1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
No fixed deadline; applications must be submitted at least 8 weeks before the planned field trip. Field trips must occur before June 2026.
Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund is sponsored by NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR). This fund reimburses public schools and public charter schools for field trips to over 100 educational sites managed by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, including state parks, historic sites, and museums.
Get a weekly digest of new grants like this
A free weekly digest of new foundation and federal funding opportunities as they're added to Granted. Unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund | NC DNCR Education and friendship are built in the same boat at the NC State Parks Study NC's vast environmental landscape with a nature hike, canoeing, camping, and more Rocket your curriculum to new heights at the NC Science Museums The North Carolina Science Museum branches are located in downtown Raleigh, Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Contentnea Creek, Greenville, and Whiteville Set sail for learning at the NC Historic Sites Uncover North Carolina's history outside of the textbook at any of the 26 places Dive into waterways and ocean conservation at the NC Aquariums North Carolina Aquarium locations are at Fort Fisher, Pine Knoll Shores, and Roanoke Island Get wild with animals from around the world at the NC Zoo The NC Zoo is the largest in the world that conserves and houses animals from Africa, Asia, and North America Dig into history at the NC State Historic Sites Hands-on-history is an exciting and proven method to teach students about the past Inspire the next generation of artists at the NC Museum of Art Visit a NC Museum of Art Branch in Raleigh or Winston-Salem Cultivate North Carolina's next generation of leaders Connect your students to their government in a tour of the State Capitol, Legislative Building, and Executive Mansion Where else in North Carolina can you fish for a field trip?
Jennette's Pier offers unique field trip activities of fishing and solar car building Students keep the beat with the NC Symphony Connect your students to classical music when the Symphony performs in Raleigh and throughout the state What is the Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund?
Teachers from public schools and public charter schools will use this page to learn about and apply for field trip funding from the Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund. This fund reimburses for field trips to over 100 educational sites managed by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) . You can choose from state parks, historic sites, museums, aquariums, the NC Symphony, the Zoo, and more!
Funding is provided by the State of North Carolina. Approval rates for first time applicants to this fund are 98% positive. Requests that are realistic and not exorbitant, aligned with classroom learning goals, and meet the funding requirements as detailed in the application, are highly likely to receive funding.
Please Note BEFORE Applying: Due to limited remaining funds, the Field Trip Fund has paused applications from counties where one or more schools have already received an award. If additional funds become available, applications from all counties will reopen. Please check this website for updates.
We are now only accepting applications for field trips occurring before June 2026 from these counties yet to receive a field trip award: Priority will be given to Title I schools. The maximum award per school is $2500. Questions?
Contact fieldtripfund@dncr. nc. gov .
Apply for Field Trip Funding Follow this link to apply for the Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund What happens after the trip? Who do I contact with questions or for application assistance? Trips within 1–2 hours of your school are encouraged.
Research proves that local, place-based learning helps students connect to their communities and make learning more relevant and meaningful, particularly for elementary-aged students. Not sure which site(s) to visit? Reach out to us for guidance!
The Fund cannot support trips to private or National museums or parks, only to state-managed sites under the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. North Carolina's cultural, natural, and historic places are many, and are managed by state, national, private, and local agencies. Therefore, not every place important to North Carolina is eligible for funding.
Examples of some of the popular North Carolina field trip places that are ineligible for funding through the Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund: Any site operated by the National Park Service: Wright Brothers National Memorial, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.
Historic Places / Privately Owned Museums: Biltmore, Old Salem Museums & Gardens and MESDA, Fort Defiance, Tweetsie Railroad, Great Smokey Mountains Railroad, Asheville Radio Museum, and others. Grandfather Mountain: the Mile High Swinging Bridge, Animal Habitats, and Nature Trails. We do serve the State Park portion of Grandfather Mountain.
Privately operated outdoor camps/ventures: YMCA camps, Betsy Jeff Penn 4-H, Linville Caverns, Gem Mountain, Hiddenite, and others. Privately operated programs: Sound to Sea, the Rachel Carson Nature Preserve, Carolina Ocean Studies, Unto These Hills Drama, Lost Colony, Carowinds, and others.
We also do not fund special, non-educational programs at DNCR sites, such as, but not limited to Polar Express, Day out with Thomas, holiday thematic programs, and the North Carolina State Fair. Pick a DNCR site to visit (see the DNCR Field Trip Finder ). Contact the site to confirm availability and book a date.
Talk to your principal to confirm if the school, or county, or PTO can cover costs upfront while awaiting reimbursement of the funds. Create a budget (guidance available). Submit your application online at least 8 weeks before the trip.
Applications are reviewed as they come in, you’ll hear back within 20 business days or sooner. What happens after the trip? Submit a simple report.
Your school will be reimbursed within 30 - 45 days. Who do I contact with questions or for application assistance? Rebecca Barefoot is the Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund Manager and your main contact throughout the application process.
She can help you with: Confirming if the field trip site you are interested in is managed by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Confirming your eligibility Consulting on which DNCR location could best fit your field trip goals if you are unsure Technical issues or general questions about the application or review process Ensuring your application is complete Removing accessibility barriers (e.g. assisting those who are visually impaired) You can contact Rebecca Barefoot via: E-mail: fieldtripfund@dncr.
nc. gov A 30-minute meeting through Microsoft Teams Booking Sessions . This is a reimbursement program; the school (or county/PTO) must first pay the costs.
If you are a Title I school and covering a large single cost, such as a charter bus is financially impossible, contact our Field Trip Fund Manager Rebecca Barefoot to explore whether other options are available. Avoid charging students to cover the upfront costs unless you have plans to support families in need. Hotel accommodations or visits to non-DNCR sites are not eligible for funding.
Get multiple quotes if using a charter bus. Contact the Fund Manager before applying if you plan to request over $5,000 . Explore sites and plan your trip with the DNCR Field Trip Finder or contact the Field Trip Fund Manager for guidance.
Find a Field Trip | NC DNCR fieldtripfund@dncr. nc. gov The Field Trip Fund's Impact So Far Counties Served by the Field Trip Fund Counties indicated in orange are field trips both awarded and projected from 2025 - 2026.
The counties in blue have yet to apply. Hover your cursor over each county to view detailed information about the number of schools and students currently supported. The Fund Committee wants to serve all 100 counties, so apply today!
Map last updated: 3/26/2026 The Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund is made possible by funding from the State of North Carolina. It is managed by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in partnership with PBS North Carolina.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Public schools and public charter schools in North Carolina; priority given to Title I schools. Field trips must be to DNCR-managed sites. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $2,500 per school. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Learning Happens Here Field Trip Fund is funded by NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in North Carolina. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
The Solutions Marketplace is IARPA's attempt to remove the single biggest barrier between a small AI company and the intelligence community: the multi-month proposal burden required before anyone in government even sees what you built. Instead of a written proposal against a specific BAA topic, innovators submit a five-minute unclassified video pitch and basic supporting information through an online portal. Submissions are reviewed by subject matter experts drawn from the IC, industry and academia; those judged awardable are tagged by strategic focus area and made visible to authorized government users across the community, who can then pursue the technology through their own acquisition vehicles. The mechanics matter for planning: the call is open on a rolling basis from August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2027, with assessments conducted monthly, so there is no single deadline to hit and a company can time a submission to when its capability is demonstrable rather than when a solicitation happens to open. Eligibility is deliberately wide - open to all U.S.-based companies traditional and nontraditional, large and small business, new entrants, universities, nonprofits and individuals - which makes it one of the lowest-friction federal entry points for an AI startup with no prior government past performance. The important caveat is what the Marketplace is not. It is not itself a grant or a funded award; being tagged awardable creates visibility and a rapid acquisition pathway, not money. Companies should treat a submission as business development into the IC with an unusually cheap cost of entry, and should be prepared for the follow-on contracting effort with whichever IC element expresses interest. Submissions go through iarpamarketplace.us, with program information at iarpa.gov/marketplace, and IARPA posted a corresponding solicitation notice on SAM.gov. Submitted material must be unclassified.
The NSF Cyber-Physical Systems program funds research on engineered systems that tightly integrate computation with physical components, and it has become one of the more natural homes for AI work that has to operate in the physical world under real-time constraints. NSF names the relevant core areas directly: control, data analytics, and machine learning including real-time learning for control, autonomy, design, and the Internet of Things - and states that the integration of artificial intelligence with cyber-physical systems, especially for real-time operation, creates new research opportunities. That framing matters because it identifies the gap CPS is actually trying to fill. A great deal of modern AI research assumes offline training and unconstrained inference; CPS is interested in the case where learning and inference happen inside a control loop with hard timing, safety and physical-dynamics constraints, which is a genuinely different research problem and one that fits poorly into purely computational AI programmes. For anyone working on autonomous vehicles, robotic systems in infrastructure, medical devices, smart grid, or industrial autonomy, CPS is often a better fit than either a core AI program or a robotics program, because it welcomes the systems-integration and verification questions those programmes tend to treat as out of scope. The three-track structure is the other thing to understand: Small awards up to USD 600,000 over 3 years suit a focused investigator-led project, Medium awards from USD 600,001 to USD 1,200,000 over 3 years suit a small multi-investigator team, and Frontier awards from USD 1,200,001 to USD 7,000,000 over 4 to 5 years are centre-scale efforts with their own separate deadline. Small and Medium proposals are accepted in year-long annual windows. Applicants should confirm the current governing solicitation number, as the programme is periodically re-issued.
On April 20, 2026, the White House declared grid, natural gas, LNG, petroleum, and coal 'essential to national defense,' unlocking DPA Title III loans, loan guarantees, and purchase commitments through DOE. Here is how this non-traditional financing works, who qualifies, why the September 30 sunset matters, and how energy companies and their supply chains should position now.
Read articleNSF's Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation funds roughly 75 awards a year — up to $50 million — across six program areas from natural sciences to social sciences to the Arctic Observing Network. The July 15, 2026 target date is not a hard deadline, and understanding that distinction is the first strategic decision an Arctic researcher makes. Here is how the six doors differ and how to choose the right one.
Read articleKresge Foundation's first-ever Cultural Heritage round of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus opens $1.25M for 10-15 community-led projects across Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park — and the program's fiscal-sponsor provision, two-year project window, and explicit equal treatment of physical and nonphysical projects mark a meaningful departure from the program's first decade.
Read article