Posted on December 13, 2024

Willow Burgess-Johnson speaks with a teen at the NC Voices Amplified photovoice exhibit

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.


$4,000,000. Willow Burgess-Johnson, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships. Family Peer Specialist Workforce Development FY25. Sponsor: NC DHHS Division of Child and Family Well-Being

$1,071,446. Kari Eddington, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships. Strong Minds, Strong Communities Continuation. Sponsor: NC DHHS Department of Health and Human Services.

$157,998. Daniel Burridge, NC Safe Communities. PSN Middle District of NC FY 2021. Sponsor: Governor’s Crime Commission.

$74,517 (continuing award, $10,317,522). Linda Hestenes, Human Development and Family Studies; Steve Hestenes, Sharon Mims. North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Child Development and Early Education.

$30,000. Erick Byrd, Center for Industry Research and Engagement. Creating Outdoor Recreation Economies (UNCG – CORE). Sponsor: NC Department of Commerce.


New Funding Opportunities 12/13/2024

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a December 13, 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.

Upcoming Alzheimer’s Research Funding

The FY25 Defense Appropriations Act is anticipated to provide funding for the Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program to support impactful, solution-oriented research to address critical needs and improve the quality of life for Service Members, Veterans, their Families, and the public who are living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. More information about these opportunities can be found here.

Internal

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

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

External

1/15/25, Social Psychology, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences,

1/16/25, Small Project Grants, North Carolina Humanities Council.

2/1/25, Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medieval Institute.

2/3/25, Perception, Action, and Cognition, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

2/13/25, Addressing Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction, Human Animal Bond Research Institute.

4/25/25, Large Project Grants, North Carolina Humanities Council.

9/24/25, Archeological and Ethnographic Field Research, NEH.

Continuous

Biological Technologies, DOD Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.

Environmental Engineering, NSF Directorate for Engineering.

Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment, NSF Directorate for Engineering.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications, NIH.

Project Planning Grants, North Carolina Humanities Council.

Sociology, NSF Directorate for Social Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

Find More Funding Opportunities In our databases


About the photo by David Lee Row: Willow Burgess-Johnson speaks with a teen participant in NC Voices Amplified, which recently received $3.75 million in new funding. Read more about the event in “Voices, Seen” from the 2024 Research Magazine.

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