Social & Behavioral Sciences & Public Affairs
Last Updated: March 16, 2026
Below are currently active opportunities for research funding listed in ascending order by the external due dates. Contact the Sr. Grant Facilitator at orsp-preaward@newark.rutgers.edu for additional information regarding any of these.
Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates
(i.e. if it’s listed first, it’s due to the sponsor sooner)
Funding Source: LISC, NFL Foundation partner to improve local football fields
Amount: $50,000 for capital projects and $250,000 for resurfacing projects
Key Deadline: 03/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Flyer
Brief Overview: Proposals that (1) upgrade underutilized facilities, (2) demonstrate active use of the fields, (3) attract matching funding above the 1:1 minimum, and (4) involve local partnerships with nonprofit community partners (e.g., USA Football, parks and recreation departments, YMCA branches) to promote youth sports safety and community programming on the fields will be given strong preference.
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Funding Source: Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System
Amount: $100,000
Key Deadline: 04/01/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: More About Funding
Brief Overview: The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in collaboration with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures (AV) is pleased to announce its first annual grants competition for early-career scholars, “Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System” (CRCJ). Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention.
Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention. Examples include difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials. Mixed methods projects will be considered if a causal research design is central to the proposal
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Funding Source: Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) -Research
Amount: Up to $250,000 each – 2 awards anticipated (36-month project period)
Key Deadline: 04/13/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
Brief Overview: With this Notice of Funding Opportunity, we are inviting research applications for our Field Initiated (FI) Projects – Minority Serving Institutions (FIP-MSI) program. We will make awards in one of two distinct categories: (1) research, and (2) development, for a period of up to three years (36 months). The purpose of the Field Initiated (FI) Projects program is to develop knowledge, methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially those with the highest support needs. While this will award 1 recipient, a secondary option exists under Opportunity Listing – Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) – Development. If interested, please contact Anthony Mayo in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
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Funding Source: Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training
Amount: $205,000
Key Deadline: 04/13/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The purpose of NIDILRR”s ARRT program is to provide advanced research training and experience for individuals with doctorates, or similar advanced degrees. ARRT projects train rehabilitation researchers, including researchers with disabilities. ARRT projects under this opportunity must provide advanced research training to eligible individuals to enhance their capacity to conduct high-quality multidisciplinary disability and rehabilitation research focused on employment outcomes among people with disabilities. NIDILRR plans to make one grant under this announcement. This grant will have a 36-month project period with three 12-month budget periods.
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Funding Source: NEW JERSEY GREEN WORKFORCE TRAINING GRANT CHALLENGE PHASE 2
Amount: $500,000 and $800,000
Key Deadline: 04/20/2026 – (Applications due)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Green Workforce Training Grant Challenge Phase 2 is a competitive funding opportunity that will award grants to implement workforce development training programs that bolster the green economy talent pipeline in the state with a particular focus on NJ’s Overburdened Communities. A total of $4 million is available for programs under this Grant Challenge through the Governor’s Council on the Green Economy. The minimum and maximum amounts for individual awards are set at $500,000 and $800,000, respectively. NJEDA anticipates making multiple awards in this grant challenge.
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Funding Source: Lung Cancer Research Foundation announces request for proposals on effects of air pollution and climate change on cancer
Amount: $200,000
Key Deadline: 06/02/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Research Funding Opportunities
Brief Overview: The two organizations are partnering to fund projects that examine the impact of environmental pollution and climate change on lung cancer risk, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes; along with innovative strategies to mitigate these effects. With support from AstraZeneca, the selected project will receive a $200,000 award over a two-year period.
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Funding Source: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research invites applications for Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research program
Amount: $150,000
Key Deadline: rolling up to 06/17/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research – Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Brief Overview: The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) invites applications for the Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) program, which deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems.
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Funding Source: soQuiet invites Student applications for misophonia research
Amount: $1,500 and Student Research Grants up to $5,000
Key Deadline: up to 06/17/2026 (rolling)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Student Research Grants — soQuiet Misophonia Advocacy
Brief Overview: soQuiet’s Student Research Grants program awards up to $1,500 for compelling research on misophonia, misokinesia, and potentially similar sensory-based diseases that have yet to be identified. Graduate students studying brain-based misophonia causes, processes, and treatments can receive up to $5,000 from the Innovations/Kent Misophonia Neuroscience Student Research Grant. The soQuiet scientific advisory team is interested in discovering misophonia and misokinesia causes and cures.
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Funding Source: TMCity invites applications for neurocognitive healthcare
Amount: $25,000 to $250,000
Key Deadline: rolling up to 7/8/2026 (LOI)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Overview — TMCity
Brief Overview: TMCity Foundation has a focus area of neurocognitive healthcare and treatments for brain-related ailments and welcomes proposals from organizations working in its focus area, including but not limited to: academic or research institutions such as schools of medicine, nursing, social work, public health, and rehabilitation; community-based organizations engaged in activities and/or providing services related to mental health care and treatment; direct health care providers, such as hospitals, nursing-facilities and senior living, rehabilitation specialists, home care agencies; and new companies developing technology solutions in this space.
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Funding Source: Linguistics | PD 98-1311
Amount: Not listed – view previously funded projects
Key Deadline: 07/15/2026 and 01/15/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The Linguistics Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: research proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degrees, proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (LING-DDRI) awards, and CAREER proposals. We will also consider proposals for conferences.
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Funding Source: NSF FUNDING: Social Psychology | PD 22-1332
Amount: Not listed
Key Deadline: 07/15/2026 & 01/15/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports theoretically focused empirical investigations that advance fundamental social psychological explanations of human behavior, attitudes and experience. The Social Psychology Program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought, motivation, emotion, neural, and physiological processes explain ways of thinking about and relating to self and others. Proposed research should carry strong potential for groundbreaking discoveries about the power of social dynamics to shape peoples’ attitudes, behavior, and experience. Basic research that connects to emerging and ongoing global challenges is especially encouraged: Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and convergent research approaches are encouraged.
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Funding Source: Developmental Sciences (DS) | NSF 24-544
Amount: $100,000 and $200,000 annually
Key Deadline: 07/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Developmental Sciences Award supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
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Funding Source: Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC) | PD 09-7252
Amount: Varies – see overview below
Key Deadline: 08/03/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Career Awards – Application Details
Brief Overview: The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational modeling if the goal is to expand explanatory theories of human perception, action, or cognition). Anticipated Funding Amount is approximately $5,000,000 – $7,300,000, for all new and continuing awards combined, pending availability of funds. Most research awards supported by PAC range between $350,000 and $600,000; CAREER awards between $500,000 and $715,000; conferences, group travel or other community-development/community-building activities awards between $20,000 and $50,000.
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Funding Source: Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence
Amount: Proposal budget not yet listed – SBE Program contacts listed for questions
Key Deadline: 08/05/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. Projects that are convergent or interdisciplinary may be especially valuable in advancing basic understanding of these areas, but research within a single discipline or methodology is also appropriate. Connections between proposed research and specific technological, educational and workforce applications will be considered as valuable broader impacts but are not necessarily central to the intellectual merit of proposed research. The program supports a variety of approaches, including experiments, field studies, surveys, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence or machine learning methods.
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Funding Source: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) | PD 24-1699
Amount: $175,000-$225,000 per year for 3-5 years
Key Deadline: 08/17/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Career Award: The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposals also typically strengthen the field through, for example, outreach, mentoring the next generation of diverse cognitive neuroscientists, and/or increasing awareness and utilization of the research the field produces (Broader Impacts).
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Funding Source: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – NSF 23-601
Amount: typical funding amounts: $1,00,000 – $155,000 up to $84,800,000
Key Deadline: 08/19/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports intensive research by undergraduate students in any NSF-funded area of research. REU Sites engage a cohort of students in research projects related to a theme. REU Supplements engage students in research related to a new or ongoing NSF research award. NSF estimates 1300 to 1350 awards from this program
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Funding Source: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) | NSF 19-575
Amount: Approx. $3.76 million awarded annually, contingent upon the availability of funds for 15 to 35 programs
Key Deadline: 08/27/2026 & 01/28/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics. MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.
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Funding Source: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) – NSF 24-606
Amount: up to $300,000 per award with durations up to 1 year and 10 Phase II awards of up to $1,500,000 per award with durations up to 2 years are anticipated
Key Deadline: 09/01/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Approximately 20 Phase I awards and 10 Phase II awards will be awarded for up to 2 years. The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance.
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Funding Source: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation invites applications from grassroots organizations
Amount: $20,000 annually
Key Deadline: 09/02/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Process
Brief Overview: While the foundation’s broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, its primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of our grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing. The foundation is interested in supporting groups that are carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities.
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Funding Source: American Psychological Foundation invites applications for Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford Grant
Amount: up to $3,750
Key Deadline: 10/09/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant – American Psychological Foundation
Brief Overview: The American Psychological Foundation offers the Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford Grant to graduate students and early-career researchers working on innovative research on the effects of trauma like sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape. Graduate students or early-career psychologists (doctoral level psychologists no more than 10 years postdoctoral) who are affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational, and scientific institution or governmental entity exclusively for charitable and educational purposes and have trauma and trauma research knowledge are eligible.
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Funding Source: Community Foundation of New Jersey invites applications from organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and their pets
Amount: $5,000
Key Deadline: Rolling until 12/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Find Grants | Community Foundation of New Jersey
Brief Overview: The foundation accepts Quinn’s Corner Jumpstart Grant applications. These one-time $5,000 grants will help New Jersey groups support domestic abuse survivors escaping with their pets and boost capacity. Use them as: Emergency funds: For survivors and their pets (pet deposit for an apartment, interim pet boarding, vet costs, pet food, etc.). This funding can only be used for direct expenses to support survivors and their dogs, not staff or administrative costs.
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Funding Source: NIGMS Institutional Biomedical Undergraduate Research Training (BURT) Program (T34)
Amount: See RFP – May email NIGMSBURTT34@nih.gov
Key Deadline: 09/25/2028
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The goal of the Institutional Biomedical Undergraduate Research Training (BURT) program is to strengthen research training environments and develop a pool of well-trained students who complete their baccalaureate degrees in biomedically-related fields, and transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs (such as Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.).Specifically, this funding announcement provides support to eligible, domestic organizations to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical undergraduate training and mentoring to help build a strong biomedical research workforce for the nation. Applicant organizations must enroll undergraduate students and have received NIH Research Project Grant (RPG) funding averaging less than $50 million in total costs (direct and F&A/indirect) per year over the last three fiscal years.
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Funding Source: Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools – PAR-25-298
Amount: $375,000 award ceiling
Key Deadline: 01/07/2028 (closing date)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The purpose of the Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools is to stimulate basic and clinical research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation’s research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. REAP grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs to contribute to the Nation’s biomedical and behavioral research effort. REAP grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose undergraduate and/or graduate students at health professional schools or graduate schools to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant institution. Eligible institutions must award NIH-relevant baccalaureate or advanced degrees in health professions and have received less than $6 million per year of NIH support (total costs) in 4 of the last 7 fiscal years. In this NOFO, a college is a stand-alone entity and not a component of a university system.
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Funding Source: Annual Program Statement for U.S. Presentation at International Art Biennales
Amount: $375,000
Key Deadlines: Jan 01, 2099 undefined
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: DFOP0017204
Brief Overview: The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Cultural Programs Division (ECA/PE/C/CU) seeks to advance international understanding of American values by exposing foreign audiences to innovative and compelling works of art that reflect promote American values and foster international dialogue on shared global challenges.
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Funding Source: NSF National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-Corps (TM) Teams) program
Amount: $12,000,000 – up to $10,000 for the Technical Lead (TL), up to $15,000 for the Entrepreneurial Lead (EL) and up to $3,000 for the Industrial Mentor (IM)
Key Deadline: Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-549: NSF National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-Corps (TM) Teams) program
Brief Overview: The NSF National I-Corps Teams program provides NSF-funded faculty, students, and other researchers with entrepreneurial education, mentoring, and funding to accelerate the translation of knowledge derived from foundational research into emerging products, processes, and services that may attract subsequent third-party funding.
The selected teams participate in the NSF National I-Corps Teams program curriculum. This curriculum, now delivered exclusively in an online format, typically includes a Kick-off meeting with entrepreneurial immersion training, weekly training meetings, and a Lessons Learned Closing Presentation.
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Funding Source: Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx) | PD 24-7298
Amount: Budget amounts not noted – view previously funded projects & budgets
Key Deadline: Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports international multilateral research partnerships that address urgent global challenges by leveraging diverse expertise from countries outside the U.S., focusing on advancing research and understanding of effective multilateral collaboration.
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Funding Source: Facilitating Research at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | NSF 14-579
Amount: Suggested budget not noted; however, NSF has invested on average approximately $53 million each year in RUI research projects – See previously funded projects
Key Deadline: Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Rutgers University Newark Campus is classified as a Research Undergraduate Institute (RUI). The Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) and Research Opportunity Awards (ROA) funding opportunities support research by faculty members at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). RUI proposals support PUI faculty in research that engages them in their professional field(s), builds capacity for research at their home institution, and supports the integration of research and undergraduate education. Funding for RUI/ROA awards is contained within research and education program allocations and is not held as a separate allocation.
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