Current Funding Opportunities

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM 2026 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Project Duration: Up to 18 months from the project start date (approximately June 1, 2026)

www.calstate.edu/csubiotech

FACULTY-STUDENT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANT PROGRAM 2026 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Project Duration: Up to 18 months from the project start date (approximately June 1, 2026)

www.calstate.edu/csubiotech

February 2, 2026 before 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant's potential impact.

The Foundation employs a two-step grant application process that includes the submission of both a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) and a Full Proposal–the latter only by those applicants requested to do so. This ensures that consideration of Full Proposals is limited to those applications that strictly comply with the Foundation’s programmatic guidelines. 

Applicants must submit Letters of Inquiry by clicking on the Email your Letter of Inquiry button below. Once a Letter of Inquiry is received by the Foundation, the Directors will determine if the proposed program fits the Foundation’s funding guidelines. Successful applicants will be invited via email to submit Full Proposals. 

https://earlychildhoodfoundation.org/

NSF: Social Psychology Program

The Social Psychology Program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought, motivation, emotion, neural, and physiological processes explain ways of thinking about and relating to self and others.

Proposed research should carry strong potential for groundbreaking discoveries about the power of social dynamics to shape peoples’ attitudes, behavior, and experience. Basic research that connects to emerging and ongoing global challenges is especially encouraged.

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/social-psychology

NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research (Future CoRe)

The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) supports transformative research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering through multiple research programs. These programs support research and education activities that advance:

• mathematical, scientific and technological foundations of computing communication, hardware, software and emerging technologies;
• understanding and development of computer and network systems, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity as well as their roles in solving complex scientific, engineering, and societal problems; and
• understanding of the inter-related roles of people, computers, and information.

This solicitation covers submission to Future CoRe programs. Research that fits within a single program and interdisciplinary research that spans more than one of these programs are welcome.  

Please see the individual program webpages noted in RFP for more information on what is within scope for these Future CoRe programs.

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/future-core-computer-information-science-engineering-future-computing/nsf25-543/solicitation