Social & Behavioral Sciences & Public Affairs
Last Updated: May 21, 2025
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: Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s Fellowship in Plant Science Research
Amount: $10,000
Key Deadlines: 05/31/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Plant Science Fellowship
Brief Overview: The Plant Science Research Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding, early-career plant scientist, with preference given to scientists working in organismal plant biology.
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Funding Source: Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation invites applications from sculptors
Amount: Not listed in sponsor materials
Key Deadlines: 05/31/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application details
Brief Overview: The foundation invites applications for its 2025 grant program focused on sculpture. Through the program, grants will be awarded to support sculptors. The foundation encourages submissions from sculptors and writers on sculpture of all backgrounds and does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, socioeconomic status, education, or disability.
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Funding Source: Horticultural Research Institute invites applications for horticulture research
Amount: Grants are typically $10,000 and $35,000
Key Deadlines: 05/31/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application and Requirements
Brief Overview: Horticultural Research Institute only funds research that specifically deals with green industry-related issues. HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. HRI research focuses on the propagation, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of plant material.
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Funding Source: PEN America invites applications for PEN/Heim Translation Fund
Amount: $2,000 TO $4,000
Key Deadlines: 06/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application details
Brief Overview: Translations of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama, originally written by a single individual. Translations should not have previously appeared in English in print or should have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation. Works should be translations-in-progress, as the grant aims to provide support for completion.
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Funding Source: PEN America invites applications for PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists
Amount: $5,000
Key Deadlines: 06/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Eligibility and Submission
Brief Overview: Previously called the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, the award was developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber and assist a writer at a crucial moment in their career to complete their novel.
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Funding Source: NAMM Foundation invites applications for music research
Amount: $5,000 to $25,000
Key Deadlines: 06/06/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Eligibility and application
Brief Overview: Awards research grants that improve practices for music education, support music makers, and enhance workforce development. These grants also seek to increase public and private resources and focus on unique, non-duplicative research topics.
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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: 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: 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.