Funding Opportunities

New Funding Opportunities - May 2022

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Hispanic/Minority Serving Institutions Funding

• NEW! ED - Higher Education Programs (HEP): Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program (Title V) - enable HSIs to expand and enhance the academic offerings, program quality, faculty quality, and institutional stability of colleges and universities, help large numbers of Hispanic students and other low‑income individuals complete postsecondary degrees - June 6, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NSF - Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) - program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. CREST promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty, and an expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines – December 2, 2022 deadline​
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• ​ ​NEW! NSF - LSAMP National Coordination Hub and Louis Stokes Community Resource Centers – diversify the nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to individuals from populations underrepresented in these disciplines – January 9, 2023 deadline
  
  
• DOD – FY22 DOD Research and Education Program for HBCU and MSI – seeks unclassified research proposals, basic or applied, from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) in research topics of interest to DoD and ONR – May 6, 2022 deadline​

• NIH - Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions - unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in developing, implementing, or disseminating innovative and effective interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and advance health equity – May 23, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NSF - Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (IUSE-HSI) – to enhance the quality of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students – deadline August 31, 2022​
  
  

• Anticipated Deadlines
• ED - Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) - designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education - expected early 2022
  
• ED – IES Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences - Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions – expected September 2022
  
  

STEM Funding

• NEW! NSF - Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE) - focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved – August 18, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW!  NSF - Scholarships in STEM Network - foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles, target audience for dissemination is community concerned with success of low-income STEM students – February 20, 2023 deadline​
  
  
• ​NEW! DOD - FY22 Office of Naval Research STEM Program - provide solutions that establish, build, and/or maintain STEM educational pathways and workforce opportunities for diverse U.S. citizens directly relevant to ONR science and technology areas – March 31, 2023 deadline
  

• DOD – FY22 Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program - provide solutions that establish, build, and/or maintain STEM educational pathways and workforce opportunities for diverse U.S. citizens directly relevant to AFOSR science and technology areas – May 13, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NSF – ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions - goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession – August 5, 2022 deadline​​
  
  
• DOD – Department of Navy (DON) STEM Education and Workforce Program - encourages programs that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students of all ages and the naval related workforce – September 2, 2022 deadline

• Anticipated Deadlines
• ​​NSF – EHR Core Research​ – Building Capacity in STEM Education Research – expected deadline October 6, 2023
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Education Funding

• ​NEW! ED - TRIO Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program​ - awards discretionary grants to institutions of higher education for projects designed to provide disadvantaged college students with effective preparation for doctoral study - April 25, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! ED – International Foreign Language Education (IFLE): Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program – grants for planning, developing, and carrying out projects to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages – May 31, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NIH - Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity - support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research – May 31, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! USDA - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education and Workforce Development Program - developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences – October 27, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEH – Preservation and Access Education and Training - support the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections – May 17, 2022 deadline​
  

• NIH - Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Educational Diversity (ESTEEMED) Research Education Experiences (R25) - educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research – LOI due May 24, 2022, deadline June 24, 2022
  
  
• Anticipated Deadlines
• ED - TRIO Veterans Upward Bound Program - to motivate and assist veterans in the development of academic and other requisite skills necessary for acceptance and success in a program of postsecondary education - expected April 2022
  
• ED - Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) - to support or establish campus-based child care programs primarily serving the needs of low-income students enrolled in IHEs - expected Summer 2022
• USDA – AFRI – Education and Workforce Development - developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences – expected March 2022
  

Arts and Humanities Funding

• ​NEW! NEH - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources - supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. It strengthens efforts to extend the reach of humanities collections and make their intellectual content widely accessible – July 19, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NEH – Summer Stipends - for individuals to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities (organizations are not el​igible to apply). Summer Stipends support continuous, full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months – September 21, 2022 deadline​
  
  
• NEH – Research and Development - to support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources – May 17, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEH - Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants - Capital Projects support the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities for humanities activities. Digital Infrastructure projects support the maintenance, modernization, and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects - May 17, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEH – Digital Projects for the Public - supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats – June 8, 2022 deadline
  
  
• ​NEA – Grants for Arts Projects – varied discipline descriptions and project types, one submission per component – July 7, 2022 deadline​​

Other Funding

• NEW! NIH - Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16) - to develop and sustain research excellence in U.S. higher education institutions that receive limited NIH research support and serve students from groups underrepresented in biomedical research – May 26, 2022 and 2023 deadlines
  
  
• NEW! NSF - Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology - will support awards that leverage the work of professional societies towards facilitating necessary culture change in the biological sciences to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at systemic level – July 1, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NIH - Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25) - to support educational activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce by (1) increasing the pool of current and future Ph.D.-level research scientists from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical neuroscience research; and (2) facilitating the career advancement/transition of the participants to the next step of their neuroscience careers – September 26, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NIH - National Cancer Institute Youth Enjoy Science Research Education Program (R25) - to facilitate the education of students from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research who will become knowledgeable about cancer, and available to focus on cancer later in their careers – September 28, 2023 deadline
  
  
• NEW! NIH - Providing Research Education Experiences to Enhance Diversity in the Next Generation of Substance Use and Addiction Scientists (R25) - support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research – deadlines to November 15, 2023
  
  
• NEW! NIH – NCI Mentored Research Scientist Awards to Promote Diversity (K01) - to enhance the diversity of thought in the NCI-funded cancer research workforce by supporting eligible individuals from diverse backgrounds, including groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, social and clinical sciences – standard due dates to November 13, 2024
  
  
• NEW! NIH - Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (R21) - support for new investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical research, to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK, NHGRI, NBIB, and participating Institutes and Centers – deadlines to June 16, 2024
  
  
• NEW! NSF - Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD) - creating a network of champions who can generate greater implementation of evidence-based best practices and resources to promote belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (BAJEDI) throughout the geoscience education, research enterprise and workforce – rolling deadlines

• DOD – FY23 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation – May 13, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NSF – Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)​ - awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization – July 25, 2022 deadline
  
  
• DOD – FY23 DoD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) - addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before – September 9, 2022 deadline
  
  
• NSF - Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) and Research Opportunity Awards (ROA) - support PUI faculty in research that engages them in their professional field(s), builds capacity for research at their home institution, and supports the integration of research and undergraduate education – open submissions, but PIs should contact relevant program officers for information on cut-off dates

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• NEW! CMS - Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP) - supports research on the discovery and characterization of health processes, practices, behaviors, and burdens or issues related to CMS programs, policies, and operations, that influence health equity – expected June 2022​