Posted on November 15, 2024

Latine toddler stacks blocks with expression of excitement while early childhood education professional cheers him on in a classroom setting.

It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs AND find your next funding opportunity.


$371,425. Beth Thrift, SERVE. NCDPI 21st Century Community Learning Centers Cohort 18 Level I Grant Application Review, SEA Capacity Building Supports, and Annual State-Level and Subgrantee-Level Evaluation Activities for Cohorts 15-17. Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.

$214,998 (continuing award, $429,997). Julia Smith, Psychology; Danielle Crosby. Center for Research on Hispanic Children and Families (2023-2028). Sponsor: Child Trends.

$161,651. Jeffrey Milroy, Public Health Education. Informing Best Practices and Capacity Building: An Evaluation of the Randolph County Settlement Team’s (RCOST) Technical Assistance Initiative. Sponsor: North Carolina Policy Collaboratory.

$117,695 (continuing award, $253,390). Fran Pearson, Social Work. Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2023-24). Sponsor: Cone Health Foundation.

$93,082. Kelly Poole, Social Work. Partnership to Address Co Occurring Disorders 2024-2025. Sponsor: Cone Health Foundation.

$58,119 (continuing award, $215,928). Aileen Reid, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. AI Institute: AI-Augmented Learning: Adult Learning: Novel AI Techniques for Online Education. Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology.

$55,585. Beth Thrift, SERVE. Grant Proposal Writing Workshop – 2024-25. Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.

$47,152. Kelly Poole, Social Work. Addressing the Opiate Crisis through Harm Reduction 24-25. Sponsor: Cone Health Foundation.

$38,642 (continuing award, $208,573). Igor Erovenko, Mathematics and Statistics; Jonathan Rowell. RAISE IHBEM: Project INSIGHT: Inclusion of Challenges from Social Isolation Governed by Human Behavior through Transformative Research in Epidemiological Modeling. Sponsor: University of Kansas.

$30,599. Robert Cassell, Center for New North Carolinians. Helping Immigrants and Refugees with Employment (HIRE) Program. Sponsor: New Arrivals Institute.

$17,500 (continuing award, $57,200). Robert Cassell, Center for New North Carolinians. Refugee After School Program 2022-2023. Sponsor: New Arrivals Institute.


New Funding Opportunities 11/15/24

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a November 15, 2024 roundup of recently announced funding opportunities curated by the Sponsored Programs, Research Development, and Research and Engagement offices. Interested in having recent funding opportunities come directly to your inbox?  Subscribe to our Funding Opportunities @UNCG weekly email.

Internal

12/13/24, Research Excellence Awards, Office of Research and Engagement.

1/21/25, HHS Faculty Research Grants, HHS Office of Research.

External

12/6/24, Exploratory and Developmental Alzheimer’s Disease Research Projects, CART Fund.

12/12/24, 2025 Young Investigator Grant Program, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.

12/15/24, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation: Mental Health Care Research, Klingenstein Philanthropies. 

1/10/25, Reimagining Nursing Initiative, American Nurses Foundation.

1/19/25, Addressing Challenges in Detecting New Drugs: Instrumentation for Alternative Analytical Methods (R43/R44 – Clinical Trials Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

1/27/25, Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) Program (UC2- Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

1/28/25, Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH.

1/28/25, Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute of Mental Health.

1/28/25, BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UH3 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

1/28/25, BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. 

1/28/25, Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Library of Medicine. 

2/5/25, Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/5/25, Assay Development and Screening for Discovery of Validated Chemical Hits for Brain Disorders (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Institute of Mental Health.

2/5/25, Development and Application of PET and SPECT Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of CNS Disorders (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH.

2/5/25, Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer-term Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Required), NIH National Institute of Mental Health.

2/5/25, Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/5/25, Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required), NIH National Institute of Mental Health.

2/5/25, Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/5/25, Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/5/25, Natural History of Disorders Screenable in the Newborn Period (R01), NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

2/5/25, Research Projects to Enhance Applicability of Mammalian Models for Translational Research (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/5/25, Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

2/5/25, Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors (SHINE) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

2/16/25, Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed), NIH.

2/19/25, Addressing Challenges in Detecting New Drugs: Instrumentation for Alternative Analytical Methods (R41/R42 – Clinical Trials Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

2/25/25, Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Planning Grant Program (R34 Clinical Trials Optional), NIH National Cancer Institute.

2/27/25, Engaging Loved Ones in Recovery Processes to Enhance Recovery Capital and Outcomes (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

6/2/25, Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

6/5/25, Advancing Research to Understand Congenital Malformations (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Find More Funding Opportunities In Our Databases


About the photo by Martin W. Kane: an early childcare educator works with a Latine toddler through UNCG’s Thriving at Three program. The National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families has released a brief discussing the benefits of early childcare education for Latine children along with barriers to access their families face. Read more about their work here.

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