Foundations & Others

Slots: Each institution is allowed a maximum of one nomination per grant cycle to one of the Pathway Program Award types: Initiator or Accelerator. Institutions may not submit nominations in multiple award types in a single grant cycle.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, June 9, 2023, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: August 1, 2023, 2pm PT (5pm ET)

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $100,000 year in Phase 1, up to $325,000/year in Phase 2. Awards provide two distinct phases of research support: Phase 1 provides up to two years of support for mentored training at a maximum of $100,000 per year (including 10% indirect costs), Phase 2 provides up to five years of support for independent research at a maximum of $325,000 per year (including 30% indirect costs). Maximum combined support for Phase 1 and Phase 2 is $1,625,000.

Who May Serve as Applicant: Eligible applicants must currently be in research training positions (post-doctoral fellow, research fellowship) and have no more than seven years of research training following terminal doctoral degree. Applicants cannot concurrently hold an NIH K99/R00 grant. Candidates must be identified through institutional nomination; applications will be accepted only from individuals with the appropriate institution support.

Candidate’s appointment at the Sponsoring Institution must be full-time. Rare exceptions to full-time positions may be granted on a case-by-case basis and must be pre-approved by Pathway administration staff prior to application submission.

Applicants must hold a MD, PhD, DMD, DO, PharmD, DVM or an equivalent health- or science-related degree.

Applicant fellowship positions must be at university-affiliated institutions or other non-profit research institutions within the United States and U.S. possessions.

Individuals must have permission to work within the U.S., either as U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or with appropriate work visas/permits. Institutional confirmation of permission to work within the U.S. will be required at the time of application submission.

Recipients of Initiator Awards cannot concurrently hold an NIH K99/R00 grant. All other Career Development awards are allowable (unless holding of concurrent awards is prohibited by the other granting agency).

One person must be specified as the PI; co-PIs are not permitted.

Initiator applicants must agree to devote at least 75% of total time and effort towards research during the period of Association funding with a commitment to the Initiator Award of 75-100% effort during Phase 1 and 50-75% effort during Phase 2 if funded. In other words, 75% of the PI’s time overall must be dedicated to research. This percentage includes time dedicated to the Association-funded grant in addition to grants supported by other funding agencies.

Applicants are required to provide an Institutional Nomination Letter from the appropriate institutional representative responsible for the final approval of the nomination submission (Chair of Nominating Committee, Dean of Research, Division Head, etc.), co-signed by the applicant’s Division or Department Head, delineating the institution’s nomination and commitment to the applicant. In addition, applicants must provide a completed Nomination Form, signed by the appropriate institutional representatives, acknowledging the nomination and endorsing the grant application (see Sponsoring Institution Stipulations below). Nomination materials must be submitted through the Association’s online Grant Management Site at the time of application. The Association will not accept such materials separately after the application deadline. Applications submitted without the appropriate nomination forms are considered incomplete and will be administratively disapproved.

Link to Award: https://professional.diabetes.org/content-page/current-funding-opportunities-pathway-stop-diabetes

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

• (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
• (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The Pathway Initiator award is designed to support early career researchers who have distinguished themselves during their research training as exceptionally talented and promising research investigators with a high likelihood of establishing successful, independent research programs and making seminal contributions in diabetes research. These awards are highly competitive and intended to support particularly innovative and transformational ideas that have the potential to have an exceptional impact in diabetes with an emphasis on the investigator’s potential to significantly transform diabetes through translational research (‘moving the needle’) to improve the lives of people with diabetes. These awards provide salary and research support for applicants during late stages of mentored training through establishment as independent research faculty.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Slots: Each institution is allowed a maximum of one nomination per grant cycle to one of the Pathway Program Award types: Initiator or Accelerator. Institutions may not submit nominations in multiple award types in a single grant cycle.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, June 9, 2023, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: August 1, 2023, 2pm PT (5pm ET)

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: $325,000/year

Who May Serve as Applicant: Awards are available to early-career diabetes investigators proposing innovative and ambitious diabetes-related research programs. Applicants must hold faculty positions and have demonstrated independent productivity in diabetes research. Applicants may currently hold independent NIH funding (K, U or R awards, including an initial R01/U01) but must not have applied for (regardless of outcome), or received, an R01/U01 renewal or a second R01/U01 award. Candidates must be identified through institutional nomination; applications will be accepted only from individuals with the appropriate institution support.

Candidates will be identified through institutional nominations. Applications will be accepted from only individuals with the appropriate institutional support; any applications received without the appropriate institutional nomination will be administratively disapproved. Applicants must hold independent faculty positions and have demonstrated independent productivity in diabetes research. Applicants may currently hold independent NIH funding (K or R awards, including an initial NIH R01) but must not have applied for, or received, an NIH R01 renewal or a second R01 award. Applicants must hold a MD, PhD, DMD, DO, PharmD, DVM or an equivalent health- or science-related degree. Candidate’s appointment at the Sponsoring Institution must be full-time. Rare exceptions to full-time positions may be granted on a case-by-case basis and must be pre-approved by Pathway administration staff prior to application submission. Applications are open to individuals with current research positions at university-affiliated institutions or other non-profit research institutions within the United States and U.S. possessions. Individuals must have permission to work within the U.S., either as U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or with appropriate work visas/permits. Institutional confirmation of permission to work within the U.S. will be required at the time of application submission. One person must be specified as the PI; co-PIs are not permitted.

Accelerator applicants must agree to devote at least 75% of total time and effort towards research during the period of Association funding with a commitment of 25-50% effort towards the Accelerator Award if funded. In other words, 75% of the PI’s time overall must be dedicated to research. This percentage includes time dedicated to the Association-funded grant in addition to grants supported by other funding agencies. Applicants are required to provide an Institutional Nomination Letter from the appropriate institutional representative responsible for the final approval of the nomination submission (Chair of Nominating Committee, Dean of Research, Division Head, etc.), co-signed by the applicant’s Division or Department Head, delineating the institution’s nomination and commitment to the applicant. In addition, applicants must provide a completed Nomination Form, signed by the appropriate institutional representatives, acknowledging the nomination and endorsing the grant application (see Sponsoring Institution Stipulations below). Nomination materials must be submitted through the Association’s online Grant Management Site at the time of application. The Association will not accept such materials separately after the application deadline. Applications submitted without the appropriate nomination forms are considered incomplete and will be administratively disapproved.

Link to Award: https://professional.diabetes.org/content-page/current-funding-opportunities-pathway-stop-diabetes

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

• (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
• (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The Pathway Accelerator award is intended to provide flexible, long-term salary and research support to early career researchers who are proposing innovative and ambitious diabetes-related research programs, and who have distinguished themselves as exceptionally talented and promising research investigators. These awards are highly competitive and intended to support particularly innovative and transformational ideas that have the potential to have an exceptional impact in diabetes with an emphasis on the investigator’s potential to significantly transform diabetes through translational research (‘moving the needle’) to improve the lives of people with diabetes. Candidates for Accelerator awards should be in the process of establishing successful, independent diabetes research programs, and have records of independent productivity in research. For the purpose of this award, demonstration of independent productivity should include that the candidate is currently in an independent faculty position, has demonstrated the ability to perform a particular set of experiments at a high-quality level, including senior author publications (independent of training mentors) and/or has demonstrated the ability to obtain independent funding/support for their work.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Slots: 2. All applications require partnerships that involve at least two primary partners as defined by these guidelines: a nonprofit organization and a local governmental entity. 

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Wednesday, June 23, 2023, 5pm PT

LOI: August 3, 2023, 11:59pm ET

External Deadline: August 17, 2023, 11:59pm ET

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Amount: Grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum nonfederal cost share/match equal to the grant amount.

Link to Award: https://www.arts.gov/grants/our-town

Eligible lead applicants are:

• Nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) U.S. organizations with a documented completed three-year history of programming. For the purpose of defining eligibility, “three-year history” refers to when an organization began its programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

• (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
• (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

Our Town projects must demonstrate a specific role for arts, culture, and design as part of strategies for strengthening local communities, ultimately centering equity and laying the groundwork for long-term systems change tailored to community needs and opportunities.

Our Town projects are intended to be catalytic. Projects may support new activities, or new phases of a previously funded or ongoing project, as well as establish new or deepen existing cross-sector partnerships. Projects may work to advance a specific local economic, physical, or social change. Or, a project may aim to address systems change directly.

Projects may include activities such as:

• Artist residencies; arts festivals; community co-creation of art; performances; and public art. These activities may honor traditions and customs shaped by the lived experiences of a community’s residents.
• Cultural planning; cultural district planning; creative asset mapping; and public art planning.
• Artist/designer-facilitated community planning; design of artist spaces; design of cultural facilities; and public space design.
• Creative business development and professional artist development.

For more information, review the list of recently funded Our Town grants.

Competitive Projects

Competitive projects will:

• Demonstrate a specific role for the arts, culture, and design to strengthen the local community.
• Pilot new arts, culture, and design activities that are led by a diverse range of local partners.
• Establish new or deepen existing cross-sector partnerships.
• Advance inclusive community engagement and community-desired outcomes for a place.
• Lay the groundwork for long-term systems change that sustains the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities over the long term.
• Demonstrate alignment with the NEA’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

For Fiscal Year 2024, we are particularly interested in arts, culture, or design projects that address health or well-being, transportation or infrastructure, or climate-related challenges within a community. View past Our Town projects that address these fields.

Budgetary Requirements: Our grants cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the project. All grants require a nonfederal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1. These cost share/matching funds may be all cash or a combination of cash and in-kind contributions. You may include in your Project Budget cost share/matching funds that are proposed but not yet committed at the time of the application deadline.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact RII.

LOI: May 15th, 2023, 4 PM Paris time (7 AM PDT)

External Deadline: June 29, 2023, 4 PM Paris time

Award Information

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to 140,000 euro will be allocated for the period of 2 years.

Who May Serve as PI: Candidates should be of the highest caliber and have demonstrated outstanding research achievements, as evidenced by the usual indicators for assessing academic excellence such as research outputs (e.g., publications, citations), research activities (e.g., organizing networks, being involved in communities) and research impact (e.g., policy reports, specific recognition through awards, etc.). AXA Fellowships aim at supporting promising early-career researchers who have been holding a PhD no longer than five years. Candidates must be awarded their PhD before they submit their Expression of Interest. Candidates must have already defended their PhD certification before applying. Candidates should be maximum PhD+ 5 years with proven scientific excellence and high potential for innovation, transformation and dissemination. Institutions hosting an AXA Chair cannot request for an extra Post-Doctoral fellowship for a researcher working on the AXA Chairholder’s team.

Link to Award: https://www.axa-research.org/en/page/AXA-Fellowships

Link to Guidelines: https://arfv2.cdn.axa-contento-118412.eu/arfv2/ef18a1f5-8495-400c-9fd2-336cdbad5f7b_AXA+RF+2023+CFP+Renewables+Energy+Guidelines+%283%29.pdf

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

• (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
• (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The AXA Fellowship is a funding scheme aiming at supporting young promising researchers on a priority topic aligned with AXA and the Society. Our support should be transformative for the researcher and the advancement of her/his research field.

To avert the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a livable planet, global temperature increase needs to be limited. Currently, the Earth is already about 1.1°C warmer than it was in the late 1800s, and emissions continue to rise. To keep global warming lower than 1.5°C – as called for in the Paris Agreement and which seems quite optimistic now1 – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.2 Achieving the 2050 target requires a drastic decrease in greenhouse gases with a focus on carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Given that a predominant part of these emissions is generated through energy production by burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal, new solutions need to be developed to accompany the transition to a sustainable future.

Investment in renewable energies is one of the primary answers to achieving net zero with investment in the development of renewable energies reaching a record of USD 0.5 trillion in 2022.3 However, their development is far from ensuring a just and fair transition with questions such as geographic concentration towards specific technologies4 and geographies5 and around 785 million people still having no access to electricity. Moreover, the Global North is turning to the Global South to produce its energy because of the significant potential for solar energy generation where there is no shortage of sunshine – while this is an opportunity, it may also raise ethical issues when exporting power could drive to global inequalities and asymmetrical power relations.

While renewable technologies bring positive outcomes, they also impact local livelihoods, and biodiversity through community dislocation6 and biodiversity loss7 following the construction of hydro-electrical dams, solar and wind farms for instance. Waste is also an issue with forecasts of 78 million tons of solar panels decommissioned per year by 2050 and wind turbine blades set to account for 43 million tons of waste.8 The rush toward renewable energy technologies also creates the emergence of raw material supply concerns as renewables consume large amount of critical minerals and metals: the total market size of minerals used in the development of renewable energy technology like copper, manganese, cobalt and rare earth minerals is estimated to grow almost sevenfold between 2020 and 2030,9 while available quantities are limited. In this context, the AXA Research Fund is seeking to support post-doctoral research geared towards building a more sustainable and inclusive route to Net-Zero by 2050 based on renewable energies. We shall support innovative and transdisciplinary research projects, at local, regional, or global scale, which will notably focus on:

• Environmental challenges

– Sustainable vision of facilities notably to achieve climate neutrality, reduce pollution and restore biodiversity.

– Transformative approaches to waste management and development of circular economy around renewable energy facilities.

– Ways to build a resilient and sustainable supply chain around renewable energy including the impact of metals and minerals used in facilities with new ways to reduce negative impacts of mining on the planet and people.

• Socio-economic challenges

– Innovative solutions to provide access to renewable energy for all – emerging countries, lower income communities and indigenous populations.

– Long term vision of facilities to minimize impact on local livelihoods and populations.

– Sustainable and ethical policies notably regarding trading of energy for instance.

– The impact of Net-Zero policies in local, national, and international economies and society at large.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.

Slots: 1 per calendar year; that goes for all 3 cycles. If USC submits for the Health cycle, it is ineligible for other cycles that year.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Contact RII.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: May 31, 2023, 5pm PT

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: Past grants have been between $100.00 and $10,000.00

Link to Award: https://www.crail-johnson.org/grant-making/funding-priorities/

Process for Limited Submissions

PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template

Materials to submit include:

• (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
• (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)

Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The Crail-Johnson Foundation’s (the Foundation) funding supports organizations providing services and programs primarily in Los Angeles and gives priority to the following target communities: San Pedro, Carson, Harbor City, Wilmington, Long Beach, Compton, Watts, and South Los Angeles. (There are some exceptions made, primarily based on program area; for example, the Foundation will consider other communities in Los Angeles for programs and services provided to homeless youth.)

The Foundation supports programs as a means to address the long-term well-being of children, youth and community. It is through the support of Education, Human Services and Health that the Foundation hopes to assist in providing children, youth and their families with the tools necessary to build a life of quality. Support is exclusively focused on programs that address the needs of economically, socially and physically disadvantaged children. The Foundation supports both proven approaches and innovative programs aimed at systemic change and provides support for new, continuing, or expanding programs. Programs and services may be school-based, school-linked, or other community-based places. 

The Foundation provides financial support primarily through grants to public non-profit organizations that are exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code and are not a private foundation under Section 509(a). The Foundation provides grants for program/project support and general operating support. On occasion, the Foundation will consider grants to support capital projects as well as selected endowments. In addition, the Foundation provides technical assistance to selected community-based initiatives benefiting children and families.

Support is not granted for programs and projects benefiting religious purposes, university level education, research, events recognizing individuals or organizations, political causes or programs attempting to influence legislation. No grants are made directly to individuals.

In general, the Foundation does not consider multi-year grants. Grants are made to nonprofit organizations for one year, and grantees are eligible to reapply each year. However, in general, the Foundation does not provide grants for more than three consecutive years.

Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.