Non-Federal Limited Deadlines
Below is a list of upcoming programs with proposal submission restrictions. Please make sure to check each individual opportunity announcement for eligibility, specific deadline and submission information. This is not a comprehensive list of all limited submission proposals, and while this page will be updated regularly, it should be used in conjunction with other grant information resources available from individual funding agency websites. *Important: If a program has a limited submission requirement and you do not see it on the list below, please notify limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu and follow the procedure outlined here.
Retirement Research Foundation for Aging - Research Grants
Sponsored by: Retirement Research Foundation for Aging
**Internal deadline: Sept. 03, 2026**
External deadline: Nov 1, 2026
For research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference for projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network.
Areas of interest:
Interventional trials; translational studies; and health services and policy research
Projects that build on the investigator’s past studies
Proposals that include robust dissemination plans, if appropriate, to assure that
findings reach audiences positioned to act on them
Recent research grants have ranged from $50,000 to $300,000. There are three annual
deadlines for letters of inquiry: March 1, June 1 and November 1.
Please review the funder's eligibility quiz prior to submitting an internal application through Dartmouth's Limited Submission process.
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to LimitedFunding@dartmouth.edu by the internal deadline:
- one-page description of your research proposal; include the amount of your funding request
- current CV
- use the title of this RFP as the subject line
Brain Research Foundation - Seed Grants
Sponsored by: Brain Research Foundation
**Internal deadline: Sep 03, 2026**
External deadline: Nov 03, 2026
Amount: To $100,000
The program provides start-up monies to assistant and associate professors for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. The objective of the BRF Seed Grant Program is to support new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions.
LIMITED SUBMISSION -- INTERNAL APPLICATION REQUIRED
To apply for this opportunity, email the following to LimitedFunding@dartmouth.edu by the internal deadline:
- one-page description of your research proposal; include the amount of your funding request
- current CV
- use the title of this RFP as the subject line
Frontiers Planet Prize
Sponsored by: Frontiers Research Foundation
**Internal deadline: Oct 01, 2026**
External deadline: Nov 01, 2026
Amount: $1,000,000
Awarded to the author of a peer-reviewed publication reporting a breakthrough with the potential for global deployment to address one or more of these threats to the sustainability of Earth systems:
Stratospheric ozone depletion
Biosphere integrity (e.g., loss of biodiversity)
Novel entities (man-made chemicals entering the environment)
Climate change
Ocean acidification
Fresh-water change
Land-system change
Biogeochemical flows (e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus)
Atmospheric aerosol loading
Eligibility: scientists conducting planetary-boundary and earth-system research whose
papers were accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal between Nov. 11, 2024
and October 31, 2026.
Interested parties should contact the GrantGPS office at Grant.Proposal.Support@dartmouth.edu.
Dartmouth may nominate three candidates.
To apply internally for this opportunity, download and complete this brief application form describing your research paper, and email the form to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu by October 1. Use "Frontiers Planet Prize" as the email subject line.
Translation note: for Dartmouth applicants, the "National Nominating Body (NNB)" referred to throughout the guidelines is Dartmouth College and the "National Representative Body (NRB)" is the National Academy of Sciences.
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
Sponsored by: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
**Internal deadline: Oct 15, 2026**
External deadline: Feb 04, 2027
Amount: $100,000
Unrestricted research grant for early-career faculty in the chemical sciences, including biochemistry, materials chemistry and chemical engineering. Awarded for advancement of important knowledge in the chemical sciences, and dedication and contributions to undergraduate education in the chemical sciences. Must be full-time tenure-track and within the first six years of independent academic career at the time of submission of the nomination. Requires institutional nomination, and re-nominations are accepted. Publications with undergraduate co-authors required.
Dartmouth may nominate one candidate. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu by the internal deadline:
- current CV
- one-page description of your contributions to: important knowledge in the chemical sciences, and education in the chemical sciences, particularly with respect to undergraduates.
Use "Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar" as the email subject line.