Foundation Funding

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The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

 

Projects are normally funded for a period of four years. Grants are in the range of $600,000 ($150,000 annually) over the term of the project, contingent upon demonstrated progress after the second year of the award.

Projects proposed for the BYI program should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences. They should represent a departure from current research directions rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged. Proposals that open new avenues of research in chemistry and life sciences by fostering the invention of methods, instruments and materials will be given additional consideration.

• The BYI program funds promising young scientists early in their careers who have not yet received a major award from another organization. Proposals that already have substantial funding will not be considered for the BYI award (see eligibility for more information). 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu

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Our Focus 

 Our grants support the specific types of programs, in specific geographic regions, that we believe address the most pressing needs in the world today. 

 Program Focus 

We believe each of our priority program categories are linked by our overall goal to benefit an entire region. While grants are awarded to some organizations focused on one category, we look for partners who take a more holistic, community-based approach and are committed to delivering positive and sustained results. 

• Agriculture: We support projects working toward agricultural sustainability in developing countries that suffer from the impact of population growth and climate change, poor technology, and policy and management issues. These projects help smallholder farmers with crop management, storage, timely market information, mobile phone-based training services, savings and loan programs, and resource acquisition. 
• Education: We support programs that extend the reach of national education systems to remote and undeserved areas. This includes remedial education, access to technology resources, teacher training, and extracurricular projects. We also support formal and informal education programs in information technology and vocational skills in both rural and city communities that prioritize women and girls. 
• Environment: We support projects designed to address air and water pollution, climate change, soil degradation, exploitation of natural resources, biodiversity loss, deforestation, desertification, and ocean acidification. Our grants focus on projects that ensure water quality and access, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and eliminating vector-borne diseases and exposure to toxic chemicals. 
• Health: We support community primary health programs as well as maternal and child health care. We also support programs that provided general health education including hygiene, family planning, and birth control. Finally, we support programs that extend the reach of healthcare to remote regions and sectors of countries while also working to extend the reach of national health systems. 

Geographic Focus 

We support US-based organizations serving vulnerable populations and communities in many parts of the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. We prioritize countries in which the need is great and the environment allows for successful outcomes. 

For more information, please contact Allison Jones jonesa70@msu.edu. 

Learn More about THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION – Grants for Projects Related to Agriculture, Education, Environment, and Health

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The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity and family income. The Foundation pursues its mission by promoting collaboration among researchers, educators, and other stakeholders via the funding of research and program evaluations that have the potential of informing private funders and public policy.

The Foundation supports research projects that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income for children from birth through age 18. The Foundation is particularly focused on supporting research that is consistent with a strength-based perspective (i.e., recognizes the challenges and trauma historically and currently experienced by different communities as well as each community’s strengths and cultural wealth) and has the potential to inform practice, major philanthropic giving, and/or public policy.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

Learn More about Brady Education Foundation – Research Projects and Existing Program Evaluations

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*Please note this is a limited submission opportunity. Only one applicant can be nominated per institution, per year. Please visit the Office of Research and Innovation for institutionally limited proposal instructions. 

The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early-career faculty in the chemical sciences at primarily undergraduate institutions. The award, which requires an institutional nomination, is based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergraduates, as well as a compelling commitment to teaching. Institutions may submit only one nomination annually. All nominations for this award will be reviewed by the VPRI office.  

The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is open to faculty who meet all of the following criteria: 

• From academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a bachelor’s or master’s degree in the chemical sciences, including chemistry, biochemistry, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. 
• In departments that do not grant a doctoral degree. A potential nominee is ineligible if there is active participation or substantial research productivity in a Ph.D. program of another department or institution, or in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. 
• Hold a full-time tenure-line academic appointment focused on the chemical sciences. 
• Are after the fourth and not after the twelfth years of their independent academic careers, and engaged in independent research and teaching primarily with undergraduates. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson ande2476@msu.edu. 

Learn More about Henry Dreyfus Teacher - Scholar Awards Program

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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention welcomes innovative research studies focused on understanding and preventing suicide. Biological, psychological, social, community and other approaches are of interest, and we encourage multidisciplinary research.

Focus Grants are high-risk, potentially high-yield projects that focus on one of the three areas outlined below. They are awarded in the amount of $550,000 per year for a maximum of three years.

Short Term Risk: Implementation and/or dissemination science related to previously developed, evidence-based assessment(s) and/or intervention(s) for reducing short-term risk for suicide that can be applied in clinical settings.

Reducing the Rate 20%: Explores interventions that target suicide prevention in healthcare systems, emergency departments, corrections settings, or among the gun-owning community, that, if implemented on a large scale, would reduce the annual U.S. suicide rate.

Blue Sky: Conducts innovative, impactful suicide prevention research that, by its very nature, is clearly beyond the scope of our Innovation Grants.

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu

Learn More about American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – Focus Grants

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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention welcomes innovative research studies focused on understanding and preventing suicide. Biological, psychological, social, community and other approaches are of interest, and we encourage multidisciplinary research.

Focus Grants are high-risk, potentially high-yield projects that focus on one of the three areas outlined below. They are awarded in the amount of $550,000 per year for a maximum of three years.

Short Term Risk: Implementation and/or dissemination science related to previously developed, evidence-based assessment(s) and/or intervention(s) for reducing short-term risk for suicide that can be applied in clinical settings.

Reducing the Rate 20%: Explores interventions that target suicide prevention in healthcare systems, emergency departments, corrections settings, or among the gun-owning community, that, if implemented on a large scale, would reduce the annual U.S. suicide rate.

Blue Sky: Conducts innovative, impactful suicide prevention research that, by its very nature, is clearly beyond the scope of our Innovation Grants.

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu

Learn More about American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – Focus Grants

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BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. BrightFocus is committed to supporting scientists from diverse backgrounds to foster creativity and innovation in addressing complex scientific challenges. We strongly encourage applications from individuals who are from groups underrepresented in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research.

The Standard Award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.  Applicant must be allowed by institution to apply for and manage a grant award and mentor students.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu

Learn More about BrightFocus Foundation—Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grants—Standard Awards

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BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. These awards fund projects in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant's own independent research career.  BrightFocus is committed to supporting scientists from diverse backgrounds to foster creativity and innovation in addressing complex scientific challenges. We strongly encourage applications from individuals who are from groups underrepresented in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research. Applicant must be within 5 years of degree conferral.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

Learn More about BrightFocus Foundation—Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program-Post Doctoral Fellowship

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With the increasing number of new therapies being developed for use in MS, there is a need for physicians trained in conducting clinical trials. To this end, the Society established the Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship Program, named in honor of its founder. Clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of therapies for multiple sclerosis are highly complex and require special expertise and knowledge to monitor this highly variable disease. This program provides the individual with an MD or equivalent medical degree with up to 3 years of formal training, under the tutelage of an established investigator, in key elements associated with conducting clinical trials in MS. Residents who have or will have received training in neurology or physiatry in the United States, and who are in the PGY3 or PGY4 stage or beyond, are eligible to apply.

Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellows can request up to $75,000 per year as a stipend for salary, fringe benefits and/or tuition costs. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see NMSS’ funding policies and procedures document (pages 47-49).

For more information, please contact Jess Bitting bitting7@msu.edu. 

Learn More about National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowships

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Physician scientists (scientists with MDs, versus PhDs) are vital to research involving persons with MS. The National MS Society supports training for young clinicians committed to careers in academic medicine with an emphasis on MS research. The Clinician-Scientist Development Award supports 3 years of research training in an environment where talented young clinicians address problems in MS with the most current scientific tools.

Base stipend is determined according to post-graduate year and is supplemented by a $7,850 institutional allowance, see here for a link to current fellowship stipend scales. This award cannot be used to provide support for individuals whose primary responsibility is teaching and/or service. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see NMSS’ funding policies and procedures document (pages 34-37).

For more information, please contact Jess Bitting bitting7@msu.edu

Learn More about National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Clinician Scientist Development Awards

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Our research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, we welcome studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.

We invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education.

Applications for research grants on reducing inequality must:

1. Identify a specific inequality in youth outcomes, and show that the outcomes are currently unequal by engaging with the extant literature on the causes and consequences of inequality
   • We are especially interested in research to reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes.

1. Make a convincing case for the dimension(s) of inequality the study will address
   • We are especially interested in research to reduce inequality along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origin status.

1. Articulate how findings from your research will help build, test, or increase understanding of a program, policy, or practice to reduce the specific inequality that you have identified

Please note: 

• Only studies that 1) align with the stated research interests of this program and 2) relate to the outcomes of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States are eligible for consideration.
• We do not support non-research activities such as program implementation and operational costs, or make contributions to building funds, fundraising drives, endowment funds, general operating budgets, or scholarships. Applications for ineligible projects are screened out without further review.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

Learn More about William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used.

Research evidence can be a powerful resource for policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, and others who make high-stakes decisions that shape youth-serving systems. In addition to informing policy formation and service delivery, evidence from systematic research can deepen decision-makers’ understanding of issues, generate reliable assessment tools, support strategic planning, and guide program improvement. But only if it is used.

Studying ways to improve the use of research evidence will require new and innovative ideas, and we welcome creative studies that have potential to advance the field. Proposals for studies are evaluated on the basis of their fit with our interests; the strength and feasibility of their designs, methods, and analyses; their potential to inform improvements to research use; and their contribution to theory and empirical evidence.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

Learn More about William T. Grant Foundation – Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence

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The Harvest for Health challenge is accelerating the development of underutilized crops to increase the diversity of foods in the marketplace. The initiative focuses on crops that are nutritious and have properties of interest to food and ingredient companies.

Of more than 50,000 known edible plant species, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that only three crops – rice, wheat and maize – account for two-thirds of the world’s food supply. As a result, many nutritious, resilient crops remain underutilized, contributing to poor dietary diversity and health outcomes.

FFAR partnered with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to launch Harvest for Health Challenge to accelerate the development of underutilized crops, increasing the diversity of foods in the marketplace. The model developed through this initiative will predict underutilized crops’ potential as sources of functional and nutritious ingredients that could replace, complement or aid in reformulating the existing food products or developing new ones.

Why Underutilized Crops?
Underutilized crops can help ensure nutritional security in the face of climate change and provide diverse economic opportunities to growers. Additionally, consumers are increasingly seeking healthier, sustainable food products and global flavor-driven food experiences. Introducing new and exciting nutritious foods with various tastes and flavors will expand the food and agriculture industry’s consumer base and contribute to our food system’s health and environmental sustainability.

Breakthrough Crop Challenge
While underutilized crops have incredible functional and nutritional potential, the development of such crops for consumption or use in other products is prohibitively expensive and time-intensive. To attract more private sector investment in underutilized crop development, Harvest for Health is launching the Breakthrough Crop Challenge to develop a predictive model that can screen underutilized crops to determine a crop’s usefulness as a source of functional ingredients or nutrients.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

Learn More about Foundation for Food & Agricultural Research – Harvest for Health Breakthrough Crop Challenge

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The Global Science Summit Programme aims to explore the intersection between major global health and sustainability challenges through fostering scientific discoveries that address the combined impact of non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases, climate change, and related enabling technologies. 

The purpose of the Global Science Summit Programme is to catalyse science-based solutions by supporting international interdisciplinary collaborations that address intersectional challenges between at least 2 of the following areas: 

• climate change 
• non-communicable disease, in particular cardiometabolic diseases 
• infectious diseases 
• related enabling technologies. 

The collaboration should provide more than just a compounding of individual skills, but rather strive to synergistically combine perspectives, theories, data, experimental approaches and/or concepts across fields to generate novel results addressing the above-mentioned global challenges. 

Eligibility 

The programme supports collaborations between 2-3 research groups (the main applicant plus 1-2 co-applicants). Proposals must demonstrate interdisciplinarity and international engagement by including co-applicants from different disciplines and potentially from different nations. Disciplines does not refer to the education or formal position of the applicants, but rather their ongoing work expertise. 

Guiding principles on eligibility include: 

• The Global Science Summit Programme seeks to actively engage researchers from all over the world, but applicants must be established investigators and must be employed at the administrating institution registered in the proposal for the duration of the project. 
• The administrating institution/organization must be able to accept and manage the potential grant. Projects can be anchored at any type of non-profit research organization, including universities, hospitals, and other not-for profit organizations. 
• Collaboration with researchers in non-academic sectors is allowed, however industrial partner(s) cannot receive direct funding through this programme. 
• The principal investigator (PI), who leads the project and submits the proposal, is limited to one submission per call as the main applicant. However, co-applicants may participate in multiple proposals, and a main applicant in one proposal may serve as a co-applicant or collaborator in other proposals. 

For more information, please contact Allison Jones?jonesa70@msu.edu.

Learn More about Novo Nordisk Foundation – Global Science Summit Programme 2024

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The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) is pleased to announce a call for proposals supporting the health of dogs through investigations promoting their physical activity and healthy aging. This call supports the well-being and performance of all dogs. Studies may focus on dogs involved in specific activities, such as canine athletes participating in performance and companion sports or working dogs. Proposals fostering evidence-based medicine are strongly encouraged. Projects may encompass?basic science, translational, clinical, epidemiological, or outcomes-based research. 

Investigators may submit proposals in any of the 23 Research Program Areas listed in the RFP. However, we particularly emphasize preventive and early intervention in canine medicine and health, specifically through the Musculoskeletal Conditions & Disease and General Canine Health research program areas. 

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

Learn More about AKC-Canine Health Foundation—2024 Active Dog Wellness RFP

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The BrightFocus Foundation is a premier private funder of research to defeat Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. 

The foundation invites applications for its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program, which will award grants to researchers pursuing pioneering research that to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. 

The ADR program offers two types of awards:

Standard Awards: Grants of $300,000 over three years will be awarded to researchers who have already generated some preliminary data but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies. Applicants must be allowed by the institution to apply for and manage a grant award and mentor students.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards: Grants of $200,000 over two years will be awarded to young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. These awards fund projects in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant’s own independent research career. Applicants must be within five years of degree conferral.

Letters of intent are due August 2, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due December 20, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. 

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the BrightFocus Foundation website.

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu.

Learn More about BrightFocus Foundation – Alzheimer’s Research Grant

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The foundation invites applications for its Career Development Grant program, which aims to encourage investigators to commit to scientific research. Through the program, a grant of up to $300,000 over three years will be awarded. Research may be basic, translational, clinical and/or health sciences.

To be eligible, an orthopaedic surgeon must serve as the principal investigator (PI), co-investigator or MPI. The orthopaedic surgeon PI must be licensed to practice in the United States and be working in an institution in the U.S. A PhD may serve as the co-principal investigator (PI) or MPI and must hold a faculty appointment in an orthopaedic department at an institution in the U.S. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu.

Learn More about Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation – Career Development Grant

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Solicits investigator-initiated clinical research proposals that stimulate clinical research and provide funding for promising studies to find solutions to problems of diversity, equity, inclusion, and disparities in orthopaedics. The inequities are well established. We are seeking research for improving the current culture, practical solutions and improving outcomes. All proposed projects are expected to generate results that have a practical application.

The OREF and the RJOS are seeking funding for collaborative research studies, especially those focusing solutions in the following areas, although other areas of disparity in orthopaedic practice will be considered:

• Solutions to reduce gender inequities in orthopaedic care.
• Strategies to reduce gender inequities in orthopaedic research.
• Solutions to reduce injury differences/diagnoses influenced by gender.
• Solutions to reduce sex differences in sports injuries.
• Promotion of diversity in orthopaedic Surgical Training.

For complete program guidelines, eligibility, and application instructions, see website.

For more information, please contact Jess Bitting bitting7@msu.edu

Learn More about Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation D.E.I. and Disparities in Orthopaedic Health Care Research Grant

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Advances the scientific training of the next generation of orthopaedic clinician scientists by providing seed and start-up funding for promising research projects.

OREF requires an Orthopaedic Surgeon licensed to practice in the U.S. and working in an U.S. institution in the role of principal investigator (PI). Residents, fellows, and orthopaedic surgeons having completed formal training within the last four years may apply.

For complete program guidelines, eligibility, and application instructions, see website.

For more information, please contact Jess Bitting bitting7@msu.edu

Learn More about Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation New Investigator Grant

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With the increasing number of new therapies being developed for use in MS, there is a need for physicians trained in conducting clinical trials. To this end, the Society established the Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship Program, named in honor of its founder. Clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of therapies for multiple sclerosis are highly complex and require special expertise and knowledge to monitor this highly variable disease. This program provides the individual with an MD or equivalent medical degree with up to 3 years of formal training, under the tutelage of an established investigator, in key elements associated with conducting clinical trials in MS. Residents who have or will have received training in neurology or physiatry in the United States, and who are in the PGY3 or PGY4 stage or beyond, are eligible to apply.

Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellows can request up to $75,000 per year as a stipend for salary, fringe benefits and/or tuition costs. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see NMSS’ funding policies and procedures document (pages 47-49).

For more information, please contact Jess Bitting bitting7@msu.edu. 

Learn More about National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowships