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: Pioneer SCA3 Translational Research Award

Amount: $100,000

Key Deadline: If you filed a LOI by 8/15/2025, your proposals are due by 12/5/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Pioneer-SCA-Award-Instructions.pdf

Brief Overview: The Pioneer SCA3 Translational Research Award is annually granted to independent researchers to support outstanding research proposals that aim to make significant advancements in the development of treatments and/or improvements to patient care for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 (SCA3). This 1-year, merit-based, nonrenewable grant provides $100,000 in direct research funding. Proposals must have a predominant focus on SCA3 preclinical, translational, or clinical research.

 

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Funding Source: New in 2026: Michael Lundquist Grant to Advance MSA-C Research

Amount: $50,000, one-year, merit-based, nonrenewable grant

Key Deadline: If you filed a Letter of Intent 8/15/2025, your Proposals are due 12/5/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Michael-Lundquist-Grant-Research-Instructions-1.pdf

Brief Overview: Seeks outstanding proposals that aim to make meaningful advancements in the treatment and care of individuals affected by multiple system atrophy, cerebellar subtype (MSA-C). While proposals may include aspects relevant to other forms of ataxia, the primary focus must be on preclinical, translational, or clinical research directly related to MSA-C.

 

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Funding Source: FY2026-Graduate-Research-Fellowship-Instructions.pdf

Amount: $25,000

Key Deadline: If you filed a letter of Intent (8/15/2025), your proposals are due (12/5/2025)

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Graduate-Research-Fellowship-Instructions.pdf

Brief Overview: The National Ataxia Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship is a competitive, non-renewable, merit-based award intended to encourage pre-doctoral students to pursue research and a career in the field of ataxia. This award provides partial support ($25,000, 1-year) for study and research and may be used to support pre-doctoral students who are pursing research with an ataxia-relevant theme. Applications for any type of ataxia are accepted for this award. Proposals across the spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical research are welcome.

 

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Funding Source: Pre-doctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Ataxia Research

Amount: $50,000 across 2 years; $25,000 annually

Key Deadline: if you filed a LOI 8/15/2025, your application and your proposals are due 12/5/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Diverse-Scientists-in-Ataxia-Grant-Instructions.pdf

Brief Overview:  This URM Pre-doctoral research fellowship is a competitive, non-renewable, merit-based award intended to enhance research and/or clinical training of promising students who are matriculated in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists aimed at continuing ataxia basic science, translational science or clinical research towards the goal of serving individuals with ataxia.

 

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Funding Source: Post-doctoral Fellowship Award

Amount: $35,000 for 1-year

Key Deadline: If you filed a LOI by 8/15/2025, your proposals are due by 12/5/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Post-Doc-Fellowship-Award-Instructions.pdf

Brief Overview:  grant that provides support for early-career researchers conducting innovative studies that can expand our understanding of the cause, pathogenesis, or treatment of hereditary, sporadic, and acquired ataxias. This fellowship is intended to foster the development of promising scientists by supporting mentored research experiences that build toward independent research careers. Funded projects are expected to generate high-quality preliminary data, strengthen research skills, and position fellows for future grant applications and academic advancement.

 

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Funding Source: Early Career Investigator Award

Amount: $50,000

Key Deadline: If you filed a LOI by 8/15/2025, your proposals are due by 12/5/2025

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FY2026-Early-Career-Award-Instructions.pdf

Brief Overview:  This award aims to foster the development of independent research careers by providing seed funding for innovative, high-impact studies in the field of ataxia. Proposals are welcome across the full spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical research, but must have a clear and significant focus on advancing our understanding of the causes, pathogenesis, or treatment of hereditary, sporadic, or acquired ataxias. It is expected that the projects supported by this program will catalyze significant progress toward meaningful scientific insights and therapeutic advances in ataxia.

 

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Funding Source: Dissertation Research Grants

Amount: Up to $15,000

Key Deadline: 02/03/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Process

Brief Overview: Applicants must be enrolled doctoral students at an institution of higher education in the U.S. or a U.S. territory, who have completed all program requirements except the dissertation. To receive funding, an applicant whose proposal is selected for a grant must have their dissertation supervisor document that the dissertation research (a) is the same research that was described in the DRG proposal and (b) has been approved by the dissertation committee. In cases where a dissertation consists of several related papers, the proposal should focus on the most important paper. If your discipline, department, or institution does not use this process to approve dissertation proposals, please email programs@rsage.org to see if you or your project is at the appropriate stage for RSF support.  There is a lifetime limit of one dissertation research grant per applicant. Previous recipients of RSF grants are also ineligible. RSF expects to approve up to 20 grants.

 

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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: 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: 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: Rolling

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: 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: 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.