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Wellcome Climate Impacts Awards
Deadline: 4/8/2026
Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible. The aim of this program is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high impact projects that can drive policy impact by combining evidence generation (or synthesis) with influencing and engagement strategies. Funding amount: Up to $3,375,000 (£2.5 million per award).
Deadline: 4/30/2026
A long-standing interest of HFF has been the effect and impact of usage of digital technology on young people. The rapid rise and use of this technology has permeated much of society and transformed the way many humans interact. There has been a broad array of research efforts that mostly have involved relatively crude measures of the amount of usage of digital technology (e.g. total screen time) and the observed effects and impact on health. Despite these efforts, the full implications – both positive and negative – on human physiology, psychology, behaviour, well-being and mental health remain unclear. We believe there is an opportunity to help advance the research and the field of knowledge in this area, both by strengthening existing as well as creating new methods and approaches to better model and unpick the complexities of this topic. The applicant must hold a PhD or equivalent degree in a relevant field, which may include but is not limited to neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, public health, computer science, social science, economics Funding amount: $229,500.
Charles Koch Foundation: Future Of Work
Deadline: N/A
Empowering people to engage in work that leads to lives of meaning and contribution. Their support focuses on identifying, exploring, and removing the barriers that keep individuals from realizing their unique potential. Funding: unrestricted.
Charles Koch Foundation: Liberalism
Deadline: N/A
The program supports faculty who ask questions, exchange knowledge, advance new theories, and teach ideas and classical liberal principles that help create conditions necessary for all people to find purpose and unlock their potential. Investments help society’s leaders learn and apply these principles to create value for themselves and others, as well as generate ideas and talent needed to solve the United States’ biggest problems while remaining committed to classical liberal convictions of human dignity, openness, and liberty. Funding: unrestricted.
Open Technology Fund Internet Freedom Fund
Deadline: N/A
OTF supports technology projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance to enable all citizens to exercise their fundamental human rights online. This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings. Average grants between $50K – $200K.
Open Technology Fund: Rapid Response Fund
Deadline: N/A
This fund provides emergency support to journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations facing digital threats and attacks. Funding: average grant amount between $50k – $200k
Rosenberg Foundation
The foundation makes grants in four priority areas – Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation. The foundation works closely with social justice advocates, policy makers and other thought leaders throughout the state to identify the strategies that will best help us achieve positive impact in California within each program. As such, most of our grantee partners are identified and contacted by foundation staff first. In addition, we frequently invest in emerging initiatives and organizations, and are committed to long-term relationships with our grant partners. Funding: No amount limitations.
Teagle Foundation: Knowledge for Freedom
Deadline: N/A
The initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. The Knowledge for Freedom initiative is designed to be adaptable enough to reflect the assets and needs of each institution and coherent enough to create a community of shared practice among programs across the nation. Funding: $100k – $300k (over 3 years).
Teagle Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations: Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
Deadline: N/A
The program will support statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts. Funding amount: Up to $350k (over 2 – 3 years).