Click on the links below to view guidelines and application information for active RFPs.
OFR staff members have extensive knowledge of many foundations, and can offer tailored advice on how to engage with them. If faculty plan to approach a foundation or respond to an RFP issued by a foundation, please reach out to the relevant staff member in OFR. For assistance with projects by school, please contact:
Architecture and Planning – David Gordon
Engineering – Kate Reynolds
Koch Institute, Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences – Angela Ellis
School of Science (all other) – Janet Wasserstein
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences – David Gordon
Sloan School of Management – Janet Wasserstein
Open RFPs include:
- Ovarian Cancer Research Fund’s Grant Programs
Deadline: May 23, 2013
- 2013 Challenge Award for Metastatic Prostate Cancer – Prostate Cancer Foundation
Deadline: May 24, 2013
- Impact Economy Innovations Grant Fund – Rockefeller Foundation, Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Global Impact Investing Network
Deadline: May 31, 2013
- 2013 Enrico Fermi Award – U.S. Department of Energy
Deadline: May 31, 2013
- The Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Deadline: May 31, 2013
- Lung Cancer Research Foundation 2013 Grant Program
Deadline: May 31, 2013
- Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences – Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Deadline: June 5, 2013
- Improving Nutrition Outcomes Through Agriculture Interventions – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Deadline: June 7, 2013
- New Scholar and Senior Scholar Awards in Neuroscience – Ellison Medical Foundation
Deadline: June 21, 2013
- The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Deadline: June 21, 2013
- Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award – Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Deadline: July 1, 2013
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation’s Research Fellowships
Deadline: July 1, 2013
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards
Deadline: July 1, 2013
- HHMI Professors Competition – Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Deadline: July 16, 2013
- Vaccine Innovation Award – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Deadline: July 31, 2013
- Millennium Technology Prize – Technology Academy Finland (TAF)
Deadline: July 31, 2013