Non-Federal Limited Deadlines

Seed Grant Program

Brain Research Foundation

For pilot research projects in neuroscience that will likely lead to funding from the National Institutes of Health or other outside sources. Must be full-time Assistant or Associate Professor working in the field of neuroscience. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience was well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease. Assistant professors must have a new research project. Associate professors must have a new research direction.

Dartmouth may submit one letter of inquiry for this program.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "Brain Research Foundation - Seed Grant" as the email subject line.

DEADLINES

Internal submission deadline: September 25, 2023

Sponsor Deadline: November 21, 2023

Research Grant Awards

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

For pediatric oncology research projects which are hypothesis-driven. May be laboratory, clinical or epidemiological in nature.

Dartmouth may submit one letter of inquiry for this program.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's - Research Award" as the email subject line.

Internal submission deadline: October 30, 2023

December 8 deadline is for a letter of inquiry. Invited full proposals will be due Feb. 23, 2024

St. Baldrick's International Scholars

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

Three years of pediatric oncology training at Dartmouth for researchers from low- and middle-income countries. The proposal must include a research project at the applicant's institution of origin. Initial award is $110,000 per year for three years, with the possibility of an additional two years of funding at $115,000 per year.

Applicants must be early-career and possibly hold a junior faculty-level position and must have held it for no longer than five years. Must have completed a pediatric oncology fellowship or two years of equivalent training.

Dartmouth may submit one letter of inquiry for this program.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's - International" as the email subject line.

 Internal submission deadline: October 30, 2023

December 8 deadline is for a letter of inquiry. Invited full proposals will be due Feb. 23, 2024

St. Baldrick's Scholars

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

Career-development award for early-career researchers in pediatric oncology. Must be within first seven years of initial independent full faculty appointment. Initial award is $110,000 per year for two years, with the possibility of an additional three years of funding at $115,000 per year.

Dartmouth may submit one unrestricted letter of inquiry for this program, and a second letter focused on one of these areas:
Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM)
Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic
Complementary and alternative therapies
Ewing sarcoma
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Rhabdoid tumors 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's Scholars" as the email subject line.

Internal submission deadline: October 30, 2023

December 8 deadline is for a letter of inquiry. Invited full proposals will be due Feb. 23, 2024

Medical Research 

W.M. Keck Foundation

For high-risk, high-reward medical research projects which would not otherwise receive support from traditional funding agencies, and which have the capacity to spur ground-breaking new territory in the field or open entirely new pathways of work. For fundamental/basic science. Collaboration with investigators from other universities is viewed favorably. Not relevant for projects that would be funded by governmental agencies. Please visit this link for further insights on Keck's expectations and priorities. 

Dartmouth Corporate and Foundation Relations may submit up to four concept papers. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: 

one-page concept paper using the Foundation’s guidelines 
Attach to the concept paper examples of feedback from federal agencies indicating your project is: out of scope/too high risk/overly ambitious for federal funding. 
total amount of your funding request 
current CV  
use “Keck Foundation — Medical" as the email subject line 

DEADLINES

Internal submission deadline: November 1, 2023

Sponsor Deadline: Contact Corporate and Foundation Relations

Science & Engineering Research 

W.M. Keck Foundation

For high-risk, high-reward science and engineering research projects which would not otherwise receive support from traditional funding agencies, and which have the capacity to spur ground-breaking new territory in the field or open entirely new pathways of work. For fundamental/basic science. Collaboration with investigators from other universities is viewed favorably. Not relevant for projects that would be funded by governmental agencies. Please visit this link for further insights on Keck's expectations and priorities. 

Dartmouth Corporate and Foundation Relations may submit up to four concept papers. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: 

one-page concept paper using the Foundation’s guidelines 
Attach to the concept paper examples of feedback from federal agencies indicating your project is: out of scope/too high risk/overly ambitious for federal funding. 
total amount of your funding request 
current CV  
use “Keck Foundation — Science and Engineering" as the email subject line 

DEADLINES

Internal submission deadline: November 1, 2023

Sponsor Deadline: Contact Corporate and Foundation Relations

Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice 

Mellon Foundation 

For humanities-grounded ideas for research and/or curricular projects in these areas: 

Cultures of US Democracy. Projects that consider the circumstantial conditions that enable US democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society. 
Environmental Justice Studies. Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses. 
Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge. Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the investigative and analytical methods they deploy. 

PI should be a faculty member or dean in a program or department in the humanities or humanistic social sciences, or the institution’s provost, and should have the support of the institution’s senior academic leadership.   

Envisioned projects should be achievable with contributions from Mellon of $250,000 – $500,000, with durations of up to three years. 

Dartmouth Corporate and Foundation Relations may submit up to three concept papers.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: 

one-page concept paper 
total amount of your funding request 
current CV  
use “Mellon Foundation - Call for Concepts" as the email subject line 

DEADLINES

Internal submission deadline: November 22, 2023

Sponsor Deadline: February 15, 2024