Funding Opportunities
Sign In/Sign UpThe NEA is committed to supporting excellent arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Activities funded through Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. NEA also supports arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities. The NEA strongly encourages applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities. The agency welcomes applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets. Grants for Arts Projects fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Arts, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.
The Delaware Center for Musculoskeletal Research (DCMR) is an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This announcement is requesting Project Proposals for a new Project Lead ($150,000 / year for up to 3 years). Letter of Intent due 1/5/2026. Full proposals are due on 01/16/2026. We will fund 2 new Projects.
The Delaware Center for Musculoskeletal Research (DCMR) is an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This announcement is requesting Pilot Proposals ($50,000 / year for 1 year). Letter of Intent due 1/5/2026, full proposals are due on 1/16/2026. We will fund 2 new Pilots.
The University of Delaware Research Foundation, Inc. (UDRF) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization supporting fundamental research in all science, engineering, and social science fields. Although an independent corporation, it is chartered primarily to support the University's research mission. The primary objective of the UDRF grant program is to improve a PI's research competitiveness for future external funding.
The State of Delaware, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH) is soliciting proposals from qualified vendors to provide comprehensive nutrition education services for individuals experiencing behavioral health conditions, including serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders. The selected vendor will conduct targeted screenings, offer individualized nutrition counseling, and deliver group-based nutrition education to support recovery, improve health outcomes, and address food insecurity.
Founded in 1982, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation aims to advance knowledge in life sciences by sponsoring scientific research that will benefit mankind, realizing that true transformative breakthroughs usually occur after a thorough understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying natural phenomena. The foundation’s grants program seeks to support innovative, potentially transformative basic science projects in fields including immunology, microbiome, genomics, structural biology, cellular physiology and neuroscience. Grants last three (3) years.
The University of Delaware General University Research program provides full-time UD faculty with seed funding for research or creative projects that will grow and sustain their scholarly development. The program is open to all professorial ranks; however, preference is given to early career faculty. These merit-based grants are administered by the Vice President for Research, Scholarship, and Innovation, who is advised by the Research Committee of the Faculty Senate. The Research Committee of the Faculty Senate recommends allocation of the funds available for the year, evaluates applications, and confirms those to be supported. Proposals involving interdisciplinary research, scholarship, or creative projects are especially encouraged.
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) seeks nominations for its 2025 New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award (NIA). The New Innovator Award seeks to promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on problems facing food and agriculture. Within the scope of the New Innovator Program, investigators will have the freedom to explore new avenues of inquiry that arise during their research. Therefore, FFAR is interested in the program of research to be explored and its impact as opposed to a list of very specific aims. FFAR will support projects in the following Research Priority Areas: 1) Cultivating Thriving Production Systems; 2) Sustaining Vibrant Agroecosystems; and, 3) Bolstering Healthy Food Systems.
The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the NSF to promote scientific progress nationwide. Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to effect sustainable improvements in a jurisdiction's research infrastructure, R&D capacity, and hence, its R&D competitiveness. EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Program: EPSCoR Research Fellows (ERF) directly aligns with NSF EPSCoR strategic goal of establishing sustainable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professional development pathways that advance workforce development in STEM and effects engagement in STEM at national and global levels. The ERF program provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation's premier private, governmental, or academic research centers. The fellowship provides opportunities to establish strong collaborations through extended or periodic collaborative visits to a selected host site.
The University of Delaware General University Research program provides full-time UD faculty with seed funding for research or creative projects that will grow and sustain their scholarly development. The program is open to all professorial ranks; however, preference is given to early career faculty. These merit-based grants are administered by the Vice President for Research, Scholarship, and Innovation, who is advised by the Research Committee of the Faculty Senate. The Research Committee of the Faculty Senate recommends allocation of the funds available for the year, evaluates applications, and confirms those to be supported. Proposals involving interdisciplinary research, scholarship, or creative projects are especially encouraged.
The Delaware EPSCoR Office and the UD Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships (OEIP) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2026 Delaware Science & Technology Innovation Seed Grant Program. The program is open to all faculty members or primary investigators (PIs) in the state of Delaware (DE). Seed Grants in 2026 are intended to provide short-term funding to generate preliminary data within one of the strategic growth areas (FinTech and Emerging Business Services Platforms, Next Generation Specialty Chemical Products, Sustainable and High-Performance Materials, Clean Energy Systems, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Discovery) identified in the Delaware Science & Technology Ecosystem Assessment (Assessment). In addition, since Delaware EPSCoR E-CORE is an NSF Center, the proposed research must align with research supported by the National Science Foundation. Successful execution of the proposed research is expected to lead to additional state grants funding the strategic investment areas identified in the Assessment.
