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Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts. Partial list as follows.
Click here for previous event videos and presentation materials.
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Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.
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Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.
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OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsor seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry
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UCLA CEILS fosters the professional development and training of faculty who wish to incorporate evidence-based teaching approaches into their courses.
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Helps businesses bring innovative green technologies to the marketplace. The next EPA SBIR Phase I solicitation is scheduled to open in Spring 2015.
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FLoW is a business plan competition for university students and recent graduates focused on cleantech and sustainability. In addition to cleantech and clean energy, FLoW supports a broad spectrum of sustainability-related innovations including those related to natural resource management and agricultural technologies. Click the link above to apply by Mar 2.
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Award: Up to $150,000
Deadline: Continuous Submission
The Diversity program seeks to help diversify the next generation of college and university faculty through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) and other pipeline programs; it also aims to strengthen institutions that improve educational attainment of historically underrepresented groups. More generally, the Diversity grantmaking area supports projects or research focused on the relationship between diversity and learning.
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Award: $2,076,395 in total funding
Deadline: April 20, 2015
The grant is designed to assist colleges and universities in building essential capacity and infrastructure to support expanded efforts to promote wellness and help-seeking of all students. Additionally, this grant will offer outreach to vulnerable students, including those experiencing substance abuse and mental health problems who are at greater risk for suicide and suicide attempts.
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Award: No fixed limit
Deadline: Apr 29, 2015
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
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Award: $50,000 and up
Deadline: Continuous submission
The Fidelity Foundation considers projects from organizations of regional or national importance throughout the United States. High-impact projects with potential to inform or influence the nonprofit sector are of particular interest.The Foundation's primary philanthropic investments are allocated to the following sectors:
- Arts and culture
- Community development and social services
Secondarily, grants are considered in the following fields:
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Award: $3,600,000 in total funding
Deadline: April 2, 2015
The goal is to develop an efficient research network that will conduct high quality research and publish evidence-based findings that will impact clinical practice and ensure standardized care in diverse health care settings that serve children, including urban, rural and tribal settings. The program works with diverse demographic populations and across varied geographical regions to promote the health of children in all phases of care. The research will contribute to the pediatric health care delivery knowledge base and the findings will be especially important in health care settings where pediatric expertise may be limited.
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Award: Up to $25,000
Deadline: April 15, 2015
The Genographic Legacy Fund awards grants on an annual basis for community-driven projects directly preserving or revitalizing indigenous or traditional culture.
Funded projects have included documenting a traditional language, oral history, or ceremony; creating culturally specific educational materials and programs; establishing a local museum or archive; intergenerational knowledge sharing; and preserving significant sites and artifacts.
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Award: Maximum of $300,000
Deadline: June 16, 2015
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) announces this continuing initiative to provide dissertation awards to increase diversity in the scientific research workforce engaged in research on aging and aging-related health conditions within NIA's strategic priorities.
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Award: Unlimited
Deadline: June 5, 2015
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention. Particular attention is given to reducing "health gaps" among groups.
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Award: Maximum of $275,000
Deadline: June 16, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages grant applications for research that will employ rigorous scientific methods to test theoretically derived hypotheses to increase understanding of the science of drug use prevention within diverse populations and settings and across the lifespan.
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Award: Maximum of $275,000
Deadline: June 22, 2015
The purpose of this FOA is to enhance the diversity of the NCI-funded research workforce by supporting and recruiting eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences workforce. This funding opportunity will also provide a bridge to investigators that have completed their research training and may need extra time to develop a larger research project grant application.
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Award: Maximum of $230,000
Deadline: LOI due April 22, 2015; Application due May 22, 2015
The goal of this initiative is strengthen research ethics capacity in low- and middle-income countries through increasing the number of scientists, health professionals and relevant academics from these countries with in-depth knowledge of the ethical principles, processes and policies related to international clinical and public health research as well as the critical skills to develop research ethics education, ethical review leadership and expert consultation to researchers, their institutions, governments and international research organizations.
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Award: Unlimited
Deadline: June 5, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks to stimulate research on mid-life adults (those 50 to 64 years of age) that can inform efforts to optimize health and wellness as individuals age, and prevent illness and disability in later years.
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Award: Unlimited
Deadline: June 5, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations proposing to advance knowledge on the reasons behind the divergent trends that have been observed in health and longevity at older ages, both across industrialized nations and across geographical areas in the United States. This FOA is intended to capitalize on provocative findings in the literature which have been insufficiently understood and addressed.
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Award: Maximum of $125,000
Deadline: LOI due May 16,2015; Application due June 16,2015
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to provide support for New Investigators from backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical research to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of Dietary Supplements.
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Award: $1,000,000 total funding
Deadline: April 15, 2015
NIJ is seeking proposals for research and evaluation that will examine violence and victimization experienced by American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) women living in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages to produce a deeper understanding of the issues faced by Native American women and help formulate public policies and prevention strategies to decrease the incidence of violent crimes committed against AI and AN women.
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Award: Unspecified
Deadline: April 10, 2015
The Broadening Participation in Engineering program is supporting research on issues associated with diversity within the engineering professoriate, with a particular interest in funding proposals focusing on underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities.
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Award: $150,000 in total funding
Deadline: April 30, 2015
The NSF Engineering Directorate has launched a multi-year initiative, the Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support an innovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century. Professional Formation of Engineers refers to the formal and informal processes and value systems by which people become engineers. It also includes the ethical responsibility of practicing engineers to sustain and grow the profession.
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Award: More than $20,000
Deadline: Continuous Submission
The Foundation supports a variety of Community Improvement programs including those that enhance non-profit management and promote philanthropy and voluntarism. Youth development programs supported by the Foundation typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life. The Foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.
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Award: $35,000 and up
Deadline: July 31, 2015
The Foundation's Cultural Contact program is concerned with understanding and improving relations between racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and other key institutional settings. Founded in 1992, the program has examined the effectiveness of diversity training and affirmative action in work places and on college campuses. It has also sponsored a series of working groups looking at how the American legal, education, and health care systems are responding to increased ethnic and cultural diversity. The current working groups address two new areas: the interaction between police and minorities, and the cultural frictions between immigrants and local residents in new areas of immigrant settlement.
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Award: More than $125, 000
Deadline: Continuous submissions
Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and women are underrepresented among M.S. and Ph.D. recipients in the natural sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics, a trend that continues throughout the academic pipeline-from starting assistant professors to senior academic administrators. Grantmaking in this Foundation program aims to increase the diversity of higher education in STEM fields through college and university initiatives to support the education and professional advancement of high-quality scholars from underrepresented groups.
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Award: Typically up to $25,000
Deadline: March 31, 2015
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) seeks grant proposals for projects aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria in the fields of history, politics, economics, law and cultural studies.
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Award: $25,000
Deadline: Apr 1, 2015
The Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize was created by the late Professor Joseph B. Gittler to recognize outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations. The Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Endowed Fund at Brandeis University supports this annual award.
The award includes a cash prize of $25,000 and a medal. The prize and medal are presented at a ceremony that includes a reception and a public lecture by the recipient on the Brandeis University campus in Waltham, Mass.
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Award: No fixed limit
Deadline: Apr 29, 2015
The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) wishes to strengthen and develop the internationalisation of Danish research and the Council therefore welcomes applications that involve international activities. The objective is to give the best researchers and research groups the opportunity to coordinate and develop their research collaborations across country borders, and to give talented researchers the opportunity to spend periods abroad as part of their research careers. Consequently, aspects of internationalisation may form an element in applications for all of DFF's instruments.
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Award: 250,000 EUR
Deadline: May 15, 2015
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's activities reflect these characteristics of the founder's personality and aim to support efforts to foster the universal values inherent to the human condition, respect for diversity and difference, a culture of tolerance and the conservation of the environment in man's relationship with nature.
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Award: Up to $40,000
Deadline: Mar 31, 2015
The Marlène F. Johnson Fund provides grants to individuals for worthy scholarly projects on Christian Science history, teaching, religious practice, healing ministry, and church experience. The purpose of this financial support is to enable grant recipients to give substantial time to the research and writing involved in these projects. Irrespective of their religious or academic background, the Fund seeks in grant applicants the same basic respect for the subject that has characterized the most insightful scholarly studies on other religious groups, from Perry Miller's on Puritans several generations ago to Stephen Stein's on Shakers or Jan Shipps' on Mormons in recent decades.
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Award: Up to $250,000
Deadline: June 16, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks to facilitate the entry of new-to-NIH investigators into basic chemistry research applied to drug abuse and addiction.
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Award: Stipend, tuition, and fees
Deadline: April 13, 2015
Aims to enhance the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the research training of predoctoral students from population groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. Promising pre-doctoral students will obtain individualized, mentored research training from outstanding faculty sponsors while conducting well-defined research projects in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
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Award: $1.5 million to fund 6-7 awards
Deadline: LOI due March 1, 2015; Application due April 1, 2015
The mission of BD2K is to enable the biomedical research community to use the various types of Big Data for research. To address the growing need for skilled researchers to fully utilize biomedical Big Data, a series of BD2K FOAs have been designed 1) to develop a sufficient cadre of researchers skilled in the science of Big Data and 2) to elevate general competencies in data usage and analysis across the biomedical research workforce. The aim of the initiative is to support additional mentored training of scientists who will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be independent researchers as well as to work in a team environment to develop new Big Data technologies, methods, and tools applicable to basic and clinical research.
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Award: Stipend, tuition, and fees
Deadline: June 12, 2015
The purpose of the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) is to attract to NIH-relevant research those investigators whose quantitative science and engineering research has thus far not been focused primarily on questions of health and disease.The K25 award will provide support and "protected time" for a period of supervised study and research for productive professionals with quantitative (e.g., mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, imaging science, informatics, physics, chemistry) and engineering backgrounds to integrate their expertise with NIH-relevant research.
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Award: Up to $125,000
Deadline: June 12, 2015
The objective of the NIA Research Leadership Career Award is to provide support for more senior investigators who have the expertise and leadership skills to enhance the aging and geriatric research capacity within their academic institution.
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Award: Unspecified
Deadline: June 5, 2015
This initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (e.g., physical and family environments) social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings.
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Award: Up to $275,000
Deadline: June 16, 2015
The primary objectives for this announcement are to increase innovative developmental research: 1) to characterize the relative importance of reducing alcohol misuse in the prevention of acquisition and transmission of HIV in order to identify and apply appropriate alcohol and HIV interventions as public health measures; 2) to more fully understand and prevent the progression of HIV disease in the presence of continued alcohol exposure; and 3) to develop operational research frameworks for addressing the occurrence and persistence of infections in high-risk populations (e.g. minority women, young gay men, etc.), and translate findings into effective, culturally appropriate preventive and treatment interventions for these targeted populations.
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Award: Up to $100,000
Deadline: Varies
The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hereby notify Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) holding specific types of NIH research grants, listed in the full Funding Opportunity Announcement that funds are available for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related research. This supplement opportunity is also available to Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) of research grants who become disabled and need additional support to accommodate their disability in order to continue to work on the research project.
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Award: $6.3 million total program funding
Deadline: May 12, 2015
The overall objective of this solicitation is to support/advance the development of therapeutic strategies for rare and/or emerging viral diseases (non-HIV) of medical importance in targeted patient populations.
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Award: Unspecified
Deadline: May 1, 2015
This Dear Colleague Letter highlights funding opportunities for innovative, early-stage work to improve success in mathematics in the first two years of college. This includes studies on ways to improve the learning of the content of developmental mathematics, independent of setting, and design and development work on interventions and tools, including technology-enhanced learning approaches.
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Award: $4,000,000 in total program funding
Deadline: July 8, 2015
The long-range goal of the Enriched Doctoral Training in the Mathematical Sciences (EDT) program is to strengthen the nation's scientific competitiveness by increasing the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other professions in which expertise in the mathematical sciences plays an increasingly important role. The EDT program will achieve this by supporting efforts to enrich research training in the mathematical sciences at the doctoral level by preparing Ph.D. students to recognize and find solutions to mathematical challenges arising in other fields and in areas outside today's academic setting.
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Award: $20,000 minimum
Deadline: Continuous submission
The program is based on a belief that communities with robust arts and culture are more cohesive and prosperous, and benefit from the diversity of their residents. We know that artists and cultural organizations can help us explore shared values and spark innovation, imagination and advancement for our communities. Too often, however, arts and culture is undervalued as a catalyst for creating just and sustainable communities, which is a key priority for the Surdna Foundation.
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Award: $1,000,000
Deadline: Mar 31, 2015
The TED Prize is awarded to an individual with a creative, bold vision to spark global change. By leveraging the TED community's resources and investing $1 million into a powerful idea, each year the TED Prize supports one wish to inspire the world.
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Award: $50,000 minimum
Deadline: Apr 1, 2015
The Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to children in the areas of child safety, social services or humanitarian services. Humanitarian Award Honorees are visionary leaders who run sustainable, high-impact programs for children. He or she has recorded and continues to record extraordinary achievements in helping children be safe, and grow. These courageous leaders are dedicated to making a difference for children who need help, regardless of political, religious or geographic boundaries.
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