External Funding Opportunities

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
American Council of Learned Societies 
Arnold Foundation
Ford Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
W.T. Grant Foundation
Haynes Foundation
Henry Luce Foundation
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
Knight Foundation
National Endowment for Democracy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robin Hood Foundation
Russell Sage Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Social Science Research Council
Sociological Initiatives Foundation 
Spencer Foundation
Tinker Foundation
Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 
United States Institute of Peace 
United States–Japan Foundation 

 

Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, NSF. The Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research to develop and advance scientific knowledge about humans spanning areas of inquiry including brain and behavior, language and culture, origins and evolution, and geography and the environment.

Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR), National Institute of Aging/NIH. The BSR supports social, behavioral, and economic research and research training on the processes of aging at both the individual and societal level.

Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, NSF. The Division of Social and Economic Sciences seeks to enhance our understanding of human, social and organizational behavior by building social science infrastructure, by developing social disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects that advance knowledge in the social and economic sciences.

Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, NSF. This office provides a focal point for programmatic activities that cut across NSF and SBE boundaries and is SBE’s broadest mechanism for contributing to Administration and NSF priorities.

Population Dynamics Branch (PDB), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH. The PDB supports research and research training in demography, reproductive health, and population health.

Fulbright-Hays Program. The program provides grants to pre-doctoral students, postdoctoral faculty, U.S. institutions, and organizations for overseas research and training efforts focusing on non-Western foreign languages and area studies.

Better Software for Science, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Energy & Environment, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 

Rapid Response Fund, Atkinson Center

Civil Society Grants (South Africa), Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Environmental Grants: Transforming Development Finance (Asia & Latin America), Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

US–Cuba Relations Grants, Christopher Reynolds Foundation

Engaged Learning Grants, Engaged Cornell

Just Films Grant, The Ford Foundation

Governance, Norms and Values—Research on the Future Internet, Knight Foundation

International Funding Opportunities, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Secure and Trustworthy Cyber Space (SaTC), National Science Foundation

Research Coordination Networks (RCN), National Science Foundation

High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archeology (HRRBAA), National Science Foundation

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DEL-DDRIG), National Science Foundation

Grants, Scholarships, & Fellowships, Open Society Foundations

Latin America Program, Open Society Foundations

New Executives Fund, Open Society Foundations

Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, Open Society Foundations

Latin America and Caribbean Program Grants, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Unsolicited Concept Papers and Proposals, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Grants and Fellowships, United States Environmental Protection Agency