Funding Friday 05/07/2021 Edition 29
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Fine Arts
Amphion Foundation: Grant Program (fall deadline for music service organizations, presenters, and festivals and spring deadline for performing ensembles) - Deadline: 09/15/2021 and 04/01/2022 - Up to $7,500
Russkiy Mir Foundation: Grants (cultural and humanitarian issues and Russian language promotion) - Deadline: 05/30/2021 and 11/30/2021
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music: Kurt Weill Book Prize (music theater) - Deadline: 04/30/2023 - Up to $5,000
Liberal Arts
W.K. Kellog Foundation (WKKF): Equitable Communities Grants (thriving children, working families, equitable communities) - Deadline: Continuous
NSF Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Amazon (FAI) (broad societal acceptance of large-scale deployments of AI systems rely critically on their trustworthiness) - Deadline: 08/03/2021 - Up to $1,000,000 for periods of up to 3 years.
NEH: Public Humanities Projects (projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history) - Optional Draft Deadline: 07/07/2021, Application Deadline: 08/11/21 or 01/12/22 - Up to $1,000,000
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations: Private Higher Education Grants (advocacy for the liberal arts, civil discourse on campus, purpose-oriented education) - Letter of Inquiry Deadline: 08/27/2021 and Full Proposal Deadline: 11/12/2021 - Up to $300,000
Mental Health
NIH: Pilot Effectiveness Trials for Treatment, Preventive and Services Interventions (R34-Clinical Trial Required) (support pilot studies of intervention effectiveness or service delivery approaches) - Deadline: 06/15/21 or 10/15/21 or 02/15/22 or 06/15/22 - Up to $450,000
NIH: Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required) (support the development of digital health test beds that leverage well-established digital mental health platforms and infrastructure) - Deadline: 07/01/21 or 03/01/2022 - Up to $750,000
NIH NOSI: Research on Strategies to Enhance Mental Health Interventions and Services within Employment and Job Training Settings (encourage research focused on detection and intervention to prevent or treat mental health concerns, symptoms or disorders including drug-related conditions among unemployed and underemployed people participating in employment programs and job training settings)
Renewable Energy
DOI: Energizing Insular Communities (sustainable energy strategies) - Deadline: 06/30/21
DOE: Innovative Methods to Control Hydraulic Properties of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (disruptive technologies and techniques that will affect fluid flow within enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) fracture networks or reservoirs) - Deadline: 06/15/21 - $500,000 - $6,000,000
DOE: SolSmart Program Management (climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies) - Deadline: 08/17/21 - $8,000,000 - $10,000,000
DOE: Workforce Development Strategies Supporting the Solar Industry (climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies) - Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/08/2021, Concept Paper Deadline: 06/15/21, Application Deadline: 08/17/21 - $8,000,000 - $10,000,000
Althea Sheets, Communications Manager for Research Development, Office of Sponsored Programs, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880