OSPRA News
Bulletin from the Grants Resource Center
Notices from February 1 to February 28, 2026
Funding Opportunities
🎭 Arts / Humanities / International
Funding Opportunity: Freedom 250 Outreach Across India
Agency: U.S. Department of State
Item: Programming to highlight U.S.–India historical and cultural ties.
Deadline: March 10, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: NEA Research Grants in the Arts & Research Labs
Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Item: Research on arts impact and value in American life.
Deadline: March 23, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Phillips Fund for Native American Research
Agency: American Philosophical Society (Foundation)
Item: Support research in Native American linguistics and history.
Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Feed the Future Innovation Labs
Agency: U.S. Department of State
Item: Advance global food security through targeted agricultural research.
Deadline: April 3, 2026 (SOI).
Funding Opportunity: Harold Powers World Travel Fund
Agency: American Musicological Society (Foundation)
Item: Support doctoral/postdoctoral musicological research worldwide.
Deadline: April 1, 2026.
📚 Education / Economic & Community Development
Funding Opportunity: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Strengthening Agricultural Systems
Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Item: Transform the U.S. food and agricultural system to increase production and enhance farmer prosperity.
Deadline: Letters of intent due February 26, 2026; Applications due March 26, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Fiscal Year 2026 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Grants
Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
Item: Support evidence-based interventions to strengthen communities through AmeriCorps members.
Deadline: March 31, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: ViaPath Foundation 2026 Impact Grant
Agency: ViaPath Foundation
Item: Support nonprofit programs advancing youth support, advocacy, and career pathways.
Deadline: February 20, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Advancing Innovative Math Solutions (AIMS) EduData Initiative
Agency: Digital Promise (Foundation)
Item: Build sustainable research infrastructure to advance math learning.
Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: The Millennium Fellowship
Agency: Millennium Campus Network (Foundation)
Item: Semester-long undergraduate leadership program focused on social impact and SDGs.
Deadline: February 28, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Aviation Research BAA 2025
Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
Item: Advance research addressing current and future air transportation challenges.
Deadline: Rolling submissions until December 4, 2034.
Funding Opportunity: Centers of Excellence for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training and Education
Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
Item: Designate maritime training entities as Centers of Excellence.
Deadline: April 13, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Pay-for-Performance (PfP) Incentive Payments Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Labor
Item: Workforce development aligned with America’s Talent Strategy.
Deadline: April 3, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: K-12 AI Infrastructure Program
Agency: Digital Promise (Foundation)
Item: Develop AI-enabled public goods for formative assessment in K-12 education.
Deadline: March 8, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Round 6
Agency: U.S. Department of Labor
Item: Expand short-term workforce training via Workforce Pell Grants.
Deadline: May 20, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: American Association of Law Libraries Research Fund
Agency: AALL (Foundation)
Item: Fund research projects related to legal and law-related information.
Deadline: April 1, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: OSERS-OSEP: State Technical Assistance Projects for DeafBlind Children
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Item: Improve academic achievement and services for children with disabilities.
Deadline: April 21, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Charles Hutchins Educational Grant
Agency: SMTA (Foundation)
Item: Support graduate research in electronics manufacturing.
Deadline: April 30, 2026.
🏥 Health
Funding Opportunity: Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Item: Enhance utility of Common Fund datasets to catalyze discoveries.
Deadline: June 23, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: The Metastasis Research Network (MetNet) (U01)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Item: Systems-level metastasis research integrated into MetNet.
Deadline: Annually June 5 and October 5.
Funding Opportunity: Caregiver AI Prize Challenge
Agency: Administration for Community Living (ACL)
Item: AI-enabled caregiver support solutions.
Deadline: Intent due April 15, 2026; Full application due July 31, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: National Centers for Cryo-electron Tomography (R24)
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Item: Provide nationwide access to advanced cryoET instrumentation.
Deadline: March 10, 2026 (next January 26, 2027).
Funding Opportunity: ADA Postdoctoral Fellowships Award
Agency: American Diabetes Association (Foundation)
Item: Support innovative diabetes research.
Deadline: April 30, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: BRAIN Initiative: Research Resource Grants
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Item: Disseminate neuroscience research resources and tools.
Deadline: June 10 & October 6, 2026 (additional 2027–2028 dates).
Funding Opportunity: Nursing Home Staffing Campaign
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Item: Recruit RNs and LPNs to nursing homes through incentives.
Deadline: March 27, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Prevention RFP
Agency: ADDF (Foundation)
Item: Precision prevention and combination therapy studies for Alzheimer’s.
Deadline: September 14, 2026 (LOI).
🔬 STEM / Defense / Science
Funding Opportunity: BIOmolecular Grammar for Protein Aggregation Modulation and Intervention (BIOGAMI)
Agency: ARPA-H
Item: Predict and modulate pathological protein misfolding in vivo.
Deadline: March 4, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: Defense Logistic Agency Strategic Materials BAA
Agency: Defense Logistics Agency
Item: Restore domestic critical materials supply chains.
Deadline: Rolling until May 1, 2028.
Funding Opportunity: TTO Office Wide (OW) BAA 2025
Agency: DARPA
Item: Investigate revolutionary advances in science and systems.
Deadline: April 17, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: 2026 Data Science Fellowship
Agency: Institute for Defense Analyses (Foundation)
Item: Project-based data science fellowship in national security research.
Deadline: March 31, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service
Agency: National Science Foundation
Item: AI and cybersecurity workforce development.
Deadline: April 3, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure
Agency: National Science Foundation
Item: Advance nanoscale and quantum science leadership.
Deadline: March 16, 2026 (LOI).
Funding Opportunity: Building EPSCoR-State-National Laboratory Partnerships
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Item: Support early-stage energy research collaborations.
Deadline: March 18, 2026 (Pre-application).
Funding Opportunity: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Item: Fund large, collaborative basic energy research teams.
Deadline: April 1, 2026 (Pre-application).
Funding Opportunity: Promethean Clay
Agency: DARPA
Item: Develop innovative energy storage systems.
Deadline: Abstracts due March 11, 2026; Proposals due April 22, 2026.
Funding Opportunity: 2026 Wood Innovations Grant
Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Item: Expand U.S. wood product and wood energy markets.
Deadline: April 22, 2026.
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