Interdisciplinary Funding Opportunities
Browse a list of interdisciplinary funding opportunities with rolling deadlines.
Organization |
Description |
Application Due Date |
| Rolling | Supports 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 | Rolling |
| RAND Corporation | Supports in-depth, independent research on an area of technology and security policy | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Supports the development and adoption of new resources for managing the increasingly diverse array of digital communication channels, enabling scientists to more effectively locate relevant research, network with other researchers and disseminate their work to the scientific community/public | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Supports research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health, broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles | Rolling |
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (contact lpicker@andrew.cmu. edu) |
Supports research, policy analysis and innovative practices that help advance civil society development | Rolling |
| Supports researchers worldwide who are studying the future and sustainability of the Internet in one of two areas: greening the internet and/or the internet economy | Rolling | |
| The Teagle Foundation | Supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities | Rolling |
| National Science Foundation | Provides sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural systems | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Supports rigorous and objective research projects on U.S. economic structure, behavior and performance whose findings inform and strengthen decision-making by regulators, policymakers and the public | Rolling |
| WK Kellogg Foundation | Supports proposals that address one of three focus areas: a healthy start and quality learning experiences for all children; efforts to help families obtain stable, high-quality jobs; or ensuring that all communities are vibrant, engaged, and equitable | Rolling |
| Surdna Foundation | Supports communities of color and low-wealth communities to direct infrastructure and land use investment dollars, drive decision-making processes and design policy solutions because those who are disproportionately impacted by environmental and climate inequity have the most powerful solutions to resolve these inequities | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Supports the evaluation of 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 | Rolling |
| Arnold Ventures | Supports randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of social programs in any area of U.S. policy | Rolling |
| The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | Supports projects in the following areas: constitutional order, free markets, civil society and informed citizens | Rolling |
| Social Science Research Council | Supports projects intended to discover new, evidence-based, data-driven tools, methods, and interventions to counter mis- and disinformation and to support the spread and uptake of accurate health information | Rolling |
| Global Innovation Fund | Supports any solution that has potential to address an important development problem more effectively than existing approaches | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food and Future of Work | Rolling |
| Templeton Foundation | Submit proposed projects to the foundation's grantmaking portal | Rolling |
| National Science Foundation | Provides opportunities to foster new collaborations, including international partnerships where appropriate, and address interdisciplinary topics | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Supports research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts in this domain that shape the direction of scholarship by investigating under-explored questions that warrant further attention, advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the social and natural sciences, involve early career faculty and train the next generation of students, link research with practice and partner with other funders to amplify programmatic impact | Rolling |
| National Science Foundation | Supports system and network architectures for communications and sensing to enable the next-generation cyber-physical systems that leverage computation, communication and sensing integrated with physical domains | Rolling |
| Colcom Foundation | Supports work in southwest Pennsylvania that focuses on remediating environmental damage from a history of heavy industry and supporting the region’s rich cultural heritage. Please contact Shaina Sine if you are interested in submitting a LOI | Rolling |
| MacArthur Foundation | Supports the advancement of equity and justice by strengthening an ecosystem of people, organizations, and networks examining and addressing the social impacts of technology. Please contact Shaina Sine | Rolling |
| Open Philanthropy | Supports the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking that form part of our work to improve the long-term future (potential risks from advanced AI, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, other global catastrophic risks) | Rolling |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being and equity outcomes | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Supports the development of new work mainstreaming science and technology for the lay public through books, theater, film, television, radio and new media | Rolling |
| Commonwealth Fund | Supports research to promote a high-performing, equitable health care system that promotes better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency in health care | Rolling |