Grant Opportunities

PIs and co-Investigators (co-Is) must hold a tenured or tenure-track faculty, or equivalent, position at said institutions or centers at the time of application and for the duration of the award. There are no restrictions on the department and/or discipline of the PIs/co-Is. PIs and co-Is may be from non-U.S. institutions. A co-I must be employed by or be affiliated with a PI institution or another organization participating in the project under a consortium agreement. Additionally, there are no citizenship requirements for project personnel.

None, unless you request federal matching funds.

The two Project Types are as follows:

1.       Laboratory-Scale Projects. Laboratory-scale projects are typically bench-scale studies involving small flow rates. These projects are used to determine the viability of a novel process, new materials, or process modifications. Laboratory-scale projects can also include modeling studies, decision support tools, literature and technology reviews, etc. that address objectives identified in the Program Goals section. Research at this stage can involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty. These projects should be completed within 24 months of award.

2.       Pilot-Scale Projects. Pilot-scale projects test a novel technology or process at a sufficiently large scale to determine the practicality of implementing the technology. These projects should involve flow rates above 1 gallon per minute and use natural water sources rather than synthetic or laboratory-made feed water. Pilot-scale studies are used to generate data over a sufficient time period that can be used to estimate the operational requirements (e.g., labor, chemical addition, power requirements) of the process and show performance with respect to finished water quality goals. Pilot-scale projects are generally preceded by laboratory studies (funded previously by the DWPR Program or others) that demonstrate technology feasibility. These projects should be completed within 36 months of award.

Non-Eligible Projects for funding under this NOFO include, but are not limited to:

1.       Proposals for planning activities eligible under the WaterSMART: Water Recycling and Desalination Planning funding opportunity,

2.       Proposals for the construction of permanent research facilities or infrastructure, and

3.       Proposals for the testing of established water treatment processes for the purposes of generating site specific information.

Primary award recipients (selected applicants under this NOFO) are not required to provide a cost share as part of their application associated with the management of the subaward program. A cost share is required at the subaward level; the applicant must ensure that each eligible subaward entity provides funds in the form of cash or in-kind equal to 25 percent of the total federal funds received under the subaward.

If the recipient also elects to conduct a recipient-led project, the recipient will be subject to the same cost share requirements on that project amount. 

Include but are not limited to outcome studies related to nursing regulation; nursing workforce; substance use disorders in nursing; new technologies related to the profession; regulatory implications of practice innovations/new models of care delivery; LPN, RN, and APRN scope of practice; and impact of policy on nursing. Please know that all proposals providing data that can be used to inform new policy and generate insights to support nursing regulation are welcomed.

https://www.ncsbn.org/research/research-opportunities/ncsbn-grant.page

Applications may be submitted for projects that address one or more of the following activities:

·       conducting assessments for physical or digital preservation, and creating plans and policies for collections stewardship

·       conducting conservation assessments and implementing treatment plans

·       purchasing storage and preservation supplies to rehouse collections (see funding restriction on high density storage systems)

·       managing collection storage environments and other preventive care strategies (see funding restriction on building systems)

·       arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections

·       cataloging collections of rare books, maps, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects

·       digitizing or reformatting collections and making them available for public use through websites or digital repositories

·       transcribing, translating, or indexing primary source materials (see funding restriction on preparing scholarly editions)

FAIROS proposals must select one of two tracks to focus on, either:

1) Disciplinary Improvements to targeted scientific communities, or 

2) Cross-Cutting Improvements that apply to many or most scientific disciplines.

Track 1: maximum $300,000 per award; Track 2: maximum $1,500,000 per award; Track 3: maximum $1,500,000 per award, approximately 10 awards,

PESOSE has three tracks:

-          Track 1: Scoping and planning. This track helps organizations that need experience building developer and user communities. This includes planning and training in governance, legal issues, licensing, fundraising, and administration.

-          Track 2: Establishing and expanding. This track focuses on building or improving governance for robust, promising OSEs that meet emerging societal or national needs. Managing organizations coordinate developers, support users, and provide training. They also ensure security and reliability, maintain governance, and sustain long-term viability. Successful ecosystems share common traits: a clear vision, documented demand for products, flexible deployment, active developer communities, collaborative growth, and engaged users.

-          Track 3: Improving safety, security, and privacy. This track addresses vulnerabilities in open-source products and infrastructure. Risks can be technical, such as code flaws. Risks can also be socio-technical such as supply chain weaknesses, insider threats or poisoned machine learning models. Projects will identify vulnerabilities, assess dependencies, and review past incidents. They will also create plans for prevention, detection, and recovery. Actions may include hardening codebases, improving secure development practices, enhancing monitoring and response, and building recovery processes.

Junior Fellows are selected by Senior Fellows of the Simons Society of Fellows, distinguished scientists based in New York City. Senior Fellows will decide on a short list of Junior Fellow nominees to be invited for interviews at the foundation and will conduct these interviews on October 7, 14, 21 and 28 and November 4 and 11, 2026, from 1:20–5:50 PM Eastern time.

Nominees must be available to attend an in-person interview on one of these dates. The schedule will be made at the discretion of the foundation. Additionally, the nominees are strongly encouraged to attend the Simons Foundation Presidential Lecture on the day of their interview and the corresponding dinner which follows the lecture and is held at the foundation.

#1: Junior Fellows may transfer their award to another educational institution in New York City (i.e., in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens or the Bronx), including any medical institution that is affiliated with such an institution. Junior Fellows are expected to be in residence in New York City during the academic year. Residency in New York City outside of the academic terms is not required.

 #2: Periods of sabbatical or research leave are not allowed during the Junior Fellowship. A Junior Fellowship may be interrupted and resumed for reasons that would normally justify a leave from the individual’s institution, such as illness, the need to care for family members or time off for national service.

 #3: The award will be interrupted or terminated at the foundation’s discretion if the Junior Fellow takes up a primary, long-term position at a research institute, national laboratory, non–New York City or for-profit organization or accepts a major administrative responsibility that significantly reduces the time available for research.