Funding Opportunities Calendar with Internal and External Due Dates

Internal Funding Opportunities

College of Letters and Science Initiatives

L&S Unites Initiative:  Support up to $150,000 over two years to harness the strengths across the college, cultivate multi-disciplinary collaborations, and create the infrastructure to take advantage of upcoming opportunities.  *Closed for 2023-24*

Revitalization Research Program Grants for Academic Senate faculty.  *Closed for 2023-24*

Dean's Faculty Fellows: Honors and supports outstanding achievements in early career faculty.  *Closed for 2023-24*

Incentives for Large Grant Proposals: Support for up to $80,000 over two years for L&S academic senate faculty to pursue large awards of $1M+ in direct expenses. *Closed for 2023-24*

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Campus Opportunities

UC Davis Academic Affairs: Information on funding opportunities available with Academic Affairs.

UC Davis Academic Senate: Information on funding opportunities such as Travel Grants ($800), Small Grants ($2,000) and Large Grants: New Research Initiatives and Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research ($10,000 to $25,000).

UC Davis Global Affairs: Information on funding opportunities and resources for faculty, staff and students.

UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health: Information on funding opportunities available with IIFH.

UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies: Information on funding opportunities and financial support specifically for graduate students.

UC Davis Office of Research: Information on funding opportunities of various kinds for UC Davis faculty, including extramural funding. Sign up for listerv subscriptions to receive weekly updates of relevant funding opportunities.

• Office of Research Business and Finance Unit administer the following *internal research funding* programs.
  • Matching Funds Program with Proposal Preparation Guidance [Guidelines | Form]
  • Principal Investigator Bridge Program  [Guidelines | Form]
  • Publication Assistance Fund  [Guidelines | Form]
• Please note the College will submit the above *internal research funding* requests on behalf of the faculty and department. For the PI Bridge Program, please include a budget and a list of most current submitted proposals. The list of submitted proposals should include Cayuse SP Proposal Numbers, project titles, project start and end dates, proposed amounts and sponsors' names.
• UC Davis Humanities & Social Sciences S.E.E.D. Fund Program. This call is open to researchers in all Humanities, Humanistic Social Sciences, Cultural Sciences and Arts Disciplines. Projects may be in any related field, and requests at all scales of funding within the limits of the call will be considered. In order for social sciences applications to be eligible, they must employ predominantly humanistic approaches and qualitative/interpretive methodologies. For more information, please refer to the attached RFA.

External Funding Opportunities

Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE (H-Net): Lists current funding opportunities in the social sciences and humanities.

National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences: Supports research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, social and economic systems, organizations and institutions. See NSF Funding for more information.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Basic Behavioral Social Sciences Research: Funds behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH.

Pivot: Your ucdavis.edu email provides access to this database of funding opportunities of all kinds. 

GRANTS.GOV: For government-sponsored grants.

Philanthropy News Digest: For philanthropic sources of grants.

National Endowment for the Humanities: A variety of grant programs available to individuals and organizations that do the highest quality work to promote the humanities. 

National Endowment for the Arts: Only arts funder in America—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Each year, we award thousands of grants to provide all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

American Council of Learned Society: Funding descriptions and information on new programs and initiatives available from the ACLS.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange: Funding and fellowship opportunities available from CCKF.