Foundations & Others

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, August 1st, 2025, 5pm PT Closed.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: October 1, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: 5

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $750,000 ($500,000 in outright funds plus $250,000 in Federal Matching Funds) for up to three years.

Link to Award: https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-research-centers-artificial-intelligence

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#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

Support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions for collaboration among scholars to explore a specific topic through research, as well as spreading knowledge about that research through educational or outreach activities. Centers may include scholars from diverse disciplines and from one or more institutions, but must be focused on asking humanities questions and should be led by humanists. Successful applicants will work to establish a sustainable center and engage in at least two activities—e.g., collaborative research and writing efforts; workshops and lecture series; education and mentoring; and the creation of digital tools to increase or advance scholarly discourse about AI—that support research into the social and cultural aspects of AI. 

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

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, July 11th, 2025, 5pm PT Closed.

LOI: (Non-binding LOIs due March 14, 2025)

External Deadline: August 18, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Total Estimated Available Funding: $103,000,000

Link to Award: https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/california-violence-intervention-prevention-cohort-5/

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#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

Formerly known as the California Gang Reduction, Intervention & Prevention (CalGRIP) Grant Program, the State Legislature established the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18. CalVIP encouraged jurisdictions to develop local approaches that would meet the diverse needs of each community. In 2019, the CalVIP grant was codified as the Break the Cycle of Violence Act (Chapter 735, Statutes of 2019) and established the authority and duties of the BSCC to administer CalVIP, including the selection criteria for grants and reporting requirements to the Legislature. The BSCC has now administered four rounds of CalVIP funding, providing more than $250 million toward local violence intervention and prevention efforts.
Assembly Bill (AB) 762 (Chapter 241, Statutes of 2023) made additional changes to the CalVIP program, specifying that the purpose of the program is to support effective community gun violence reduction initiatives in communities that are disproportionately impacted by community gun violence. It expands the CalVIP program to include counties that have within their jurisdiction one or more cities disproportionately impacted by community gun violence and tribal governments. Up to now, the grant has been available only to California cities and the community-based organizations that serve them. AB 762 increases the maximum grant amount to $2.5 million per year and requires BSCC to make at least 20 percent of a grantee’s total award available at the start of the grant period.
Historically, the CalVIP program has been funded by the General Fund, at $9 million per year, with several one-time augmentations. Commencing July 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 28 (Chapter 231, Statutes of 2023), also known as the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Act, imposes an excise tax in the amount of 11 percent of the gross receipts from the retail sale in California of a firearm, firearm precursor part, and ammunition. Revenues collected from this fund will be deposited in the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Fund and the first $75 million available in the fund, or as much of that amount as is available, shall be continuously appropriated annually to BSCC for the CalVIP Grant Program.
Mental Health to Frontline Workers and their Families
Additionally, AB 762 authorizes the BSCC to reserve up to five percent of CalVIP funds annually for the purpose of supporting programs and activities designed to build and sustain capacity in the field of community gun violence intervention and prevention. It includes provisions allowing these funds to be used for mental health support and other services in order to recruit, retain, and sustain frontline professionals, and mental health services or financial assistance to families of professionals killed or injured in their work. The CalVIP Executive Steering Committee has set aside a portion of the five percent, in the amount of $2 million, for this mental health component.
These funds may be used to support supplemental mental health support and other services for frontline professionals and their families. Frontline professionals are defined as employees of community-based organizations working directly with the target population. These funds may be used for the following types of activities: teambuilding activities, staff retreats, counseling services or support groups, and/or digital tools such as teletherapy platforms, mental health apps, digital therapeutics, text-based helplines, and virtual reality therapy. Before expending these supplemental funds, grantees will be required to submit a plan and receive approval from BSCC.
Applicants interested in receiving a portion of these supplemental mental health funds will be prompted to check the appropriate box in the Submittable Application Portal. Once the results of the competitive process are finalized, the $2 million will be allocated across all successful applicants. It is estimated that each grantee will receive up to approximately 1.5 percent of their total grant award.

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

Slots: Institutions are limited to one or two submissions as a host institution (see below for details).

The first submission from a given institution may address any cancer type.

Institutions will be allowed a second submission as a host institution only for a translational or clinical stage project that primarily focuses on one of the following four cancer types: upper GI, glioblastoma, triple-negative breast cancer, or pancreatic cancer.

No more than two applications may be submitted by any one institution.

The “host institution” is the institution of the Principal Investigator on the application. There are no institutional restrictions for Co-Investigators – investigators from a given institution may be Co-Investigators on an unlimited number of applications.

The term “institution” will be interpreted broadly – for example, a medical school and academic department at the same university will be considered the same institution. Please direct questions about institutional eligibility to grants@themarkfoundation.org.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, July 25th, 2025, 5pm PT Closed.

LOI: September 3rd, 2025

External Deadline: January 2026

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Anticipated Award Amount: $3,000,000 disbursed over a 3-year term.

Who May Serve as PI: There are no restrictions on citizenship or geography.

Applicants must have an independent faculty appointment (tenure-track or equivalent) at a non-profit academic/research institution.

Investigators may be a co-PI or collaborator on more than one proposal, but may only serve as Principal Investigator on one proposal.

Investigators who are currently a co-PI on an Endeavor team are permitted to apply as co-PI or collaborator on a new application.

Link to Award: https://themarkfoundation.org/endeavor/

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#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The Mark Foundation Endeavor Awards support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts. A description of the teams granted Endeavor Awards in 2025 can be found here.

Project Eligibility:

• Basic, translational, and clinical projects are eligible.
• The project must seek to address an overarching, urgent scientific question.
• Sub-projects should be designed to elucidate various aspects of the overarching question, theme, or focus.
• The output of the individual team members (data, samples, hypotheses, compounds, etc.) must be integrated and/or shared in a way that makes the impact of the project as a whole larger than the sum of its parts.
• Proposed projects must not be supported by other sources of funding. Finalists will be asked to discuss any potential overlap with other current or pending awards.
• We welcome projects addressing substantial unmet needs in any type of cancer. We particularly encourage teams with innovative ideas for therapeutic strategies for upper GI, glioblastoma, triple-negative breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to consider applying in this round.

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

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, July 11th, 2025, 5pm PT Contact RII.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: July 24, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 15

Anticipated Award Amount: $500,000 – $1,500,000

Link to Award:https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359825

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#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The primary objective of this grant program is to develop knowledge that has the potential of increasing the supply of affordable housing as expressed in the Presidential Memorandum: Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defending the Cost-of-Living Crisis. Applicants are invited to select topics from the research categories (Section III.G) with the aim of identifying or developing outcomes that will result in an increase in affordable housing supply. HUD encourages research projects that not only study the effects of interventions but also suggest pathways and strategies for adopting or scaling effective interventions, whether through public policy or industry practices that reduce the time of housing construction and deployment.

Research Categories

Research Category 1: Models for Quickly Rebuilding Housing Destroyed by Major Disasters

In the aftermath of major disasters, there is a need to rebuild non-temporary housing as soon as possible so that affected individuals can return to normal. Yet, there is no systematic approach for helping communities rebuild long-term housing in a timely manner. HUD seeks research on finding such solutions. Proposals should identify communities that have recovered relatively quickly from severe disasters (within a year) and document what policies were most effective to achieve fast recovery; and what federal, state, and local policy changes might have allowed them to recover even faster. This research should also identify disaster recoveries where manufactured, modular housing, or other rapid construction methods were significant parts of the disaster recovery and document the effectiveness of those strategies. The research findings need to be useable by States, local governments or tribes to design a program that could be developed pre- disaster to expedite future disaster recovery, specifically oriented toward a goal of replacing housing which has been damaged or destroyed by disaster within 90 days or less. For example, such proposals might include, but are not limited to, a roster of modular or manufactured housing contractors who are always on call and ready to deploy to disaster areas quickly and rebuild housing in short timeframes (i.e. 60-90 days), as well as ways to fund such an effort, whether through CDBG-DR funds or other means.

Research Category 2: Reforms to the HUD Code and Impact on Housing Construction
The Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards, commonly called HUD Code, is a national standard for a specific type of offsite constructed housing that is built on a permanently attached steel chassis. Possible research proposals may include 1) studies quantifying the benefits of removing the chassis requirement from the legislation governing the HUD Code, including cost reductions, regulatory streamlining, demand aggregation, or other benefits; 2) developing changes to the HUD Code that reduce regulatory burdens, zoning complications, and improve interoperability with state and local codes; 3) economic analyses that compares costs, financing, and market demand for on- and off-chassis models; and 4) surveys and stakeholder engagement to gauge industry and consumer acceptance.

Research Category 3: Offsite Construction Methods and Emerging Building Technologies

This research category will solicit proposals that seek to further the adoption of emerging building technologies that have the potential to reduce construction costs, reduce long-term operation and maintenance costs, and increase housing supply. The topics for research may include 1) educating lenders on offsite construction costs and incentivizing the creation of lending products for this segment 2) improving the efficiency of supply chains and methods of asset procurement used by offsite builders 3) creating a roadmap to reduce transportation costs for industrialized construction materials and products 4) updating HUD’s 2007 report “Factory-Built Construction and the American Homebuyer: Perceptions and Opportunities” to learn the current state of consumer perceptions of factory-built housing, providing a current analysis of public attitudes, market trends, and barriers to adoption, 5) analyzing the long-term property values and performance of modular housing (both single and multi-family) and its potential impact on nearby residential properties, and 6) providing research funding for new and emerging building technologies in the pre-competitive stage to create building codes to reduce barriers to adoption. In the past, HUD funded research on steel framing, insulated concrete forms (ICFs), and structural insulated panels (SIPs) that helped eliminate barriers to the acceptance of these new technologies by the building industry, State and local governments, and consumers. Research proposals will be solicited to develop new homebuilding products and processes that increase the rate of innovation and the diffusion and adoption of innovation among homebuilders. Other research ideas might be gleaned from the Offsite Construction for Housing: Research Roadmap report.

Research Category 4: Innovative Financing Models for Unsubsidized Modular or Manufactured Housing

Given the persistent difficulty in developing models for financing modular or manufactured housing, this research seeks to explore new and innovative methods to finance those types of housing for both single-family and multi-family projects. Proposals should seek to develop models for financing modular and/or manufactured housing that are palatable for all involved parties; should seek to determine the implications of distinct lending markets for chattel and manufactured housing loans (for example, the merits of expanding FHA insurance to a broader set of modular and manufactured housing, or of reforming Title I to increase the ease of financing manufactured homes); and should seek to develop data models which can be made more publicly accessible, without triggering any privacy concerns. Additionally, studies could incorporate listening sessions with both traditional and non-traditional financial institutions to discuss strategies for facilitating funding.

Research Category 5: Accelerating Use of Artificial Intelligence to lower regulatory burdens
Responding to the President’s Executive Order to accelerate the use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14179). There are numerous regulatory requirements that both add time and cost to projects and are routine in such a way that they might be made less onerous through the application of Artificial Intelligence tools. Examples of possible research projects to create public use AI models are:

Simplify and speed up Housing Choice Voucher Housing Quality Standards compliance. Reduce the need for PHA staff to do inspections by having an AI tool, so landlords can walk through their unit for rent with their phone video and the app shows the deficiencies that must be corrected before seeking tenants. The app can also pass the unit (with location and timestamp) such that no human inspector is needed and there is no delay in leasing units.

Automate permitting process for housing construction. Train AI for approving construction plans meeting different versions of the ICC so that plans can be uploaded into a system and get immediate building permit (or immediate disapproval for failure to comply with specific guidance on how to address the failure).

Train AI for building code compliance for different commonly used versions of ICC.
Instead of scheduling building code inspections, builders walk through properties with video (with location and timestamp) to get inspection approvals/disapprovals for foundation, rough ins, and final, against approved plan and ICC requirements.

Train AI to assess multifamily property financial risk by using HUD s vast library of Annual Financial Statements tied to enforcement actions of the past. For example, evidence for under-funding maintenance leading to future building problems could be captured.

Train AI to do environmental review based on the vast inventory of environmental reviews in the HUD HEROS system. For example, a possible research project might involve inputting a few key data points for a project (address, activity) and then generate an environmental review that may indicate a few questions but does most of the work for the proposer and has an automatic approval for a project without HUD or local government involvement in most cases.

Train AI to do most of the legal work on multifamily mortgage insurance loan closing. There are thousands of prior deals the model could be trained on.

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