Corporate & Foundations Funding

The University of Utah Corporate and Foundation Relations program can help build a relationship between you and potential private funding partners. Our team can advise on strategic approaches, arrange visits, review draft proposals and help translate ideas into fundable projects or programs. Please contact Chris Ostrander at 5-7220 if you are interested in applying for an opportunity listed below, or on the CFR Funding Opportunity website.

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Spencer Foundation — Research Grants on Education 
Deadline: June 18, 2020
Amount: Up to $500,000 

The Spencer Foundation invites proposals for its large research grants on education. These support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program supports proposals with multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives that develop new foundational knowledge that may also have a lasting impact on policy-making, practice or educational discourse. 

The principal investigators and co-PIs must hold a doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field or have appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. They must also be affiliated with a college, university, school district, non-profit research facility or non-profit cultural institution. Graduate students are not eligible to apply as PI or co-PI. Proposals are accepted from the US and internationally. 

PIs and Co-PIs may not submit more than one application for a given deadline in this program. 

Click here to apply!

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W.M. Keck Foundation Internal Call for Concept Papers
Deadline: Friday, June 19, 2020 
Amount: $1,000,000

The Office of the Vice President for Research is seeking interdisciplinary and transformative project concepts for the W. M. Keck Foundation. Keck seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas (1) medical research and (2) science  and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in a field. Funding requests are for $1,000,000 in direct costs over three  years.  Indirect costs are not supported. Larger budget requests and award extensions are not allowed. 

If you would like to submit an initial project idea, please complete and submit a one-page concept paper using the template attached via  Infoready. The deadline to submit concept papers is Friday,  June 19, 2020 (this is the first of three steps needed foran award decision in June, 2021). The process is highly competitive, and after the initial concept papers stage, the foundation receives ~150 Phase 1 proposals and ultimately funds 8-10 projects. 

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Foundation for Child Development — Young Scholars Program
Deadline: June 30, 2020
Amount: $225,000 

The Young Scholars Program supports scholarship for early career researchers working to implement policy and practice-relevant research in the field of the early care and education workforce. The funder is committed to diversity and equity in scholarship and encourages applications from underrepresented groups such as researchers of color, first generation college graduates, culturally and linguistically diverse students, and those from low incoming communities who represent a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches.

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J.Templeton Foundation
Deadline: August 14, 2020
Amount: Up to ~$1M over multiple years

The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in six major funding areas. Templeton invests in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. Templeton funds innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. Core funding areas include Science & the Big Questions, Character Virtue Development, Individual Freedom and Free Markets, Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius, Genetics, and Voluntary Family Planning. 

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