- General Search Engines
- Foundation/Nonprofit Search Engines and Directories
- Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Interactive Media/Communication Studies Resources
- Visual and Performing Arts Resources
- Communication Sciences and Disorders Resources
General Search Engines
NU’s listing of comprehensive funding search engines
Community of Science (CoS) provides funding opportunities in the humanities and arts as well as the sciences.
GrantForward (access through Northwestern Computers)
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:
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
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
National Science Foundation (NSF):
- Recently Announced Active Funding Opportunities
- Index of Funding Opportunities
- Advanced Funding Search
- Browse Funding by Program
- Grant Proposal Guide
- Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Perception, Action, and Cognition Program
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations Communication and Information Foundations
- 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.
Visual and Performing Arts Resources
NU Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Association of Performing Arts Presenters: The Cultural Exchange Fund
National Endowment for the Arts
Jonathan Larson Grants: for early career musical theatre writers and composers
Creative Capital Foundation: for video & performing artists
National Performance Network, Inc.: Programs for performing arts
Independent Television Service, Inc.: Funding for video producers
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences: Grant resources for film scholars
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: Faculty seminar program
Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities: Bogliasco Fellowships for theatre, dance, and film/video
PEN/Laura Pels Awards for Playwrights: $7,500 for a mid-career playwright
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences: Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Trans Artists: Your Artist in Residence Guide
Cinereach Film Production Grant Program
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Media Projects: Production Grants
MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T.
Media: Documentary Film Grant
Sundance Institute Documentary Program and Fund
Illinois Arts Council Agency Grants
Communication Sciences and Disorders Resources
American Hearing Research Foundation
American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) spreadsheet of grants by career stage and size
Brain Research Foundation Seed Grants
National Organization for Hearing Research
Action on Hearing Loss: International Research Grants
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Defense (Department of) Army Research Office (ARO): Life Sciences Neurophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Defense (Department of) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Mathematics and Life Sciences Directorate
McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Office of Extramural Research Search for Funding Opportunities
NIH RePORTER Database of Federally Funded Biomedical Research
Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
National Science Foundation (NSF):
- Recently Announced Active Funding Opportunities
- Index of Funding Opportunities
- Advanced Funding Search
- Browse Funding by Program
- Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences, Perception, Action and Cognition Program
- Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems
This solicitation describes the first phase of a new NSF program to support transformative and integrative research that will accelerate understanding of neural and cognitive systems. NSF seeks exceptional proposals that are bold, potentially risky, and transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research programs. This multi-directorate program is one element of NSF’s broader aim to foster innovation in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, a multi-year effort that includes NSF’s participation in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.