Foundations & Others

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, February 7th, 2025, 5pm PT Contact RII.

LOI (Grants.gov deadline): March 24, 2025, 11:59pm ET

External Deadline: April 3, 2025, 11:59pm ET

Award Information

Award Type: Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: 20

Anticipated Award Amount:  $100,000 – $300,000

Link to Award: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/FY26-Research-Labs-Program-Guidelines.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#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.

Purpose

The NEA Research Labs program is a funding opportunity under the NEA’s Research Awards portfolio. The program funds projects (referred to herein as NEA Research Labs, or Labs) that support transdisciplinary research teams to build public knowledge about the arts and their contributions to individuals, communities, and society at large. Recipients will develop a multiyear research agenda, conduct multiple research studies, and develop a suite of products or services (e.g., a website, research papers, workshops, or evidence-based tools) of value not only to arts researchers, but also to practitioners in the arts and other sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. NEA Research Lab awards may have a period of performance of between 24 and 30 months, with the possibility of one subsequent renewal award, subject to agency priorities, the availability of funds, recipient performance, and the
agency’s regular review process. As part of the multi-year research agenda, applicants must propose a plan for sustaining the research after the conclusion of the NEA supported activities. The NEA welcomes proposals that align with the following priority research area and one or more detailed questions within it, as suggested by the agency’s FY 2022-2026 research agenda.

The priority research area is:

• What are measurable impacts of the arts on the following outcome areas: health and wellness for individuals; cognition and learning; and U.S. economic growth and/or civic or business innovation? Under what conditions do such impacts occur, through what mechanisms, and for which populations and/or sectors?
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  Institutions of higher education and/or nonprofit organizations with a history of conducting or commissioning research may submit applications to be NEA Research Labs. See the Eligibility section for more information.

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

Slots: 1

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, February 14th, 2025, 5pm PT

LOI: March 31, 2025

External Deadline: July 18, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: Cooperative Agreement

Estimated Number of Awards: 1

Anticipated Award Amount: $7.5 – $12.5 million

Link to Award: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaId9de97930-da87-413e-a8c3-1747f3708bf4

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 Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) supports the development of a globally competitive U.S. energy industrial base that drives supply chain resiliency and energy security through materials and manufacturing innovation. Recently, AMMTO led the development and
publication of an EERE-wide report entitled Circularity for Secure and Sustainable Products and Materials: A Draft Strategic Framework, along with a request for information (RFI).7 This document describes EERE’s goals and efforts in circularity across the product and material segments that are most important to clean energy technologies. It also identifies challenges and opportunities to leverage circularity for driving industrial competitiveness, securing supply chains, reducing environmental impacts, benefiting communities, and creating jobs. The draft strategic framework highlights the importance of the market landscape in determining the ease and likelihood of success of technology adoption for circular supply chains, and how such factors can be unique to each product and material segment. In particular, non-technical market factors (i.e., market conditions, supply chain dynamics, policy and regulatory landscape, workforce readiness, infrastructure capabilities) must be understood as these may result in either barriers or pathways to adoption for specific emerging technologies. Analysis is needed to identify future research opportunities in the context of these non-technical market factors, and an array of stakeholders with synergistic technology needs and capabilities must be connected to carry it out.

A centralized effort to assess the full landscape of circular supply chain technologies and its intersection with these factors has not yet been undertaken. Such assessments would support EERE’s ongoing and past portfolio of investments in innovations for circular supply chains by identifying promising avenues for adoption and enabling targeted investments with high likelihood of industrial impact. This NOFO establishes a program whose purpose is to address this need and develop: (1) a comprehensive understanding of the landscape of technical and the non-technical factors that could impact the adoption of emerging technologies and (2) strong connections across the circularity field to accelerate innovations from R&D-scale to commercial practice. We are in a unique moment where the growing awareness of and investment in circular supply chains are driving technological advancements. This is an important opportunity for the United States to benefit from the building momentum and take ambitious actions that will advance development and adoption of circular supply chains.

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

Slots: You may not submit more than one application per Unique Entity Identifier (UEI).

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, February 7th, 2025, 5pm PT Contact RII.

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: March 18, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: New, competing continuation

Estimated Number of Awards: 29

Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $350,000 per year for programs only implementing Level 1: Pre-service training. Up to $500,000 per year for programs implementing Level 1: Pre-service and Level 2: In-service training.

Link to Award: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355770

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 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Paraprofessionals works to develop and expand community-based experiential training such as field placements and internships to increase the skills, knowledge and capacity of students preparing to become mental health workers, peer support specialists, and other behavioral health paraprofessionals.

A special focus is placed on developing knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth (young adults) who have experienced trauma and are at risk for behavioral health disorders, including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder.

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

Slots: You may not submit more than one application per announcement number.

Deadlines

Internal Deadline: Friday, February 14th, 2025, 5pm PT

LOI: N/A

External Deadline: April 15, 2025

Award Information

Award Type: New, competing continuation

Estimated Number of Awards: 1 per funding announcement

Anticipated Award Amount: $950,000 for HRSA-25-044; $950,000 for HRSA-25-045

Link to Award: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355859 or https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355860

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

This funding opportunity aims to support activities to expand the evidence base to inform policy and programs for telehealth services in underserved populations in the United States.

The two announcements under this funding opportunity are as follows:
• The Telehealth Rapid Response Center (HRSA-25-044) will conduct rapid telehealth data analyses and short-term, issue-specific telehealth research studies to provide stakeholders and the public with resources to understand the impact of telehealth policies and regulations. It will also provide information to improve telehealth access for underserved populations in the United States.
• The Telehealth Research Center (HRSA-25-045) will conduct clinically informed and policy-relevant health services research to expand the evidence base for telehealth services.

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