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Corporate and Foundation Relations staff circulate a monthly list of grant opportunities for faculty and staff. By making this information available, we encourage you to consider seeking corporate and foundation grant support. Subscribe to receive monthly emails.
To learn more about these opportunities or discuss foundations or corporations that do not have active RFPs, please contact Jared Mouro, Foundation Relations Specialist: ag4956@wayne.edu
For School of Medicine faculty, please contact Susan Miller, director of research philanthropy, at smiller@med.wayne.edu
| Foundation | Program | Description | Award Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Association of Physicists in Medicine | ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant | 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 | $50,000 | 3/20/2025 |
| Laerdal Foundation | Saving Lives at Birth in Low-Resource Settings | 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 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 Online Application: https://laerdalfoundation.org/saving-lives-at-birth/ | $50,000 | 4/1/2025 |
| Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation | Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation Granys | 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. Emerging Investigator Online Application: https://pcrf-kids.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PCRF-Grants_Letter-of-Intent-Guidelines_2026-1.pdf | $450,000 | 4/1/2025 |
| Community Pharmacy Foundation | Community Pharmacy Foundation Grants | 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 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 Payment and delivery reform Advance national, state and regional provider status achievement Prepare for value-based payment and provider status recognition Online Application: https://communitypharmacyfoundation.org/default.asp | $40,000 | 4/20/2025 |
| The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism | 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 wellbeing 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 | $200,000 | 6/4/2025 |
| American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons | Clinical Gaps Research Grant | 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 to preferably include pilot human studies. Online Application: https://www.oref.org/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/grant-details/oref-aaos-clinical-gaps-research-grant | $100,000 | 6/17/2025 |
| The Commonwealth Fund | Grant Program | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Notes: 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 | Up to $200,000 | Rolling |
| Dresner Foundation | Health | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The fund will facilitate the advancement of innovative basic science, translational or clinical research. Focus includes:
The foundation is equally interested in efforts that have a broad and meaningful impact and focus on intervention and prevention beyond the boundaries of any one disease. | $250,000 | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity | Evidence for Action (E4A) prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. Our focus on racial equity means we are concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other races and ethnicities), as well as the ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority. This funding is geared toward studies about “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop at characterizing or documenting the extent of a problem. | $300,000 | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health. Online Application: https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2020/pioneering-ideas-2020-exploring-the-future-to-build-a-culture-of-health.html?rid=0032S000027IF4VQAW&et_cid=2046258 | $300,000 | Rolling |
| Total Health Care Foundation | General application | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Full applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. THCF reviews submissions quarterly. Average grants are $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 | $50,000- $200,000 | Rolling |
| The Commonwealth Fund | Health | 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 | $200,000 | Rolling |