This list is in progress – if you are interested in pursuing research from an external sponsor that is not on this list, please reach out to the Office of Sponsored Programs at grants@bmcc.cuny.edu.
If you are interested in pursuing any opportunities listed here, please contact Grants Coordinator Jovanne Augustin (Jaugustin@bmcc.cuny.edu).
Art & Music
| Sponsor: | The American Bach Society |
| Discipline: | Classical Music |
| Project: | William H. Scheide Research Grants |
| URL: | https://americanbachsociety.org/research.html |
| Eligibility: | Junior faculty, independent scholars, senior faculty; US citizens |
| Overview: | Founded in 1972, the American Bach Society supports the study, performance, and appreciation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the United States and Canada. The William H. Scheide Research Grants provide support for research projects on Bach or figures in his circle. The funds may be used to defray travel costs, acquire reproductions of primary sources, or for similar purposes. Applications should include a research proposal of no more than three double-spaced pages, along with a curriculum vitae and a budget. The committee will favor proposals that include concrete statements of (1) the materials to be consulted (specific scores, books, instruments, etc.) if research in libraries or archives is proposed, and why it is necessary to examine them on-site; (2) a clear itinerary if travel is involved; and (3) the nature of the ultimate outcome of the research (book, article, edition, etc.). |
| Award: | $500 to $2,000 |
| Deadline: | Annually |
| Sponsor: | Chamber Music America |
| Discipline: | Classical Music; Jazz Music |
| Project: | Classical Commissioning Program |
| URL: | https://chambermusicamerica.org/grants |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) Organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The Classical Commissioning Program provides grants to professional U.S.-based presenters and ensembles whose programming includes Western European and/or non-Western classical and contemporary music. Grants are provided for the commissioning and performance of new works by American composers. The program supports works scored for 2–10 musicians performing one per part, composed in any of the musical styles associated with contemporary classical music. Commissions are funded by The Mellon Foundation. |
| Award: | $9,000 to $37,000 |
| Deadline: | May 16, 2024 – Classical Commissioning Program Grant 2024-Closed – New Jazz Works |
| Sponsor: | The Doris Duke Foundation |
| Discipline: | Jazz, Contemporary Dance, and Theater |
| Project: | Performing Arts Technology Lab |
| URL: | https://www.dorisduke.org/funding-areas/performing-arts/technologies-lab/ |
| Eligibility: | Individuals, Partnerships, Organizations |
| Overview: | This initiative aims to support and nurture expansive ideas that seek to experiment with the potential of digital tools in the creation, presentation and distribution of performing arts. The lab is a space for individuals and organizations at all levels of technical expertise who seek to experiment at the intersection of technology and the performing arts. |
| Award: | Lab participants will benefit from a range of supports, including funding, access to a production advisor, knowledge and network-building opportunities |
| Deadline: | May 6, 2024 |
| Sponsor: | Grammy Museum |
| Discipline: | Music |
| Project: | Scientific Research Projects |
| URL: | https://grammymuseum.org/national-reach/grant-program/ |
| Eligibility: | Organizations and Individuals |
| Overview: | Each year, the GRAMMY Museum Grant Program awards grants to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals, and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design and innovative research questions. Research that has broad public accessibility (i.e. available at no cost via publications and/or conferences) will generally be given priority over projects that have limited public access (i.e. for pure science or shared solely in limited groups). |
| Award: | $20,000 for up to 24 months |
| Deadline: | Annually |
| Sponsor: | Pollock Krasner Foundation |
| Discipline: | Visual Art |
| Project: | To provide financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend residency, and offset living expenses. |
| URL: | https://pkf.org/apply/ |
| Eligibility: | Visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers |
| Overview: | The foundation provides financial resources for visual artists. The foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues such as gallery and museum spaces. |
| Award: | Up to $50,000 for a year |
| Deadline: | No deadline |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) |
| Discipline: | Art, Dance, Music |
| Project: | Research Grants in the Arts |
| URL: | https://www.arts.gov/grants/research-awards/research-grants-in-the-arts/program-description#eligibility |
| Eligibility: | Hispanic-Serving/Minority-Serving Institutions |
| Overview: | Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. At the end of the grant period, Research Grants in the Arts awardees will be required to submit a 20-50-page research paper (Product Requirement). |
| Award: | $10,000 to $30,000 |
| Deadline: | Annual |
| Note: | Opportunities that require matching funds or disallow indirect funds must first be approved by the Office of Sponsored Programs |
| Sponsor: | New York Women Composers |
| Discipline: | Music |
| Project: | Seed Money Grants |
| URL: | https://newyorkwomencomposers.org/seed-money-grants/ |
| Eligibility: | Solo performers, ensembles, presenting organizations |
| Overview: | The New York Women Composers’ annual Seed Money Grant Program awards grants of $1,000 each for a concert project that includes a substantial commitment to the performance of music by NYWC members. (Note: This is not a commissioning grant.) Applicants do not need to be members of New York Women Composers, and the concerts are not required to take place in New York State. |
| Award: | $1,000 |
| Deadline: | Mid-April annually, the 2025 Seed Money Grant application deadline will be announced next spring. |
| Sponsor: | Foundation for Contemporary Arts |
| Discipline: | Performance and Visual Arts |
| Project: | Emergency Grants Fund |
| URL: | https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants/ |
| Eligibility: | Individual artists – apply directly |
| Overview: | Emergency Grants are for artists who: have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. |
| Award: | Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900 |
| Deadline: | Rolling; awards within about 8 weeks |
| Sponsor: | Teiger Foundation |
| Discipline: | Visual Art; Curation |
| Project: | Teiger Foundation 2024 Call for Proposals |
| URL: | https://teigerfoundation.org/what-we-fund |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) institutions including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | Teiger Foundation offers grants for US-based, curator-led initiatives in contemporary visual art. We support group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged art projects, digital exhibitions, live and virtual performance in the context of the visual arts, and as-yet-unknown curatorial forms involving contemporary visual art and artists. We do not prioritize particular themes or project types. |
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| Deadline: | January 28, 2025 |
Book Completion
| Sponsor: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Program |
| Discipline: | Science – broadly |
| Project: | Book Program |
| URL: | https://sloan.org/programs/public-understanding/books#apply |
| Eligibility: | Individual authors |
| Overview: | The Foundation’s Book program aims to reach a wide, lay audience, and has supported over 200 authors since 1996 in the research and writing of a wide range of books aimed at public understanding of science and technology. Supported books tend to fall into the following categories:
The Foundation will sometimes deviate from these categories for book projects of unusual scientific, artistic, or cultural importance. Applicants must have an editorial agreement with a publication or publishing house for the work under consideration or strong interest from a publisher. Examples of past funded projects:
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| Award: | $50,000 |
| Deadline: | Rolling deadlines- January 1, May 1 and September 1 |
| Sponsor: | CUNY Office of Research |
| Discipline: | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences |
| Project: | Book Competition Award (BCA) |
| URL: | https://www.cuny.edu/research/research-development-programs/faculty-programs/internal-funding/bca/ |
| Eligibility: | CUNY Faculty |
| Overview: | The CUNY Office of Research invites proposals from faculty who are working on research projects they are developing into publishable book manuscripts. Funds will be awarded on a competitive basis to faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to develop or complete a book manuscript for publication. This grant program welcomes applications from faculty for book projects that are in the development and prospectus stage, as well as for manuscripts that have been accepted for publication and are nearing the completion and submission stage. |
| Award: | $7,500, Number of Awards: 20 |
| Deadline: | March 12, 2024 |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Public Scholars |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program |
| Eligibility: | Individuals; Adjuncts |
| Overview: | The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may apply, and no advanced degree is required. The program encourages non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books, and it encourages academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers. NEH especially encourages applications from independent writers, researchers, scholars, and journalists. |
| Award: | $5,000 per month for between 6 and 12 months |
| Deadline: | Annually, Next cycle is April 9, 2025 |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-hispanic-serving-institutions |
| Eligibility: | Faculty*, Adjuncts |
| Overview: | Grants for research leading to the creation of an article; to improvement of existing undergraduate course; to goals and interests of the institution or community; Book; Digital Resource or Publication; Edition; Other Scholarly Resource; Translation |
| Award: | $5,000 per month for 2 to 12 months |
| Deadline: | Annually |
| Note: | *Full-time faculty can only be paid in summer salary for up to three months. Alternately, faculty must be on academic leave to receive payment. |
Business & Economics
| Sponsor: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Discipline: | Economics |
| Project: | Research Grant |
| URL: | https://sloan.org/programs/research/economics-2#apply |
| Eligibility: | Researchers |
| Overview: | The foundation funds research in the following priority areas: Global Competitiveness and Industrial Strategy; Mesoeconomics and Regional Economic Development; Public Works, Transportation, and Social Capital; Re-Engineering Social Research Surveys; Economics of Caregiving; Economic Analysis of Science and Technology. |
| Award: | $50,000 to $250,000 |
| Deadline: | Rolling – the first step is to send a brief Letter of Inquiry to economics@sloan.org. See the URL for further details |
| Sponsor: | John Templeton Foundation |
| Discipline: | Business; Economics |
| Project: | Research Grant |
| URL: | https://www.templeton.org/funding-areas/individual-freedom-free-markets |
| Eligibility: | Researchers |
| Overview: | The Individual Freedom & Free Markets Funding Area supports education, research, and outreach projects to promote individual freedom, free markets, free competition, and entrepreneurship. Grounded in the ideas of classical liberal political economy and with a commitment to the moral equality of all human beings, we seek and develop projects that aim to advance freedom, widespread prosperity, and human flourishing for all. Whether by academic research, instruction, public outreach, or supporting debate on public policy, the foundations’ grants contribute toward making the world more just, more prosperous, and more conducive to human flourishing. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | The first step is to submit your project idea through an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) at: https://portal.templeton.org |
| Sponsor: | National Science Foundation |
| Discipline: | Economics; Interdisciplinary |
| Project: | Research Grant |
| URL: | https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/economics |
| Eligibility: | Researchers |
| Overview: | The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance. The program also funds conferences and interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics. |
| Award: | $50,000 to $500,000 |
| Deadline: | August 19, 2024; January 21, 2025 |
| Sponsor: | Russell Sage Competition |
| Discipline: | Research focused on structural barriers to educational attainment, economic mobility, political and civic engagement, and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. |
| Project: | Pipeline Grants Competition |
| URL: | https://www.russellsage.org/research/funding/pipeline-grants-competition |
| Eligibility: | Early- career scholars: Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors |
| Overview: | This initiative will support early-career scholars and promote diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Since 2020, four rounds of the competition have funded 94 early-career scholars from colleges and universities across the United States. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. |
| Award: | Individual applicants can apply for grants of up to $35,000; teams of two or more eligible applicants can apply for grants of up to $50,000. |
| Deadline: | October 2025 Note: Applicants can apply for either the Pipeline Grants Competition or the October LOI deadline, but not both. |
Education Research
| Sponsor: | The Spencer Foundation |
| Discipline: | Teacher Education; Education Research |
| Project: | Field-Initiative Research Grants; Racial Equity Research Grants |
| URL: | https://www.spencer.org/research-grants |
| Eligibility: | Faculty |
| Overview: | The Spencer Foundation has been a leading funder of education research since 1971 and is the only national foundation focused exclusively on supporting education research. It supports high-quality, innovative research on education, broadly conceived. |
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| Sponsor: | CUNY Office of Research |
| Discipline: | Research |
| Project: | Research in the Classroom |
| URL: | https://www.cuny.edu/research/research-development-programs/faculty-programs/internal-funding/ric/ |
| Eligibility: | Full-time faculty and lecturers |
| Overview: | The CUNY Office of Research is offering grants for faculty to incorporate authentic research activities into their undergraduate courses. This initiative supports experiential learning, providing students with hands-on research experience while advancing faculty research and pedagogical skills.
Eligible full-time faculty and lecturers are invited to apply for one of 16 RIC Fellowships, each worth up to $10,000. These grants can be used for course releases, summer salaries, research materials, or student travel. Awardees are expected to implement their course designs in the 2025-2026 academic year and share their curricular materials as Open Educational Resources (OER). |
| Award: | $10,000 |
| Deadline: | January 3, 2025 |
Humanities
| Sponsor: | Humanities New York |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Action Grants |
| URL: | https://humanitiesny.org/our-work/action-grants/
Guidelines: https://humanitiesny.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FY24-HNY-Grant-Guidelines_March.pdf |
| Eligibility: | Each project team must have a humanities expert and a community partner. |
| Overview: | Implementation grants for public-facing humanities projects that encourage audiences to reflect on their values, explore new ideas, and engage with others in their community. These grants aim to actively engage audiences through creative programming formats, including workshops, roundtables, panel discussions, humanities-infused performances, podcasts, and interactive digital platforms. |
| Award: | $6,500 – $10,000 |
| Deadline: | Annually |
| Note: | Opportunities that require matching funds or disallow indirect funds must first be approved by the Office of Sponsored Programs. |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Digital Humanities |
| Project: | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-advancement-grants |
| Eligibility: | Organizations |
| Overview: | The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. To match your project to the correct digital humanities grant, consult this. |
| Award: | Level 1: $75,000. Level 2: $150,000. Level 3: $350,000, with an additional $100,000 in matching funds. Up to 36 months. |
| Deadline: | January 9, 2025, Annually |
| Note: | Opportunities that require matching funds or disallow indirect funds must first be approved by the Office of Sponsored Programs. |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/program/dangers-and-opportunities-technology-perspectives-humanities |
| Eligibility: | 501(c) (3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. |
| Award: | $75,000 to $150,000 |
| Deadline: | (anticipated) September 4, 2025 |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Summer Stipends |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends |
| Eligibility: | Individuals |
| Overview: | Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities research project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. |
| Award: | $12,000 for two months (summer salary!)
Expected Number of Awards: 100 |
| Deadline: | (anticipated) September 17, 2025, Annually |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-hispanic-serving-institutions |
| Eligibility: | All faculty*, including adjuncts |
| Overview: | Grants for research leading to the creation of an article; to improvement of existing undergraduate course; to goals and interests of the institution or community; Book; Digital Resource or Publication; Edition; Other Scholarly Resource; Translation |
| Award: | $5,000 per month for 2 to 12 months |
| Deadline: | April 9, 2025, Annually |
| Note: | *Full-time faculty can only be paid in summer salary for up to three months. Alternately, faculty must be on academic leave to receive payment. |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-hispanic-serving-institutions |
| Eligibility: | H.S.I. institutions |
| Overview: | Humanities Initiatives grants can help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions by supporting the development of new or enhancement of existing programs, educational resources, or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present. |
| Award: | $150,000 |
| Deadline: | (anticipated) May 6, 2025, Annually |
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges |
| URL: | https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-community-colleges |
| Eligibility: | Community Colleges |
| Overview: | Humanities Initiatives grants can help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at community colleges by supporting the development of new or enhancement of existing programs, educational resources, or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present. |
| Award: | $150,000 |
| Deadline: | May 7, 2024 |
| Sponsor: | National Science Foundation |
| Discipline: | Sociology |
| Project: | Research Grant |
| URL: | https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sociology |
| Eligibility: | Researchers |
| Overview: | The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. This includes research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender, race and the sociology of science and technology. The program supports both original data collection and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcome. |
| Award: | $50,000 to $500,000 |
| Deadline: | Full proposals accepted anytime |
| Sponsor: | Teagle Foundation |
| Discipline: | Humanities |
| Project: | Knowledge for Freedom |
| URL: | https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Knowledge-for-Freedom |
| Eligibility: | 501 (c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The Knowledge for Freedom initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. You must first submit a 3-5 page concept paper that outlines the project goals and description, demonstrates alignment with the foundation’s mission, and responds to guideline criteria. Email to proposals@teagle.org. |
| Award: | Planning grants: $25,000 over 6 to 12 months
Implementation grants: $100,000 to $300,000 over 24 to 36 months |
| Deadline: | Rolling – December 1, March 1 and August 1 |
| Note: | Opportunities that require matching funds or disallow indirect funds must first be approved by the Office of Sponsored Programs. |
| Sponsor: | Templeton Foundation |
| Discipline: | Interdisciplinary Teams |
| Project: | Character Development |
| URL: | https://www.templeton.org/funding-areas/character-virtue-development |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The foundation funds in two areas:
Science of Virtues – In this area, we are interested in funding interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams that seek to further our understanding of the nature and development of virtues. Grants in this area have explored questions like: What are the boundaries of forgiveness in early childhood? What does it mean to love one’s enemy? Do expressions of gratitude vary across cultures? The foundation’s primary goal for this area of work is to catalyze scientific discoveries that will inform our understanding of specific virtues, and that have the potential to inform programmatic work in the future. Programs and Applied Research – We also support applied research that can inform the practice of character, as well as programs that engage directly with individuals and communities to cultivate character. Programmatic support is provided through project-based grants, typically for organizations that seek to develop, implement, enhance, scale, or evaluate research-informed character. Historically, grants in this area have focused on character development in the first two decades of life, however the Foundation is open to projects that reach audiences at any life stage. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | The first step is to submit your project idea through an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) at: https://portal.templeton.org |
| Sponsor: | Templeton Foundation |
| Discipline: | Interdisciplinary Teams |
| Project: | Religion, Science and Society |
| URL: | https://www.templeton.org/religion-science-and-society |
| Eligibility: | 501 (c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | This funding area will encourage research that engages substantively and critically with the sciences, including robust interdisciplinary collaborations in which philosophical or theological understanding informs the findings and methods of the sciences. Supported work will draw from a range of fields and intellectual, religious, and spiritual traditions. Proposals should demonstrate exceptional promise to transform understanding at the frontiers of human knowledge or have high potential to meet critical methodological or conceptual challenges. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | The first step is to submit your project idea through an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) at: https://portal.templeton.org |
STEM Research
| Sponsor: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Discipline: | Science; Engineering |
| Project: | Energy and the Environment |
| URL: | https://sloan.org/programs/research/energy-and-environment#apply |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The program seeks to fund research in the following topic areas: Energy Markets and Policy Analysis; Net Zero Innovation and Negative Emissions Technologies; Transportation and Mobility; Energy and Distributional Equity; Industrial Decarbonization; Energy Systems and Climate Adaptation. |
| Award: | $55,000 |
| Deadline: | Interested scholars should send a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages to energy@sloan.org. |
| Sponsor: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Discipline: | Science; Biology; Chemistry; Engineering; Physics; Chemistry |
| Project: | Matter to Life |
| URL: | https://sloan.org/programs/research/matter-to-life |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | Research grants in Sloan’s Matter-to-Life program seek to advance theoretical and experimental efforts aimed at unraveling the physical principles and mechanisms that distinguish living systems from inanimate matter, and that explore whether and how physical principles guide the complexification of matter towards life. The program will prioritize those projects making the most compelling case for how the proposed research will advance our scientific understanding of life’s distinctiveness, and that pursue research directions not already well supported by federal funders. The program will not support biomedical or disease-related research. |
| Award: | $200,000 to $1 million + |
| Deadline: | Grant-seekers with a relevant research project or meeting idea should submit a Letter of Inquiry of no more than two pages to Program Director Ernie Glover at mattertolife@sloan.org. |
| Sponsor: | Alfred B. Sloan Foundation |
| Discipline: | Science; Technology |
| Project: | History of Science and Technology |
| URL: | https://sloan.org/programs/research/history-of-science-and-tech |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | Historical scholarship is critically valuable to understanding the contemporary context of scientific research, and it is important to informing how we think about the current and future state of the research enterprise. Themes of interest in this program relate directly to some of the Foundation’s current programmatic and strategic interests, including but not limited to: the changing nature of interdisciplinary research and collaborative team structures; the role of instrumentation, data, and computational tools within and across disciplines; the changing nature of research organizations; the formation and development of professional societies, conferences, and scholarly communication systems; the establishment and evolution of fellowship and training programs; and the formation and development of research funding agencies. Cutting across all topics and thematic areas is an interest in examining issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and in illuminating the role played by under-represented scholars and perspectives in the advancement and development of these areas. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | This program is currently accepting letters of inquiry. Interested scholars should send a letter of inquiry, no more than two pages long, to historyofscience@sloan.org. |
| Sponsor: | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
| Discipline: | Science |
| Project: | Varied |
| URL: | https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/science-funding/ |
| Eligibility: | Varied |
| Overview: | The foundation supports science through targeted grantmaking and open competitions for research funds in specific issue areas with Requests for Applications, or RFAs. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | Varied |
| Sponsor: | The Simons Foundation |
| Discipline: | Math & Physical Sciences; Life Sciences; Autism & Neuroscience; Science, Society & Culture |
| Project: | Varied |
| URL: | https://www.simonsfoundation.org/funding-opportunities |
| Eligibility: | Early Career, Investigators |
| Overview: | The Simons Foundation’s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. Since its founding in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation has been a champion of basic science through grant funding, support for research and public engagement. We believe in asking big questions and providing sustained support to researchers working to unravel the mysteries of the universe. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | Varied |
| Sponsor: | Templeton Foundation |
| Discipline: | Life Sciences; biology |
| Project: | Life Sciences |
| URL: | https://www.templeton.org/life-sciences-3 |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | The Life Sciences portfolio supports research and public engagement projects that seek novel and fundamental insights into the meaning and significance of life processes, by which we can better understand humanity’s place within nature. We support experimental and theoretical work on a broad range of areas and topics, including origins of life, complexity, emergence, evolution, human development, and ecological health and interventions. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | The first step is to submit your project idea through an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) at: https://portal.templeton.org |
| Sponsor: | Templeton Foundation |
| Discipline: | Math; Physics; Astronomy |
| Project: | Math and Physical Sciences |
| URL: | https://www.templeton.org/project/math-physical-sciences |
| Eligibility: | 501(c)(3) organizations including RFCUNY o/b/o BMCC |
| Overview: | In the Mathematical and Physical Sciences funding area, the foundation supports research seeking to shed light on the fundamental concepts of physical reality. We also explore the interplay between these sciences and broader human experience. |
| Award: | Varied |
| Deadline: | The first step is to submit your project idea through an Online Funding Inquiry (OFI) at: https://portal.templeton.org |
CUNY, PSC-CUNY, RFCUNY Grant
| Sponsor: | CUNY Office of Research |
| Discipline: | Interdisciplinary |
| Project: | Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG) |
| URL: | https://www.cuny.edu/research/research-development-programs/faculty-programs/internal-funding/interdisciplinary-research-grant-program/ |
| Eligibility: | Faculty teams with different research backgrounds |
| Overview: | Interdisciplinary proposals that address scientific and societal challenges through convergent research with clear public impact. |
| Award: | $45,000 |
| Deadline: | For updates from the CUNY Office of Research, check here. |
| Sponsor: | CUNY Office of Research |
| Discipline: | Any |
| Project: | Planning Grant |
| URL: | https://www.cuny.edu/research/research-development-programs/faculty-programs/internal-funding/planning-grant-program/ |
| Eligibility: | Multi-college teams |
| Overview: | Developing proposals for competitive, large-scale external grant programs requires significant advance planning, a compelling and well-honed research vision, strong preliminary evidence/pilot data, buy-in from research partners, and a track record of robust teamwork among collaborating investigators that spans multiple disciplines, colleges, universities, and organizations. The Planning Grant Program is designed to build CUNY capacity and provide resources to support the vital work required to develop successful proposals.
This program aims to invest in teams motivated to apply for large grants across a spectrum of possible funders. Examples include NSF Science and Technology Centers (STCs) and Engineering Research Centers (ERCs); NIH Multiproject Research Grants (P and U mechanisms); DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers; NSA Centers of Excellence; or NEH Institutes, Collections, and Collaborative Research grants. |
| Award: | $25,000 for up to 1 year |
| Deadline: | For updates from the CUNY Office of Research, check here. |
| Sponsor: | PSC-CUNY |
| Discipline: | All |
| Project: | PSC-CUNY Research Grants |
| URL: | https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/psc-cuny-award-program/ |
| Eligibility: | Full-time members of the instructional staff, including Higher Education Officers (HEOs) and College Laboratory Technicians (CLTs). Only one application per person, per cycle (year). Tenured applicants may only receive 2 awards in any 3 year period and only one may be an Enhanced award. Faculty are not eligible to apply for or receive a Traditional A or B Award for any year in which they have received or will receive external grant funding or awards of $100,000 or more in direct costs for their research. |
| Overview: | The PSC-CUNY Research Award Program supports academically relevant research across all disciplines. Proposals must include original research or creative activities by the principal investigator (PI). |
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| Deadline: | Every December – date TBD |
| Sponsor: | RFCUNY |
| Discipline: | Any |
| Project: | Faculty Travel for Grant Development |
| URL: | https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/award-pre-proposal-support-apps/faculty-travel-for-grant-development/ |
| Eligibility: | Principal Investigators and faculty developing grants |
| Overview: | Reimbursement for out-of-town travel for the specific purpose of developing research for a grant, meeting with sponsors, collaborating with co-PIs, etc. |
| Award: | Reimbursement of travel expenses |
| Deadline: | Submit within 30 days of travel |
