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Higher Education Program: STEM Equity is a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that funds efforts to expand access and opportunity for underrepresented students in STEM higher education. Rooted in the Foundation's Commitment to Opportunity for All in Science, the program supports initiatives that ensure all students — regardless of background — can thrive in STEM disciplines.
Funded projects may include research, programs, and institutional initiatives that promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in science and engineering fields. Eligible applicants include higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Awards typically range from $50,000 to $500,000.
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Ensuring that all students, no matter their background, have the access and opportunity to thrive in STEM disciplines is a core principle of the Higher Education Program. As articulated in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Commitment to Opportunity for All in Science , upholding this principle is a matter of fundamental justice and our path to ensuring that the best science is done.
Educational settings that include and celebrate people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives promote collaboration, learning, and innovation. We know from experience that everyone benefits when this diversity is combined with organizational practices, policies, and cultures that provide individuals with the tools, resources, and support needed to succeed.
The Higher Education program supports individuals and institutions that pursue these and other essential ingredients for scientific advancement that benefit our communities, nation, and the world. Three equally important strategic priorities guide our grantmaking. In particular, we seek to: Invest in widening pathways to STEM graduate education.
The pathway to STEM graduate education is broken for far too many students. Systemic barriers limit students’ opportunities because of who they are, where they’re from, or how much money they have. Among other investments, we seek to widen educational pathways to master’s and doctoral STEM programs through the Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education initiative.
Empower universities to transform graduate education. Increasing the number of students and faculty from different backgrounds is crucial but not enough. Institutions and their STEM departments must also pursue new and creative ways of ensuring that all students can thrive.
This includes creating and enhancing programs designed to support diverse cohorts of students and attending to institutional policies, practices, standards, and norms such that all students have the opportunities and resources needed to be successful.
Through the Foundation’s University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring , Sloan Centers for Systemic Change , and Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership , we seek to empower STEM departmental leadership, faculty, and staff in doing just that. Support innovative efforts to increase diversity in the STEM professoriate.
By widening pathways to and through graduate education, we help to create a STEM ecosystem where students have the freedom to teach, study, and pursue knowledge and research in many forms. This requires institutions where faculty and students from different backgrounds and perspectives can explore ideas and learn from one another.
We are interested in efforts by institutions and organizations to transform the culture and climate of STEM departments and disciplines such that more individuals are attracted to the professoriate and thrive once there. Grantmaking in this area also includes support for researchers who study the STEM professoriate.
University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring Grants to support university-based efforts that seek to advance systemic change in STEM graduate education. Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Grants to support the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives and community engagement in STEM graduate education.
Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education Grants to develop and support educational pathways from Minority Serving Institutions to STEM graduate programs. Sloan Centers for Systemic Change Grants to catalyze and deepen systemic change activities in STEM doctoral program nationwide.
In addition, the program makes grants to support institutions and organizations that promote access and opportunity in science, engineering, and economics, as well as for the professional advancement of students and faculty in these disciplines. 2024-2025 Exemplary Pathways Grantees Announced!
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For priority review, interested grantseekers should send a two-page letter of inquiry to [email protected] . /programs/higher-education To expand access and opportunity in STEM higher education A periodic compilation of grantee news, project updates, interesting links, and things we're reading and thinking about.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Higher education institutions and non-profit organizations. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Metascience and AI Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities who are building careers in understanding the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem. The fellowship provides up to $250,000 over two years with particular emphasis on researchers in philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience. Areas of interest include reproducibility and transparency of machine learning-enabled science, how philosophy of science can inform optimal uses of machine learning for knowledge production, and the relative value of foundation models versus traditional machine learning for scientific discovery. This is not a program for direct AI tool development or general AI ethics; the focus is specifically on AI's impact on the practice and methodology of science. The program is delivered in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and includes a fully funded residential summer school. Applications opened February 2026, with virtual office hours held in March 2026.
Economic Research on the Returns to R&D Investment is sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Coefficient Giving. A consortium of funders, led by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Coefficient Giving, is seeking to support primary research that can help develop consensus estimates of the return on investments in research and development (R&D).
Economic Research on the Returns to R&D Investment is sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Coefficient Giving (via Social Science Research Council - SSRC). A consortium of funders, led by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Coefficient Giving, supports primary research to develop consensus estimates of the return on investments in research and development (R&D).
Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2021. Purpose of Program: The NASNTI Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals. Institutions may use the grants to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native American and low-income students. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031X. Funding Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-051022-001. Assistance Listing: 84.031. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ED. Award Amount: Up to $550K per award.
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.