Lanier Theological Library Ph.D. Fellowship (Discontinued)

Lanier Theological Library Ph.D. Fellowship is sponsored by The Lanier Theological Library Foundation. The foundation provides support to doctoral students pursuing a Ph.D. in Bible, theology, or related church ministry. Fellows are expected to conduct research and writing on topics of particular interest to the Lanier Theological Library and Learning Center, such as biblical research, church history, egyptology, or linguistics, with a view toward the impact of their work on the church and the world. Geographic focus: United States Focus areas: Bible, Theology, Ministry, Biblical Research, Egyptology, Linguistics, Church History

Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative is sponsored by Lilly Endowment Inc.. This initiative helps theological schools in the United States and Canada strengthen their capacities to prepare and support pastoral leaders for Christian churches. It offers grants for individual school capacity building and large-scale collaborative endeavors. Catholic institutions are eligible and have received significant funding in previous rounds.

Path to a Cure Research Grant is a grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation that funds basic science research aimed at restoring CFTR protein function or developing gene-based approaches to treat cystic fibrosis. The program specifically targets projects proposing restoration of CFTR protein function or approaches to fix or replace the defective CFTR gene. Awards provide up to $150,000 per year (plus 12% indirect costs) for up to two years, with grants competitively renewable for additional funding. Eligible applicants are independent investigators at for-profit and nonprofit institutions. Proposals must be hypothesis-driven with sufficient preliminary data. The fall cycle deadline is November 15, 2026.

Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI is a Simons Foundation request for applications that funds basic science research making genuine use of multinode GPU clusters on New York State's Empire AI supercomputing consortium. The framing is deliberately specific: the Foundation is not funding AI applications generally but research that requires clusters of GPUs across multiple nodes, which excludes the large volume of scientific machine learning that runs comfortably on a single node and is therefore not compute-constrained. Target fields named in the call are computational astrophysics and physics, computational biology, mathematics, neuroscience and computational physical chemistry, together with foundational machine learning models, so the programme spans both AI-for-science and the development of foundation models themselves. The combination of a 6,000,000 dollar commitment across 6 to 12 awards, no published per-award ceiling, and an instruction that budgets should reflect the proposed research signals that the Foundation expects ambitious, compute-heavy proposals rather than incremental ones. The award period runs 1 June 2027 to 31 May 2029 against a 1 December 2026 deadline at 12 p.m. Eastern time. The binding constraint is institutional: eligibility is restricted to faculty at the nine Empire AI consortium member institutions, which makes this one of the most geographically concentrated significant AI funding opportunities currently open, and effectively a New York State research-capacity instrument rather than a national competition.

The Sloan Foundation's exploratory grantmaking in Technology supports the development and adoption of AI tools that accelerate scientific research and automate aspects of the scientific process. Funded scope includes foundation models for science (chemistry, biology, materials, physics), AI lab automation and self-driving laboratories, AI-driven literature review and synthesis tools, machine learning for experimental design, scientific reasoning and hypothesis generation in LLMs, and infrastructure for open scientific AI. The exploratory program identifies emerging sectors, tools, and methods with high potential that may not yet attract mainstream funding, prioritizing interdisciplinary risk-taking work.

The Omidyar Network Tech Journalism Fund supports U.S.-based journalists pursuing in-depth stories that illuminate the social, economic, and political impacts of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, generative AI, algorithmic decision-making, surveillance, content moderation, and AI labor markets. The fund prioritizes investigative reporting, accountability journalism, narrative features, and explanatory pieces that surface how AI systems affect communities, workers, and democratic institutions. Part of Omidyar's broader $30 million responsible generative AI investment alongside the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund and AI governance grants.

The Ethics and Governance of AI Fund is a multi-funder coalition that supports applied research on AI bias, fairness, and accountability; educational programs building public understanding of AI; fellowship programs for emerging scholars; and collaborative cross-disciplinary projects on AI policy and governance. The fund channels $27M+ from Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, Reid Hoffman, the Hewlett Foundation, and Jim Pallotta. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors administers pooled grantmaking; each funder also maintains separate application processes. Funded work includes algorithmic accountability research, AI policy and governance fellowships, civil society capacity-building, and interdisciplinary scholar networks. Strong fit for academics, civil society organizations, journalists, policy think tanks, and law schools researching responsible AI.

The Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) is a virtual fund organizing grant applications and recommending grants to organizations addressing the long-term survival and flourishing of sentient life. SFF runs main S-Process rounds plus themed rounds, with the 2026 cycle featuring three new themed S-Process rounds in addition to the Main Round. Strong focus on AI safety, AI alignment, biosecurity, existential risk research, longtermist policy, and technical AI governance. Funded organizations include leading AI safety nonprofits and university research groups. Grant recommendations are made via SFF's distinctive S-Process collaborative evaluation. Rolling and round-based application accepted.

Youth Violence Prevention Grant Program is sponsored by Roy A. Hunt Foundation. This program aims to reduce youth violence and its contributing risk factors. It prioritizes lower-income and higher-crime areas in Allegheny County, PA; Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; and Martin and St. Lucie Counties, FL. Proposals should demonstrate clear, measurable objectives for serving proven-risk and higher-risk youth and young adults through strategies like one-on-one and peer group work, family and school engagement, and community involvement.