Category Archives: Deadline Feb. 2016

Grants for Law Professionals

Posted on by

Law and Social Sciences

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The Law & Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. The program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. Social scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, made in multiple arenas, with the participation of multiple actors.

Sponsor Website

State Justice Institute

Deadline: February 1, 2016

Project Grants are intended to support innovative education and training, research and evaluation, demonstration, and technical assistance projects that can improve the administration of justice in state courts locally or nationwide.

Sponsor Website

Juvenile Drug Courts Training and Technical Assistance Program

Deadline: February 8, 2016

OJJDP is seeking a provider to deliver training and technical assistance (TTA) to juvenile drug courts in evidence-based practices, best treatment practices and behavioral health approaches for adolescents and court operations, based on the Sixteen Strategies of Effective Juvenile Drug Courts.

Sponsor Website

Humane Studies Fellowships

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Humane Studies Fellowship is a non-residency fellowship program that awards up to $15,000 per year to pursue a liberty advancing career in academia. The Humane Studies Fellowship program supports study in a variety of fields including economics, philosophy, law, political science, history, and sociology.

Sponsor Website

Social Sciences & Humanities

Posted on by

Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis in the United States

Deadline: February 5, 2016

This FOA aims to support research that will (1) investigate early links in the FEP case identification and referral chain in the United States, and (2) develop feasible strategies for reducing delays in early detection, speedy referral, and rapid initiation of stage-specific treatment. The target population is not limited to first episode schizophrenia, but includes all persons experiencing a first episode of psychosis regardless of presenting DSM-IV diagnosis.

Sponsor Website

Research On Autism And Autism Spectrum Disorders

Deadline: February 5, 2016

The sponsor provides support for research designed to elucidate the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Sponsor Website

Clinical Studies of Mental Illness Not Involving Treatment Development, Efficacy, or Effectiveness Trials

Deadline: February 5, 2016

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to support collaborative clinical studies, not involving treatment development, efficacy, or effectiveness trials. Primary areas of focus include mental health genetics, studies of biomarker development or refinement, and mental illness research (e.g. psychopathology studies, neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychopathology; studies in which an intervention of known efficacy is used as a manipulation to understand pathophysiology).

Sponsor Website

Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice

Deadline: February 12, 2016

The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice is designed to foster the advancement of social justice through participation in health care advocacy work that focuses on the unique challenges facing many communities of color. The fellowship is a year-long, full-time, salaried position at Families USA. One fellow will be selected for the twelve-month Fellowship.

Sponsor Website

Kazanjian (Calvin K.) Economics Foundation, Inc.

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Foundation has an abiding interest in elevating the nation’s understanding of the need for economic education. It will support programs that raise various public’s participation in economic education and/or create a demand for greater economic literacy; The application of new strategies for teaching economics including on-line and web-based instruction is of interest to the Foundation; Projects, policy studies, or programs that encourage measurement of economic understanding.

Sponsor Website

Kinkade Grants

Deadline: February 15, 2016

Funded projects typically focus on linguistic analysis, social-cultural anthropology, ethnolinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Especially appropriate are field studies that address cultural expressive systems, such as music, language, dance, mythology, world view, folk taxonomy, art, intellectual life, and religion. Also appropriate are projects focusing on cultural and linguistic forms in modern contexts, for example, traditional environmental knowledge or social organization.

Sponsor Website

Midwest Sociological Society

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The MSS Scholarship Development Committee offers research grants up to $2,500. The sponsor seeks to fund high impact proposals.

Sponsor Website

National Cooperative Drug Discovery/Development Groups (NCDDG) for the Treatment of Mental Disorders, Drug or Alcohol Addiction

Deadline: February 23, 2016

NIMH, NIAAA and NIDA invite applications to create multidisciplinary research groups or partnerships for the discovery of pharmacological agents to treat and to study mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction.

Sponsor Website

Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Deadline: February 29, 2016

Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.

Sponsor Website

Social Sciences & Humanities

Posted on by

Grants Program- Arca Foundation

Deadline: February 1, 2016

The Arca Foundation is dedicated to advancing social equity and justice, particularly given the growing disparities in our world. The Foundation supports innovative and strategic efforts that work to advance equity, accountability, social justice and participatory democracy in the US and abroad.

Sponsor Website

EMDR Research Foundation

Deadline: February 1, 2016

Grant awards of up to $25,000 are available for post-doctoral students, university faculty or clinician conducting research on EMDR. EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, successful outcomes are well-documented in the literature for EMDR treatment of other psychiatric disorders, mental health problems, and somatic symptoms.

Sponsor Website

Perception, Action and Cognition

Deadline: February 1, 2016

The sponsor supports research on perception, action and cognition including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control and developmental issues in all topic areas.

Sponsor Website

Public Scholar Program

Deadline: February 2, 2016

The Public Scholar program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. They must address significant humanities themes likely to be of broad interest and must be written in a readily accessible style. Making use of primary and/or secondary sources, they should open up important and appealing subjects for wider audiences. The challenge is to make sense of a significant topic in a way that will appeal to general readers.

Sponsor Website

Michael Kraus Research Grant in Ameican Colonial History

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The American Historical Association’s Michael Kraus Research Grant in colonial American history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations, annually offers cash awards of up to $800.

Sponsor Website

Next Generation Humanities PhD Implementation Grants

Deadline: February 17, 2016

Next Generation Humanities PhD Implementation Grants support universities in instituting wide-ranging changes in humanities doctoral programs. Humanities knowledge and methods can make an even more substantial impact on society if students are able to translate what they learn in doctoral programs into a multitude of careers. Next Generation PhD Implementation Grants are designed to produce plans that will transform scholarly preparation in the humanities at the doctoral level. Students will be prepared to undertake various kinds of careers, and humanities PhD programs will increase their relevance for the twenty-first century.

Sponsor Website

The Arts

Posted on by

Global Art Grants

Deadline: February 1, 2016

The Burning Man Global Art Grants program funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art that prioritize community involvement in their development, execution and display.

Sponsor Website

College and University Collection Care Grant

Deadline: February 1, 2016

The $1,500 College and University Collection Care Grant is intended to assist with the care, maintenance, preservation, and instructional missions of a college or university collection that is not eligible for a Small Museum Collection Care Grant.

Sponsor Website

Public Scholar Program

Deadline: February 2, 2016

The Public Scholar program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership.

Sponsor Website

Kinkade Grants

Deadline: February 15, 2016

Funded projects typically focus on linguistic analysis, social-cultural anthropology, ethnolinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Especially appropriate are field studies that address cultural expressive systems, such as music, language, dance, mythology, world view, folk taxonomy, art, intellectual life, and religion. Also appropriate are projects focusing on cultural and linguistic forms in modern contexts, for example, traditional environmental knowledge or social organization.

Sponsor Website

Grants for Organizations

Deadline: February 25, 2016

These grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs.

Sponsor Website

Health/Biomedical Research

Posted on by

High Priority Immunology Grants

Deadline: February 5, 2016

The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to augment the maintenance and growth of the NIAID portfolio of investigator-initiated R01 grants in fundamental immunology. It seeks to address a decline in NIAID immunology R01 applications and awards that has occurred in the past several fiscal years. Basic immunology and basic immune mechanisms involved in host defense and immune-mediated diseases are of high programmatic interest in this FOA.

Sponsor Website

Neurobiology of Migraine

Deadline: February 5, 2016

National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers invite applications from institutions/organizations to perform innovative research that will elucidate the mechanisms underlying migraine, expand our current knowledge of the role of genetic, physiological, biopsychosocial, and environmental influences in migraine susceptibility and progression, and explore new therapeutic targets and therapies for acute migraine management and longer term prevention. This program will use the NIH Research Project (R01) award mechanism.

Sponsor Website

Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Consor

Deadline: February 10, 2016

NIAAA seeks integrated, multidisciplinary, collaborative research projects studying neuronal mechanisms of excessive alcohol intake associated with alcohol dependence. One focus of the initiative will be to examine brain immune signaling mechanisms promoting and controlling excessive alcohol consumption. A second focus will be to examine enduring consequences of stress challenges on adaptations in brain circuitry leading to excessive drinking and to altered stress responsiveness.

Sponsor Website

NINDS CREATE Bio Development Track: Preclinical and Early-phase Clinical Development for Biotechnology Products and Biologics

Deadline: February 11, 2016

The NINDS Cooperative Research to Enable and Advance Translational Enterprises for Biotechnology Products and Biologics (CREATE Bio) program is dedicated to biotechnology product- and biologics- based therapies, which broadly include modalities such as peptides, proteins, oligonucleotides, gene therapies, and cell therapies. The program includes two tracks: the Discovery Track supports lead optimization in order to obtain a candidate appropriate for entering the Development Track, and the Development Track supports IND-enabling studies for the candidate, as well as early-phase clinical trials.

Sponsor Website

Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research

Deadline: February 12, 2016

The program objectives are: to stimulate innovative research relevant to the field of gastrointestinal microbiota in the United States; to impact academic and career development of young investigators in the United States and attract them into the field of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota; and to provide preliminary data for future funding from NIH and other funding sources.

Sponsor Website

Foundation for Prader-Willi Research

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR) supports research to advance the understanding and treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).

Sponsor Website

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an important concern. In addition, the relationships between mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. Funded projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches. The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart materials that are self-designing.

Sponsor Website

Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants

Deadline: February 16, 2016

NIH and it’s participating Institutes and Centers invite applications which establish the feasibility of technologies, techniques or methods that: 1) explore a new multidisciplinary approach to a biomedical challenge; 2) are high-risk but have high impact; and 3) develop data that may lead to significant future research. An EBRG application may propose hypothesis-driven, discovery-driven, developmental, or design-directed research and is appropriate for evaluating unproven approaches for which there is minimal or no preliminary data.

Sponsor Website

Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Bioinformatics Center

Deadline: February 18, 2016

The overall goals of the Bioinformatics Center are to provide a database and associated tools for storage and integration of clinical physiological and metabolic data along with multiple types of chemical analysis data derived through metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics, or similar technologies.

Sponsor Website