The Grant Notification Service from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) lists grant opportunities in education sciences. To submit a grant proposal, contact WCER Director Courtney Bell to receive permission to work through—and, if funded, have the project housed in—WCER. Include the following required information:
- Funding agency
- Name of competition and link to the request for proposal (RFP)
- Submission deadline
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Co-PI(s) (if any)
- Estimated length of project, and budget
- Indicate if WCER is the prime submitting institution or if this is a subcontract
- Short description of your project
Additional information is available on the MyWCER Grants & Contracts page. If you intend to pursue foundation opportunities and would like assistance, please contact Brenna Graham, the School of Education’s Director of Development for Foundation Relations.
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Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant 2022
UW–Madison Division of Extension and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE)
The goal of the Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant (WICG) funding, provided in partnership with the OVCRGE, is to support projects that enhance the breadth and level of Extension engagement across campus while supporting the Wisconsin Idea. To better understand priority issues, those interested in applying for a WICG grant are encouraged to reach out to the appropriate Extension Academic Associate Deans and/or Institute Directors (https://people.extension.wisc.edu/leadership/). The amount per award is $10K–$60K for up to 2 years.
Deadline: December 15, 2022
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Assessment for Good (AFG), Leveraging Education Advanced Research Now (LEARN)
AFG hopes to advance research that reflects state-of-the-art practices or tools for Black and Latinx learners aged 8–13. LEARN is introducing larger grants (up to $500,000) that allow R&D teams to deeply partner with school districts to investigate the role of formative assessment and to design implementation-based studies. Budgets should not exceed $100,000–$300,000 per year for discovery projects and $200,000–$500,000 per year for implementation projects. Each project will be scoped for 2 years but will be funded a year at a time.
Deadline: Concept note due December 1, 2022
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Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
The foundation will award grants of $7,500 to individuals at the dissertation level in support of research projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level. Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates working on their dissertation and have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department. Applicants may be from any country and university globally, and U.S. citizenship or residency is not required.
Deadline: December 1, 2022
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John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)
The Fellowship includes a stipend of $30,000 and funds for travel, accommodation, research materials, and translation up to $10,000 for the entire Fellowship period. The fellow is not expected to be in residence in Sheboygan, WI, for the term of the Fellowship. This opportunity seeks to foster new engagement with pioneer fiber artist Lenore G. Tawney’s art environment that is installed at JMKAC’s Art Preserve and part of the institution’s collection. In keeping with Tawney’s interdisciplinary spirit, candidates may apply with projects that study overlooked aspects of works and movements related to Tawney, and/or discuss previously unexplored connections between those works and art from other disciplines. When accepted, fellows will be invited to conduct onsite research at JMKAC, using the Tawney collection as well as other JMKAC resources.
Deadline: November 14, 2022
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*Training Opportunity* Comprehensive Program for Adaptive Interventions Training in Education (CATIE)
National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) and University of Michigan
This 4-day training (March 14–17, 2023 in Ann Arbor, MI) will provide scholars in the education sciences with a rigorous foundation in the design, funding, conduct, and analysis of novel experimental design methods for optimizing adaptive interventions, including SMART designs. It will also promote ongoing professional career development by offering scholars guidance and mentorship before, during, and after the in-person training institute to support research plans pertaining to the construction of adaptive interventions in educational settings. The workshop facilitators and mentors are methodological scientists who are experts in research on adaptive interventions and intervention scientists with experience executing adaptive intervention studies in education. Scholars with a doctoral degree interested in learning more about adaptive interventions in education and the use of SMARTs to build high-quality adaptive interventions should apply. No cost to attend; scholars must cover expenses for travel and lodging.
Deadline: November 12, 2022
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Research Grant: Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)
RSF and the Carnegie Corporation of New York invite proposals for new research that will strengthen the theory, methods and empirical knowledge about the effects of race, citizenship, legal status, and the interplay of politics and policy on immigrant outcomes. Because of limitations in government statistics, researchers are curating and analyzing data from both public and private sources (e.g., specialized surveys, administrative sources from tax, social security and citizenship and immigration services, as well as social media), and collecting their own data to measure the progress of the foreign-born and their children. The foundation welcomes proposals to improve the measurement of immigrant progress over time and across generations. They are especially interested in creative uses of administrative and other data sources that enhance our ability to identify immigrants by generation and legal status.
Deadline: Letter of inquiry due November 9, 2022
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Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
The RETTL program funds exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with special interest in diverse learner/educator populations, contexts, and content, including teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills). Research in this program should be informed by the convergence (synthesis) of multiple disciplines: e.g., learning sciences; discipline-based education research; computer and information science and engineering; design; and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. Within this broad scope, the program also encourages projects that investigate teaching and learning related to futuristic and highly technological work environments.
Deadline: October 17, 2022
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Building Evidence to Increase Rural Learner Success
Ascendium
This is a grant opportunity (up to $500,000 over a 3-year period) to advance actionable research that supports improvements in postsecondary education and workforce training outcomes for rural learners. To address gaps in evidence for strategies that support rural learners from low-income backgrounds in earning degrees and credentials with labor market value, Ascendium invites research partners to submit a letter of intent (LOI) for this initiative. Ascendium partnered with American Institutes for Research (AIR) to support the management of this new initiative and will host an informational webinar on Monday, Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. CST for those wanting to learn more. Researchers interested in submitting an LOI should register to attend as representatives from both organizations will be available to answer questions. Register for the informational webinar.
Deadline: Letter of intent due October 7
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Discovery Research PreK–12 (DRK-12)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. The program invites proposals that address immediate challenges that face preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically different structures and functions of preK-12 teaching and learning. There are three research strands: 1. Assessment; 2. Learning; and 3. Teaching.
Deadline: October 5, 2022
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National Art Education Foundation (NAEF)
The NAEF grant program is open to active National Art Education Association members who have been members for at least 1 year prior to the date of application. NAEF invites proposals to support research (grants up to $10,500) in art education that advances knowledge in the field of art education and that promulgate research surrounding scholarly research topics and themes. NAEF encourages the submissions of proposals to conduct research that investigates the impact and importance of arts education in student learning and provides hard data to support the findings of the research. While it is anticipated the research will be substantially completed within the year the award is made, additional funding may be provided upon application to enable a recipient to bring a research project to completion. NAEA and/or NAEF retains first rights to publish and disseminate results of the research.
Deadline: October 1, 2022
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Summer Stipend for New Research in the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
NEH Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months (maximum award $6,000). NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
Deadline: September 21, 2022
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Research Grants on Violence and Society in the South
Sociological Initiatives Foundation
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation seeks to support community-based language-learning research in the Southern United States focused on the broad topic of violence and society (grants range from $10,000 to $20,000). It invites requests to support research and advocacy efforts that move beyond the familiar conceptualizations of what violence is, how we experience it, how we talk about it, and how we advocate for freedom and safety.
Deadline: Concept proposals are typically due September 16, 2022, then full proposals are invited in November for a December 15 deadline.
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Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland
American Psychological Foundation
The $18,000 award supports scientific, scholarly, or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical). Preference will be given to early career psychologists (10 years or less postdoctoral), and pilot projects that, if successful, will be strong candidates for support from major federal and foundation funding agencies, and “demonstration projects” that promise to generalize broadly to similar settings in other geographical areas and/or to other settings.
Deadline: September 15, 2022
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Learning Disabilities Foundation of America
The Foundation provides funds for research and education and to broaden the base of public awareness in the field of Learning Disabilities. The Foundation provides support for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, and specifically for the accurate identification, ongoing evaluation and complete 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.
Deadline: September 15, 2022
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William T. Grant Foundation
The Institutional Challenge Grant ($650,000 over 3 years) encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. To do so, research institutions will need to shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. They will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The foundation especially encourages 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.
Deadline: September 14, 2022
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The Hodder Visiting Fellowship
Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts
The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Hodder Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. An $88,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Deadline: September 13
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Systems for Action (S4A) Research Program
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The foundation will provide funding for a new cohort of research studies to produce new, actionable evidence to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address structural barriers to health and health equity, including racism and the social conditions that impact health. Applicants must propose to study a systems alignment approach that engages stakeholders in all three types of systems implicated in the S4A research agenda—medical care, public health, and social services. There are two categories: Developmental Studies (awards up to $100,000 over 12 months) and Impact Studies (up to $500,000 over 36 months).
Deadline: Letters of intent usually due September 6, 2022
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Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC)
These awards (up to $10,000 each) are intended to contribute to CCCC’s efforts for the organization and its members to become a clear, trusted public voice on issues of writing and writing instruction. CCCC invites proposals for projects that can contribute to or influence discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education. The principal investigator(s) must belong to CCCC at the time of proposal submission. The awards also provide mentoring support. All selected recipients (or recipient teams) will be matched with research mentors on their projects. The initiative also asks recipients to clearly address the impact their research might have and convey the implications of their work in at least two final products: one that is addressed to a scholarly audience of researchers and teachers in the field, and one that is addressed to a specifically identified more public audience.
Deadline: September 1, 2022
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