Featured Opportunities

July 9, 2025

• The Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research’s Growing Impact Award is a competitive program designed to build on the successful research from past Seeding Solutionsand New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award (NIA) recipients. This funding opportunity is available by invitation only to previous awardees who meet the selection criteria. The Growing Impact Award program was established to build on FFAR’s successful investments and provide opportunities for high-performing projects to translate research outputs into greater impacts aligned with FFAR’s Research Strategy, benefiting U.S. agriculture. Research funded through this program will accelerate innovation, expand impact, strengthen public-private partnerships and encourage more integrated research of previous FFAR-funded projects. FFAR expects to fund up to $10 million total under this program. Prospective projects must meet at least one of the following criteria: 1) extends the original FFAR-funded work in a new dimension; 2) expands the previous FFAR-funded approach to include new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research approaches; and/or 3) translates and applies the previous FFAR-funded research into a commercial application, product or service.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition. Since the program’s inception in 1966, the NEH has funded editions and translations of some of the most significant historical, literary, philosophical, and music texts. The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. Typical project expenses include salary for editorial and research activities, travel to collections to verify source material, and consultant fees for translation, editorial work, and the implementation of a digital edition. Editions and translations may be print, digital, or a combination of both, but all editions and translations must contain additional and new scholarly material such as introductions, annotations, and critical apparatus. The Scholarly Editions and Translations program includes two funding levels: Planning and Implementation.
• The American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award was established by the Trustees of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua in memory of their founder and first director. The award is intended as a grant-in-aid to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding contributions to historical performing practices. Both scholars and performers may apply, since the Award may subsidize the publication costs of articles, monographs, or editions, as well as public performance, recordings, or other projects.
• The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Head Start (OHS) announces the availability of approximately $15,000,000 to be competitively awarded for the purpose of operating the Head Start National Center (NC) on Early Learning, Health, and Family Engagement (ELHFE). This NC will provide training and technical assistance (TTA) that reflects current evidence, is research-informed, and promotes best practices. The NC ELHFE will strengthen Head Start program practices and services leading to improved education, health, and family engagement services in Head Start programs. The goal of the NC is to provide up-to-date and best practices-driven professional development training and resources that lead to: Continuous program improvement .Increased staff knowledge, skills, and practices. Aligned content with states, Tribes, and territories. Improved outcomes for children and families related to early learning and development; health, mental health, and safety; and family wellbeing and family engagement. Because Head Start comprehensive services is complex and expansive, the primary recipient will be expected to bring together knowledgeable subrecipients in early learning, health, and family engagement. This solicitation is anticipated to be released in mid-October.
• The Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Tactical Technology Office (TTO), through its Office Wide BAA. is soliciting innovative executive summaries and proposals in the following focus areas: 1) Design/Build/Buy – Using innovative design approaches throughout the system lifecycle to acquire new defense systems, from disrupting systems engineering processes to reimagining test, certification, and accreditation; 2) Surge and Sustain – Developing technologies that make existing military systems easy to replenish and abundantly available at time of need. Builds upon the legacy of public and private cooperation for national security to make and maintain existing systems rapidly, on-demand, and at high volume, ensuring that the U.S. can win a long-term conflict; 3) Long Range Effects – Creating new systems and approaches that enable decisive military effects at distances from the tactical to strategic in areas where anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) strategies are employed by an adversary; and 4) Disruptive Innovation – Rapidly fielding novel engineering, technology, and systems approaches that disrupt the battlefield in unexpected or non-obvious ways and change the traditional calculus for military advantage.
• DoD DARPA, through its CoasterChase BAA, is soliciting innovative proposals that leverage a novel understanding of the enteric nervous system as well as emerging neuromodulation technologies to selectively target neurons in the small intestine and alter the body’s stress response. The CoasterChase program aims to develop a multimodal, ingestible, sensing and stimulation platform for use in monitoring and modulating biomarkers of acute stress from within the small intestine. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in enteric neuromodulation and sensing, ingestible electronics, and modulation of the stress response. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
• The National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program aims to develop the core research needed to engineer these complex CPS, some of which may also require dependable, high-confidence, or provable behaviors. Core research areas of the program include control, data analytics, and machine learning including real-time learning for control, autonomy, design, Internet of Things (IoT), mixed initiatives including human-in- or human-on-the-loop, networking, privacy, real-time systems, safety, security, and verification. By abstracting from the particulars of specific systems and application domains, the CPS program seeks to reveal cross-cutting, fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application domains. The program additionally supports the development of methods, tools, and hardware and software components based upon these cross-cutting principles, along with validation of the principles via prototypes and testbeds. This program also fosters a research community that is committed to advancing education and outreach in CPS and accelerating the transition of CPS research into the real world.
• The Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s (AFSOR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends to support individual early career scientists and engineers who have received a PhD. or equivalent degrees by April 1, 2018 or later who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program’s objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.
• The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program solicits proposals for support of meetings, workshops, conferences, summer schools, research collaboration gatherings, and other events related to astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics, and climate change science. Events facilitate connections between attendees; allow for the communication of progress and findings; and push science forward through discussion, collaboration, and shared learning. Communities are built through interaction, and events can provide a vital space to network and encounter diverse perspectives. For those early in their careers or that have identities that are underrepresented in their field, certain events can offer the opportunity to find a mentor or a sense of belonging and scientific identity. Bringing together disparate scientific communities or sub-fields often sparks creative new ideas that may not have occurred otherwise. With this open call, the Science program seeks to further support the scientific fields and communities we fund while also broadening our reach in the scientific community. They hope to form new partnerships with scientists, institutions, and communities we have not yet worked with.
• The NASA Kansas Space Grant Consortium (KSGC) Teacher Workshop Program (TWP) supports the development and implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educator workshops. NASA is especially interested in helping teachers bring NASA-relevant material and content into middle-school classrooms. KSGC affiliate proposals are competitively awarded by peer review. Multiple awards of between $15,000 – $50,000 each are anticipated. Affiliates must identify a $1.00 commitment for every NASA dollar requested (use of federal matching funds is not allowed). Matching funds can be real-dollar, in-kind, or waived/reduced indirect costs provided by the institution, industry, or private sponsors. The majority of activity should be planned to take place between September 2025 and June 2026. Follow-up activities, such as reporting and program evaluations, can take place within three months following a workshop.
• The National Science Foundation’s Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) program is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, who have contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals. OPUS seeks proposals from investigators who aim to focus on a synthesis of their past research, including the harmonization and interoperability of contributing data sets that may have been collected in various forms over many years. All proposals should expand understanding and develop new insights that could not be achieved without the proposed synthesis. The focus and scope of research questions must be consistent with the program descriptions of one or more of the four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology.
• The Veterinary Pharmacology Research Foundation (VPRF) and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) are non-profit organizations that have partnered to fund research grants with a focus on veterinary pharmacology. This funding will support research into new or currently approved medications for combating diseases and conditions of companion and food animals as well as projects that ensure the safety of food products from treated livestock. These areas have historically been underfunded by traditional granting agencies.
• Proteins are typically consumed as essential macronutrients in our diets, and they are generally broken down into peptides and amino acids in the digestive tract before being absorbed. However, recent developments in this area show a broader functional role. Increasingly, proteins, peptides, and amino acids are being recognized for their specific health benefits across different human life stages. Despite growing interest, current market offerings are dominated by commodity protein products aimed at general wellness or muscle gain. This leaves a clear market gap for functional ingredients that deliver measurable, health-aligned outcomes, without compromising on sensory appeal. Thus, the PepsiCo Company is looking for Novel Proteins, Peptides, and Amino Acids that provide specific health benefits in the area of weight management and muscle development, retention, or repair. While this is their primary interest, they also welcome protein-derived solutions that address other health areas--Weight management; Muscle development, retention, and repair; Heart health; Sport performance; Cognition; Digestion; Satiety; Hormonal management; and Overall wellness.
• NSF’s Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering program supports fundamental engineering research that will improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the development of new theories, methodologies, technologies, or devices. Disabilities could be developmental, cognitive, hearing, mobility, visual, selfcare, independent living, or other. Proposed projects must advance knowledge regarding a specific human disability or pathological motion or understanding of injury mechanisms. Research may be supported that is directed toward the characterization, restoration, rehabilitation, and/or substitution of human functional ability or cognition, or to the interaction between persons with disabilities and their environment. Areas of particular interest are neuroengineering, rehabilitation robotics, brain-inspired assistive or rehabilitative systems, theoretical or computational methods, and novel models of functional recovery including the development and application of artificial physiological systems. Emphasis is placed on significant advancement of fundamental engineering knowledge that facilitates transformative outcomes. The DARE Program encourages high-risk/high-reward proposals that surpass incremental technological improvements. The DARE Program also encourages participatory design and the inclusion of trainees with disabilities as part of the proposed research or broader impacts.
• The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action. It funds Research Projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S. It prioritizes projects that address racism, xenophobia, classism, gender bias, exploitation, or the violation of human rights and freedoms. It also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions.