Vision Grants

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program is a grant from the Spencer Foundation — in collaboration with the Kapor Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation — that provides emergency bridge funding to researchers whose federal education research grants have been recently cancelled or terminated. The program specifically targets scholars whose National Science Foundation (NSF) grants have been abruptly ended. Awards of up to $25,000 support immediate needs following cancellation, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing existing data, writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing new grant proposals. To be eligible, scholars must be working on STEM and education research — including AI, computer science, graduate education, MSIs, or research reducing inequality — and must have had a recently cancelled NSF grant. Early-career scholars are prioritized where possible.