1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsTennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence (THRIVE) 2025 is sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences, AI Tennessee. THRIVE aims to launch projects that demonstrate how human-AI collaboration can enhance everyday life in Tennessee.
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.
Call for Proposals: Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence (THRIVE) 2025 - College of Arts and Sciences Call for Proposals: Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence (THRIVE) 2025 “Shaping Tomorrow’s Tennessee with Human–AI Solutions Today.
” The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is launching THRIVE: Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence , an initiative that connects the best of our scholarship with real-world impact across the state. At its core, THRIVE advances AI research and its implications across disciplines, from the natural sciences and mathematics to the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Projects are encouraged to push methodological frontiers (e.g., new models, tools, and data practices) while also examining societal dimensions such as education, policy, and human-centered design. The goal is rigorous, high-potential applications that show how human–AI collaboration can enhance everyday life in Tennessee.
THRIVE is deeply connected to AI Tennessee , a statewide initiative driving AI innovation, workforce development, and economic growth through cutting-edge research, education, industry collaboration, and transformative platforms like AI TechX .
AI Tennessee provides a powerful foundation for THRIVE projects, ensuring alignment with statewide priorities and offering opportunities for broader scalability through its industry consortium, AI TechX. Proposals should prioritize real use cases and measurable benefits such as pilots and prototypes, decision-support tools, open datasets, policy briefs, or educational resources that stakeholders can adopt and sustain.
A strong emphasis is placed on collaborative problem-solving with Tennessee partners , ensuring that outcomes are meaningful, equitable, and lasting. Finally, THRIVE elevates experiential learning for undergraduates by embedding students as co-creators in the full research and engagement cycle.
Students will gain meaningful, résumé-ready experience—scoping problems with partners, applying AI methods, communicating results, and reflecting on impact—through paid roles, course-embedded projects, practica, and community-engaged studios. Together, these components cultivate a virtuous cycle: impactful scholarship, trusted partnerships, transformative student experiences, and alignment with Tennessee’s statewide AI leadership.
With initial seed funding invested by CAS and AI Tennessee, THRIVE will launch a cohort of projects that demonstrate how CAS, AI Tennessee, and AI TechX can connect research, teaching, and service to make a direct impact on the lives of Tennesseans. Proposals may be submitted by CAS faculty, staff, or graduate research/teaching assistants with continuing appointments.
Interdisciplinary collaboration across CAS subdivisions is strongly encouraged. A substantive human–AI component that applies or develops artificial intelligence methods. A Tennessee-based partner (e.g., state agency, nonprofit, school district, industry partner, or community group) that will use or benefit from the project’s outcomes.
Through THRIVE, an industry partner may be offered to join the AI TechX industry consortium. An undergraduate experiential learning element , embedding research and problem-solving directly into student experiences. Preference will be given to proposals that: Involve collaboration across multiple CAS subdivisions or other colleges.
Include outreach and engagement across public and private sectors, including K–12 education, industry, nonprofits, and community organizations. Demonstrate a clear pathway to external funding or long-term impact. Align with AI Tennessee initiatives, reinforcing statewide innovation and workforce development goals.
Be no longer than five pages. Clearly articulate the problem, methods, and anticipated outcomes. Describe the role of AI, the community partner, and student involvement.
Address alignment with CAS goals for transformative student experiences and with AI Tennessee’s statewide vision . Proposals will be evaluated on alignment with THRIVE and AI Tennessee goals, potential community impact, feasibility, and scholarly merit.
Awards of $10,000–$12,000 per project, depending on scope and need; projects with larger budgets may be considered with strong evidence of potential impact and discussion with the selection committee Funding may be used for PI/researcher and student stipends, research materials, travel for community engagement, or other project costs. We anticipate funding 9–12 projects in this initial round.
Awardees will be expected to present outcomes at the THRIVE Symposium (planned for Phase 2 of THRIVE).
Submission and Important Dates Expressions of Interest due: November 24, 2025; submit a Letter of Interest (LOI) via a Microsoft form: THRIVE: Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation – LOI Submission – Fill out form Invitations for Full Proposals sent: December 15, 2025 Full Proposals due: January 23, 2026 Funding notifications sent: February 13, 2026 Project start date: March 1, 2026, with expected completion by the end of Year 1 of THRIVE.
Outcomes and Expectations Funded projects will form the foundation of THRIVE , positioning for larger-scale support from the University and external donors. Results will also inform the University Vol Edge program , ensuring that curricula and student pathways are directly tied to high-profile, real-world impact.
Together, these efforts will help CAS, AI Tennessee and their partners establish Tennessee as a national leader in responsible, collaborative, and human-centered AI innovation for the public good. For inquiries, please contact Liem Tran ( [email protected] ) .
THRIVE Steering Committee Anne Ho, Director of AI Research Development Beauvais Lyons, Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities Caleb Knight, AI TechX – Industry Partnerships and Economic Development at UTK Gina Owens, Interim Divisional Dean for Social Sciences Joe Miles, Associate Dean for Institutional Transformation Kate Jones, Divisional Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics Liem Tran, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Michael Blum, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity Research & Creative Activity
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Researchers and faculty, likely from academic institutions in Tennessee, demonstrating how human–AI collaboration can enhance everyday life in Tennessee. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence (THRIVE) 2025 is funded by College of Arts and Sciences, AI Tennessee. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Tennessee. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
NEA's FY2027 Partnership Agreement Grants (2027NEA04PA) put $59 million into 56 state arts agencies with a September 29, 2026 deadline. No individual arts nonprofit can apply. But this is the channel through which most NEA dollars actually reach small organizations — and the supplanting rule and 1-to-1 state cost share determine how much reaches yours.
Read articleOn August 26, 2026, the NEA, NEH and IMLS jointly rescinded the disparate-impact provisions of 45 CFR Part 1110. No comment period, no delayed effective date, and an admission buried in the preamble: across FY2020 through FY2024 the agencies ran zero disparate-impact-only investigations. Here is what actually changes for grantees — and what does not.
Read articleThe U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research, released July 28, 2026 under EO 14292 and implemented at NIH through NOT-OD-26-101, replaces mitigation with prohibition. It bans dangerous gain-of-function research outright, gates potential DGOF behind government-wide review, and creates International Research of Concern — a research-security regime wearing biosafety clothing. Penalties run to five-year debarment and False Claims Act exposure.
Read article