Social & Behavioral Sciences & Public Affairs

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Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates

(i.e. if it’s listed first, it’s due to the sponsor sooner)

 

Funding Source: American Psychological Foundation invites applications for undergraduate faculty research

Amount: $4,000

Key Deadlines: 06/12/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application

Brief Overview: The Society for General Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry Mary Whiton Calkins grant encourages research that fits into the broad category of general psychology with a particular interest in research that combines multiple subfields within the discipline or addresses overarching themes.

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Funding Source: Holberg Prize invites nominations for outstanding researchers

Amount: $587,940 US dollars

Key Deadline: 06/15/2025 Nomination deadline

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Instructions

Brief Overview:  Established by the Norwegian parliament in 2003, the approximately $582,000 (NOK 6,000,000) annual prize recognizes outstanding individual contributions to the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. The prize may be awarded for work within a particular academic discipline and for work of a cross-disciplinary nature.

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Funding Source: FY 2025 Youth Ambassadors Africa Program

Amount: $1,000,000

Key Deadlines: 06/30/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Additional Information

Brief Overview: Youth Ambassadors programs offer youth (typically between the ages of 15-18) and adult mentors the opportunity to examine civic engagement and leadership development through short-term exchanges in the United States.

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 Funding Source: 2025 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

Amount: $16,826,696

Key Deadlines: 06/30/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: DF0P0017192

Brief Overview: The stated intent of the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000, the authorizing legislation for the Gilman Program, is to support U.S. undergraduate students of limited financial means to study outside the United States in order to “broaden the outlook and better prepare such students of demonstrated financial need to assume significant roles in the increasingly global economy.”

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 Funding Source: 2025 U.S. Exchange Alumni Network and Capacity Building Program

Amount: $1,300,000

Key Deadlines: 06/30/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: DFOP0017196

Brief Overview:  Accepting proposals to conduct programs in support of expanding professional development opportunities for U.S. citizen alumni of U.S. government-sponsored people-to-people exchange programs, to include organizing and implementing career development seminars, a small grants program, and an alumni regional ambassadors fellowship program.

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Funding Source: ARI Releases BAA for Behavioral and Social Sciences

Amount: No funding Floor or Ceiling – (ARI will award 100 proposals)

Key Deadline: 07/01/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Foundational Science Research Unit (FSRU) of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) solicits new proposals for its fiscal year 2026 program of basic research in behavioral science.

Brief Overview: This BAA seeks proposals that focus on novel, state-of-the-art, and multidisciplinary approaches in the behavioral and social sciences that will contribute to theory and that will benefit the Army.

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Funding Source: William T. Grant Scholars Program

Amount: $350,000 is the average award

Key Deadlines: 07/01/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Foundation Website

Brief Overview: The agency research interests focus area center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate ways to reduce inequality.

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Funding Source: First Nations Development Institute invites applications for Native Agriculture and Food Systems Scholarships

Amount: $1,000 to $1,500 (20 to 25 awards)

Key Deadline:  07/11/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Grant requirements

Brief Overview:  At First Nations, we believe reclaiming control over local food systems is a critical step toward ensuring the long-lasting health and economic well-being of Native people and communities. Native-controlled food systems have the potential to increase food production, improve health and nutrition, and eliminate food insecurity in rural and reservation-based communities, while also promoting entrepreneurship and economic development.

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Funding Source: NIHCM Foundation invites applications for investigator-initiated research grants

Amount: $500,000

Key Deadline: 07/18/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Platform

Brief Overview:  NIHCM Foundation supports innovative, independent, investigator-initiated research that has the potential to inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

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Funding Source: Statement of Interest (SOI) Annual Program Statement

Amount: $100,000

Key Deadlines: 09/30/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: PAS-TOKYO-FY25-SOI-02

Brief Overview: The U.S. Embassy Tokyo of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations/or individuals to submit a statement of interest (SOI) to carry out a project (or projects) to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Japan, promote Mission Japan’s main strategic goals, and make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.

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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.