ARTS & HUMANITIES

Foundation: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program Name: Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film
Deadline: 5/1/2025
Award Amount: $40,000

 Early-career scholars frequently lack the time and resources needed for film production. Through this program, we support projects that will impact the field of anthropology and beyond through innovative work in film and other media. The Foundation has no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. We encourage the use of novel production strategies in terms of technique, process, approach, and the integration of film and video with other media suitable to anthropology. We encourage new solutions to the challenge of ethically representing diverse communities-for instance, by seeking their permission through public forums, guaranteeing their right to the materials produced, and releasing copyrights to them.

Online Application: https://wennergren.org/program/fejos-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-ethnographic-film/

Foundation: Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program: Arts Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $2,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. 1. Anchor Arts

Our Desired Outcome is a culturally vibrant metro Detroit, evidenced by financially healthy organizations and a coordinated sector.

To achieve that outcome, we provide flexible funding to select arts and cultural organizations, support improved business models that increase the capacity and impact of those organizations, and invest in holistic efforts that strengthen the field. Learn more about eligibility and the application process for this funding opportunity at Detroit Arts Support. We will measure impact by tracking the capitalization of arts organizations in metropolitan Detroit.

2. Jazz Education

Our Desired Outcome is to continue Detroit’s strong jazz tradition and Fred Erb’s legacy of jazz patronage by educating the next generation of jazz musicians.

To achieve that outcome, we support efforts to provide and improve jazz instruction for youth.

We will measure impact through the number of jazz education students.

Online Application: https://www.erbff.org/programs/

CHILDREN/ YOUTH

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Equitable Communities Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive in vibrant and equitable communities. Equitable communities are places of opportunity where all children and families can develop, grow and contribute--where people recognize that community well-being depends on the participation of every person. Making communities more equitable requires all of us to confront how racism and bias affects our history and present-day experiences, to heal from the resulting fractures in our relationships, and to begin reshaping the systems that hold back so many among us. By first acknowledging and understanding the root causes of inequity, communities can then come together to envision and chart a course for the transformation. Advancing racial equity and racial healing, engaging communities in solving their problems and developing leaders capable of guiding change on this scale are essential to creating vibrant, equitable communities. These three approaches, known as our DNA, are embedded in all we do.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Thriving Children Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive when they have a healthy start and quality learning experiences. To ensure children thrive, we focus on improving access to high quality, early childhood education and education systems, where families engaged in schools and practices are rooted in a community's cultures and languages.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Working Families Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive when their families are economically secure. In the United States, we work alongside grantees and employers to widen pathways to stable, high-quality jobs and more equitable employment opportunities. We seek to expand support for tribal-, minority-, and women-owned business enterprises and to accelerate small business growth. Some families may need short-term assistance or other supports to move from poverty to financial stability, so we support efforts that inform policies and change systems to create greater economic stability for families and communities.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: Dresner Foundation
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Youth and Family
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Foundation's Focus:

• Self-Discovery - support for youth programs that foster self-empowerment and self-esteem through academic, artistic, personal or social enrichment. Regardless of whether a child lives in poverty or has a chronic disease, they must have access to programs that encourage self-expression and move their lives forward in a meaningful way. Therefore, the Foundation supports organizations that empower children and optimize their development by providing access to programs that promote academic, artistic, personal and social enhancement opportunities.
• Strengthening Families - support for programs that reinforce families. The foundation is interested in organizations that support youth through the provision of services that strengthen their families such as, but not limited to, work skill development and housing and family food assistance operations.

Online application: https://www.dresnerfoundation.org/program-areas/youth-programs/

Foundation: Skillman Foundation
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: President's Discretionary Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Our President’s Discretionary Fund is a $1M annual fund is for small, one-time grants that support 501c3 nonprofits and public entities (school, church, or governmental units) that serve Detroit youth but fall outside The Skillman Foundation’s grantmaking priorities. This is a limited, highly competitive fund, allowing us to support Detroit youth in ways beyond our strategy.

The Skillman Foundation provides grant funding and other supports to organizations that expand opportunities for Detroit children and help them achieve their highest aspirations through K-12 education, afterschool learning opportunities, and pathways to college and career. Priorities include:

•            K-12 Education

•            Afterschool System

•            College & Career Pathways

Online application: https://www.skillman.org/grant-partners/

EDUCATION

ENGINEERING

Foundation: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Topic: Health
Program Name: ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant
Deadline: 3/20/2025
Award Amount: $50,000

AAPM and the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) are happy to announce a jointly funded research seed grant for Medical Physics Residents and Post-Doctoral Fellows. The goal of the joint seed grant is to advance the field of radiation oncology in novel ways through the support of early-career scientists involved in radiation oncology physics-related research. With this jointly supported grant, both societies aim to help support the next generation of researchers in the field of radiation oncology. Applicants are asked to notify the grant administrator if the same or similar application is submitted to more than one funding source so that the committee can take this into consideration when making final funding decisions. Up to two awards ($50,000 maximum / each) are anticipated. The 2025 award cycle will begin on July 1, 2025 and end on June 20, 2026.

Online Application: https://public.openwatercdn.com/eaa4391c-07a8-4b83-9808-1da6b0208787/b7da1bca-1e3b-4955-941a-dd15c3d53e5b.pdf

Foundation: Laerdal Foundation
Topic: Health
Program Name: Saving Lives at Birth in Low-Resource Settings
Deadline: 4/1/2025
Award Amount: $50,000
Average grant around USD 30,000. 50 % of the annual appropriations have been earmarked for practically oriented projects that may help achieve the UN Sustainability Goal no 3, aiming at reducing both maternal and newborn mortality by 2/3 from 2010 to 2030.

The Board will be prioritizing projects relating to interventions on the day of birth - including prevention of stillborn deaths. Applications that go beyond a local impact and have the potential to document long-term practical value and stimulate developments also in other regions/countries will be prioritized.

Applications are particularly welcome relating to:

• Innovative approaches to more efficient education and implementation
• Collaborative initiatives relating to scale-up of proven concepts
• Projects taking place in the Foundation's focus countries: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

Online Application: https://laerdalfoundation.org/saving-lives-at-birth/

Foundation: Laerdal Foundation
Topic: Health
Program Name: Program Support Grant
Deadline: 4/1/2025
Award Amount: $450,000
Program support may be applied for up to USD 150,000 (currently NOK 1,5 mill) for each of three consecutive years for programs that support the Foundation’s strategy. The Laerdal Foundation was established in 1980 in collaboration with the University of Oslo to provide financial support to practically oriented research projects that can help prevent needless deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, trauma, and during birth. The Board will prioritize applications in the focus areas defined in its strategy, that are considered to have a high potential to improve patient outcomes. The Board further believes there is a particular opportunity for helping save lives at birth in low-resource settings and has therefore earmarked 50% of the grants to the category Saving Lives at Birth in Low-Resource Settings. The Foundation shares the mission with the Laerdal company of helping save lives but operates independently from the Laerdal companies under the regulation of the Norwegian Foundation’s Act.

The Foundation in particular welcomes applications that can advance treatment recommendations, education or implementation within: Resuscitation; Trauma; Maternal and/or newborn care. Potential applicants in this category should submit a concept description of max 6 pages, outlining how the proposed program may be of practical value within the defined scope of the Foundation.  A concept note should be submitted by the head of the research group in question and be accompanied by the CV and a list of publications of the last three years by this person. Secured or applied for matching funding from other sources would support the possibilities of funding from the Foundation.

Online Application: https://laerdalfoundation.org/program-support/

Foundation: Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
Topic: Health
Program Name: Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation Grants
Deadline: 4/1/2025
Award Amount: $450,000
Deadline is for LOI; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently At PCRF, we are unique in our approach to funding childhood cancer research - working directly with doctors, researchers, and nurses to identify the specific challenges they face in bringing new treatments to and caring for children with cancer. Our careful distribution of grants has allowed doctors and nurses to speed up the process of bringing the latest and most promising life-saving treatments to seriously ill children. The result is bringing hope to childhood cancer patients now and in the future. PCRF is an equal-opportunity organization. No one is excluded from employment, membership on our governing body, or research support because of race, religion, sex, national origin, age or physical handicap. No infrastructure or support services will be funded.

The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation awards four types of grants:

• Emerging Investigator
• Translational Research Grants
• Legacy Researcher Grant
• Designated Grant Programs

Online Submission: https://pcrf-kids.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PCRF-Grants_Letter-of-Intent-Guidelines_2026-1.pdf

Foundation: Community Pharmacy Foundation
Topic: Health
Program Name: The Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) Grants
Deadline: 4/20/2025
Award Amount: - $40,000

The CPF strategic plan guides the organization's grant-making to advance community pharmacy by supporting initiatives that align with the areas of strategic focus provided below. Essential criteria the board utilizes in its decision-making process to award a grant are: (1) is it or does it have the potential to be financially sustainable; (2) is it transferable to other community pharmacies and non-proprietary; and (3) is it replicable in other community pharmacies.

However, CPF is looking for the next great idea to advance the practice of pharmacy in the community setting, and individuals are encouraged to apply regardless of a project's alignment with the strategic areas listed below.

AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS

• Patient Care Best Practices
  • Focus on quality measures and the development of tools and resources to advance quality improvement in community pharmacy practice
  • Increase consumer awareness of the value of pharmacists services
  • Capture and integrate the voice of the patient into models of care
• Health Care Delivery Models
  • Payment and delivery reform
  • Real-time data integration, specifically as it relates to value-based compensation for pharmacist services/care (moving from volume to value)
  • Expand pharmacists' role in emerging and/or redesigned care delivery models
  • Attribution of pharmacist service outcomes in team-based care
• Provider Status
  • Advance national, state and regional provider status achievement
  • Community pharmacy transformation leading to 'coverage for and access to pharmacists services
• Future Practice
  • Prepare for value-based payment and provider status recognition

Online Application: https://communitypharmacyfoundation.org/default.asp

Foundation: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Topic: Health
Program Name: Clinical Gaps Research Grant
Deadline: 6/17/2025
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations Solicits investigator-initiated research proposals focused on addressing clinical gaps in healing, repair, or diagnostics through devices, biologics, or technology. Areas of research focus may include translational preclinical or clinical research preferably include pilot human studies.

Online Application: https://www.oref.org/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/grant-details/oref-aaos-clinical-gaps-research-grant

Foundation: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Topic: Health
Program Name: Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism
Deadline: 6/4/2025
Award Amount: $200,000

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime and paving the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. To achieve that vision, we are deepening our focus on dismantling structural racism, one of the biggest barriers to health in America. Racism and injustice have become embedded in many structures of American society, including the delivery and financing systems that support medical care, public health programs, and social services.

Effective solutions to systemic racism require medical care organizations working in partnership with public health and social services systems. RWJF’s Systems for Action (S4A) signature research program since 2015 supports research studies. The studies test novel ideas for aligning delivery and financing systems across sectors in ways that address the health and social needs of people experiencing health inequities.

This 2025 call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. This CFP focuses specifically on systems alignment (SA) interventions that have the potential to dismantle or disrupt the health effects of systemic racism and to positively affect the health and well-being of communities that experience systemic racism. S4A prioritizes SA interventions that, if successful, can be rapidly replicated and spread to many communities and contexts across the U.S. in order to achieve broad national impact.

Online Application: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/systems-for-action-community-led-systems-research-to-address-systemic-racism.html?rid=0034400001rmMnLAAU&et_cid=2199526

Foundation: Dresner Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Health
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $250,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The fund will facilitate the advancement of innovative basic science, translational or clinical research.
Our Focus

• Research – support for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and related research and emerging research leaders in the field. We look to provide researchers with the ability to focus on searching for MDS treatments and cures. The principle goal is to support cutting-edge MDS research and related programs that will lead to the future standards of care and ultimately cure.
• Access – support for programs that improve the health outcomes of vulnerable people, particularly underserved, low-income individuals who don’t have adequate access to health care.

The foundation is equally interested in efforts that have broad and meaningful impact and focus on intervention and prevention beyond the boundaries of any one disease.

Online Application: https://www.dresnerfoundation.org/program-areas/health-research/

Foundation: The Commonwealth Fund
Topic: Health
Program: Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. To promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

Online Application: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/applicant-resources

Foundation: Total Health Care Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: General application
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000- $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Full applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. THCF reviews submissions quarterly. Average grants $50,000-200,000. Improve the health and lives of people living in high-need areas; Provide care management that addresses social determinants of health; Educate expectant mothers on the importance of prenatal and preventive care; Promote wellness for transferred and vulnerable populations; Assist with the navigation of various aspects of Medicaid; Address disparities within the Detroit market

Emailed Application: https://www.priorityhealth.com/landing/total-health-care-foundation

Foundation: The Commonwealth Fund
Topic: Health
Program: Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Strictly LOI Submission Proposals are invitation only. Award amount based on previous grants. To promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

Online application: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/applicant-resources

MENTAL HEALTH

Foundation: Huo Family Foundation
Topic: Mental Health
Program Name: Special Projects- Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health
in Children and Young People
Deadline: 5/23/2025
Award Amount: <$390,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The foundation will consider only ONE special project proposal from each lead institution.

A long-standing interest of the Ho Family Foundation (HFF) has been the effect and impact of the usage of digital technology on young people. The rapid rise and use of this technology has permeated much of society and transformed the way many humans interact. There has been a broad array of research efforts that mostly have involved relatively crude measures of the amount of usage of digital technology (e.g. total screen time) and the observed effects and impact on health. Despite these efforts, the full implications – both positive and negative – on human physiology, psychology, behaviour, well-being and mental health remain unclear.

We believe there is an opportunity to help advance the research and the field of knowledge in this area, both by strengthening existing as well as creating new methods and approaches to better model and unpick the complexities of this topic.

HFF is establishing a research portfolio on the Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People. Proposals should be tackling key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behaviour and interactions, and the mental health of children and young people. Awarded research grants in this area can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US. We are keen to support multi-disciplinary work. These teams may consist of several group leaders from one institution, or different institutions in the UK and the US.

Online Application: https://huofamilyfoundation.org/our-grants/special-projects/

Foundation: American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
Topic: Mental Health
Program: American Psychoanalytic Foundation Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Please send your grant proposal in digital format to Tom Newman, Executive Director, at tnewman@apsa.org. Most common grant amount is $20,000. Please send your grant proposal in digital format to Tom Newman, Executive Director, at tnewman@apsa.org. The most common grant amount is $20,000. The mission of the American Psychoanalytic Foundation (APF) is to sponsor programs that promote a better understanding of psychoanalysis and encourage effective and innovative dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas and services to the mental health community and the public.

Through its grants, APF seeks to build the reputation of psychoanalysis as a powerful therapeutic and research instrument that can be applied to a wide range of individual behaviors and cultural phenomena.

To ensure competitive consideration, proposed programs should:

•            Use creative approaches to promote psychoanalytic ideas and services

•            Feature a new program rather than a regular activity of a society or institute

•            Be applicable to other psychoanalytic institutes, societies and centers

Emailed Application: https://apsa.org/fellowships-awards/american-psychoanalytic-foundation-grants/

Foundation: Internet Society Foundation
Topic: Social Science
Program Name: Sustainable Peering Infrastructure Funding Program
Deadline: 3/27/2025
Award Amount: $70,000

We work with local communities to build IXPs in markets where they are needed, enhance existing IXPs to realize their full potential, and further develop organizations and communities that support peering and interconnection. Grant funds are available to assist in training, capacity building, community, local, and regional development, and equipment purchases (switches, optic modules, servers, and routers).

The Internet Society’s work is partially funded by generous grants from Meta and ICANN.

Our peering and interconnection work endeavors to:

• Further our 50/50 Vision to ensure at least half of all Internet traffic in emerging economies stays local by 2025
• Strengthen our collaboration with regional partners on IXP development in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and other regions
• Implement the IXP initiative of the Coalition for Digital Africa

Program Objectives:

• Increase the amount of Internet traffic within local infrastructure, reducing costs associated with traffic exchange between networks.
• Provide support to build new and enhance existing IXPs to ensure their long-term sustainability.
• Champion the development of peering and interconnection by building local capacity in collaboration with local or regional entities.

Online Application: https://www.internetsociety.org/funding-areas/sustainable-peering-ixp/

Foudation: Holley Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Holley Foundation Grant
Deadline: 3/30/2025
Award Amount: $50,000

The Holley Foundation's mission is to support educational and family initiatives for youth, mainly in Southeastern Michigan, through innovative, well-structured programs that demonstrate positive outcomes.

Online Application: https://www.theholleyfoundation.org/grants.html

Foundation: Ploughshares
Topic: Various
Program Name: Ploughshares Fund Grant
Deadline: 3/31/2025
Award Amount: $50,000

Ploughshares are committed to ensuring our grantmaking contributes to a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible (DEIA) nuclear field. As part of this commitment, we have updated all of our applications for funding to include a new set of questions related to DEIA based on the values that underpin our work. Any information provided will be maintained in a strictly confidential manner and is voluntary to provide. Choosing not to answer these questions will not negatively affect the outcome of your funding application.

Online Application: https://www.ploughshares.org/what-we-fund

Foundation: Internet Society Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Connecting the Unconnected Funding Program
Deadline: 3/31/2025
Award Amount: $5,000- $40,000

 The Connecting the Unconnected funding program supports communities and local organizations working to build and expand Internet infrastructure to connect people living in rural, remote, and low-income areas. This includes initiatives such as community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and other forms of complementary access solutions.

Program Objectives:

• Strengthen communities and local initiatives that are connecting the unconnected
• Develop new, innovative solutions to grow the Internet to reach rural, isolated, and low-income areas in all regions of the world

Online Application: https://www.internetsociety.org/funding-areas/connecting-the-unconnected/

Foundation: The Americana Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: The Americana Foundation Grants
Deadline: 4/1/2025
Award Amount: $10,000- $50,000

Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Americana Foundation supports partner organizations primarily through financial grants. Grants typically range between $10,000 and $25,000 and usually are awarded for a one-year period. We will consider grants larger than $25,000 and/or grants awarded for more than one year when necessary to the success of a project or program, and only when the grant directly aligns with the Foundation's priority interest areas. Grants awarded for a single project or program rarely exceed $50,000 in total. Requests for general operating support are approved only in extraordinary circumstances. **Our Mission** The Americana Foundation supports the sustainable development of agriculture and community food systems, the protection of natural resources, and an inclusive narrative of early American art and history.

Online Application: https://americanafoundation.org/overview-grants/guidelines/

Foundation: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Deadline: 5/1/2025
Award Amount: $25,000

This grant program funds doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.

Online Application: https://wennergren.org/program/dissertation-fieldwork-grant/

Foundation: William T. Grant Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Scholars Program
Deadline: 7/1/2025
Award Amount: $425,000
Must Coordinate with Foundation Relations. Opens 3/26/2025. The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers' expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.

Awards are based on applicants' potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise. Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation's focus areas.

Online Application: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program

Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $7,5000,000

Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Average grant for this program is $1,000,000. The Monuments Project is a five-year, $250 million commitment to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity: fund new monuments, memorials, or historic storytelling spaces; contextualize existing monuments or memorials through installations, research, and education; and relocate existing monuments or memorials. This is a five-year program, but Foundation Relations encourages early submissions.

Online application: https://www.mellon.org/article/the-monuments-project-initiative-faq

Foundation: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Topic: Various
Program: Democracy Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $3,500,000

The goal of the Democracy program is to foster a pluralistic, vibrant democracy through the civic integration of immigrants, support for nonpartisan voter registration and education, and voting rights. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas: The goal of the Democracy program is to foster a pluralistic, vibrant democracy through the civic integration of immigrants, support for nonpartisan voter registration and education, and voting rights. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas:

• Field Building: We support national nonprofit groups that educate, coordinate, and strengthen a field made up of locally based organizations dealing with challenges to democracy, immigration, voting, and related issues. These challenges result from the dearth of effective federal policies needed to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all people in the United States.
• Strategic Communications: The Democracy program's support for strategic communications is designed to promote intelligent, unbiased, nonpartisan news coverage to deepen public understanding of civic issues like voting rights, voter engagement, immigration, and the census.
• Policy Development: The Corporation funds original research on important issues, including voting rights, voter participation, immigration, citizenship, and the census, in order to improve federal and state policies regarding immigrant integration and civic engagement
• Nonpartisan Voter Engagement and Voting Rights: Engaged citizens, those who care about and work to preserve our democracy help ensure that government policies reflect the concerns of constituents. A democracy, by definition, gives eligible citizens the right to vote for their elected representatives.

Online Application: https://www.carnegie.org/programs/strengthening-democracy/

Foundation: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Rolling deadline for Letters of Inquiry; full proposals are by invitation only. Average grant size is $50,000. The Foundation affirms its founder's vision of a world in which each of us is in partnership with the rest of the human race - where each individual's quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally. The Foundation seeks to strengthen, in people and their organizations, what Mr. Mott called "the capacity for accomplishment." The Foundation's mission is to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.

Program Areas:

1. Civil Society: The mission is to strengthen philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as vital vehicles for increasing civic engagement and improving communities and societies. Program areas are:

• Strengthening Civic Space
• Enhancing Community Philanthropy
• Increasing Access to Justice
• Special Initiatives

2. Education: The mission is to fund efforts to expand learning opportunities and support for children, particularly those from low- and moderate-income communities. Program areas are:

• Youth Engagement
• Graduating High School College & Career Ready
• Advancing Afterschool
• Special Initiatives

3. Environment: The mission is to support programs around the world that protect communities and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Program areas are:

• Advancing Climate Change Solutions
• Transforming Development Finance
• Addressing the Freshwater Challenge
• Special Initiatives

Online Application: https://www.mott.org/grantseekers/

Foundation: Ford Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Ford Foundation Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Makes grants in seven interconnected areas to help challenge inequality:

• Cities and States
• Creativity and Free Expression
• Civic Engagement and Government
• Future of Work(ers)
• Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice
• Natural Resources and Climate Change
• Technology and Society

Online application: http://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/

Foundation: Glaser Progress Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $5,000,000

Based on the interests of its founder and managing board, the Foundation has chosen to create strategic initiatives in various program areas: how we measure progress; how we demonstrate the impacts of climate change on human health; how we address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic; how we ensure diversity of voices in our media; and how we treat animals. The Glaser Progress Foundation focuses on four program areas: Measuring Progress, Global Health & Climate Change Independent Media Animal Advocacy Note: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals for the Global Health & Climate Change and Animal Advocacy program areas.

Mail or Email Application: http://www.glaserprogress.org/application/index.asp

Foundation: Hearst Foundations
Topic: Various
Program: Program Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Hearst Foundations are national philanthropic resources for organizations working in the fields of culture, education, health and social services. The Hearst Foundations identify and fund outstanding nonprofits to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States have the opportunity to build healthy, productive and satisfying lives.

Funding priorities:

•            Culture

•            Education

•            Health

•            Social Service

Online Application: https://www.hearstfdn.org/faq

Foundation: Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Since the needs, desires and capabilities of Michigan’s people and their organizations are constantly changing, there is no fixed or steadfast priority in the Foundation’s grant-making decisions. However, within its charter and philosophy, the trustees tend to support Programs in: Education: Science: Arts and Culture; and Community Life.

Online Application: https://hhgadowfdn.org/grants/

Foundation: Hudson Webber Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants for Detroit
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000- $2,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Inquiry are accepted on continuous basis; Full Proposals are by invitation only. Arts & Culture

Hudson-Webber invests in the capacity of arts and cultural organizations to deliver quality, accessible, and engaging cultural programming, as well as increasing the diversity of voices reflected in the sector. The Foundation also supports arts and culture projects that contribute to the health and vitality of Detroit and its neighborhoods.

Built Environment: Hudson-Webber invests in the work that Detroiters are doing today to reimagine the city’s built environment as one of inclusivity, diversity, accessibility, and connectedness. The Foundation seeks to increase the prevalence of quality physical spaces that reflect and enhance our diverse cultures, shared identities, and highest aspirations for our community. The Foundation accomplishes this through investing in built-environment projects and by strengthening the field of practitioners that support the creation and stewardship of quality physical spaces.

• Community & Economic Development: The Hudson-Webber Foundation invests in community and civic efforts that provide high-quality jobs for all Detroiters, strengthen neighborhoods to provide opportunities and quality of life for residents and help achieve stable racial and economic diversity and interconnectedness.
• Safe & Just Communities: The Foundation invests in innovative, racially equitable strategies that reduce crime and victimization and improve community well-being. The Foundation is particularly focused on deterring crime and reducing recidivism through diversion and re-entry interventions and by strengthening relationships between law enforcement and residents that enable the co-production of public safety.

Online application: https://hudson-webber.org/how-to-apply/

Foundation: Oak Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000- $7,000,000
Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. In all of our work, we are committed to social justice. To this end, we pursue rights-based approaches, gender equality and partnership with the organizations we fund. We seek to support innovation, visionary leaders and organizations. We seek to be inclusive, flexible and to learn from different points of view. We believe that the best grant-making reflects both careful due diligence and the willingness to take risks.

We encourage our partners to work together - we believe that together we are stronger. As a whole, we fund initiatives that:

• target the root causes of problems;
• are replicable either within a sector or across geographical locations;
• include plans for long-term sustainability, such as co-funding;
• strive to collaborate with like-minded organizations;
• demonstrate good financial and organizational management; and
• value the participation of people (including children) and communities.

Online application: http://oakfnd.org/grant-making/

Foundation: Open Philanthropy
Topic: Various
Program: Course Development Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. This program aims to provide grant support to academics for the development of new university courses (including online courses). They are primarily looking to fund the development of new courses but are also accepting proposals from applicants who are looking for funding to turn courses they have already taught in an in-person setting into freely available online courses.

Possible topics include:

• Technical work on AI alignment
• Other topics relevant to understanding the long-run impacts of transformative developments in AI.
• Global catastrophic biological risks
• Global catastrophic risks
• Effective altruism
• Longtermism
• Other topics

Open Application: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/open-philanthropy-course-development-grants/

Foundation: Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $6,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation accepts applications on an ongoing basis, year-round. The first step in the application is a Letter of Inquiry; if the LOI fits within the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation's cur Our Four Key Areas of Focused Investment:

•            Active Lifestyles

•            Preparing for Success

•            Caregivers

•            Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

Online Application: http://www.ralphcwilsonjrfoundation.org/how-to-apply/

Foundation: Skillman Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. The Skillman Foundation provides grant funding and other support to organizations that expand opportunities for Detroit children and help them achieve their highest aspirations through K-12 education, afterschool learning opportunities, and pathways to college and career.

• K-12 Education: We support a high-quality system of schools that help children meet educational milestones and move through life as capable and confident thinkers.
• Afterschool System: We with community partners build a robust ecosystem of out-of-school learning opportunities that allow kids to explore and expand their sense of self and the world under the guidance of caring adults.
• College & Career Pathways: We support an integrated, youth-centered college and career pathway system to provide youth with the experiences, support, and opportunities needed to follow a path of their choosing, leading us all to a more prosperous and equitable future.

Currently open for applications: Our President’s Discretionary Fund is a $1M annual fund is for small, one-time grants that support 501c3 nonprofits and public entities (school, church, or governmental units) that serve Detroit youth but fall outside The Skillman Foundation’s grantmaking priorities. This is a limited, highly competitive fund, allowing us to support Detroit youth in ways beyond our strategy.

Online Application: https://www.skillman.org/grant-partners/

Foundation: The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Topic: Various
Program Name: The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Grant
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $30,000- $75,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Over the years, the Community Foundation has helped to create and fund numerous projects that improve the lives of those who live here.  Our interest areas span from arts and culture to the environment, to health and human services.  We seek to make strategic investments in the community and look to partner with nonprofit organizations to help create enduring solutions to complex problems. Effecting change requires both passion and measured thought, and we work hard to find proposals that encompass both.  As we do our grantmaking, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is also committed to honoring the intentions of our many donors and creating solutions that make everlasting positive impacts.  And above all else, we are keenly interested in what inspires you. We look forward to hearing your ideas for transforming our vision for a healthy and prosperous region into reality.

Online Application: https://cfsem.org/for-nonprofits/

Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Topic: Various
Program Name: Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $7,5000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Average grant for this program is $1,000,000. The Monuments Project is a five-year, $250 million commitment to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity: fund new monuments, memorials, or historic storytelling spaces; contextualize existing monuments or memorials through installations, research, and education; and relocate existing monuments or memorials. This is a five-year program, but Foundation Relations encourages early submissions.

Online application: https://www.mellon.org/article/the-monuments-project-initiative-faq