Humanities, Cultural Studies & Social Services

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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: The Diverse Writers Grant and The Diverse Worlds Grant

Amount: $500

Key Deadline: Open July 1, 2025 – July 31, 2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions:  Grant Application Process

Brief Overview:  The Diverse Writers grant is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. — whose marginalized identities may present additional obstacles in the writing and publishing process.

 

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Funding Source: 2025 Scholarship — Shelley Prose and the HWA Award

Amount: $2,500

Key Deadline: 08/02/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Mary Shelley Scholarship

Brief Overview:  The Scholarships are effectively two facets of the same award; applicants enter the same competition using the same application form. A sub-committee of the HWA Board chooses the scholarship winners from that pool of applicants. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship is available for those members who identify as women and the Horror Writers Association Scholarship is available for any member, regardless of gender.

 

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Funding Source: International Center for Responsible Gaming invites applications for dedicated centers of excellence

Amount: $437,500

Key Deadline: 08/15/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: REQUEST-FOR-APPLICATIONS-FOR-RESEARCH-ON-Responsible-Gaming.pdf

Brief Overview: The International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) invites eligible investigators and institutions to apply for funding to establish a Center of Excellence (COE) dedicated to innovative research on Responsible Gaming (RG). This initiative aims to advance evidence-based strategies that promote meaningful behavior change, enhance player protection, and improve engagement with RG tools and messaging.

 

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Funding Source: Louisville Institute invites applications for Pastoral Study Project

Amount: $20,000

Key Deadline: 08/15/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Pastoral Study Project – Louisville Institute

Brief Overview:  Through its Pastoral Study Project (PSP) program, the institute provides grants to support individual or collaborative study projects on Christian life, religious practices and institutions, and possibilities and ideas for the church, its communities, and the wider world. Grants are awarded to skilled and innovative clergy, lay leaders, and staff working in diverse Christian contexts in the United States and Canada. Grantees share their research through books and other publications, blogs and websites, podcasts, digital media and film, exhibits, worship, music, public presentations, classes, and more.

 

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Funding Source: John Templeton Foundation invites funding inquiries

Amount: No amount listed

Key Deadline: 08/15/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Templeton Funding – Apply for a Grant – John Templeton Foundation

Brief Overview:  Grant applications are welcome to support field-leading research and high impact public engagement programs in these areas. The foundation invests in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers—ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. Additionally, the foundation funds innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. Foundation funding areas include: Life sciences, Character Virtue Development, Public Engagement, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Religion Science and Society, Individual Freedom and Free Markets.

 

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Funding Source: Arthur Vining Davis Foundations invite LOIs for higher education, interfaith leadership – Private Higher Education

Amount: $25,000 to $300,000

Key Deadline: 8/28/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Apply for A Grant – The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Brief Overview: This area supports colleges and universities prioritizing undergraduate education and emphasizing the liberal arts. Although the foundations support various programs in higher education, grants typically support projects that improve student outcomes or enhance faculty leadership.

 

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Funding Source: Arthur Vining Davis Foundations invite LOIs for higher education, interfaith leadership – Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy

Amount: $100,000 to $300,000

Key Deadline: LOI’s due 8/28/2025 and proposals are due 11/14/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Apply For A Grant – The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Brief Overview:  This area supports programming that improves Americans’ religious literacy or facilitates understanding, appreciation, and cooperation between individuals and groups across religious traditions. The foundations provide grants to support various activities, including improving educational curricula, creating meaningful engagement between religious communities, and enhancing the public understanding of religious beliefs and practices.

 

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Funding Source: Center for Cooperative Media, Rita Allen Foundation invite applications for the 2025 Civic Science Collaboration program – media projects

Amount: $15,000 each (up to 10 awards)

Key Deadline: Up to 08/30/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: About the civic science media program – Center for Cooperative Media

Brief Overview:  The award builds on a global research project conducted in 2020 and 2021 by the Center that studied how and why journalists and civil society organizations around the world collaborate to achieve and increase impact. Led by Dr. Sarah Stonbely and funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the research showed that journalists have become more willing to partner with civil society organizations in order to achieve tangible impact on issues such as corruption, governance, climate and environment, and human rights.

 

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Funding Source: Walmart Foundation invites applications for Spark Good Local Grants

Amount:

Key Deadline: Aug. 1 – Oct. 15, 2025, and Nov. 3 – Dec. 31, 2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Spark Good Local Grants Guidelines

Brief Overview:  Walmart Foundation invites applications for its Spark Good Local Grants, through which Walmart U.S. stores, Sam’s Clubs, and Distribution Centers award local cash grants ranging from $250 to $5,000 to address the unique needs of the communities where they operate.

 

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Funding Source: 2026-27 Berlin Prize Fellowships

Amount: $5,000 Monthly stipend and other benefits

Key Deadline: 09/22/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Apply for a Fellowship – American Academy in Berlin

Brief Overview: The Academy welcomes applications from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and various areas of public policy. We also generally encourage projects that address pressing issues of the day, such as the future of democracy, technology and society (especially artificial intelligence), contemporary China, as well as climate change and sustainability. Dedicated fellowships are also available to support projects in American political economy, Jewish studies, and public health and biotechnology. While project proposals need not focus on topics related to Germany, candidates should explain how a residency in Berlin would benefit their work.

 

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Funding Source: RDL Faculty and Staff Associates Program

Amount: Up to $30,000

Key Deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: RDL Faculty and Staff Associates Program

Brief Overview:  The RDL Faculty and Staff Associates Program empowers Rutgers faculty and staff to develop bold, interdisciplinary solutions to the complex challenges facing American democracy. Funding is available for selected proposals, which creates a unique opportunity to execute innovative projects with real-world impact.  Students are at the heart of the Rutgers Democracy Lab, so their incorporation into all project proposals is strongly encouraged.

 

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Funding Source: Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.

Amount: $500 – $2,000

Key Deadline: portal opens January 1 – 31, 2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions:

Brief Overview:  Support grants ($500 – $2000) to individual feminist women in the arts with primary residence in the US and Canada. Money for Women especially encourages applications from writers and artists in the early and middle stages of their artistic development. To be successful, your application must be complete and follow the guidelines here.  Fiction & Visual Arts Awards – Apply January 1-31, in even years. Non-Fiction and Poetry Awards – Apply January 1-31, in odd years.

 

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Funding Source: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Amount: $15,000 prize

Key Deadline: 01/15/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application form

Brief Overview:  Each year a substantial cash prize is awarded annually to a woman who is a US citizen, and who has written the best book-length work of prose fiction, whether novel, short stories, or experimental writing. We are interested in calling attention to the work of a promising but less established writer.

 

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