Are you a social or behavioral scientist whose federally funded research has been disrupted by recent changes or cancellations? Two new private foundation opportunities are available to provide rapid support and help you maintain research momentum.
Grants of up to $25,000 are available to help scholars address immediate needs after a grant has been cancelled. Eligible uses include:
- Completing a wave of data collection
- Analyzing existing data
- Writing up findings
- Closing out projects with community partners
- Preparing new grant proposals
Eligibility:
- Your research must focus on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education, MSIs, or reducing inequality).
- You must have had a recently terminated or cancelled NSF grant.
- Early-career scholars will be prioritized when possible.
Deadlines: May 30, 2025, and June 13, 2025
This opportunity supports timely, action-oriented research in response to disrupted federal funding, with a focus on:
- Advancing racial and Indigenous health equity
- Supporting community-led research and solutions grounded in the expertise of marginalized communities
Eligibility:
- You must demonstrate that your health equity research was impacted by a loss of federal funding (documentation required).
- Open to U.S.-based organizations with Project Directors from diverse personal and professional backgrounds.
- Strongly encouraged:
- Researchers with underrepresented lived experiences (e.g., Indigenous, Black, Latino, and other communities of color)
- Early to mid-career researchers focused on antiracist or anticolonial approaches
- Applicants not currently leading an RWJF-funded project or receiving over 25% of salary from one
- All organizations based in the United States are eligible to apply.
Deadline: May 28, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CT