Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Deadline is for Letter of Intent; Full Proposals are by invitation only and are due 6/18/2024. The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is field-initiated; in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Online Application: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant

Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Deadline is for Letter of Intent; full proposals are due 6/27/2024. Amount Note: Project terms can range from one to five years with budgets up to $75,000. The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Thus, we are interested in research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in relation to racial equity in education. In this cycle of funding, we will continue to fund scholarships focused on a range of communities and issues concerning equity. We encourage proposals from across the methodological spectrum, including qualitative methods, mixed methods, and quantitative methods. We want to especially encourage Racial Equity proposals that focus on the following areas: (1) innovative forms of measurement and assessment, (2) artificial intelligence (AI), and (3) current political challenges in k-12 and higher education around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Online Application: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/racial-equity-special-research-grants

Grant term 3 years at $60,000 per year. SSEP awards support career-oriented and practical programs intended to provide creative science enrichment activities for students in K-12 education who have shown exceptional skills and interest in STEM, as well as those perceived to have high potential.  After-school programs are demonstrating value in helping to close opportunity gaps for underserved and underrepresented students. These programs must enable students to participate in hands-on STEM activities and pursue inquiry-based avenues of exploration—an educational approach that BWF believes to be an effective way to increase students’ understanding and appreciation of the scientific process. To increase academic achievement, programs must provide a well-defined structure that aligns with the school-day curriculum, well-trained staff, and student follow-up.

Online application: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/science-education/student-stem-enrichment-program/

Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Proposals are by invitation only and are due 9/30/2024. The United States-Japan Foundation supports innovative education projects that help young Americans and Japanese learn about each other’s society, culture, and country as well as learn to work together on issues of common concern. The Foundation focuses on K-12 education and throughout its history has been at the forefront of supporting teacher professional development projects that train US teachers to teach about Japan and Japanese teachers to teach about the United States. In addition, the Foundation funds projects that work directly with students, develop top-quality curriculum materials in America or Japan for educational audiences in the other country, connect schools and classrooms in the US and Japan, and develop and improve instruction in the Japanese language.

USJF seeks to support programs that:

• Build human networks among teachers on both sides of the Pacific with a mutual interest in teaching and learning about Japan, the US, and US-Japan relations.
• Invest in programs in regions in both countries that have been underserved in terms of exposure to and resources for learning about the other country.
• Take advantage of new technology to bring Japanese and American teachers and students together.
• Enlist the expertise residing at institutions of higher learning and other NGOs in support of US-Japan studies programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels in both countries.
• Present the products of research and policy studies and media programs on US-Japan issues to an audience of pre-college students and their teachers.
• Enhance, expand and preserve the study of the Japanese language at the pre-college level in the United States through teacher professional development opportunities, national standards, and performance assessments.
• Develop curricula and other products focused on Japan and/or the United States that are immediately relevant to and useful in meeting the demands faced by teachers at the pre-college level.
• Continue to support and enhance the US-Japan knowledge of the vast network of teachers and students who have been exposed to US-Japan studies over the years through USJF-sponsored programs.

Emailed Application: http://us-jf.org/programs/grants/pre-college-education/

• New Designs to Advance Learning
• Pathways to Postsecondary Success
• Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning
• Public Understanding
• Equitable Systems.