Faculty Funding Opportunities

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Last updated: Apr 12, 2024
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SOA Internal Grant Program

Faculty Works Grant

The 2023-2024 Faculty Works Grant cycle will focus on providing developmental support for projects that are already in process, or, depending on scale, have supplemental funding from alternative sources. Priority will be given to support faculty in the late to final stages of research and project development. 

Faculty may request funds for the purchase of necessary materials and/or professional services performed by a specialized consultant (e.g.: copy/sound editing, indexing, engineering, translation, photography, etc.).

In addition, submissions in support of the research component of Directed Research studios will be considered.

This grant cycle will not fund requests for student support (RAs, UGAs), developmental editing, printing/publishing fees, purchase of image rights, research related travel or conference travel/fees.

Application Materials:

      • Brief summary of project, providing project history, degree of development and estimated completion date.
      • Brief description of services or materials needed for project completion and goals for project upon completion. 
      • Concise budget estimating cost for requested materials and/or services.

** Return all submissions to Deb Witter-Gamba at dwitterg@syr.edu

Application Deadline: February 19, 2024

Spend by: May 15, 2024

Award limit: $3000.00

Fellowships

Artica Svalbard Residency

Challenging the idea of residencies as temporary, Artica will work closely with the key partners to support the artists, writers and researchers that come to Svalbard. Their physical stay is temporary, but the experience, friendship and knowledge (shared and gained) grows. If you have an interest in the polar regions and/or the global perspectives, conversations and issues emanating from the high north, then we would love to hear from you. Expressions of interest are open for a minimum stay of six-weeks at Artica Svalbard in 2025.

If this is of interest to you and you would like to participate or learn more, please contact OCA team member, Itzel Esquivel.

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

Supports individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed, and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. All projects must be interpretive. That is, projects must advance a scholarly argument through digital means and tools. Stand-alone databases, documentary films, podcasts, and other projects that lack an explicit interpretive argument are not eligible. $5,000/month for 6-12 months.

Application Deadline: April 17, 2024

Recurring Grants and Funding

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The grant also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.


Writers are invited to apply in one of the following categories:

      • Articles
      • Books
      • Short-Form Writing

Deadline: May 15, 2024

Cabrini

Building upon the legacy of Mother Cabrini and the Catholic tradition of healing for the sick and caring for the poor, our Foundation supports programs that meet the unmet healthcare and healthcare related needs of individuals, families, and communities throughout New York State.

Application Deadline: TBA (Letters of Intent are typically due in May)

Faculty Creative Activities and Research

FCAR internal grants will be awarded to full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members to enhance their creative activities and research. Proposed project activities should be concrete and achievable in one year with the $5,000 of funding.

Application Deadline: TBA (Applications are typically due in early October)

Graham Foundation

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS - Application Deadline: TBA(Applications are typically due in mid-September)

GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS - Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2024

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants awarded to around 175 selected individuals every year. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. As such, grants are made freely, without any special conditions attached to them; Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. 

Application Deadline: TBA(Applications are typically due in mid-September)

Leob Fellowship

This fellowship is designed for civic leaders, journalists, architects, technologists, urban planners and designers, activists, landscape architects, policy makers, and public artists who come from around the world to the Harvard Graduate School of Design with one purpose: to make the world a better place for all.

Application Deadline: Monday, January 8, 2024

Mellon

The Foundation makes grants to organizations that advance its charitable mission and strategic goals. Their grantees include organizations that are large and small, established and new, based in the US and around the world. The Foundation makes most of its grants to organizations in the United States that have been determined by the IRS to be section 501(c)(3) public charities. 

Application Deadline: Rolling

Nathan Cummings Foundation

For 2024, the foundation has approximately $17m in their grant making budget and will offer three new types of grants:

      1. Venture Grants (up to $100k for 1 year): short term and designed to provide expedited support to social entrepreneurs with breakthrough and innovative solutions.
      2. Advancement Grants (up to $250k per year): provide two-year support to project-based work and/or help scale organizations and promising solutions.
      3. Enterprise Grants ($250k+ per year): provide multi-year, unrestricted funding to partners that have deep alignment across our REEJ focus area and offer the most opportunity to use all foundation’s financial and nonfinancial resources to support the solutions.

Program Types.

      1. Racial Justice. ($2m available to support new partners)
        1. Foster Civic Engagement. 
        2. Addresses the racial wealth gap.
        3. Combats racism and oppression.
      2. Economic Justice. ($1m available to support new partners)
        1. Fosters systemic economic security.
        2. Increases access to capital.
        3. Combats monopoly power. 
      3. Environmental Justice. ($1.5m to support new partners)
        1. Addresses environmental harms.
        2. Creates inclusive participation in the green economy. 
        3. Develops regenerative economic models. 

Letter of Interest Deadline: April 30, 2024

National Endowment for the Arts: Grants for Arts Projects

Through project-based funding, the program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

Application Deadline: TBA (Applications are typically due in early February for first grants and early July for second grants)

National Endowment for the Humanities

Since its creation in 1965, NEH has awarded more than $5.6 billion for humanities projects through more than 64,000 grants.

Application Deadline: Deadlines vary based on the grant. Check here for more information.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. 

Application Deadline: Internal deadline August 1st

NYSERDA

NYSERDA’s various programs (such as residential, commercial, transportation, environmental) outline broad energy and environmental challenges, and then publicly request proposals, from any private or institutional entity, to submit project plans addressing those issues.

Application Deadline: Deadlines vary based on the grant. Check here for more information.

The Wheelwright Prize

Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize is an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive a $100,000 (USD) fellowship to foster intensive, innovative architectural research that is informed by cross-cultural engagement and can make a significant impact on architectural discourse.

Application Deadline: Sunday, February 4, 2024


Quarterly Grants and Funding

Central New York Community Foundation Community Grant Program

Nonprofit organizations in Onondaga and Madison counties are encouraged to apply for grants to fund innovative projects in the areas of: arts and culture, civic affairs, education, health, human services and the environment.

Application Deadline: Limited submissions with an internal deadline of mid-October

Home Depot Veteran Housing Grant

The Foundation's Veteran Housing Grants Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations for the new construction or rehabilitation of permanent supportive housing for veterans. Awards typically range from $100,000 to $500,000.

Application Deadline:  Applications are accepted year-round


University Humanities Funding

Engaged Humanities Course Grants

designed to recognize, support, and advance community-engaged teaching and learning by providing funding and cohort-based pedagogical and logistical support to enhance existing or create new engaged curricular experiences for faculty and students. Read about current and previous/ongoing Engaged Courses here. Shared on behalf of the Engaged Humanities Network.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2024

Engaged Humanities Communities Grants

Designed to support community engaged research, creative work, and programming through mutually beneficial projects created between Syracuse University faculty, staff, and students and community partners. Read about current and previous/ongoing EC projects and cohorts here. Shared on behalf of the Engaged Humanities Network.

Application Deadline: February 15, 2024

University External Humanities and Creative Arts Fellowships

a list of external fellowships and residences for humanities scholars and creative artists with deadlines in Fall 2023. Contact Sarah Workman for additional support.

Application Deadline: Deadlines vary based on the program


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