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Huo Family Foundation Special Projects
Deadline: 3/21/2025
These are larger and longer-term research awards that would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. Proposals should tackle key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behavior and interactions, and mental health of children and young people. Funding: up to $390k/year (for four years). Please direct questions to ltdsubs@berkeley.edu.
Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund Sewell Fund Fellowship: Learning Partnerships
Deadline: 3/31/2025
The purpose of the Learning Partnerships is to place experienced librarians and information professionals within leading health or research organizations in order for both partners to gain a better understanding of how best information sciences can be effectively applied in each environment. The Fund believes that this experience will facilitate a bridging of cultures resulting in a more creative and effective application of information science in the health care arena. The Sewell Fund support covers salary and incidental expenses for these twelve-month Learning Partnership fellowships. Funding: up to $100k (over 12 months).
Ploughshares Fund Nuclear Weapons Free World
Deadline: 3/31/2025
Ploughshares Fund helps make the world more safe and secure,”” by funding organizations and people who drive policies and activities that help eliminate nuclear threats or address regional conflicts, create a stronger and more resilient nuclear field, build new partnerships with intersecting issues, and support transformational thinking and activities. Funding: Up to $50k.
American Psychological Foundation Visionary Grants
Deadline: 4/3/2025
The program seeks to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in several priority areas. Funding: Up to $20k.
Hearst Foundations Program Grants 2025
Deadline: 4/4/2025
The Hearst Foundations are national philanthropic resources for organizations working in culture, education, health, and social services. Funding: $100k +.
Wellcome Trust Climate Impacts Awards
Deadline: 4/30/2025
The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies. Funding: Up to £2.5 million (for up to 3 years).
Atlas Network Resisting Illiberalism Fund
Deadline: 6/1/2025
The world is witnessing an authoritarian populist surge. The Resisting Illiberalism Grant program is not only to protect civil and economic rights, but also to counter a global movement that actively reject these values. The Atlas Network invites partners working to counter authoritarianism and the rise of illiberal statist sentiment. Competitive proposals include educational efforts or awareness campaigns, and they must demonstrate sophisticated, wide-reaching strategies to counter illiberal statist ideas and policies. Funding: $40k.
Sociological Initiatives Foundation Research Grant
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action. It funds research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S. It gives priority to projects that seek to address racism, xenophobia, classism, gender bias, exploitation, or the violation of human rights and freedoms. It also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions. Funding: $15K- $20K (over 2 years)
William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant
The Institutional Challenge Grant 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. Funding: Up to $650k (over three years)
Andrew Mellon Foundation: Humanities in Place: Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
The Monuments Project is a signature initiative to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. The project seeks to ensure that future generations inherit a memorial landscape that venerates and reflects the vast, rich complexity of the American experience, and tells a fuller, more inclusive story of our history and our many different forbearers. Funding: Up to $250M
Arnold Ventures: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Deadline: Rolling applications
Arnold Ventures is accepting letters of interest for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) focused on testing criminal justice programs and practices. The ultimate goal of this effort is to build credible evidence about “what works” to improve criminal justice outcomes and, in particular, grow the number of criminal justice interventions rigorously shown to better people’s lives. Funding: No amount limitations.
Impact Fund: Social, Environmental and Economic justice programs
Deadline: Rolling applications
The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and/or small law firms who seek to advance justice in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, and/or poverty law. Funding amount: $10K – $50K.
Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation
Deadline: Two funding cycles annually: June 10th, November 30th
The program aims to create a more equitable and humane justice system. Current funding priorities include multi-pronged approaches to eliminate the use of solitary confinement, including supporting a national campaign that provides resources to state and local coalitions. No amount limitations.
Rosenberg Foundation: LOI Submissions
Deadline: Rolling Applications
The Rosenberg Foundation currently 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. Application Procedure: Letter of Inquiries accepted by email to Grants Manager, Linda Moll. Budget: Grants are typically in the $10K-$50K range.
Impact Fund: Social, Environmental and Economic justice programs
Deadline: Rolling Applications
The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and/or small law firms who seek to advance justice in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, and/or poverty law. Funding amount: $10K-$50K
Internet Society Foundation: Future & Sustainability of the Internet
Deadline: Rolling Applications
Through the program grants are available for research focused in one of two categories: (1) Greening the Internet and (2) the Internet Economy.
Arnold Ventures: Moving the Needle Initiative
Deadline: Rolling Applications
This initiative seeks to demonstrate the power of evidence-based programs to “Move the Needle” on major U.S. social problems. No amount limitations.
Unchartered: Economic Inequality Initiative
Deadline: None
Unchartered is dedicated to elevating solutions that increase wealth in the near term while building towards addressing the root causes themselves. In support of this mission, they are launching the Economic Inequality initiative to support eight early-stage social entrepreneurs, movement builders, and nonprofit innovators who are tackling wealth inequality in the U.S. Applications accepted via website. Budget: up to $25K.
Smith-Richardson Foundation:
Domestic Policy
International Security & Foreign Policy
Deadline: Rolling Applications
The mission of the Smith Richardson Foundation is to contribute to important public debates and to address serious public policy challenges facing the United States. The Foundation seeks to help ensure the vitality of our social, economic, and governmental institutions. It also seeks to assist with the development of effective policies to compete internationally and to advance U.S. interests and values abroad.
- Budget: No limitations
- Application Procedure: The Foundation has a two-stage application process. Initial inquiries should be submitted by mail in the form of the concept paper. Interested applicants may contact Sylvia Bierhuis for pre-application counseling.
Public Welfare Foundation: Adult Criminal Justice Program
Deadline: Rolling applications
The program aims to create a more equitable and humane justice system. Current funding priorities include multi-pronged approaches to eliminate the use of solitary confinement, including supporting a national campaign that provides resources to state and local coalitions. No amount limitations.
Charles Koch Foundation: Trade Policy Research
Deadline: Rolling
The foundation invites proposals for research and related projects aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice and contributing to contemporary debates around important trade-policy issues. Areas of priority include: National Industrial Policy, Getting Our Approach to Trade with China Right, and Free Trade and Flourishing.
Andrew Mellon Foundation: Humanities in Place Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
The Monuments Project is a signature initiative to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. The project seeks to ensure that future generations inherit a memorial landscape that venerates and reflects the vast, rich complexity of the American experience, and tells a fuller, more inclusive story of our history and our many different forbearers. Funding level: up to $250M (over five years).
Arnold Ventures: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Deadline: Rolling
Arnold Ventures is accepting letters of interest for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) focused on testing criminal justice programs and practices. The ultimate goal of this effort is to build credible evidence about “what works” to improve criminal justice outcomes and, in particular, grow the number of criminal justice interventions rigorously shown to better people’s lives. No amount limitations