Research Funding Opportunities: March 28, 2025

International

Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
Funding Opportunity Title: William T. Grant Scholars Program
Key words: early career investigators, youth ages 5-25, inequality
Link to RFP: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program

Internal deadline: 04/21/25- submit project summary, budget, justification, and biosketches via Infoready portal: https://ufresearch.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1969591
Sponsor Deadline: 06/11/25.
Funding available: $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs. Four to Six Scholars are accepted.
Period of performance: Awards begin July 1 of the award year and are made to the applicant’s institution.
Program background: The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.
Program Objectives: The Foundation supports research in two distinct focus areas:
- Reducing inequality in youth outcomes
- Improving the use of research evidence by in policy and practice.