External Funding Opportunities & GrantForward
Current Funding Opportunities
Current Funding Opportunities
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Funding Opportunity Number: PD 98-1311
Grant Submission Due: January 15, 2026
The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to):
- What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
- What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
- How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of natural language and/or language processing?
- What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various grammatical properties of language?
- How does language develop in natural learning contexts across the life-span?
-What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?
Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 23-510
Grant Submission Due: January 21, 2026
NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EDU supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings. IUSE: EDU also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development.
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NSF Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Enriching Learning, Programs, and Student Experiences (HSI:ELPSE)
Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 24-551
Grant Submission Due: February 11, 2026
The Hispanic Serving Institutions: Enriching Learning, Programs, and Student Experiences (HSI:ELPSE)solicitation is specifically focused on studying and improving the student experience in the following settings:
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STEM courses, particularly for students pursuing STEM degrees;
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Certificate, minor, and/or degree programs;
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Academic departments or divisions; and
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Schools and colleges that represent a partof the entire institution (e.g., a School of Engineering or a College of Natural Sciences).
Institutions are encouraged to consider how their mission and designation as an HSI could reimagine and/or strengthen courses, degree programs, departments, or divisions. The HSI:ELPSE solicitation welcomes projects that look to implement, test and refine promising practices and/or conduct research related to broadening participation or improving recruitment, retention, graduation and other positive outcomes for undergraduates in STEM.
Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 23-601
Grant Submission Due: August 19, 2026
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for supporting student research:
- REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department or may offer interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme.
- REU Supplements may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements or may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects.
REU projects with an international dimension are welcome.
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-ES-25-002
Grant Submission Due: April 20, 2027
This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) invites grant applications for Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC). As intellectual hubs for environmental health science research, the EHSCC's are expected to be the thought leaders for the field and advance the goals of the 2025-2029 NIEHS Strategic Plan (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/strategicplan/). The Core Centers provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services and/or resources, to groups of investigators conducting environmental health sciences research. An EHSCC enables researchers to conduct their independently-funded individual and/or collaborative research projects more efficiently and/or more effectively. The overall goal of an EHSCC is to identify and capitalize on emerging issues that advance improving the understanding of the relationships among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. The EHSCC supports community engagement and translational research as key approaches to improving public health.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant Submission Due: February 25, 2026
Description: The purpose of the Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools is to support small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for health professional, undergraduate and graduate students and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions.
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-25-298
Award Amount: Up to $375,000 in direct costs, excluding consortium F&A, for the entire project period of up to 3 years.
Grant Submission Due: January 27, 2026
Description: The BRE-SPAD program is intended to support the development of biomedical research capacity. The biomedical research enterprise includes a range of research, including basic science, behavioral, social science, as well as translational and clinical research, and will be described hereafter as biomedical research. The BRE-SPAD program aims to support the needs of organizations that are in different stages of biomedical research capacity building. The BRE-SPAD program will support activities in the following areas (1-3). All applications should propose plans in at least two of the funding areas listed below:
- Sponsored Programs Administration Development: For activities to increase sponsored programs administration capabilities, including staff, resources, training, policy development and other activities related to grants, contracts, activities to increase organizational funds available for research, and technology transfer.
- Research Environment: For activities to cultivate growth in research and research education activities. Example activities include, but are not limited to, faculty grant writing training, student research training activities, course-based research development, research symposia, and research oversight policies and implementation.
- Pilot Research Project Program: For the development of a program to administer internal pilot research project funding to faculty conducting biomedical research with the goal of generating preliminary data to enhance the competitiveness of securing external research funding.
Funding Opportunity Number: PA-24-268
Award Amount: Application budgets for direct costs should not exceed $500,000/year over 5 years.
Foundation Funding Opportunities
Grant Deadline Date: Registration deadline on December 1, 2025 and an application deadline (if invited) on February 17, 2026.
Description: The Mellon Foundation has released the Higher Learning Program Open Call for Concepts to support inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import. Projects should engage teams of scholars and/or students, and have visible, enduring impact at the institution and focus on 1 of the following areas of research: Unruly Intelligences and Normalization and its Discontents.
Aspen Institute, Pivotal: Workplace Innovation Now Challenge
Grant Deadline Date: Online registration is due by December 11, 2025.
Description: The goal of this RFP is to discover and scale bold ideas to help women thrive and everyone win in a rapidly changing workplace. The foundational vision is that when workplaces are designed with the needs of women in mind, they’re better places for everyone to work—and the benefits will be felt across communities and the economy at large. Supported by Pivotal, the $60 million grant competition aims to source and scale innovative solutions to address barriers like caregiving responsibilities and biases that tend to disproportionately impact women and are harmful for everyone. This is especially true at a time when innovative technologies, such as AI, are accelerating the pace of change within workplaces.
Eligibility: IHEs (among other entities) are eligible to apply.
William T. Grant Foundation
Two opportunities:
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
This program funds research studies that examine programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status (e.g., LGBTQ+ youth), language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Grant Deadline Dates: January 7/July 29 (LOI)
Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
NEW THIS YEAR: We will prioritize applications that investigate strategies to improve the use of research evidence around controversial issues and in polarized contexts. This program funds research studies that examine strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We seek proposals for studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, public agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, community organizers, and other decisionmakers that generally shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
Grant Deadline Dates: January 7/July 29 (LOI)
Grant Deadline Date: January 9, 2026 at 5:00pm
Description: Impact100 Garden State is offering $100,000 grants to support impact in our region. Beginning Monday, November 17, eligible organizations—including those with existing, new, or expanding programs—may register online to view and download the grant application.
Grant Deadline Dates, annually: January 15 (LOI)/June 1 (Application), April 15 (LOI)/September 1 (Application), October 1 (LOI)/February 15 (Application)
This foundation's grant program assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior. The Foundation does not support research focused primarily on disease(s) unless it will also provide insights into normal functioning.
Full Proposal Deadline: February 15, 2026, 4 pm EST
Description: The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving common, everyday problems or emerging issues within our defined focus area. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. The board is particularly looking for practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable time frame to clinical application.
Major Research Award Award Amount: $350,000
Eligibility: Experienced Principal Investigators
Novice Research Award Award Amount: $30,000
Eligibility: Physicians, PhD candidates, PharmD candidates, and other similar degree candidates.
- In a residency, postdoctoral, or fellowship training program or those who are no more than one year post training
- Have not received a K01 award from the National Institutes of Health
- Have an assigned mentor for the project and a current development plan
ORSP is pleased to announce that faculty, staff, and students now have access to the GrantForward database. GrantForward is a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research.
- GrantForward covers more than 20,000 sponsors worldwide to provide a comprehensive database of more than 83,000 funding opportunities linked with over 6,000 pre-solicitations and 2.1M funded awards that continues to grow with the most up-to-date information.
- GrantForward’s powerful search system helps to lessen the hassle of searching for grants with advanced search filters and specialized search features.
- GrantForward researcher profiles allow researchers to highlight their research achievements and interests to receive personalized grant recommendations that match their research needs.
GrantForward Training Resources
Access the Recording of the entire Webinar "Moving Your Next Project Forward with GrantForward" from Oct 25, 2024 here.
or access FAQ info in these additional resources:
- How do I find a grant? Video or PDF
- How do I receive grant recommendations? Video or PDF
- How do I learn strategic information using GratForward databases? Video or PDF
- Visit GrantForward YouTube Channel for other instruction videos.
- Visit the GrantForward Support page for the complete list of resources.
Create Your GrantForward Account and Researcher Profile
- Start moving your research forward by accessing this Single Sign-On URL https://www.grantforward.com/saml/kean and sign in using your institution account or
- Go to GrantForward.com, enter your institutional email address in the Log In (at the upper-right corner), then click outside of the Email Address input box to trigger the email recognition. When your email is detected, choose “Click here to use Single-Sign-On".
- For personalized grant recommendations delivered to your inbox, create your researcher profile (See this Tutorial demo for help creating your researcher profile) and configure your profile to receive grant recommendations (For help in setting this up, view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvMkfxgTxxY).