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: SFARI invites applications for conference support for rare neurodevelopmental disorder communities

Amount: range: $2,500 to $15,000 per award

Key Deadline: 03/05/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions:  Apply for Funding

Brief Overview:  SFARI is accepting applications for funding of Patient Advocacy Group Family Conferences, with a focus on groups in the Simons Searchlight community. The funding is intended to support and enhance the research component of conferences, from scientist presentations to in-person research opportunities for families. It is open to both patient advocacy groups (PAGs) with well-established conferences as well as those in early years of convening families and connecting to science. Conferences must be scheduled to occur between January 2026 and February 2027.

 

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Funding Source: Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes

Amount: $10,000

Key Deadline: 03/15/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details

Brief Overview:  The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from diverse backgrounds across the United States and Canada. Each year, the Barron Prize honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant positive difference to people, their communities, and the environment; and top winners each receive $10,000 in support of their service work or higher education.

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Funding Source: Elevance Health Foundation invites applications for inaugural Patient Safety Prize

Amount: Total of 5 million. Individual awards of $250,000 for up to 1.5 million

Key Deadline: 03/17/2026

Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Details

Brief Overview: The foundation recently launched a new initiative: Community Action Leadership, which brings together external thought leaders from across a range of disciplines. Through their collective expertise and resources, the foundation aims to address large-scale community health needs and incentivize action for change.

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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: 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: 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: 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.