Arizona: Cox Charities Grant Cycle

Overview:

Funded by employee donations, Cox Charities Community Grants are awarded to nonprofits in our West Region service areas. A diverse advisory council, made up of Cox employees, reviews and evaluates applications to ensure that our giving is meeting the needs of our local communities.

The Cox Charities Advisory Council, composed of a diverse group of local Cox employees in each market, functions as the program's decision-making body, ensuring that funds are awarded to the most deserving applicants within our communities.

Our West Region is comprised of the following markets: Las Vegas, Orange County, Palos Verdes, Phoenix, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Southern Arizona and Sun Valley.

Cox Charities Supports programs that impact our local communities in the following focus areas:

• K-12 STEM Education: STEM opportunities for K-12 students beyond the classroom.
• Conservation & Sustainability: Championing positive environmental change in our community and beyond. 
• Food & Housing Insecurity: Supporting opportunities allowing affordable housing for all.

Excerpt from the sponsor’s application:

• If K-12 STEM Education, which category best describes your project: 
  • Programs that engage students in hands-on STEM learning 
  • Access to STEM tools, technology, or educational resources o
  • Support for educators to enhance STEM instruction 
• If Conservation & Sustainability, which category best describes your project:
  • Efforts to lower carbon emissions or support clean energy 
  • Projects that reduce waste and promote recycling 
  • Initiatives focused on protecting water and natural resources 
• If Food & Housing Insecurity, which category best describes your project: 
  • Programs that increase access to healthy, nutritious food 
  • Services that provide safe, stable housing solutions 
  • Initiatives that support long-term stability for individuals and families

Other information:

Sponsor application opens on June 1, 2025.

Additional limitations and requirements can be read here.

Cox Charities Community Grants will support:

• Program-related expenses, including activities, materials and expenses related to the program.

Programs and initiatives that impact the areas of: K-12 STEM Education, Conservation & Sustainability, Digital Equity ad any specific local needs identified by each market.

Institutional Challenge Grant

Overview:

The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research.

We welcome applications from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. We especially encourage proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.

The Institutional Challenge Grant asks grantees to pursue four goals:

1. Grow an existing institutional partnership with a public agency or nonprofit organization. The research-practice partnership will have defined objectives, roles, and agreements, and will be built for the long term. In this way, the partnership will be mutually beneficial, enabling the partners to develop and pursue a joint research agenda that is relevant to the public agency or nonprofit organization’s work over an extended period of time.
2. Pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The partnership’s research will aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. Specifically, the research agenda will seek to inform responses to inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
3. Create institutional change to value research-practice partnerships within research institutions. The research institution will design a feasible strategy for institutional change that addresses observed structural, motivational, and financial barriers that inhibit research-practice partnerships at the institution. By establishing structural supports and incentives that encourage skilled, mid-career researchers to conduct joint work with policymakers and practitioners, the institution will develop an environment for partnerships to thrive.
4. Enhance the capacity of both partners to collaborate on producing and using research evidence. Through new experiences that foster deeper understandings of a given policy or practice context and deepen relationships with partners, grantees on the research side will enhance their capacity for participating in effective partnerships. At the same time, the public agency or nonprofit partner will enhance their own capacity to partner with researchers , as well as understand, conduct, and use research through activities such as technical assistance, infrastructure improvements, or staff training.

Solicitation limitations:

Eligible principal investigators: The Foundation makes grants only to tax-exempt organizations. 

Other information:

Eligible partnerships

• We are most interested in supporting existing research-practice partnerships that will use the grant to continue learning and growing.

While the competition is open to partnerships at different stages of maturity, the grant is intended to add significant value to what already exists. As a general guideline, the partnership should be far enough along to conduct the proposed work, but not so established that the grant adds little value to what is currently in place.

U.S. Mission to Venezuela, Curriculum and University Partnerships (CUP)

Overview:

The Public Diplomacy section of the Venezuela Affairs Unit announces an open competition for U.S. Institutes of Higher Education (HEIs) or U.S. not-for-profit organizations to submit applications for the Curriculum and University Partnerships (CUP). We seek proposals that build the curriculum development capacity of faculty at Venezuelan academic institutions through collaborative online curriculum-design partnerships that cultivate university partnerships between these institutions and their U.S. counterparts. 

This program will focus on building collaborative curriculum development opportunities at Venezuelan universities, building curriculum design capacity; connecting Venezuelan academics with their U.S. counterparts and catalyzing university partnerships. This program supports the VAU’s higher education engagement goals to expand partnerships between U.S. and Venezuelan higher education institutions. This approach acknowledges that fortifying existing links and promoting new U.S.-Venezuelan partnerships at the university level will make the United States safer, stronger, and more prosperous. 

We seek proposals that will utilize COIL1 and other online collaboration tools to develop up to six new curricula projects at Venezuelan universities and establish the building blocks of international partnerships among program participants and their U.S. counterparts. 

Theory of Change: If universities in Venezuela increase their ability to collaborate and enhance their curriculum development capacity; and if these universities develop a campus-wide culture of international collaboration, then Venezuela will be better positioned to build comprehensive university partnerships with U.S. counterparts. 

Key Deliverables: The 18-month CUP grant seeks to accomplish the program’s goals through the following deliverables: 

1. Online Engagement and Mentoring Sessions on the main components of a successful university curriculum development process, including (but not limited to), 1) Needs Assessment; 2) Goal Setting; 3) Curriculum Design; 4) Implementation; and 5) Evaluation/Revision (as needed). In addition, these online sessions should include a wide range of topics that focus on how to foster a culture of learning and international collaboration, including: 

• Value and importance of integrated and multi-disciplinary teaching and learning, including leadership support for a campus-wide strategic vision; 
• Case studies of successful U.S. university curriculum development and implementation initiatives that led to achieving international standards, improved student outcomes and institutionalized support; 
• International education and partnership strategies; 
• Additional topics could include curricula review strategies, student/faculty/administration stakeholder engagement; private-sector/practitioner integrations, critical thinking/problem-solving capacities; and 
• Other key areas that support this effort. 

2. International Partnership Facilitation/Professional Networking Activities that support new academic collaborations and university partnerships (or enhance existing partnerships) between Venezuelan academic leaders and their U.S. counterparts. The grantee will recruit and introduce potential U.S. university counterparts to facilitate these curriculum partnerships. This will include working with the Venezuelan participants to shape and design their curriculum projects and develop their initial partnership strategies. 
   
   
3. Curriculum Design through COIL will be implemented and mentored by the grantee through online support, regular consultations, and other professional oversight as appropriate. 
   
   
4. In-Person Curriculum Workshop for up to 12 Venezuelan university academics and administrators from six Venezuelan universities and six U.S. counterparts. The grantee will organize a Colombia-based academic conference to build on the online capacity-building sessions and physically bring together international partners for each of the six curriculum projects. The workshop can include travel and participation costs for U.S. experts and collaborative partners to travel to Bogota, Colombia, for this program. [NOTE: Review DOS travel restrictions for this country.]
   
   
5. Implementation and Assessment support for program participants to guide the implementation of these curricula projects and the assessment and revision process as necessary. 
   
   NOTE: Proposals that present a broad group of U.S. universities and innovative/creative online networking strategies efforts will be prioritized.

Other information:

Project Performance Period: Project should be completed in 18 months or less

U.S. Embassy Philippines Public Affairs Section (PAS) Annual Program Statement (APS)

Overview:

PAS Philippines invites proposals for projects that strengthen ties between the Philippines and the United States through programming that promotes U.S. interests and bilateral cooperation.  All programs must include an American element or connection with American expert(s), organization(s), and/or institution(s) in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policies and perspectives. 

PRIORITY PROGRAM AREAS 
Priority will be given to project proposals that further one or more of the U.S. Embassy’s goals, including:  

• Proposals that commemorate the 80th anniversary of U.S.-Philippines diplomatic relations and/or the 75th anniversary of the Mutual Defense Treaty in 2026; 
• Programs that enhance U.S.-Philippines security cooperation, including deterring illegal maritime activities, promoting adherence to international law, and encouraging peaceful resolution of disputes; 
• Programs that promote mutual prosperity and foster closer economic ties between the United States and the Philippines; 
• Programs that support a free and open Indo-Pacific region by developing stronger linkages between the United States, the Philippines and other countries in the region; 
• Programs that celebrate the excellence of figures past and present who made the U.S.-Philippines relationship stronger. 

Other examples of APS programs include, but are not limited to: 

• Programs that counter malign foreign influence. 
• Sports, music, and arts programs that highlight the robust history of U.S.-Philippines relationship and/or bilateral goals. 
• Programs that engage emerging leaders, youth-led non-profit organizations, and student leaders, on priority program areas or advancing leadership and innovation skills. 
• Programs that develop the skills of the U.S. government alumni network and associations on organizational management and formalization to U.S. standards  
• U.S. experts conducting speaking tours, public talks, roundtable discussions, workshops, etc. 
• Academic and professional lectures and seminars 
• STEM and innovation developmental programs that support strategic priorities 
• Capacity-building workshops/webinars or information campaigns that engage established opinion leaders (such as policymakers, industry leaders, decision-makers, academe, think tanks, NGOs, CSOs, and media) to address any of these priority program areas. 
• Programs that equip Philippine higher education institutions with tools for internationalization efforts in collaboration with U.S. higher education institutions, or programs that foster academic linkages and partnerships. 
• Programs that protect activities that are under threat due to violations of the Philippines’ sovereign rights and are critical to lives and livelihoods. 

Other information:

Participants and Audiences: PAS Philippines’ target audiences include national and regional media; NGOs and think tanks; government officials (state, district, and municipal officials; policy makers, civil servants); cultural and educational leaders; next generation leaders (e.g., innovators, digital influencers, campus leaders, elected youth officials); and universities. 

Program Performance Period: Proposed programs are usually completed in one year or less but may be extended in special circumstances. 

Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year and will be reviewed in July. 

U.S. Embassy Lusaka Public Diplomacy Section Annual Program Statement

Overview:

The Public Diplomacy Section invites proposals from eligible applicants that support core U.S. government priorities in Zambia.  All programs must include an American cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives and make the U.S. safer, stronger, or more prosperous. Successful proposals will clearly define the anticipated results of the program, when results will be expected, and how the U.S. Embassy can measure the anticipated results. Successful grantees will proactively show progress towards results through regular reporting to the U.S. Embassy. U.S. Embassy officials will visit project activities regularly to monitor progress. This grant program does not favorably review proposals to hold conferences. 

Priority Program Areas: 

• Strengthening and expanding capacity in sectors relating to mining and critical minerals. 
• Strengthening transparency by fostering an independent and professional media. 
• Combat the illegal timber and mining trade. 
• Promoting entrepreneurship and business development, or business climate reforms. 
• Programs relating to partisan political activity; 
• Programs that support DEI efforts; 
• Charitable or development activities; 
• Construction programs; 
• Programs that support specific religious activities; 
• Fund-raising campaigns; 
• Lobbying for specific legislation or programs; 
• Scientific research; 
• Programs intended primarily for the growth or institutional development of the organization; or 

Participants and Audiences: Proposals must identify a clearly defined target audience that the project seeks to influence or impact.  Well-defined audiences are countable and accessible through the project’s activities. Proposals should specify the changes in knowledge, understanding, attitudes, or behavior change in attitudes or behavior action that they seek with the project—and how they plan to measure these outcomes. The Public Diplomacy Section is particularly interested in projects based in rural areas, small cities, and Copperbelt and North-Western Provinces. 

The following types of programs are not eligible for funding:

Programs that duplicate existing programs.

Other information:

Program Performance Period: Proposed projects should be completed in 12 months or less. 

The Department of State will entertain applications for continuation grants funded under these awards beyond the initial budget period on a non-competitive basis subject to availability of funds, satisfactory progress of the program, and a determination that continued funding would be in the best interest of the U.S. Department of State.  

Learning Disabilities Foundation of America Grant

Overview:

Applications must be for projects which conform to the mission of the Learning Disabilities Foundation of America by responding to an unmet need in the field of learning disabilities. Funds are granted for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes or for the identification, ongoing evaluation, education of and services for children and adults with learning disabilities. Examples of project areas that fall within this philosophy:

• Innovative research into the causes, the prevention and/or the alleviation of learning disabilities
• Distinctive public awareness programs to advance public understanding of the needs of persons with learning disabilities
• Innovative programs to advance the achievement of persons with learning disabilities, increase the support skills of their families, support academic and professional advisors, and enhance the understanding of learning disabilities by their colleagues and employer

Other information:

Grant Application Policy

• Grant applications are considered twice each year by the Foundation Board of Managers. Next application deadline is September 15, 2025.
• Projects of national impact and projects that may be replicated are given preference.
• Grants will not be made for routine organizational expenses (ex. Salaries, Overhead), capital campaigns, endowment funds. *Exception of certain funds restricted for use by the LD Association of America.           
• Grants will not be made to individuals or for individual scholarships.
• The Board of Managers of the Foundation may request an interview with the primary facilitator and/or site visit, in addition to the written grant application.

Grants can only be made to an organization within the United States or any of its possessions exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code and contributions to which are tax deductible.

Annual Strategy and Policy Fellows Grant

Overview:

The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.

The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues.

Applicants must be an employee or affiliate of either an academic institution or a think tank.

Other information:

The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects.  It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)

The applicant must: 

• Have a Ph.D. by the time of the application deadline.  A professional terminal degree (e.g., J.D. or MBA) will not be accepted as a substitute. 
• Be affiliated with and sponsored by a U.S. organization (e.g., university or think tank).  If applying from an organization outside the United States, that organization must have a properly incorporated U.S. 501(c)3 entity and a cover letter of sponsorship for the applicant must come from the U.S. 501(c)3 organization.

US-Japan Foundation: Call for LOIs

Overview:

The United States-Japan Foundation is an independent philanthropic organization working to strengthen bilateral ties and address shared challenges. We empower next-generation leaders and fund innovative initiatives, catalyzing collaboration and exchanges among stakeholders in search of solutions.

In an era characterized by uncertainty and division, we believe that a robust U.S.-Japan relationship is vital to global peace, prosperity, stability, and sustainability in the 21st century. We are committed not just to maintaining that friendship but empowering it for greater good: helping each other address problems and jointly extending that support to friends in the region and around the world. A core part of our strategy is to bolster civil society in each country, bringing together talent and resources to create a thriving community.

We've awarded more than $100 million in grants to advocates, artists, scholars and students, to bolster and project U.S.-Japan ties, making a meaningful difference in each country. [Read about recent awarded projects here.]

Before applying for a grant, please take the time to carefully review the following notes and limitations:

• Grants can only be made to holding non-profit status organizations. Foundation grants may not be used for lobbying or to support election to public offices.
• The Foundation accepts no responsibility for keeping any part of a request confidential and reserves the right to discuss a proposal with outside titled experts to assist the program staff in its evaluation.
• The Foundation limits overhead expenses to 10% of the total project budget.

Other information:

2025 Grants Cycle Timetable:

• First quarter Letter of Inquiry (LOI) deadline: Friday, March 28
• Second quarter LOI deadline: Friday, June 27
• Third quarter LOI deadline: Friday, September 26
• Fourth quarter LOI deadline: Friday, December 26

We will review LOIs during the month following each quarterly deadline and will invite selected applicants to submit a full grant proposal. 

We are also willing to consider time-sensitive proposals on an expedited basis. If you believe that your proposal requires an urgent decision, please provide a desired decision deadline and a detailed rationale for requesting accelerated consideration.

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Overview:

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal.

We are primarily, but not exclusively, interested in activities that build connections between basic and early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions aimed at reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for healthcare, care delivery, and biomedical research.

Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can lead to large-scale disruptions, immediately affecting human health and the delivery of healthcare. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call. This program supports work conceived through many kinds of creative thinking. Successful applicants include academic scientists, physicians, and public health experts, community organizations, science outreach centers, non-biomedical academic departments, and more.

This call focuses on developing partnerships. Proposals from single institutions must develop partnerships that do not already occur naturally: for example, proposals from departments that draw students from the same shared graduate program are not responsive to this call. Proposals from more than one institution are responsive. Academic institutions, professional societies, and advocacy organizations are only a few of the appropriate drivers of proposals. Only non-profit institutions may be supported by BWF’s award, but non-profits may involve for profit organizations in their proposals. This program does not support biomedical research projects proposed by individual investigators, but only by collaborative teams. 

Eligible proposals will include rationale/vision for the project, including who it is intended to impact. 

Individuals may only serve twice as directors (principal investigators/project directors) for proposals supported over time by this program. Current and past awardees from other BWF programs are eligible to apply.

Solicitation limitations:

Applicant organizations may submit multiple proposals, but an individual may only serve as a principal investigator/project director on one application during each review period.

Other information:

NOTE: Beginning April 30, 2025, we will no longer accept phone calls or emails regarding the Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program. Instead, we will hold nine Zoom sessions per quarter to address questions from potential applicants. Sign up for notification for information. Only .org, .edu, and .ca email domains are eligible for subscription.

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

Overview:

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars, in collaboration with The Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF. While it is impossible for private philanthropy to close the gap left by federal funders, we can provide modest grants to mitigate some of the impact on scholars, projects, and project teams. These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research. 

To be eligible for these grants, scholars must: (1) be working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and (2) have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Where possible, we will prioritize early-career scholars.

We are asking that PIs provide: 

• The original funded proposal 
• Your NSF termination letter 
• A 2–3-page (no more than 1200 words) narrative memo describing the plan for activities to be completed over a 6-month period.
• A budget for a maximum $25,000 (no indirect costs). We ask that scholars ask for only what they need within this limit, and to note if they have access to bridging funds at their university. Our goal is to fund as many people as possible with our limited funds.

Other information:

There will be two deadlines for requests: May 30, 2025 and June 13, 2025 (12:00 p.m. Central). Principal Investigators may only apply once. Decisions for the May cycle will be made by June 15. Decisions for the June cycle will be made by June 30.