Funding Opportunities for Social Justice & Diversity
The following funding opportunities are available to support social justice and/or diversity research and scholarly activity. Sign into Pivot, Appalachian State's subscription funding database, to see additional details about any of the opportunities listed here, or contact grs@appstate.edu for more information.
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Social Justice & Diversity | ||
| 13 Opportunities | Deadline | Amount |
| Institutional Challenge Grant William T. Grant Foundation | 13 Sep 2023 | $650,000USD |
The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The Institutional Challenge Grant asks grantees… | ||
| Historic Preservation - Fund African American Civil Rights - History Grants National Park Service (NPS) | 10 Oct 2023 | $75,000USD |
The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights from transatlantic slave trade forward. The program funds history and… | ||
| Limited Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) National Science Foundation (NSF) | 24 Oct 2023 | see record |
NSF INCLUDES is a comprehensive, national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF's commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields, as communicated in the NSF Strategic Plan for… | ||
| Community Action Grants (CAG) American Association of University Women (AAUW) | 15 Nov 2023 | $10,000USD |
Community Action Grants provide funding to individuals, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations as well as community-based nonprofits for general operating support and innovative projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. Since 1972, AAUW has provided support to hundreds of… | ||
| Digital Justice Development Grants American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) | 15 Dec 2023 | $100,000USD |
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. This program addresses the… | ||
| Digital Justice Seed Grants American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) | 15 Dec 2023 | $25,000USD |
ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for newly formulated projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. This program… | ||
| Research Grants William T. Grant Foundation | 11 Jan 2024 | $1,000,000USD |
Current opportunities: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States.… | ||
| Social Psychology Program Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) | 15 Jan 2024 | see record |
The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology. Projects funded by the Social Psychology Program support the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare… | ||
| Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) | 09 Feb 2024 | see record |
The NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program contributes to the National Science Foundation's objective to foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce. Through this solicitation, the NSF seeks to build on prior AGEP work, and other research… | ||
| State-Level Systemic Change Strategy Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR) | 27 Jul 2024 | $100,000USD |
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation believes that all of North Carolina benefits when every North Carolinian has the resources and opportunities to achieve their full potential and when each person’s worth and dignity is affirmed. Therefore, we desire for ALL North Carolinians to have access to… | ||
| Democracy Program Carnegie Corporation of New York | Continuous | see record |
Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Democracy program supports civic integration of immigrants. The program also supports the protection of voting rights and promotes voter participation of all citizens. We work to foster a fair, diverse, and vibrant democracy that welcomes and offers opportunities… | ||
| Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) | Continuous | see record |
Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. We are concerned both with the direct impacts of… | ||
| Grantmaking Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) | Continuous | see record |
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. As a private family foundation rooted in the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy, we believe we have an obligation to take the long view, to experiment and take risks, to… | ||