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Community of Science (CoS) provides funding opportunities in the humanities and arts as well as the sciences.

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Foundation/Nonprofit Search Engines and Directories

NU Foundation Relations:

Foundation Requests for Proposals Organized by Deadline Date
GuideStar.org provides some free effectiveness, impact, and financial information about non-profits (e.g., tax returns that disclose their assets) and some that is available only by subscription.
The Foundation Directory Online (FDO) provides searchable profiles of grant makers, a grant database, and tax returns that disclose foundation assets, available via the NU Library webpage.

Internal Northwestern Grants:

Faculty Research Grants

Alumnae of Northwestern Grant Programs for NU Faculty – requests for proposals are issued around December 1 each year. http://nualumnae.org/

Fellowships and Other Support in the Social Sciences and Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Program

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships

Social Science Research Council Fellowships

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Residential Fellowships

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Interactive Media/Communication Studies Resources

MacArthur Foundation: Digital Media and Learning Program

James S. McDonnell Foundation

Comcast Technology Research & Development Fund: Targeted Research Grants

Google Research Awards: Faculty Research Awards

Retirement Research Foundation—Responsive grants

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Digital Information Technology

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Public Understanding of Science, Technology, & Economics

Russell Sage Foundation

National Science Foundation (NSF):

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Science of Science and Innovation Policy:
The SciSIP program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process.
Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs – NSF 11-556:
The Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) studies the inter-related roles of people, computers, and information. IIS supports research and education activities that 1) develop new knowledge about the role of people in the design and use of information technology; 2) increase our capability to create, manage, and understand data and information in circumstances ranging from personal computers to globally-distributed systems; and 3) advance our understanding of how computational systems can exhibit the hallmarks of intelligence.
CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: NSF 08-578:
This solicitation covers programs that cut across all three divisions in CISE (Division of Computer and Network Systems, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, and Division of Information and Intelligent Systems), seeking proposals that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields.
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) – NSF 08-553:
STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society.
Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems – NSF 11-501
The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational and design science understanding, directed at advancing the understanding of how to develop virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation.
Science of Organizations – NSF 11-8031
The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds.
Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core Programs
CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs:
Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and
Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program.
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace – NSF 14599
The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace funds research to minimize the misuses of cyber technology, bolster education and training in cybersecurity, establish a science of cybersecurity, and transition promising cybersecurity research into practice. Cybersecurity challenges require a dedicated approach to research, development, and education that leverage the disciplines of mathematics and statistics, the social sciences, and engineering together with the computing, communications and information sciences.