Current funding opportunities

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CSU Biotechnology (CSUBIOTECH) is pleased to release the Fall 2025 Research Development Grant Program Requests-for-Proposal (RFP) with a proposal deadline of Friday, August 1, 2025. The Fall 2025 RD grant program aims to provide CSU faculty with continuing resources to fill gaps in external funding for ongoing research projects or to pilot new, but as-yet unfunded, research directions for established investigators.

NIH has released the new NOFOs for the SuRE (PAR-25-414) and SuRE-First (PAR-25-415). The first application due date will be Sept. 29, 2025.

INCLUDES (NSF): The vision of the INCLUDES Initiative is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the Nation’s population. More specifically, the INCLUDES Initiative seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale. There are no eligibility restrictions. Proposals are due by October 28, 2025.

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (NSF): LSAMP is an alliance-based program, whereby a group of IHEs work together to diversify the nation's STEM workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to persons from LSAMP populations. LSAMP populations are defined as persons from groups underrepresented in the STEM enterprise. There are no eligibility restrictions. Proposals are due in November 2025 for most tracks.

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology: Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (NSF): CREST provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through effective integration of education and research. This program promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty and postdoctoral scholars, and an expanded presence of research doctoral students in STEM disciplines, especially those from underrepresented groups. MSIs that are ERIs are eligible to apply.
Proposals are due by August 1, 2025.

Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary (NEH): This program supports cultural organizations in creating and developing scholarship-based public programs that celebrate the people, events, ideas, and legacies related to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
There are no eligibility restrictions. Proposals are due by July 9, 2025.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division has released a solicitation for fiscal year 2025-26 requesting pre-proposals for six priority projects. These projects will fill important data, information, and research gaps that support the division’s programs related to sustainable transportation, land use, housing, and buildings. Multidisciplinary investigators are encouraged to submit pre-proposals by July 14, 2025.