External Funding

OPPORTUNITY: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)

FUNDING AGENCY: NSF

AWARD AMOUNT: Estimated Number of Awards: 35 Up to $10,000,000 is expected to be available for Elements awards, up to $20,000,000 is expected to be available for Framework Implementations awards, and up to $4,000,000 is expected to be available for the Transition to Sustainability awards, all subject to the availability of funds.

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 1, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.

The CSSI program anticipates three classes of awards: ● Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering. ● Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities. ● Transition to Sustainability: These awards target groups who would like to execute a well-defined sustainability plan for existing CI with demonstrated impact in one or more areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The sustainability plan should enable new avenues of support for the long-term sustained impact of the CI. NSF support for projects funded via CSSI Elements and Frameworks awards, or its predecessor programs, is intended to be of finite duration, limited to no more than 10 years. If appropriate for transition to sustainability, teams may request further one-time support through the “Transition to Sustainability” class of awards.

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OPPORTUNITY: Computational Mathematics

FUNDING AGENCY: NSF

AWARD AMOUNT: Upper: $1,200,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 1, 2025

DESCRIPTION: Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing analysis, development and implementation of numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods. The prominence of computation with analysis and ultimate implementation efficiency of the computational methods in the research is a hallmark of the program. Proposals ranging from single-investigator projects that develop and analyze innovative computational methods to interdisciplinary team projects that not only create and analyze new mathematical and computational techniques but also use/implement them to model, study, and solve important application problems are strongly encouraged.

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OPPORTUNITY: Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations

FUNDING AGENCY: NEH

AWARD AMOUNT: $40,000,000 for 20 awards

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 3, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition. Since the program’s inception in 1966, the NEH has funded editions and translations of some of the most significant historical, literary, philosophical, and music texts.

The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. Typical project expenses include salary for editorial and research activities, travel to collections to verify source material, and consultant fees for translation, editorial work, and the implementation of a digital edition. Editions and translations may be print, digital, or a combination of both, but all editions and translations must contain additional and new scholarly material such as introductions, annotations, and critical apparatus. The Scholarly Editions and Translations program includes two funding levels: Planning and Implementation.

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OPPORTUNITY: Statistics Program

FUNDING AGENCY: NSF

AWARD AMOUNT: TBD

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 15, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects.

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OPPORTUNITY: Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations

FUNDING AGENCY: NEH

AWARD AMOUNT: $65,000–$450,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 3, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition. Since the program’s inception in 1966, the NEH has funded editions and translations of some of the most significant historical, literary, philosophical, and music texts.

The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. Typical project expenses include salary for editorial and research activities, travel to collections to verify source material, and consultant fees for translation, editorial work, and the implementation of a digital edition. Editions and translations may be print, digital, or a combination of both, but all editions and translations must contain additional and new scholarly material such as introductions, annotations, and critical apparatus. The Scholarly Editions and Translations program includes two funding levels: Planning and Implementation.

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OPPORTUNITY: Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

FUNDING AGENCY: Simons Foundation

AWARD AMOUNT: $50,000-$250,000

LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE: December 5, 2025

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: March 31, 2026

DESCRIPTION: The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Scientific Software Research Faculty Award (SSRF Award) in the MPS program for new faculty appointments to start no later than September 1, 2027. Appointments must begin on the first of the month. Scientific software is a critical component of research, enabling scientists to analyze and reduce data, perform simulations, automate tasks, and produce and visualize results. As such, the development and maintenance of broadly-applicable scientific software has become an increasingly important intellectual endeavor. While scientific software experts are crucial members of research ventures, their career prospects beyond postdoctoral-level positions are limited. The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions (e.g., “clinical professor,” “professor of practice” or “research professor,” the titles and roles depending on the university) in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.

NOTE: Contact Scott Mangieri. There are other deadlines

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OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

FUNDING AGENCY: Simons Foundation

AWARD AMOUNT: $190,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 4, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in plant biology. We are interested in applicants with training in disciplines that could be brought to bear on plant biology, including but not limited to engineering, computational modeling, theory, chemistry, synthetic biology and physics, as well as applicants already involved in the plant sciences.

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OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

FUNDING AGENCY: Simons Foundation

AWARD AMOUNT: $190,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 4, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in plant biology. We are interested in applicants with training in disciplines that could be brought to bear on plant biology, including but not limited to engineering, computational modeling, theory, chemistry, synthetic biology and physics, as well as applicants already involved in the plant sciences.

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OPPORTUNITY: Candidate Species Conservation Fund

FUNDING AGENCY: Other

AWARD AMOUNT: up to $500,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 31, 2024

DESCRIPTION: The principal objective of this Candidate Species Conservation funding opportunity is to accomplish conservation tasks for high priority candidate species (based on our annual Candidate Species Assessments) or other at-risk species in the United States, such that identified threats to the species may be reduced or eliminated. These efforts are based on cooperative relationships with states, non-governmental organizations, private landowners and those interested in habitat restoration or undertaking candidate and atrisk species research, surveys and monitoring, or educational outreach efforts.

Projects should show a clear conservation benefit that will help prevent listing of a candidate or at-risk species, remove identified threats and improve status, or contribute information on the species’ response to changes in the environment. Priority will be given to proposals that (1) enhance partnerships with states, non-governmental organizations, private landowners, Federal agencies, and others, and (2) leverage our resources and authorities with those of our partners.

Priority will be given to projects that aid in improving the conservation status of a species so as to preclude the need to list. These projects could include, but are not limited to, activities that will secure scientific information about candidate or at-risk species and their habitat, implement restoration actions that will lead to removing threats to the species, or help prevent extinction of a species. This opportunity addresses the Presidential priority articulated in Executive Order 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad by supporting biodiversity efforts.

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OPPORTUNITY: Statistics Program

FUNDING AGENCY: NSF

AWARD AMOUNT: TBD

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 16, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects.

NOTE: Conference and workshop proposals should be submitted eight months before the requested starting date.

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OPPORTUNITY: NSF-BSF Nuclear Physics – Theory and Experiment Elementary Particle Physics – Theory Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology – Theory Physics of Living Systems Quantum Information Science

FUNDING AGENCY: U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation

AWARD AMOUNT: $75,000 – $95,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 9, 2025

DESCRIPTION: As part of the NSF-BSF joint program, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) invites collaborative research proposals in Nuclear Physics – Theory and Experiment, Elementary Particle Physics – Theory, Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology – Theory, Quantum Information Science, and Physics of Living Systems, in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

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OPPORTUNITY: Recovery Implementation Fund

FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AWARD AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 31, 2024

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Ecological Services Program provides Federal financial assistance on a competitive basis to states, landowners, educators, non-governmental organizations, researchers, and other potential partners to secure information about endangered, threatened or candidate species, to aid in the recovery of these species, pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, and to help conserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend. Program Objective: The principal objective of this Recovery Implementation funding opportunity is to support the implementation of priority recovery actions for federally endangered and threatened species. The ESA conveys the importance of recovery plans as a central organizing tool for guiding each species’ recovery process by requiring their development for every listed species. Recovery plans establish an overall recovery vision that, among other things:

1. Defines the point at which protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are no longer needed,

2. Identifies and prioritizes the most effective and feasible suite of recovery actions that will promote species survival and recovery,

3. Provides the public and policy makers with an overall estimate of the time and cost to recover species, and the ability to measure success and resources needs, and

4. Aids the Service in working with others to improve the status for imperiled species.

Proposals will be prioritized based on the following:

1. Enhance partnerships with states, non-governmental organizations, private landowners, other Federal agencies, and others,

2. Leverage our resources and authorities with those of our partners, and

3. Highest priority will be given to projects that develop and implement management actions designed to have a direct impact on recovery of listed species (e.g., reduce or eliminate threats).

Examples of such projects may include the following: ● Stabilize endangered and threatened species on the brink of extinction by accomplishing Priority 1 and 2 Recovery Actions ● Achieve downlisting and delisting criteria by accomplishing Priority 3 Recovery Actions ● Contribute information on the species’ current condition, changes from historical to current condition, or predict the species’ response to environmental conditions or conservation efforts. ● Reduce the extinction risk to the species, such that the future condition of the species is likely to improve in terms of representation, resiliency, and/or redundancy

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OPPORTUNITY: Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP)

FUNDING AGENCY: NOAA

AWARD AMOUNT: $50,000 – $250,000

PRELIMINARY APP DEADLINE: December 13, 2024

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: March 21, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The mission of the National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) is to support the development of technological solutions and changes in fishing practices designed to minimize bycatch of fish and protected species (including Endangered Species Act-listed fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles) and to reduce impacts to invertebrates (including sponges, deep-sea corals, and shallow (tropical) corals.) In addition, BREP may support projects that pursue ways to minimize mortality and injury of bycaught species (including post-release injury and mortality). Projects should produce outcomes that can directly influence management needs of federally managed living marine resources.

This grant program provides competitive grants to non-Federal researchers working to benefit U.S. fishermen and fisheries, including aquaculture, through the development of improved fishing practices and innovative gear technologies. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as amended (MSA), 16 U.S.C. 1865, requires that NOAA’s conservation and management measures minimize bycatch to the extent practicable and established the Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) to support the development of technological devices and other conservation engineering changes to minimize bycatch and reduce post-release mortality of non-target species in our nation’s fisheries.

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OPPORTUNITY: Young Investigator Grant

FUNDING AGENCY: Alex’s Lemonade Stand

AWARD AMOUNT: $180,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 11, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the Young Investigator Grant is to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers by providing support to early career investigators pursuing promising childhood cancer research ideas. These grants aim to cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future who demonstrate a commitment to a career in pediatric cancer.

ALSF is positioned to invest more into our Young Investigator Program in the coming years by supporting additional high-quality research projects in 2026. Key components of a successful application are a well thought out, robust mentoring and career development plan as well as scientific aims with promise to impact the childhood cancer community.

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OPPORTUNITY: Coastal Program

FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AWARD AMOUNT: $500,000

FULL PROPOSAL DEADLINE: December 31, 2025

DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Coastal Program is a voluntary, community-based program that provides technical and financial assistance through cooperative agreements to coastal communities, conservation partners, and landowners to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat on public and private lands. The Coastal Program staff coordinates with partners, stakeholders and other Service programs to identify geographic focus areas and develop habitat conservation goals and priorities within these focus areas. Geographic focus areas are where the Coastal Program directs resources to conserve habitat for Federal trust species. Projects are developed in collaboration with partners, and with substantial involvement from Service field staff. Coastal Program projects must support the missions of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), and the Coastal Program, and be based on biological principles and the best available science.

The Coastal Program takes an adaptive approach to designing and implementing coastal habitat protection and restoration strategies that anticipate and ameriorate the impacts of climate change and other environmental stressors. Coastal Program habitat improvement projects strive to increase coastal resiliency by improving the ability of coastal ecosystems to adapt to environmental changes and supporting natural and nature-based infrastructure projects to protect and enhance coastal habitats.

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