Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants (Rolling)

Overview:

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation uses business-based practices to accelerate our global philanthropic work. We align performance management principles with our mission.

We fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial services). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities.

Our Focus Areas

• Quality Schools
• Classroom Supports
• University Success
• Jobs & Livelihoods
• Financial Services
• Health Innovation
• Jewish Community
• Greater Austin initiatives (regional) 

The foundation will not fund nor continue to partner with organizations that condone, tolerate, or conduct activities that are racist, antisemitic, promote hate, or are otherwise contrary to the values of the foundation.

Other information:

Awards: As a guideline, the foundation does not fund more than 10% of an organization’s total annual operating expenses.

Location of project: India, South Africa, United States

We collaborate with organizations dedicated to unlocking human opportunity. Our funding advances projects making an impact in education, health, and family economic stability. See list of funded projects.

Open Letter of Inquiry

Overview:

ECMC Foundation enables postsecondary success by investing in ideas, institutions, and innovations that help learners persist, complete their credentials, and move into meaningful careers. Through strategic grantmaking, mission-aligned investments, and a clear North Star goal that guides our work, we partner with organizations across the country to strengthen systems and support for learners furthest from opportunities.

Our North Star goal anchors all strategic decisions: By 2040 gaps in postsecondary completion are eliminated, so that underserved learners have greater opportunity for social and economic mobility.

The Challenge: Addressing Persistent Barriers to Postsecondary Completion and Success
Learners continue to encounter economic hardship, competing responsibilities, limited information, and unclear pathways. These challenges impede persistence and completion across postsecondary education. Our North Star goal calls for sustained, evidence-informed approaches that strengthen systems and improve outcomes at scale. Learn about the work we are doing with our grantees and investees 

Our Strategic Approach: How We Advance Our North Star
We advance our North Star goal through a focused, multi-pronged strategy that strengthens postsecondary systems that are no longer effectively serving students. Our work centers on identifying promising ideas, scaling effective implementation, and investing in solutions with potential to grow and sustain impact. Across all efforts, we prioritize evidence, collaboration, and continuous learning – ensuring that insights guide decisions and help strengthen the field over time. Explore our Funding Approach 

Our Funding Portfolios

• Strategically Responsive Portfolio The Strategically Responsive Portfolio keeps ECMC Foundation attentive to emerging needs and opportunities in postsecondary education. Through exploratory bodies of work, the Foundation listens to what practitioners identify as most urgent, tracks new trends, and supports timely solutions. This portfolio fuels innovative projects that address barriers to learner success and respond to evolving needs across postsecondary education. Learn More
• Initiatives Portfolio The Strategically Responsive Portfolio keeps ECMC Foundation attentive to emerging needs and opportunities in postsecondary education. Through exploratory bodies of work, the Foundation listens to what practitioners identify as most urgent, tracks new trends, and supports timely solutions. This portfolio fuels innovative projects that address barriers to learner success and respond to evolving needs across postsecondary education. Learn More
• Education Innovation Ventures (EIV) Education Innovation Ventures (EIV) provides catalytic capital to early-stage nonprofit and for-profit ventures that advance both social impact and financial sustainability. Through program-related investments (PRIs), EIV helps promising innovations grow, scale, and demonstrate measurable value for learners. This portfolio supports entrepreneurs and organizations bringing new technology, tools, and models to the postsecondary space. Learn More

Our Strategic Priorities: How We Focus Our Funding
While each portfolio operates with distinct purpose, all three are united by a shared set of strategic priorities. These priorities are the core of ECMC Foundation’s strategic framework and guide our grantmaking and investing efforts. They help ensure that our resources are directed toward the approaches most likely to strengthen postsecondary education, drive meaningful improvement, and advance our North Star goal.

Together, these priorities create a coherent, mission-driven structure for how we select, learn from, and support the work of partners across the nation.

1. Remove Barriers to Postsecondary Completion: We support solutions that help learners persist and complete postsecondary programs, particularly when obstacles stand in the way of progress. This includes efforts that strengthen academic and non-academic supports, and streamline pathways that lead to completion.
2. Build the Capacity of Institutions, Systems and Organizations: Strong institutions are essential to strong learner outcomes. We invest in efforts that enhance organizational effectiveness, strengthen leadership infrastructure, improve data use, and help systems better serve their students. These investments create the foundation for long-term improvement.
3. Transform the Postsecondary Ecosystem: Lasting progress requires rethinking how systems work together. We support innovations, partnerships, and policy-informed efforts that evolve the postsecondary ecosystem into one that is more adaptive, resilient, and responsive to learners. This priority aims to spur systematic change that affects the field at scale.

Other information:

Grants Submission Process: ECMC Foundation accepts and reviews Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) via our online system on a rolling basis. All LOIs must demonstrate how the project-based concept fits within one of our three strategic priorities and advances the Foundation’s North Star goal. (For your convenience, you can preview the form template here.)

Award(s): ECMC Foundation makes grants and investments with durations ranging from one year to five years and amounts from $50,000 to over one million dollars. The grant period and funding amount varies based on the proposed request, however our average grant duration is two years and our average grant size is $500,000. 

See Sponsor FAQs

2026 APS Community Impact Grants

Overview:

Encompassing all of our core program areas, Community Impact Grants respond to the diverse needs in each of the communities we serve across Arizona. Additional consideration is given to programs that serve under-resourced populations. 

Impacting Arizona Communities
Impacting the communities we serve is a priority because our customers, community partners and nonprofit leaders are also our neighbors. With that in mind, our community engagement strategy is focused on two main pillars. They are Arizona’s Growth and Prosperity and Health and Human Services.

The focus areas under these two pillars include:

• Education & Employment -- Focusing on improving access to post–secondary education, advancing teacher success and pathways to careers in energy.
• Small Business & Entrepeneurship -- Expanding opportunities for local and underserved entrepreneurs is a priority for us because doing so strengthens local economies and promotes inclusive economic growth.
• Arts & Culture -- Increasing access to high quality arts experiences for underserved communities and students can enrich lives.
• Human Services -- Providing basic needs for Arizona’s most vulnerable populations is a critical component of our community involvement.
• Environment -- The transition to clean energy is critical to Arizona. With that in mind, we build healthy communities, environmental stewardship and promote equity in this transition.
• Community Development -- Protecting Arizona’s quality of life for future generations through civic engagement, inclusive leadership development, community revitalization and rural development programs is at the core of what we do and how we do it. 

Solicitation limitations:

ASU may submit only one (1) application to the sponsoring organization.

Other information:

Effective February 1, 2025. APS is transitioning our Community Impact grantees to the new Blackbaud grantee portal to enhance your application experience. This upgrade will enhance the application process and centralize all grant applications for other foundations or grantors using the Blackbaud Grantmaking system to a single account login for non-profit organizations. All applicants will need to create a new Blackbaud login if they do not have one, regardless if you’ve submitted a grant request in the past.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Grants

Overview:

AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving. 

AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Funding Priorities
For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that: 

• Faith-Based: Organizations that are faith-based. 

Serve Communities: 

• Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, and tribal communities.      • Implement programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers. These may include individuals who have experienced substance use and mental health challenges.
• Focus on improving quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families through models that provide effective interventions or services or that are designed to recruit veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service, e.g., veterans serving in mentorship roles.
• Focus on public safety, crime prevention, and/or partnerships between law enforcement and the community.  
• Focus on expanding outdoor recreation opportunities for future generations by maintaining public lands; supporting wildland fire mitigation and sustainable forest management; and providing reforestation services.
• Create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, such as pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship opportunities, certifications, and hiring preferences or support.
• Focus on strengthening families, e.g., activities that aim to support low-income parents through parenting education, responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills.     

Other information:

This is a funding opportunity for Institutions of higher education; local governments, school districts; nonprofit organizations; State Service Commissions; States and US Territories; Indian Tribes; and public health departments to apply for AmeriCorps members to strengthen communities through service.

Note to applicants proposing service in a single state: Contact the Commission in the state or territory where you intend to apply as early as possible. State Service Commissions may set their deadlines for single states applicants well in advance of AmeriCorps deadlines The list of Commissions can be found on the AmeriCorps State Service Commissions' webpage.

Period of Performance: AmeriCorps plans to make three-year grant awards. AmeriCorps generally makes an initial award for the first year of the three-year period of performance. Applicants must submit a one-year budget. Applicants may propose any project start date that fits their program design. The period of performance may not start before July 1, 2026. Continuation awards for future years are not guaranteed; they depend upon future appropriations and satisfactory performance. 

Award amounts will be different depending on the scope of the projects. 

Cost Sharing or Matching: See full NOFO for details

Women in STEM - STEM Convergence

Overview:

Through STEM Convergence, we seek to transform the STEM ecosystem into an inclusive and accessible space where girls and women, especially from underserved communities, study, work, and thrive in healthy and supportive environments.

In order to flourish as scientists, entrepreneurs, and leaders, women in STEM need an even playing field. The Convergence program, a complement to the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM, works to democratize the landscape by fostering knowledge production and knowledge sharing, strengthening local organizations and networks, and by addressing the lingering challenges women and girls in STEM face.

Areas of Support
To achieve our mission and uphold Clare Booth Luce’s legacy, STEM Convergence focuses its grantmaking efforts on three key areas. When applying for funding, please indicate the category most relevant to your proposal. STEM Convergence typically awards $50,000 to $300,000 grants. As the CBL Program focuses on higher-education, preference for grant-making goes to non-higher education institutions. STEM Convergence does not fund one-off conferences, gatherings, or meetings unless those events are part of a larger program or strategy also part of the grant request.

Bolstering STEM Gender Equity Research and Change
STEM Convergence supports efforts that tackle the root causes of the gender gap in STEM. These endeavors include local and national research projects that dissect disparities in math, science and engineering fields, as well as programs aimed at building inclusive environments at all stages of learning,

Shaping Future STEM Scholars, Professionals, and Leaders
STEM Convergence backs initiatives that encourage and empower women and girls, especially those from underserved communities, to pursue STEM studies and careers. The inspiring programs we support are designed to provide mentorship, cultivate STEM literacy and enthusiasm, boost confidence, and nurture tomorrow’s leaders at all stages of education and beyond.

Laying the Groundwork for Knowledge Sharing
STEM Convergence funds innovative projects that facilitate cross-institutional and cross-sector collaborations that increase awareness and advance gender equity in STEM.

Solicitation limitations:

An organization that already has an active Luce Foundation grant should contact the appropriate Program Director before applying for a second grant in the same area. An organization with an active grant from one of our programs is welcome to apply for a grant from a different program category.

Other information:

Deadlines: We present recommended proposals to the Luce Foundation’s board of directors for consideration three times each year—in March, June, and November. The concept note review and proposal development process generally takes a minimum of 3 to 4 months.

A Concept Note is a brief description of the institution’s request, including the grant and/or program they would like to be considered for, a summary of their project, and the desired amount of funding.

Awards: STEM Convergence typically awards $50,000 to $300,000 grants. Grants from the Luce Foundation range from $10,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the program and project scope. Please carefully review all application guidelines before seeking funding.

Faith and AI Rapid Response Grant - DELTA Partner Program

Overview:

If interested, please complete the online Proposal Intake Form by February 3, 2026. 

The DELTA Partner Program invites proposals from organizations ready to make significant progress in one of the following four areas:

1. Developing a K–8 curriculum, set of original resources, professional development program, or similar deliverable based on the ethical use of AI grounded in the DELTA framework
2. Developing a high school curriculum, set of original resources, professional development program, or similar deliverable on the ethical use of AI grounded in the DELTA framework
3. Creating a pastoral training program, set of original resources, or similar deliverable for Christian denominations focused on AI and the DELTA framework
4. Producing a major public-facing creative project (e.g., a video series, podcast, digital media campaign, etc.) intended to make DELTA accessible and applicable to a broad audience.

The DELTA Partner Program will award up to 10 Rapid Response Grants of up to $100,000 each to organizations working in these areas of focus. These short-term (4-5 months in duration) grants will fund fast-moving, high-impact projects beginning April 2026 and concluding September 2026. Grantees will be expected to present their deliverables at the September 21-23, 2026 Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing on Notre Dame’s campus in a workshop for the relevant Community of Practice (see below).

At the conclusion of this initial phase, a second phase of two-year Impact Grants ranging from $500,000 to $1 million will launch. Rapid Response grantees will be eligible to apply to continue or scale their work, but the round will also be open to new applicants. A third phase is anticipated in the future, structured based on learnings from the first two phases.

The Rapid Response phase reflects the urgency of the current moment—where AI is evolving faster than public understanding or institutional guidance. The subsequent Impact Grants recognize the importance of deep, thoughtful engagement and long-term infrastructure to address the complex ethical and spiritual challenges of AI.

Other information:

All selected grantees will be asked to work with Notre Dame Research to secure appropriate subaward documentation.

2026-2027 Fiesta Sports Foundation Grant Cycle

Overview:

At the heart of the Fiesta Sports Foundation is a simple mission: to enhance organizations that contribute to the success of their communities through youth, sports and education. Through its two annual bowl games in the Valley, the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl and the Rate Bowl, as well as community events throughout the year, Fiesta Sports Foundation has impacted hundreds of thousands throughout Arizona!

Fiesta Sports Foundation strives to enhance organizations that contribute to the success of their communities through youth, sports, and education.

Fiesta Sports Foundation will accept proposals that support the following areas:

• Youth
• Sports
• Education

Fiesta Sports Foundation encourages proposals that:

• Leverage matching funds
• Engage strategic, mission-driven collaborations and partnerships
• Build the capacity of the organization
• Support direct services projects
• Support program projects
• Support direct costs associated with carrying out the program, project
  management, marketing, consultants, supplies, postage, travel, training or
  equipment, newly acquired information technology, etc. will be allowed. Direct
  costs can also include directly attributable administrative support, legal or
  accounting functions, with distinct and measured effort on the project.

Solicitation limitations:

ASU Limited Submissions will run this opportunity with a rapid review system to better accommodate the sponsor's immediate timeline.

Limitation: ASU may submit only one (1) interest form per organization to the Touchdown, Field Goal or Kickoff Grant.

Other information:

Note: Interest Form period will open on January 29, 2026, at 8:00 am. 

Interest Form Period: The first phase of the two-step process is open from January 29, 2026 through February 27, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. Invitations to apply to the Fiesta Sports Foundation Grant Cycle will be extended to select organizations by April 3, 2026.

See Grant Guidelines (available on January 29, 2026).

Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants

Overview:

The Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants Competition seeks to support early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and/or employed at under-resourced colleges and universities.

Below we provide some examples of topics and questions that are relevant to this competition. This list is not all-encompassing. Short descriptions of previously funded projects are available on our website. Applicants are also encouraged to look at the RFP’s for RSF’s existing program areas for other examples of questions/topics the foundation is interested in: Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality; and Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context.

Our priorities generally exclude research focused on health or mental health outcomes or health behaviors, as these are priorities for other funders. For the same reason, RSF seldom supports research focused on educational processes or curricular issues. It does prioritize analyses of the causes and consequences of inequities in student achievement or educational attainment.

RSF has a long-standing goal of encouraging methodological diversity and inter-disciplinary collaboration. We are interested in novel uses of new or under-utilized data, and creative uses of administrative data or new data linkages across systems (e.g., in and across criminal justice, safety net, labor markets). Applicants might propose exploratory fieldwork, a pilot study, field or survey experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, ethnographies, and/or pilot or exploratory studies which support the development of a randomized evaluation.

Areas of Interest: 

• Income & Wealth
• Policy Impacts and Interventions
• Neighborhood Characteristics, Gentrification and Segregation
• Climate Change & Natural Disasters
• Criminal Justice & the Legal System
• Young Adults, Social Movements, and Democracy
• Accessing the Safety Net
• Labor Markets
• Immigrants, Immigration, and Immigrant Integration Policies
• Education

Gender, Work and Public Policies

Solicitation limitations:

Only faculty who have not previously received a research grant or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply.

Other information:

Award(s): Individual applicants can apply for grants of up to $50,000; teams of two or more eligible applicants can apply for grants of up to $65,000. RSF will pair grantees with mentors conducting research on related issues and provide an honorarium for the mentors. On occasion, RSF will deem a project or applicant more appropriate for its Presidential Grants competition and review a Pipeline Grants proposal as a letter of inquiry for that competition instead. Proposals may also be shared with potential co-funders at institutions such as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) or The Policy Academies.

Research Conference and Workshop: Grantees are expected to present their preliminary findings at a conference during Summer 2027 where other grantees, mentors, and other senior scholars will participate.

Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Overview:

The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage (see restrictions under Additional Eligibility Information) to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research.

The MCA program provides protected time, resources, and the means to gain new skills through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than the candidate's home institution. Partners from outside the Principal Investigator's (PI) own sub-discipline or discipline are encouraged, but not required, to enhance interdisciplinary networking and convergence across science and engineering fields. Research projects that envision new insights on existing problems or identify new problems made accessible with cutting-edge methodology or expertise from other fields are encouraged.

A key component of a successful MCA will be the demonstration that the PI's current research program could substantively benefit from the protected time, mentored partnership(s), and resources provided through this program, such that there is a substantial enhancement to the PI's research and career trajectory, enabling scientific and academic advancement not likely without this support.

The MCA is the only cross-directorate NSF program specifically aimed at providing protected time and resources to established scientists and engineers targeted at the mid-career stage. Participating programs in the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO), Geosciences (GEO), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR) will accept MCA proposals. To help identify the disciplinary program in which the MCA should be reviewed, PIs are urged to investigate the research areas supported by the different directorates and participating programs.

PIs are strongly encouraged to discuss the suitability of their MCA proposal with a Program Officer from the appropriate directorate (see https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mca-mid-career-advancement/announcements/111199). PIs from EPSCoR jurisdictions are especially encouraged to apply.

Broadening Participation in STEM
NSF has a mandate to broaden participation in science and engineering, as articulated and reaffirmed in law since 1950. Congress has charged NSF to "develop intellectual capital, both people and ideas, with particular emphasis on groups and regions that traditionally have not participated fully in science, mathematics, and engineering."

Solicitation limitations:

Who May Serve as PI: PIs must be a) at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent; see Additional Eligibility Information) and b) at that rank for at least 3 years by the proposal submission date. PIs must have current or proposed research that falls within the purview of a participating disciplinary program.

Pilot PUI Track in Directorates for Biological Sciences and Geosciences only, extends PI eligibility: Researchers at the Full Professor rank (or equivalent; see Additional Eligibility Information) at PUI institutions only and with proposed research that falls within the purview of a participating program within the Directorate for Biological Sciences or the Directorate for Geosciences may also apply.

The collaborative partner(s) may not be listed as co-principal investigator(s) on the cover page. Instead the partner(s) should be designated as senior/key personnel or consultants.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: There are no restrictions or limits.

Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or co-PI: There are no restrictions or limits.

Other information:

Estimated Number of Awards: 35 to 45. The actual number of awards varies across disciplinary research programs.

Anticipated Funding Amount: $14,000,000 to $18,000,000. Varies across disciplinary research programs.

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)

Overview:

The IUSE: EDU program supports projects designed to contribute to a future in which all undergraduate students are fully engaged in their STEM learning. The IUSE: EDU program promotes (1) Engaged Student Learning: the development, testing, and use of teaching practices and curricular innovations that will engage students and improve learning, persistence, and retention in STEM, and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation: the transformation of colleges and universities to implement and sustain highly effective STEM teaching and learning.

All projects supported by IUSE: EDU must: 

• Demonstrate a strong rationale for project objectives or incorporate and build on educational practices that are demonstrably effective
• Contribute to the development of exemplary undergraduate STEM education
• Add to the body of knowledge about what works in undergraduate STEM education and the conditions that lead to improved STEM teaching and learning
• Measure project progress and achievement of project goals 

To accomplish these goals, IUSE: EDU projects may focus their activities at any level, including the student, faculty, institutional or community5 levels. Development, propagation, adaptation, and transferability of evidence-based practices are also important considerations. Projects should consider designing materials and practices for use in a wide variety of institutions or institutional types. Topics of interest to the IUSE: EDU program include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Development and study of the efficacy of innovative teaching and learning practices and resources
• Development, testing, and dissemination of instruments for measuring student outcomes
• Efforts to increase the diversity of the STEM workforce including K-12 teachers and/or the faculty and institutions engaged in work to improve undergraduate STEM education
• Faculty professional development to increase the use of evidence-based teaching practices
• Implementation of and research on sustained change processes involved in adopting evidence-based and effective instruction within or across departments, disciplines, or institutions
• Efforts to achieve STEM educational goals through innovative partnerships, for example with community organizations, local, regional, or national industries, centers for teaching and learning, professional societies, or libraries,
• Propagating and sustaining transformative and effective STEM teaching and learning through institutional practices or involvement of professional societies 

The IUSE: EDU program features two tracks:

Track 1: Engaged Student Learning (ESL)
The Engaged Student Learning (ESL) track focuses on design, development, and research projects that involve the creation, exploration, or implementation of tools, resources, and models. Projects must show high potential to increase student engagement and learning in STEM. Projects may focus directly on students or indirectly serve students through faculty professional development or research on teaching and learning. Whatever the focus, all projects should be both evidence-based and knowledge-generating, with well-developed plans to study student experiences and evaluate student outcomes. 
 
Track 2: Institutional and Community Transformation (ICT)
The Institutional and Community Transformation (ICT) track funds innovative work applying evidence-based practices that improve undergraduate STEM education and research on the organizational change processes involved in implementing evidence-based practices. The emphasis of this track is on systemic change that may be measured at the departmental, institutional, or multi-institutional level, or across communities of STEM educators and/or educational researchers.

ICT Capacity-Building: ICT Capacity-Building proposals may be submitted as individual or collaborative projects. Capacity-Building proposals are expected to enable institutions that have not served as the lead institution on a prior ICT award to identify a project of interest. Funding for these projects is intended to support efforts to assess institutional needs, formulate departmental and/or institutional commitments, develop necessary campus partnerships, audit prior institutional efforts, gather data, learn about relevant theories of change, identify relevant institutional practices and policies, and/or formulate plans for advancing institutional or community transformation.

To determine suitability of a project for consideration as an ICT Level 2 effort, or for assistance in distinguishing between ICT Level 2 and ESL Level 3 projects, proposers are encouraged to contact an NSF program officer prior to preparation and submission of a full proposal.

Solicitation limitations:

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: There are no restrictions or limits.
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 3 
An individual may serve as PI or co-PI on no more than three IUSE: EDU proposals submitted during the period of October 1 through September 30. This eligibility constraint will be strictly enforced. In the event that an individual exceeds this limit, proposals will be accepted based on earliest date and time of proposal submission (i.e., the first three proposals will be accepted and the remainder will be returned without review). No exceptions will be made.

Other information:

Due dates
Deadline of July 15, 2026 is for Engaged Student Learning (Level 2 and Level 3) proposals and Institutional and Community Transformation (Level 2) proposals.
 
Award information
ESL Level 2 project awards range from $400,001 to $750,000 and have a maximum duration of three years.
ESL Level 3 project awards range from $750,001 to $2 million and have a maximum duration of five years.
ICT Level 2 project awards range from $400,001 to $2 million and a maximum duration of five years.