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Upcoming Opportunities
PAm Apicology Research Grants
PAm seeks projects that work on the problem to solve. It is important that the commercial beekeeping community benefit from the research and its application. Proposals are reviewed by our volunteer scientific advisory board, ad-hoc reviewers, and our board of directors. Proposals or scholarship applications should clearly state how they address the bee health “problem to solve”, and/or any research priorities stated in any specific RFP or scholarship announcement. Funding decisions are primarily based on an overall evaluation. Our scientific advisors are attentive to scientific methods, proper controls, and reproducible results. Proposals should be clear-cut, have practical implications, and lend themselves to statistical interpretation.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1963740
William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc. Grant Initiatives
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund looks to partner with organizations that are rooted in evidence-based methodology and focused on long-term sustainable change for program participants. The Fund puts an emphasis on the building blocks that adults and children need to flourish. While many community efforts are important and enriching—including the arts, animal welfare, and civic life—the programs that are most likely to receive our support hone to our mission and vision of addressing the roots of poverty. In our community grantmaking, we look toward programs that address immediate needs and those that reach for long-term impact in the lives of vulnerable families and individuals.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1965765
Conservation, Food and Health Foundation Grants
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1965813
Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust (SSHT) Grants
The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust supports education and research in ornamental horticulture through grants to botanical gardens, arboreta, universities, and other charitable organizations strongly-aligned with its funding interests.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1965771
FY25 USGS 104B Grant: PA Water Resources Research Center (PAWRRC) Request for Proposals
Background. The Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center (PAWRRC) is part of the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR), in a unique federal-state-university partnership program authorized by section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act. This small grant program is supported by a NIWR federal base grant to the PAWRRC, via the U.S. Geological Survey (http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/).
Activities. PAWRRC invites academic faculty and researchers employed by any accredited university in Pennsylvania to submit proposals for research projects (addressing unanswered questions in water resources) or information transfer projects (making research-based information available to user communities). Per the goals of NIWR, projects should focus primarily on fresh waters, not estuaries or marine waters. We encourage projects that assist early career faculty with developing a water research program (e.g., an assistant professor as PI/co-PI and/or engaging students); inform or work with partners (e.g., agencies, civil society, and/or stakeholders); and/or develop products (e.g., peer-reviewed research publications, effective outreach materials).
Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, April 11, 2025
P&G Higher Education Grant
The Procter & Gamble Fund Higher Education Grant Program has been established to provide support for efforts of regionally accredited U.S. colleges and universities that will better prepare students for success in business. These grants are aimed at projects that enhance student success focusing on areas such as curriculum improvement, leadership opportunities, innovation, and diversity enhancement. Grants will be provided for specific projects or programs, not for operating support.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1961932
Climate Smart Humanities Organizations
As energy costs rise and natural disasters become more frequent, humanities organizations - such as museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, and colleges and universities - face an enormous task: to anticipate operational, physical, and financial impacts of climate-related events on their institutions, while also reducing their own impact on the environment. Climate Smart Humanities Organizations supports these efforts by offering federal matching funds for comprehensive organizational assessments that lead to strategic climate action and adaptation plans.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1961735
Environmental Research and Education Foundation: pre-proposal General RFP
Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) is an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is one of the largest sources of funding for solid waste research in North America. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices.
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 24, 2025
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1967486
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program - Track 1
The NRT Program is dedicated to shaping and supporting highly effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through the use of comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1963159
Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), invites grant applications for Education and Research Centers (ERCs) that are focused on occupational safety and health training. NIOSH is mandated to provide an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the ERCs are one of the primary means for meeting this mandate.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1967066
Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research 2025
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), Materials Research Institute (MRI), the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE), the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and the Cancer Institute (CU), is offering a new interdisciplinary seed grant program aimed at developing new or leveraging existent strategic partnerships and alliances with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs): the Inter-Institutional Program for Diversifying Research. The goal of the IPDR is to perform collaborative work that advances research development capability as well as student and faculty training needed to support such research collaborations.
Deadline: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers Award
This program is meant to support institutions or consortia that have already begun to work toward taking on the problem of climate’s impact on health. Consortia might include neighboring institutions with already established collaborations, but of more relevance to this RFP are consortia of institutions united by common interests, for example in the health of residents of the Appalachian Mountains or the Great Lakes region, an urban focus, or a focus on rural life, etc.
Deadline: August 7, 2025