic priorities like Climate and Health, Infectious Disease, Mental Health, and Discovery Research is available, all with an emphasis on equity and sustainability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The geographic research must take place in the UK or a LMIC. Funding: £3 to 7 million per project.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 2025 Digital Justice Grant Program
Deadline: 11/20/2025
Supports digital projects across the humanities and social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through the ethical use of digital tools and methods. Funding amount: $50k – $100k (over 12 – 18 months).
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).