Civil/Human Rights
All RFPs in Human Services & Community Engagement
Russell Sage Foundation—COVID 19 & Systemic Racial Inequality Social Science Research Grants
In response to the crises of 2020, the foundation is dedicating its next funding cycle exclusively to research that seeks to improve our understanding of these extraordinary times. The severe consequences of the Covid19-pandemic, including its economic disruptions, and the recent mass protests to combat systemic racial inequality in policing and other institutions have reaffirmed the importance of social science research examining economic, political, racial, ethnic, generational, and social inequalities relevant to public policy and social change.
TD Bank—The 2020 TD Ready Challenge
The TD Ready Challenge is an annual North American initiative, which supports organizations developing innovative solutions for a changing world. Recipients must be organizations that have impactful and measurable solutions focused on helping to open doors for a more inclusive and sustainable tomorrow.
Sorenson Impact Foundation—Equitable and Resilient Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Resulting Economic Crisis
The Sorenson Impact Foundation (SIF) is inviting potential grant recipients to propose solutions that can contribute to a more equitable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis. SIF is specifically targeting solutions that enable recovery through developing and growing businesses as well as the communities they’re in to equitably rebuild coming out of the current social, health and economic crisis.
The Lalor Foundation—Advancing Research and Innovation in Reproductive Health
The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life.
Retirement Income Institute—Call for Proposals to Fund Scholarly Works in Progress
The Retirement Income Institute’s (“Institute”) mission is to create a bridge from ideas, research, and evidence to action related to protected lifetime income — by retirement savers, the Alliance for Lifetime Income’s member companies, employer plan sponsors, financial professionals, and other key participants in the U.S.’s retirement ecosystem.
New Earth Foundation—Life's Wellness and Earth's Peace Grants
New Earth Foundation seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. Smaller, newer 501(c)(3) organizations are the focus of grants given, so that the foundation’s gift can make a more significant contribution to the work of the recipient organization.
Russell Sage Foundation - Small Grants in Behavioral Economics
The Russell Sage Foundation offers small grants to support high quality research in behavioral economics and to encourage young investigators (Ph.D. students and recent graduates) to enter this developing field.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. RWJF is interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, RWJF welcomes ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.
The Mercatus Center—COVID-19 Response: A Call for Ideas
The Mercatus Center, building on its COVID-19 policy brief series, welcomes proposals for policy briefs, working papers, and articles that address the next round of challenges facing the United States and other countries in the response to the pandemic.
Michelson 20MM Foundation—Michelson Spark Grant Smart Justice
The Michelson 20MM Foundation’s Smart Justice initiative seeks to leverage higher education as a catalytic force for transforming the lives of system-impacted individuals. Their objective is to ensure that every system-impacted individual has access to education and career pathway services in both detention settings and in their home communities to support their long term success.