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| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | The Mott Foundation supports institutions and organizations that conduct community-based research. Their Civil Society program seeks proposals for projects that work to maximize civic engagement and promote justice nationally and internationally. The Education program solicits proposals for projects based in the United States that work to encourage graduation and secondary school preparedness. | **Letters of Inquiry Accepted on a Rolling Basis** |
| Potential PI’s should review the specific initiatives for each program to make sure they are eligible before submitting their letters of intent (the “Graduating High School College and Career Ready,” “Afterschool,” and “Strengthening Civic Space” are probably the best initiatives for Maxwell faculty to pursue). |
| The Joyce Foundation funds evidence-based work designed to create public policies that promote racial equity and economic mobility nationally and specifically in the Great Lakes region. Themes of recently accepted proposals include policy-based solutions to climate change, gun violence, and lead poisoning. |
**Proposal Deadlines: December 1, 2021; April 6, 2022** ***Grant Inquiries are accepted throughout the year*** |
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| NSF: Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) | This program supports scientific research that broadly examines the attitudes, behavior, and institutions connected to the creation and implementation of public policy and services. The Accountable Institutes and Behavior program is especially relevant to scholars who are interested in elections and voting, the formation and dissemination of public opinion online and through other platforms (especially social media), the spread of misinformation, and evaluating political institutions. PI’s should propose projects designed to develop new theories and methodologies over more applied work. | Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2022; August 15, 2022 |
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| NSF: CyberCorps ® Scholarship For Service | Designed to encourage students to pursue careers in cyber security in the U.S. government, this program provides funds to institutions to create scholarships for students interested in cybersecurity. Proposed projects should work to identify and provide solutions to vulnerabilities in cybersecurity systems. Students who receive funding for their degree through this program are expected to work the length of their support period for the federal government after graduation. | Full Proposal Deadline: July 15, 2022 |
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| NSF: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) | This interdisciplinary program supports research that addresses evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure. The CSSI program operates as an umbrella that covers three classes of awards including (1) elements awards that target small groups that create and deploy services that address specific needs, (2) framework implementations that support larger interdisciplinary teams who are developing services aimed at addressing common research problems faced by NSF researchers, and (3) transitions to stability that assist groups working to execute a well-developed sustainability plan for existing Cyberinfrastructure. | Full Proposal Deadline: December 8, 2021 |
| Prospective PIs should contact Cognizant Program Officers (Tevfik Kosar: CSSIQueries@nsf.gov) to ensure that their project aligns with this program’s solicitation before submitting their application. This program would be useful to scholars whose research focuses on issues of misinformation, social and news media, and other online platforms that shape and are shaped by public discourse. |
| NSF: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace and Frontiers | The National Science Foundation has developed a recent interest in projects designed to maximize cybersecurity and address issues of cyber-attacks and security, privacy, and protecting existing infrastructure. This program solicits center-scale projects that explore deep scientific questions with answers that will promote societal change and stimulate other research and educational projects. | Letter on Intent Due: September 07, 2021 Full Proposal Deadline: November 17, 2021 |
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| NSF: Security and Preparedness | The Security and Preparedness program supports theoretically motivated and methodologically rigorous research relating to global and national security. Projects that include undergraduate students and work to innovate and improve existing methodologies are highly encouraged to apply. Previously funded projects focus on anti-terrorism initiatives, elections, military, and misinformation. | Full Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2022; August 15, 2022 |
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| Open Society Foundation | ** Application Accepted on a Rolling Basis** |
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| NSF: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) | The National Science Foundation seeks to stimulate fundamental exploratory, potentially transformative research that strengthens America's infrastructure. Effective infrastructure, whether it be physical, cyber, or social, provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. | Last Solicitation: Letters of Intent due: December 11, 2020 Full Proposals due: January 15, 2021 |
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| The Rockefeller Foundation |
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| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
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