External Funding Opportunities

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.

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI): Instrument Acquisition or Development, NSF. The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations

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. 

Partnerships for Innovation, NSF. The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program's broad goals are identifying and supporting NSF-sponsored research and technologies that have the potential for accelerated commercialization. 

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science, NSF. The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science program supports authentic summer research experiences for K-14 educators to foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts, and industry partners. 

Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, NSF. The purpose of the NSF-Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) is to support a research institute to enable innovative research at the intersection of mathematical and biological sciences to facilitate new developments of biology-inspired mathematical theories, methodologies, and innovative modeling approaches to advance the understanding of challenging biological problems. 

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.

NIDA Coordinating Center for the HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Cohorts Program, NIH. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support a coordinating center (CC), which will coordinate research efforts across the NIDA funded longitudinal cohorts that address emerging and high priority research on HIV/AIDS in the context of substance use and substance use disorders (SUD). 

NIDDK/NHGRI Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, NIH. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for new investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences research, to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) or the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

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