Open Science Grants is a grant program from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that funds tools, platforms, and organizations advancing the open and immediate sharing of scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs. CZI invests in infrastructure that makes the scientific process more open, reproducible, and collaborative, enabling scientists globally to build on each other's work. The program supports education and capacity building, open-source biomedical software, and reproducibility tools spanning areas such as single-cell genomics, bioimaging, and computational biology. Eligible applicants include academic institutions, nonprofits, and open-source scientific software projects demonstrating community impact. CZI maintains a publicly browsable directory of current and past grantees representing multiple funding cycles across its Essential Open Source Software (EOSS) and related programs.

napari Plugin Grants is sponsored by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). This grant program supports software plugin development projects for the napari image analysis platform, a community-built, open-source, and interactive tool for Python designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images. While focused on image analysis, relevant AI simulation tools that integrate with napari could be considered.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Accelerating and Scaling Biological Sciences via AI program provides competitive GPU compute allocations on CZI's high-performance cluster to support large-scale AI and machine learning model building for biological discovery. The cluster features 1,024 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in a DGX SuperPOD configuration with VAST fast data storage. Researchers receive a minimum allocation of 96 GPUs to build foundation models and large-scale AI systems that power new approaches to understanding biology. Priority is given to models aligned with CZI's Virtual Cells initiative, but all proposals relating to CZI's mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century are considered. This is an in-kind award with no cash funds, representing CZI's broader commitment of at least $10 billion to basic scientific research over the coming decade. The program reflects the growing recognition that compute access is a critical bottleneck for AI-driven biological research and positions CZI as a major enabler of AI for biomedical science.

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.

The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.

The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.