March 2020

For a more comprehensive list of Harvard internal funding opportunities, please see  here .

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies: Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Grant *

Deadline: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: Up to $30,000

This program's primary objective is to strengthen connections between Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) in Chile and Harvard through innovative research projects in all disciplines, including but not limited to technology, design, humanities, science, engineering, health, public policy, business, and education. Each project must have a PI from Harvard and one from UAI. Funding will be primarily for program start-up expenses including travel to facilitate site visits, workshops, and academic research exchanges.

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies: Mexico Innovation Fund *

Deadline: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: Up to $100,000

The goal of the Mexico Innovation Fund is to deepen ties between Harvard and Mexican academia in order to address some of the most important issues facing Mexico. A project supported by this fund should propose policy improvements or provide ideas for action that might help Mexico address the specific issues related to the project. The priority fields of study are:

Projects submitted for consideration must be innovative, involve evidence-based research leading to measurable outcomes, leverage technology, where appropriate, to "leapfrog" older processes and concept, especially in areas relating to public policy and urban studies, and ideally delve deeply into one subject area while also combining multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approaches.

Division of Social Science: Manuscript Workshop Grants for Tenure Track Faculty

Deadline: Proposals will be received and reviewed four times a year, with deadlines on the first business day of October, January, April, and July. Applicants will be notified, and funded if approved, within one month of the submission deadline.

Award Amount: up to $3,000

To support the career development of its tenure track faculty, the Division of Social Science is piloting a new grant program. Contingent on continued funding, the Division of Social Science will make available to eligible tenure track faculty members small grants (up to $3,000) to support travel and other expenses associated with bringing experts to Harvard to review and offer guidance on in-progress manuscripts. This funding is intended to augment the $1,000 that is provided to each tenure track faculty member by the Dean of the FAS at the time of the initial faculty appointment (and contained in the faculty member's start-up account).

Harvard Data Science Initiative: Special Projects Fund

Office of Undergraduate Education: Course Development Funds

The Office of Undergraduate Education has Course Development Funds to "strengthen undergraduate education...through the improvement of instruction and curriculum." These funds are meant for limited experiments or one-time investments that improve individual courses or whole concentrations. Recent awards have funded the purchase of cameras for art studios, the creation of manipulables to teach concepts in calculus, and research assistants to review tutorial syllabi with the view of making them more inclusive. To apply for Discretionary Funds, please send the OUE an  email  outlining the initiatives you would like to undertake and how these funds would help you achieve them.

Deadline: Rolling

Award Amount: up to $5,000

The FAS Tenure-Track Publication Fund  assists assistant and associate professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with costs related to scholarly publications, broadly defined. For example, this might include expenses associated with research assistance, publication subsidies, copying, word processing, obtaining translations or illustrations, or creating footnotes or indices. 

The Tenured Publication Fund aids tenured FAS faculty members in bringing scholarly book projects to timely completion. Funds will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to help defray eligible expenses. The Fund is meant to supplement other available means of support; faculty are expected to seek departmental, center-based, and external funds before applying to this Fund.

The Regan Fund

Deadline: To be considered, proposals must be received no later than 5 pm on the second Monday in September and first Mondays in December and March.

Award Amount: Line item budget required

Established through the generous gifts of Donald T. Regan, 66th Secretary of the Treasury, the Regan Fund supports programs that invite distinguished speakers to Harvard to present views in the fields of economics, government, and social problems of the United States and the world. Eligible programs present views that might not otherwise be available to undergraduates seeking knowledge or just curious about alternate solutions to current and future problems.

The Social Science Division seeks proposals for programs that meet the goals of the Regan Fund by bringing diverse speakers to campus to lecture to undergraduates. Proposed activities may be open to other HUID holders, but the focus must be on undergraduate students. The Division is particularly interested in supporting programs tied to academic courses, and/or developed in collaboration with the College. The Division welcomes proposals from recognized student organizations, but requires commitment of active mentorship by a faculty member or departmental administrator. 

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Canada Program Faculty Funding

Award Amount: unspecified; budget required with application

The Canada Program invites proposals from Harvard faculty, departments, and schools across the University, for research funding, or for support in hosting short-term visiting scholars, policy practitioners, and public figures who are engaged in Canadian comparative topics. Visiting Canadianists are welcome to present at Harvard faculty workshops or conferences, or to offer guest lectures for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. 

The William F. Milton Fund

Deadline: April 1, 2020 

Award Amount: up to $50,000

Eligible Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a junior faculty appointment. This includes FAS and SEAS Assistant or Associate Professors, Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and those in a postdoctoral position at Harvard with a formal accepted offer to join the Junior Faculty at one of Harvard's schools. 

1907 Research Trailblazer Award

University Area Pre-Proposal Deadline: March 30, 2020 by 5:00PM

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline (if nominated): May 21, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2020

Award Amount: $100,000 for research to be spent over a two-year duration, a $20,000 prize to enhance the economic security of the scientist, and travel & expense coverage for attendance at two annual meetings

 

The 1907 Trailblazer Award was established to encourage high-impact, step-change approaches to research in the brain and mind sciences for mental health. Projects must be grounded in the study of biological mechanisms underlying brain function, cognitive processes, and/or consciousness. The sponsor supports projects for basic science in addition to near-term applications (e.g. disruptive technologies and potential clinical interventions). 

 

Eligibility Criteria:

Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and the University Area (Cambridge Campus) may nominate two candidates for this opportunity. Applicants must be nominated by a department chair or area chair, and must submit a pre-proposal to an internal competition via the link here.

American Historical Association: J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals 

Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2020 

Award Amount: stipend of $5,000

The J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is offered annually by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress  and the American Historical Association to support significant scholarly research in the collections of the Library of Congress by scholars at an early stage in their careers in history. At the time of application, applicants must hold a PhD or equivalent  and must have received this degree within the past seven years.  The applicant's project in American history must be one for which the general and special collections of the Library of Congress offer unique research support.  The fellowship will be awarded for two to three months to spend in full-time residence at the Library of Congress. Winners will be notified in June and can take residency at their discretion any time until August of the following year.

Baylor Institute for Oral History: Charlton Oral History Research Grant *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 17, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 24, 2020

Award Amount: up to $3,000

The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year (June through May). With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome.

BBVA Foundation: Frontiers of Knowledge Awards *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: review not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Nomination Deadline: June 30, 2020

Award Amount: 400,000 euros, a diploma, and a commemorative artwork

 

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. The name of the award is intended to denote not only research work that substantially enlarges the scope of our current knowledge-pushing forward the frontiers of the known world-but also the meeting and overlap of different disciplinary areas and the emergence of new fields. 

 

The disciplines and domains of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are:

Any scientific or cultural organization or institution may nominate more than one candidate, but no candidate may be nominated in more than one award category. The awards are also open to scientific or cultural organizations that can be collectively credited with exceptional contributions. Candidates may be of any nationality. Self-nomination is not permitted.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 15, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 22, 2020

Award Amount: Up to $100,000 for initial grants; successful awardees have an opportunity to apply for a follow-on award of up to $1 million. This award does not cover overhead costs, which falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.

 

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. The Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges Explorations to engage more of the world's innovators more quickly. Twice each year, Grand Challenges Explorations invites high-risk, high-reward proposals on a range of challenges. Currently open challenges include: 

Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood: Grants *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 21, 2020

Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 31, 2020

Award Amount:  previous grants have ranged from ~ $20,000 - $90,000

Einstein Forum: Einstein Fellowships *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

The Einstein Forum is offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches - following the example set by Albert Einstein. The fellowship includes living accommodations for five to six months in the garden cottage of Einstein`s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin. Candidates must be under 35 and hold a university degree in the humanities, in the social sciences, or in the natural sciences.

Environmental Research and Education Foundation: Research in Sustainable Solid Waste Management *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 24, 2020

Sponsor Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: Previously awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500,000 with the average grant amount in recent years being $160,000. Typical project durations are about 2 years.

The EREF funds research on sustainable waste management practices. Pre-proposal topics must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices and pertain to the following topic areas:

Desirable aspects of the above topics, in addition to or as part of hypothesis driven applied research, also include: economic or cost/benefit analyses, feasibility studies for untested technologies or management strategies, life cycle analysis or inventory, and analyses of policies that relate to the above.

The Franklin Institute Bower Award & Prize for Achievement in Science *

Notice of Intent to Nominate Deadline (encouraged): April 30, 2020

Nomination Deadline: May 31, 2020

Prize Amount: $250,000

 

The Franklin lnstitute seeks nominations for the 2021 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science of individuals who have made significant contributions to the scientific understanding of decision-making. The interdisciplinary field of decision-making integrates theory and methods from economics, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and related areas to understand the mechanisms through which individuals and groups choose among competing possibilities and how these mechanisms guide behavior.

 

Nominations are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following subtopics and their intersections:

Nominations from any individual or organization will be accepted, including self-nominations. The winner must be available to participate in The Franklin lnstitute Awards Week programs, to be held in April 2021 in Philadelphia.

Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Conferences

 

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events, in particular national and international conferences with the aim of facilitating the discussion and analysis of specific scholarly questions as well as fostering cooperation and networking of scholars working in the same field or on interdisciplinary topics. An application can be filed in the following areas of support:

Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: May 27, 2020

Award Amount: 3,100 euros per month + supplements to support childcare

Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work. Grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, the assumption of costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Only full time scholarships are available. Support can be provided for a minimum of one month and a maximum of 24 months.  

German Historical Institute: Postdoctoral Fellowships *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2020

Award Amount: € 3,400 per month for 1-5 months

The German Historical Institute (GHI) awards short-term fellowships to European and North American postdoctoral scholars to pursue research projects that draw upon primary sources located in the United States. The GHI is particularly interested in research projects that fit into the following fields: 

• German and European history
• The history of German-American relations
• The role of Germany and the USA in international relations

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Scholarly Fellowships *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: May 11, 2020

Award Amount: $3,000

Gilder Lehrman fellowships support research at archives in New York City. The Institute provides annual short-term research fellowships in the amount of $3000 each to doctoral candidates, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars working in the field of American history. International scholars are eligible to apply. This year, three of the ten awards will be granted with special attention to Cold War topics, so preference will be given to applicants in that field.

Gladys Brooks Foundation: Grants for Libraries and Educational Institutions *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 21, 2020

Sponsor Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 31, 2020

Award Amount: $50,000 - $150,000

The Foundation considers major grant applications in the fields of libraries and education.

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2020
Award Amount: stipend of $20,000

The aim of the IBM Center for The Business of Government is to tap into the best minds in academe and the nonprofit sector who can use rigorous public management research and analytic techniques to help public sector executives and managers improve the effectiveness of government. The Center is looking for very practical findings and actionable recommendations - not just theory or concepts - in order to assist executives and managers to more effectively respond to mission and management challenges. Individuals receiving a stipend should produce a 10,000- to 12,000-word report. The manuscript should be submitted no later than six months after the start of the project. Recipients will select the start and end dates. The report should be written for government leaders and public managers, providing very practical knowledge and insight.

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 7, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 14, 2020

Award Amount: up to $250,000 in seed funds expendable over a flexible time period (between 2 and 4 years)

With the Opportunity Awards, JSMF is seeking to fund projects leading to new conceptual and empirical studies of cognition and behavior that:

• embrace complexity,
• recognize the dynamic nature of action, 
• are situated in real world contexts,
• cross levels of analysis, and 
• unite traditionally separate domains of inquiry (e.g. vision and speech) 

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: Governance, Norms and Values - Research on the Future of Internet

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: Governance, Norms and Values - Research on the Future of Internet

J.Pal: COVID-19 Off-Cycle Funding Opportunities *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission 

Sponsor Deadline: varies; please see below

Award Amount: varies; please see below

Library of Congress: The John W. Kluge Center: David B. Larson Fellowships in Health and Spirituality *

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. The fellowship is designed to continue Dr. Larson's legacy of promoting meaningful, scholarly study of health and spirituality, two important and increasingly interrelated fields. It seeks to encourage the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health. The fellowship provides an opportunity for a period of six to twelve months of concentrated use of the collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency in the Library's John W. Kluge Center. The Kluge Center is located in the splendid Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library, and it furnishes attractive work and discussion space for its scholars, as well as easy access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington, D.C. If necessary, special arrangements may be made with the National Library of Medicine for access to its materials as well. The Fellowship is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents with doctoral degrees.

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 3, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 10, 2020

Award Amount: up to $30,000

The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research is partnering with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to offer a new research funding opportunity to study the impact of gun policy on law-abiding gun users. Decisions about gun laws and programs in the United States must consider the interests of gun owners as well as potential reductions in firearms violence or suicide the policies offer. Currently, however, there are few good measures of the harms or benefits to legal gun owners. To address the need for better information, the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research is offering a special call for proposals to develop an objective method for estimating the impact of gun policy on the interests of gun owners. 

The Collaborative is seeking proposals for a white paper describing a rigorous method for evaluating the benefits or harms gun policies impose on gun owners and users. The concept outlined in the white paper will ideally provide guidance for the development of a scale or measurement approach that could be used to quantify the impact of programs or policies related to gun use or possession on the interests of gun owners. The concept paper may also lead to a solicitation funding full development of the proposed measurement approach.

National Geographic Society: Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 15, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 22, 2020

Award Amount: up to $80,000

The Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability Request for Proposal focuses on the gathering and analysis of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, and paleoclimatological data for the purposes of increasing our understanding of human-environmental interactions over time, to ultimately contribute to mitigating contemporary environmental and climatic crises. Current issues like climate change, overpopulation, disruptions in food security, and loss of habitat and biodiversity are threats that were faced and sometimes overcome by societies in the past. While the challenges we face today may be unprecedented in scale and demographic impact, there is a wealth of information on how people articulated with, mediated, and in many cases impacted long-term environmental trends over millennia. This knowledge can be employed in the development of future strategies in environmental sustainability- and resilience-building, and in understanding how human actions in the past continue to affect present-day communities in their ability to tackle environmental and climatic challenges.  Ideal grant applications for this RFP would consist of research projects that are: 

Paris Institute for Advanced Study: Brain, Culture and Society Program Fellowships *

The  Paris Institute for Advanced Study  welcomes applications from high level international scholars and scientists in the fields of the humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, and neurosciences for a research stay of five or ten months during the academic year 2021-2022 within the framework of its "Brain, Culture and Society" program. The Paris IAS gives its research fellows the unique opportunity to work freely on the project of their choice at the interface of neuroscience, the cognitive sciences, and the humanities and social sciences. They benefit from the scientific environment of the Institute and receive support for creating contacts with researchers in the academic institutions of Greater Paris.

The Retirement Research Foundation: Grants

Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: unspecified/wide range; previous grants have ranged from $20,000 - $200,000+ 

The Retirement Research Foundation is one of the first private foundations in the nation devoted exclusively to aging and retirement issues. RRF's grants program supports projects that have a significant focus on older adults, ages 65 and over, in the following areas:

• Advocacy: Achieve enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
• Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
• Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
• Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults through support of applied and policy research for which federal funding is not available

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Policies for Action: Research on Housing Policies That Promote Equity *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Intent: April 22, 2020

Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Intent: April 29, 2020

Award Amount: up to $250,000 for up to 24 months

The Policies for Action research program is releasing Policies for Action: Research on Housing Policies That Promote Equity call for proposals (CFP) to investigate the effectiveness of state, county, and city public policies aimed at increasing housing affordability and stability; addressing racial segregation and isolation from opportunity; and increasing access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods and place-based resources. We are particularly interested in understanding how such policies affect racial equity in housing and neighborhood conditions-especially in small- and medium-sized cities having populations between 50,000 and 500,000. 

Please Note: The Foundation will be hosting an informational webinar on March 30, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET for interested researchers to learn more about this special funding opportunity and ask questions. Registration is required through  this link .

The Roddenberry Foundation: Roddenberry Prize *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 3, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 10, 2020

Award Amount: $250,000

The Roddenberry Prize is a call for big, bold solutions from anyone, anywhere that address the challenges of an unpredictable and fast-changing global landscape. Four game-changing and innovative solutions will each receive $250,000 for their work in one of the following fields: Education, Science, Environment, and Humanity. 

 

Please Note: In response to COVID-19, the Roddenberry Foundation wants to strongly encourage applications that address the range of societal, health, and economic repercussions of the pandemic.

The Rogovy Foundation: Miller/Packan Film Fund *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: May 15, 2020

Award Amount: up to $15,000 (Advanced Development Stages); up to $25,000 (Production and Post-Production Stages)

The Miller/Packan Film Fund supports documentary films that educate, inspire and enrich. At the highest level, the Fund's subject categories are Education, the Environment and Civics. The Foundation encourages potential applicants to review its  ideals and values  for a sense of what types of topics might be supported. The Foundation is especially interested in investigations into the cost structures of social institutions, such as healthcare and education, and topics that bring the global community together. The Fund supports filmmaking in advanced development (up to $15,000), production and post-production stages (up to $25,000).

Russell Sage Foundation: Research Grants *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 14, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: May 21, 2020

Award Amount: up to $175,000

Searle Freedom Trust: Grants

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 8, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2020

Award Amount: Recent grants have ranged from $20,000 to $1,000,000, with the majority of grants under $100,000. Please note that it is the foundation's policy not to support overhead costs. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.

The Searle Freedom Trust fosters research and education on public policy issues that affect individual freedom and economic liberty. Through its grant-making, the foundation seeks to develop solutions to the country's most important and challenging domestic policy issues. The foundation invests primarily in scholarship that results in the publication of books, journal articles, and policy papers. Funding is typically provided in the form of research grants, fellowships, and other types of targeted project support. The Searle Freedom Trust also provides funding for public interest litigation and supports outreach to the public through a variety of forums, including sponsorship of research conferences and seminars, film and journalism projects, and new media initiatives.

Simons Foundation: Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Pilot Awards *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 17, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: April 24, 2020

Award Amount: The total budget of a Pilot Award is $300,000 or less, including 20% indirect costs, over a period of up to two (2) years.

Grants awarded through this RFA are intended to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism. Appropriate projects for this mechanism include those considered higher risk with less assurance of ultimate impact, but with the potential for transformative results.  Investigators new to the field of autism are encouraged to apply for these awards.

Smith Richardson Foundation: Strategy & Policy Fellows Program *

FAS/SEAS/OSP: June 8, 2020

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2020

Award Amount: $21,250 for a six- to nine-month fellowship

• AHA Fellowship in Aerospace History
• AHA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology
• HSS Fellowship in Aerospace History

Textbook & Academic Authors Association: Academic & Textbook Writing Grants

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2020 

Sponsor Deadline: April 30, 2020 

Award Amount: up to $1,000

TAA offers two forms of grants to assist members and non-members with some of the expenses related to publishing their academic works and textbooks.

• Publication Grants provide reimbursement for eligible expenses directly related to bringing an academic book, textbook, or journal article to publication.
• Contract Review Grants reimburse eligible expenses for legal review when you have a contract offer for a textbook or academic monograph or other scholarly work that includes royalty arrangements.

UMass Amherst: Du Bois Fellowships *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals

Volkswagen Foundation: Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadlines: July 7, 2020 for Planning Grants; October 15, 2020 for Full Grants

Award Information: Planning Grants up to 150,000 Euros for 9-12 months may be requested. Full Grants will be awarded up to 1.5M Euros for up to 4 years.

 

This funding initiative is aimed primarily at postdoctoral researchers and professors at all career levels in the social and engineering sciences who devote themselves to the challenges of artificial intelligence and society in interdisciplinary research constellations. The integration of the humanities is welcome. Against the background of the current and emerging developments in the field of "Artificial Intelligence," the Foundation wishes to support projects dealing with the development of new perspectives and insights with a view to shaping the future of society as well as technology. The aim is to enable novel project constellations and interdisciplinary cooperation in a highly topical area through a shift in thinking towards new perspectives and solutions. The leading applicant has to be based at a scientific institution in Germany but international collaborations are welcome.

The Foundation offers the option to apply for a planning grant with a duration of nine to twelve months and a maximum funding amount of EUR 150,000 in advance of submitting a full application. The financial support for this "orientation phase" is intended, among other things, to enable the composition of a suitable project team, the identification of a connecting topic, and the preparation as well as formulation of a full proposal (full grant). For longer-term work on a research topic developed by the consortium, applicants may apply for a total funding amount of up to 1.5 million EUR for a duration of up to four years for projects involving up to five working groups.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 24, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: up to $20,000 

Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.

Whiting Foundation: Whiting Public Engagement Fellowships

Deadline for Nomination: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: $50,000

Whiting Foundation: Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grants

Deadline for Nomination: May 1, 2020

Award Amount: up to $10,000

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 29, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: May 6, 2020

Award Amount: $100,000 - $1M over 2-4 years

The Foundation's mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. 

• The "Reducing Inequality" program seeks studies to build, test, and increase understanding of responses to inequality in youth outcomes. The Foundation seeks studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. The program prioritizes studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
• The "Improving the Use of Research Evidence" program seeks studies about how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. The Foundation is particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries.

Department of Defense: Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement for Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research (Fiscal Years 2018-2023)

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline:  5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through April 29, 2023

Award Amount: Research grants and conference grants are available. 

National Endowment for the Humanities: 2021 Summer Stipends *

The fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced Japanese language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents, onsite interviews, or other direct contact in Japanese. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes. Projects may be at any stage of development.

National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions

Sponsor Draft Deadline (optional): April 1, 2020

Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2020­­­­

 

The S10 programs include the  Shared Instrumentation Grant Program ( for direct costs $50,000-$600,000), the  High End Instrumentation Grant Program ( for direct costs $600,001-$2,000,000), and the  Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research Grant Program (SIFAR)  (for direct costs $50,000-$750,000 for instrumentation to support research using animals or related materials). The objective of the NIH S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs is to make available to institutions expensive research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational or clinical areas of biomedical/behavioral research.The program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system.

While there is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit for these opportunities, there are restrictions to applications submitted for similar equipment from the same institution. In order to determine if there are any overlapping requests within Harvard, potential applicants from FAS and SEAS are asked to submit a brief statement of intent to Erin Hale a at  [email protected].  The statement of intent should include the following:

National Science Foundation: Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) *

 

In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States and abroad, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. NSF encourages the research community to respond to this challenge through  existing funding opportunities . In addition, we invite researchers to use the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism, which allows NSF to receive and review proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment as well as quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. Requests for RAPID proposals may be for up to $200K and up to one year in duration. Well-justified proposals that exceed these limits may be entertained. All questions should be directed either to a program officer managing an NSF program with which the research would be aligned or t o  [email protected].

National Science Foundation: Dear Colleague Letter: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) *

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

 

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) complements a separate National Science Foundation (NSF) DCL ( NSF 20-052 ) that referred to the emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and expressed NSF's interest in accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better understand how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19; to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention; and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. Through this DCL, the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering is inviting RAPID proposals and supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities. Such activities would be funded by the  Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) program  or the  Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program . Before submitting a RAPID proposal or supplemental funding request in response to this DCL, investigators must first contact one of the cognizant OAC program officers listed in the DCL to determine whether the proposed activities meet NSF guidelines for these types of submissions.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R): Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships Notice

FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline:  Rolling through December 31, 2020

Award Information: There are no minimum or maximum award amounts, and the period of performance will be determined by the applicant's proposal and subject to negotiation by HUD. HUD is making approximately $1M available for Research Partnerships. Applicants must provide cost sharing for at least 50 percent of the total project cost from philanthropic entities or Federal, state or local government agencies. The number of awards will be based on the number of proposals HUD reviews, approves, and funds.

 

HUD developed the Research Partnerships vehicle to allow greater flexibility in addressing important policy questions and to better utilize external expertise in evaluating the local innovations and effectiveness of programs affecting residents of urban, suburban, rural and tribal areas. Through this notice, HUD can accept unsolicited research proposals that address current research priorities and allow innovative research projects that could inform HUD's policies and programs. The documents that establish a framework for HUD's research priorities are the  HUD Strategic Plan 2018-2022, which specifies the Department's mission and strategic goals for program activities; and the  HUD Research Roadmap: 2017 Update , which is the most recent integration of diverse stakeholder viewpoints into a five-year research and learning agenda. In considering potential research partnerships, PD&R urges organizations to consider ways to take advantage of key research assets, HUD's data infrastructure, that the Roadmap Update identifies as part of HUD's comparative advantage.

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