Featured Funding Opportunities

The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The fellowship is open to untenured scholars who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences on or after September 29, 2015.

ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. 

Fellowship Details

• Maximum award: $60,000
• Tenure: six to twelve months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, and to be completed by December 31, 2025. Six months of the fellowship tenure must be consecutive, but any remainder of the fellow’s award term can be taken separately at a later date within the eligible award window. (See FAQ for more information.)
• This year, the fellowship is open to untenured scholars, working on or off the tenure track, who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences on or after September 29, 2015.
• ACLS will begin accepting applications in July 2023. Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS online fellowship and grant administration system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, September 28, 2023.
• Notifications will be sent via email in late March 2024.

Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant's potential impact.

• Early Childhood Welfare - supports projects that seek to perfect child rearing practices and to identify models that can provide creative, caring environments in which all young children thrive.

• Early Childhood Education and Play - seeks to improve the quality of both early childhood teaching and learning, through the development of innovative curricula and research based pedagogical standards, as well as the design of imaginative play materials and learning environments.

• Parenting Education - supports programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child rearing differences, pedagogy, issues of health, prenatal care and diet, as well as programs which provide both cognitive and emotional support to parents.

To reflect its commitment in pediatric oncology, Recordati decided that the 11th edition of the International Prize for Scientific Research Arrigo Recordati will be dedicated to the promotion and recognition of excellence in research on pediatric oncology, specifically neuroblastoma.
 
Young investigators of all nationalities working in this area are eligible.
Applicants should be independent junior faculty who are not more than ten years from their terminal degree or eight years from the end of their fellowship and who are not employed full-time with a pharmaceutical company.
 
Basic, translational, preclinical, and clinical research projects focusing on neuroblastoma are eligible.

The Genentech Career Development Award for Underrepresented Minority Emerging Vision Scientists provides research funding to early-career underrepresented minority (URM) investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment and are working to establish an independent vision research program.

The intent of the award is to provide URM investigators who are early in their careers with an opportunity to explore novel and innovative research project ideas. The award is intended to provide resources to promote the generation of promising preliminary results that may be leveraged to catalyze success in earning additional, longer-term funding support, as well as the authorship of impactful scientific publications.

The successful applicant will have strong scientific mentorship support at their home institution. ARVO will match the recipient with a mentor outside of their home institution to provide support related to career advancement. This mentor will be a senior member of the eye and vision research community thoughtfully selected from the ARVO membership to ensure a productive, meaningful mentorship relationship.

Through the E² Energy to Educate grant program, Constellation offers students from sixth grade through college opportunities to address the energy challenges of today and tomorrow. Grant funds support projects designed to enhance students’ understanding of science and technology and inspire them to think differently about energy. 

Applicants should identify a project that reaches at least 100 students and aligns with the Constellation Energy to Educate Innovation Themes:

• Equity in Energy
• Sustainability as a Lifestyle
• A Sustainable World

This award honors David L. Epstein, MD, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential leaders in the world of glaucoma and glaucoma research over the past 40 years. The award was created by Dr. Epstein’s family to perpetuate and honor his commitment to the scientific understanding and cure of glaucoma through the support of promising clinician-scientists in exceptional research environments. It is the intent of the donors that this award further Dr. Epstein's long-standing determination and interest in solving the complex issues of glaucoma through well-conceived and executed scientific research focused on finding the causes and new treatments for the disease.

The Genentech Career Development Award for Underrepresented Minority Emerging Vision Scientists provides research funding to early-career underrepresented minority (URM) investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment and are working to establish an independent vision research program. The award provides a two-year grant totaling $100,000 to support research and personnel costs.

The intent of the award is to provide URM investigators who are early in their careers with an opportunity to explore novel and innovative research project ideas. The award is intended to provide resources to promote the generation of promising preliminary results that may be leveraged to catalyze success in earning additional, longer-term funding support, as well as the authorship of impactful scientific publications.

The successful applicant will have strong scientific mentorship support at their home institution.  ARVO will match the recipient with a mentor outside of their home institution to provide support related to career advancement. This mentor will be a senior member of the eye and vision research community thoughtfully selected from the ARVO membership to ensure a productive, meaningful mentorship relationship.

The Free Family Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation Fighting Blindness, has committed funding over the next five years to advance potential treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration.  The Foundation Fighting Blindness will make an award for a meritorious research proposal that proposes to understand pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the transition from aging to early, dry AMD. If successful, the research will inform the design of targeted treatment for the greatest number of people afflicted with early AMD and prevent blindness from late AMD.  Proposals must:

• Focus on early, dry AMD  
• Determine the most relevant pathophysiologic pathways and their interactions with other pathways that cause early AMD lesions
• Include two PIs with distinct areas of scientific expertise who will implement a multidisciplinary project with a team science approach on a topic that is not optimally served by a single laboratory.  
• Use animal or cellular models that best address AMD pathobiology
• Demonstrate that the outcome will have direct impact on AMD 

The intent with this RFP is to support IBD related research initiatives focused on following:

Precision medicine approach which is the tailoring of medical treatment to the individual patient, encompassing a multitude of data-driven (including multi-omic) approaches to foster appropriate clinical decision making.  Examples would include:

• Identifying clinical or laboratory characteristics of patients who have mild disease or remain in long-term remission, and studying whether patients with comorbidities have a different disease course  
• Collecting data on access to care for patients from underserved communities in order to tailor treatments more specifically
• Meta-analysis or Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to further characterize potential differences underrepresented groups vs. general population in terms of disease course or treatment response

Research on ways to improve IBD management among underserved groups, such as treat to target approaches

Studies quantifying the socio-economic and psychological burden of IBD and its correlation with social determinants of health 

New changes for this new grant cycle are as follows:

• Disaster Preparedness is now a Tier 2 Priority Impact focus. Grants of up to $30,000 will be made to support nonprofit organizations and programs that address the emergency preparedness needs of people living with paralysis in a natural disaster environment.
• Nursing Home Transition is elevated to a Tier 4 Priority Impact focus. Funding is increased to up to $50,000 and the project timeline is extended to two years.

Direct Effect (Tier 1) grants offer up to $25,000 to nonprofit organizations for a wide range of projects that clearly impact individuals living with paralysis, their families, and caregivers. Approximately 30 grants will be awarded.

Priority Impact (Tiers 2, 3 & 4) offers three increasing levels of grant funding. Each tier is targeted to focus on a Priority issue for the community of individuals living with paralysis and their families, and caregivers as follows:

Tier 2 -- Grants of up to $30,000 for the following Priority areas:

• Assistive Technology
• Disaster Preparedness
• Respite/Caregiving
   

Tier 3 -- Grants of up to $40,000

• Racial Equity
• Rural Unserved and Underserved Populations
   

Tier 4 -- Grants of up to $50,000

• Employment
• Nursing Home Transition