New York Building Recreational Infrastructure for Communities, Kids and Seniors (NY BRICKS)

Building Recreational Infrastructure for Communities, Kids and Seniors (NY BRICKS) is sponsored by New York State (administered by DASNY). This capital grant program makes funding available to municipalities and nonprofit organizations to build, renovate and modernize community centers across New York State. Priority is given to projects in underserved communities, promoting physical health, mental well-being, and connections among youth and older adults.

Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program (HECap) is sponsored by New York State (administered by DASNY). HECap supports projects that modernize campuses, strengthen academic and research facilities, improve critical infrastructure, and enhance learning environments for students across New York State. This public/private partnership invests a dollar for every three a university raises towards capital projects.

Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI 2027 is a 6,000,000 US dollar Simons Foundation request for applications funding two-year research programmes that build and use foundational machine learning models on the multinode GPU clusters of New York State's Empire AI infrastructure. The Foundation expects to select six to twelve proposals, which implies a working per-award range of roughly 500,000 to 1,000,000 US dollars; the amounts recorded here are derived from that pool and award count rather than from a published per-award cap, because the RFA explicitly states there is no maximum budget total for an individual award. Applicants should therefore size budgets to the science rather than to a ceiling. The scientific scope is deliberately restricted to computational problems of fundamental importance in astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and physical chemistry, and proposals must genuinely require multinode GPU capacity, so work that would run on a single node is a poor fit. Eligibility is the binding constraint: the principal investigator must hold a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at one of nine named Empire AI consortium institutions, namely Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, SUNY, RPI, NYU, the University of Rochester, RIT or the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Additional principal investigators may join from non-consortium institutions through subcontract. All applicants and collaborators must hold a PhD, MD or equivalent, there are no citizenship requirements, Simons Foundation and Flatiron Institute W-2 employees are excluded, and the Foundation does not fund institutions in China or Hong Kong. The award period runs 1 June 2027 to 31 May 2029 and applications close at 12 p.m. Eastern on 1 December 2026.