Non-Federal Limited Deadlines

William T. Grant Scholars Program

William T. Grant Foundation

For early-career scholars in any discipline who have the potential to become influential researchers. Support for five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand the recipients' expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Research plans must address questions of theory, policy and practice for youth ages 5–25 in the United States, in one of these two focus areas:
1) Programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes;
2) Strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.
Eligibility: tenure-track; no more than seven years since completion of terminal degree or first residency.

2025 deadlines:
- March 1 for internal submission
- June 11 for external submission of mentor and letter of reference
- July 1 for external application

Arts & Sciences, Thayer, Geisel, Guarini and Tuck may each submit one application. 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; current CV. Use "William T. Grant Scholars Program" as the email subject line.

Science & Engineering Research

W.M. Keck Foundation

For high-risk, high-reward science and engineering research projects which would not otherwise receive support from traditional funding agencies, and which have the capacity to spur ground-breaking new territory in the field or open entirely new pathways of work. For fundamental/basic science. Collaboration with investigators from other universities is viewed favorably. Not relevant for projects that would be funded by governmental agencies. Please visit this link for further insights on Keck's expectations and priorities.

Dartmouth Corporate and Foundation Relations may submit up to four concept papers.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu:

• one-page concept paper using the Foundation’s guidelines
• Attach to the concept paper examples of feedback from federal agencies indicating your project is: out of scope/too high risk/overly ambitious for federal funding.
• total amount of your funding request
• current CV
• use “Keck Foundation — Science and Engineering" as the email subject line

Key deadlines:
May 1, 2025 internal application deadline

There are two annual deadlines for submitting an *internal* application to be selected as a Dartmouth nominee: May 7 and November 7.

Medical Research

W.M. Keck Foundation

For high-risk, high-reward medical research projects which would not otherwise receive support from traditional funding agencies, and which have the capacity to spur ground-breaking new territory in the field or open entirely new pathways of work. For fundamental/basic science. Collaboration with investigators from other universities is viewed favorably. Not relevant for projects that would be funded by governmental agencies. Please visit this link for further insights on Keck's expectations and priorities.

Dartmouth Corporate and Foundation Relations may submit up to four concept papers.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu:

• one-page concept paper using the Foundation’s guidelines
• Attach to the concept paper examples of feedback from federal agencies indicating your project is: out of scope/too high risk/overly ambitious for federal funding.
• total amount of your funding request
• current CV
• use “Keck Foundation — Medical" as the email subject line

Key deadlines:
May 1, 2025 internal application deadline

There are two annual deadlines for submitting an *internal* application to be selected as a Dartmouth nominee: May 7 and November 7.

Biomedical Grants

Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation

For early-career, tenure-track faculty doing basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease. Start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. Current R01 recipients not eligible. Must be in first to fourth year of a tenure-track position.

Dartmouth may nominate one candidate.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "Mallinckrodt grant" as the email subject line.
Dartmouth's proposal will require letter(s) of approval from Geisel dean and/or other senior faculty member(s).

Key Deadlines:

May 12, 2025  internal application deadline
August 1, 2025: external application deadline

Pathway to Stop Diabetes

American Diabetes Association

For all areas of diabetes research, spanning basic science through public health research and implementation science. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease - and the pathway to this impact is clear.

There are two programs:

• Initiator For postdoctoral fellows: up to two years of mentored training, then up to five years of independent research support
• Accelerator Up to five years of support for independent faculty
  
  Dartmouth College, including Geisel, may nominate one candidate each track. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu:one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV.

Use "Pathway to Stop Diabetes" as the email subject line.

Key Deadlines:

May 19, 2025  internal application deadline
July 23, 2025: external application deadline

Faculty Scholars Program

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

For early-career faculty in medicine and nursing. Should be assistant professor with roughly 3-8 years of full-time faculty experience. Each Scholar is assigned one mentor from the funder's National Advisory Committee and one peer mentor from the family of alumni Scholars. Funder pays tuition costs for one Harvard Macy Institute course.

Particular interest in faculty who represent diverse backgrounds and come from institutions that are diverse in terms of their geography, populations served, and community-based vs. research-intensive. 

Geisel dean may nominate one candidate. Internal application required. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: One-page summary of your research proposal; current CV.

There is an information webinar on May 29th- Click Here

Key Deadlines:

May 26, 2025  internal application deadline
August 1, 2025: external application deadline

Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Institutional awards of up to $2,000,000 per year over five years to stimulate the development of strong research, training, and education or public communications connections between fields that aim to understand and mitigate the impact of climate change on human health. Up to three awards will be made over two rounds of competition.

For those that have mapped out institutional commitment and moving toward establishing themselves as centers of excellence for understanding climate change’s impact on human health and for leadership in climate education or public communication around climate and health. Institutions just starting to integrate Climate + Health into their planning are expected to be uncompetitive. Proposals should enhance an existing, outward-focused collaboration. This funding is not intended for a partnership between a few faculty.

Proposals must include:
Interdisciplinary research activities leading to mechanistic insights for climate change consequences for human health, with potential for mitigation or prevention of health effects
A training grant element not to exceed 20 percent of the funded center’s budget
Non-postgraduate education or public communication as a substantial element

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu by May 26:
One-page description of your proposal
List of collaborators
Current PI CV
Use "Burroughs Wellcome CHEX" as the subject line.

Key Deadlines:

May 26, 2025  internal application deadline
August 7, 2025: external application deadline

Infrastructure Grants

St. Baldrick's Foundation 

Support for clinical research associates so institutions can treat more children on cancer clinical trials. 

Dartmouth may submit one proposal per year. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's - Infrastructure" as the email subject line.

Important dates:

June 1 - internal application deadline
July 8 - deadline for letter of inquiry
August 28 - deadline for invited full proposal

St. Baldrick's Fellows

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

For third and fourth or fourth and fifth years of pediatric oncology fellowship training. 

Dartmouth may submit one proposal per year. A second Fellow application will be accepted only if focused on one of the following: 

Brain tumors – all types, including rare forms, especially atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and glioblastoma (GBM) 
Burkitt lymphoma – all types, especially sporadic 
Ewing sarcoma 
Rhabdoid tumors - Extrarenal

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "St. Baldrick's Fellows" as the email subject line.

Important dates:

June 1 - internal application deadline
July 8 - deadline for letter of inquiry
August 28 - deadline for invited full proposal

Coronary Heart Disease Research Program

Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust

Supports research in the prevention of coronary heart disease or circulatory failure and improving care for these patients. Applications examining the intersection of coronary heart disease and/or congestive heart failure and COVID-19 or similar viral illnesses are highly encouraged. Basic and translational scientific research. No clinical studies. 

Eligibility: faculty with less than $500,000 in direct-costs external funding at time of application. Applicants who have pending R01s or other large applications to the NIH and other agencies are encouraged to submit proposals to the Geneen Trust. Notification of funding after the application date will not impact eligibility for a Geneen Award.

Dartmouth may nominate one candidate.

Applications are restricted to Geisel School of Medicine. To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea; total amount of your funding request; current CV. Use "Geneen application" as the email subject line.

Important dates:

June 1, 2025 - internal application deadline
July 8, 2025- deadline for invited full proposal

Sloan Research Fellowships

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

For early-career scientists and scholars in these or related fields:
chemistry
computer science
Earth system science
economics
mathematics
neuroscience
physics

Must be tenure-track but untenured as of the application deadline. Faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation. Application requires two representative articles from your independent research. While not yet announced, the external sponsor deadline is anticipated to be September 15. For questions about this opportunity and anticipated application materials, please contact corporate.and.foundation.relations@dartmouth.edu. 

Dartmouth may nominate up to three candidates in each area.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu: one-page description of your project idea and current CV. Use "Sloan Fellowships" as the email subject line.

Important dates:

June 20, 2025 - internal application deadline
September 15, 2025- deadline for invited full proposal

Frontiers Planet Prize

Frontiers Research Foundation

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 between Nov. 1, 2023 and October 31, 2025. 

Translation note: the "National Nominating Body (NNB)" referred to throughout the guidelines means Dartmouth College.

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 13. Use "Frontiers Planet Prize" as the email subject line.

Register for June 5 webinar.

Important dates:

October 1, 2025 - internal application deadline
November 1, 2025- deadline for invited full proposal