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Funding Opportunities

Upcoming Deadlines

• Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab (Due March 31st, 2024)
  • Our in-house startup accelerator promotes financial inclusion and provides access to capital for early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies.
  • The Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab is an intensive five-month accelerator designed to help further develop and scale startups, culminating in a Demo Day and showcase presentation to the investor community.
  • Morgan Stanley provides participating companies with $250,000 for each company in our New York-based program in exchange for a 5% equity stake.
• Brady Education Foundation Proposals for Program Evaluations (Due April 1st, 2024)
  • The Foundation is currently accepting Research Project (RP) proposals and Existing Program Evaluation (EPE) proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income. (Age range: Birth through 18 years)
  • For: Universities and Colleges (public or private) and Non-Profit Research Organizations
• Call for Discovery Submissions: New Profit refreshes pipeline for grantmaking in 2024 and beyond (Due April 1st, 2024)
  • This year New Profit, through its Build portfolio, aims to provide $1.5M of unrestricted funding and strategic advisory support over four years to up to five innovative nonprofit organizations in Democracy and Economic Mobility focused on building an America where everyone can thrive. New Profit invites interested organizations to complete its Discovery Form, which asks for basic organizational information and a handful of long-form questions about the organization’s core constituents, program model, and impact.
• NewSchools 2024 Funding Opportunity is Open! (Due April 3,2024)
  • We support early-stage organizations and new initiatives within existing organizations that work to improve outcomes for all students, particularly those furthest from opportunity — including students of color, those experiencing poverty, and those with learning differences. Our focus is in the following areas:
    • Learning Solutions: Accelerating reading and math growth for K-8 students through engaging and relevant content, tools and models
    • Teaching Reimagined: Reimagining the role of teachers by evolving how they work and engaging caregivers and community experts to support student success
    • Innovative Schools: Application Closed
    • Learning Differences: Within and beyond our three main focus areas, we support ideas focused on enhancing teaching and learning for students with ****learning differences (diagnosed or undiagnosed disabilities).
• Arkansas Blue & You Foundation Maternal and Pediatric Health Grants (Letter of Intent Due April 12th, 2024)
  • For: 501(c)(3) organizations with services directly benefitting Arkansans
  • Amount: $5,000-$200,000
  • The Blue & You Foundation is offering grants to eligible organizations who are addressing maternal and pediatric health disparities in the state of Arkansas. The funds must be used for specific programs targeting: Adverse Childhood Experiences Solutions, Child Development Support, Education and Outreach, Postpartum Care Support, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities, Maternal Mortality Improvement Solutions, Prenatal Healthcare, Pediatric Healthcare, or Resources for Stronger Families
• Genentech’s Health Equity Innovation Fund 2024 Request for Proposals (Due April 15th, 2024)
  • Through the 2024 Innovation Fund, we are seeking to fund teams focused on measurably and sustainably closing racial/ethnic inequities in healthcare to create a future where:
    • All patients – especially those marginalized by our healthcare system – define and attain their highest levels of health supported by a system that is accountable for delivering high-quality competent care.
    • The medical/scientific workforce is diverse, inclusive, thriving and accountable to all patients.
• MIT Solve’s 2024 Global Challenges (Submissions are open until April 18th, 2024)
  • Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that supports exceptional and diverse solutions working on global problems. Each year, our team reviews over 1,000 applications from early-stage organizations around the world for how to make our planet a healthier, more equitable place to live, and selects the 30 most promising solutions as our annual Solver class. We’ll have over $1M in prize funding available, plus a 9 month program of support including travel costs to join our two flagship events.
  • Everyone, everywhere is eligible. Solve selects non-profits, for-profits, and everything in between. We’re best set up to support solutions that are already operating, even at a prototype scale, but welcome conceptual applications for others to review.
• RAPID Survey Project Community Voices Partnership Request for Proposals (Due April 19th)
  • The RAPID Survey Project is a program of family and early care and education workforce surveys led by a team at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. RAPID surveys are designed to gather essential information in an ongoing manner regarding the experiences, needs, well-being, and resiliency of children under age 6 and the important adults in their lives. RAPID’s goal is to provide actionable, timely data to inform policies, programs, and other efforts to support young children and their caregivers and families.
  • RAPID will partner with up to five local organizations/teams to conduct Community Voices surveys. Each local project team and the Stanford RAPID team will work together in a rapid-cycle process to design surveys, recruit participants, gather responses, interpret the resulting data, and ultimately take action on the data.
• March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award in Maternal-Fetal Nutrition (Nominations Due August 9th, 2024)
  • Recognizing distinguished achievement in research, education or clinical services in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition.
  • Award: A cash prize, a commemorative award reflecting the honor, and a presentation at the Pediatric Academic Society annual meeting
  • Open to: those candidates widely involved in maternal-fetal nutrition through teaching, research and/or clinical practice for at least five years

Public Funding Opportunities

• City & County of San Francisco, CA: Early Childhood MH Consult Initiative (Due April 2nd, 2024): The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is soliciting proposals from qualified agencies for the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Initiative (ECMHCI). The goal of ECMHCI is to strengthen parenting skills, support parent-child bonding, and promote child development and healthy outcomes for families. Due 04/02/2024.