Corporate & Foundation 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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Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation — Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Deadline: April 2, 2020
Amount: The amount of support requested is determined by the applicant. 

The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s broad objective to advance the chemical sciences and engineering. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical insight and innovation in the field. 

The Foundation encourages proposals to significantly stimulate and accelerate the development of the use of ML and other related aspects of data science to the Chemical Sciences and Engineering. Below are some examples this program may support: 

• molecular synthesis, including mechanisms, techniques, and applications 
• theory, computation, physical properties of molecules or materials 

• rates and mechanisms of new chemical processes 
• new or improved materials and materials applications 
• postdoctoral support for collaborations that combine chemical science research with ML expertise 
• collaborative sabbaticals, extended visits, and meetings 
• education, e.g., new courses, seminar series, MOOCs,… 

• public libraries of chemistry and chemical engineering data for use in ML
  

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Simons Foundation for Autism Research Initiative (SFARI): Collaborative Awards for Sex Differences in Autism Research 
Deadline: April 21, 2020
Amount: Up to $8,000,000 over 3 years

 

For this SFARI Collaboration, we welcome proposals that will use an array of modern technologies to examine sex differences in brain function, within and across species, including humans, to identify key differences in gene, cell and circuit function that account for the observed differential sensitivities of the two sexes to ASD. A successful Collaboration must enhance our understanding of the biological bases for sex-specific differences in ASD and set the stage for development of novel interventions.

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William T. Grant Foundation — Reducing Inequality Research Grants
Deadline: May 6, 2020
Amount: Up to $600,000

The William T. Grant Foundation is inviting applications for its Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program. The program supports high-quality field-initiated studies from a range of disciplines and methodologies that are relevant to policies and practices that affect the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. Through the program, grants of up to $600,000 over a period of up to three years will be awarded in support of major research designed to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices with the potential to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. Descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality are welcomed.

The foundation prioritizes studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language, minority status, or immigrant origin. It also welcomes studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methodologies and encourages investigations into various systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education. Competitive proposals often incorporate data from multiple sources and often involve multidisciplinary teams. In addition to financial support, grantees receive significant time and capacity-building resources from the foundation. Projects led by African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian Pacific American researchers are encouraged.

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Russell Sage Foundation — Social Science Research Grants
Deadline: May 21, 2020
Amount: Up to $175,000

The Russell Sage Foundation invites letters of inquiry for four of their core program areas: 

• The program on Behavioral Economics supports research that uses insights and methods from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States
  

• The Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program is concerned with the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American.
  

• The program in Social, Political, and Economic Inequality focuses on whether rising economic inequality has affected social, political, and economic institutions in the U.S., and the extent to which increased inequality has affected equality of opportunity, social mobility, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage.
  

• In partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture, and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. 
  

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