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Mellon Foundation - Higher Learning 2026 Open Call for Concepts

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Limiting Language:
Each institution may submit no more than three applications to Mellon for consideration. 

Eligibility
The Principal Investigator (PI), or applicant, must be a faculty member and/or dean in a program or department in the humanities or humanistic social sciences at the applicant institution. The PI may also be the institution’s provost/chief academic officer. Applications that do not include a CV for the PI will be disqualified from consideration. 

Overview
Full sponsor guidelines are linked here.

In the interest of maintaining a grantmaking portfolio that supports inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import, the Higher Learning program at the Mellon Foundation invites eligible institutions of higher education to submit ideas for research and/or curricular projects focused on either of the two areas listed below. Projects should engage teams of scholars and/or students, and have visible, enduring impact at the institution. The two topical areas for the call are:

• Unruly Intelligences
• Normalization and Its Discontents

The Mellon Higher Learning team will review all eligible submissions and invite a small number of the most promising concepts to be developed into full proposals for potential grant funding. In consideration of the anticipated volume of concept submissions, we are unable to provide feedback on preliminary concepts.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
12/1/2025 (registration forms due); 2/17/2026 (full application)
Solicitation Type

Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary (APS 2025) - Round 2

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Limiting Language
Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals from that institution will be considered ineligible for funding. Please note that we do not accept ongoing projects.

Program Description
On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Throughout 2026, the U.S. Mission to France will commemorate this milestone, highlighting the historical and future connections between France and the United States. The Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Mission to France is pleased to announce this funding opportunity as part of this celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary. This is an Annual Program Statement (APS 250) that invites proposals for our year-long campaign to tell the story of America in France. It aims to support organizations in creating and developing public programs that celebrate the people, events, ideas, and legacies related to the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and the 250 years of diplomacy and shared prosperity with France that followed. While France’s influence on the American Revolution began long before the first shots were fired with American founders like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and John Adams were deeply influenced by French philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. The ideas from the French Enlightenment informed the Declaration of Independence, American concepts of republicanism, rule of law, individual rights, and meritocracy were founded 250 years ago and form the basis of our shared values that endure today.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
1/5/2026
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Angel Charities For Children Impact Grant 2026

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Limiting Language
The University of Arizona may submit one LOI.

Overview
Angel Charity for Children, Inc. is accepting Impact Grant requests in 2026 for $100,000 to $900,000.

Applicants must serve children aged 18 and under in Pima County.

The agency must be a tax-exempt organization as determined by the IRS, having held this status for a
minimum of three years.

We fund Impact Grants that directly benefit children in Pima County for:
a) Purchase of Real Estate and Possible Construction
b) Construction on Currently Owned Real Estate Property
c) Retirement of Mortgage
d) Purchase Equipment/Personal Property/Asset
e) Program Expenses
f) Combination of Above

An agency may not apply this year if it was chosen as a beneficiary last year. Private “operating”
foundations are eligible to apply, but private foundations are not.

Grant requests must benefit a majority (51% or more) of children within Pima County to be considered. A variety of children’s needs are considered for funding regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual preference or national origin. 

For a list of past beneficiaries, including types of requests and amounts funded, please refer to the Angel Charity website www.AngelCharity.org, click “What We Do”, then “History of Giving".

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
11/10/2026 (LOI), 1/8/2026 (Full Application)
Solicitation Type

Angel Charity for Children Opportunity Grant 2026

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Limiting Language
The University of Arizona may submit one application.

Opportunity Overview
Angel Charity for Children, Inc. is a nonprofit organization of 250 devoted volunteer members. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children in Pima County. This is accomplished through an established program of fundraising for the beneficiaries selected annually by the General Membership. We are fortunate that for 43 years, we have positively impacted the lives of over 1.2 million children in our community through the donation of almost $35 million dollars to 152 projects. 

WHAT WE FUND 
Angel Charity for Children, Inc. is accepting Opportunity Grant requests in 2026 for $10,000 to $75,000. 
Applicants must serve children aged 18 and under in Pima County. 

The agency must be a tax-exempt organization as determined by the IRS, having held this status for a minimum of three years. 

We fund Opportunity Grants that directly benefit children in Pima County for: 
● Purchase Equipment/Personal Property/Asset 
● Program Expenses 
● Combination of Both 

An agency may not apply this year if it was chosen as a beneficiary last year. Private “operating” foundations are eligible to apply, but private foundations are not. 

Grant requests must benefit a majority (51% or more) of children within Pima County to be considered. A variety of children’s needs are considered for funding regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual preference or national origin. 

For a list of past beneficiaries, including types of requests and amounts funded, please refer to the Angel Charity website www.AngelCharity.org, click “What We Do”, then “History of Giving

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
1/8/2026
Solicitation Type

From Campus to Career: Advancing Career-Connected High-Impact Practices (HIPs)

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The office of Hispanic Serving Institutions is coordinating the submission to this funding opportunity.

Opportunity Overview 
Lumina Foundation is seeking letters of interest for a grant opportunity for up to 15 institutions to scale career-connected HIPs on their campuses. Applicants must seek to pursue ambitious and innovative HIPs strategies, but the benefits extend far beyond the direct funding to support this work, including:

  • An opportunity to shape national practice in career-connected HIPs among exemplar institutions from across the U.S.;
  • Tailored technical assistant provided by national experts to support the success of campus implementation;
  • And direct funding ranging from $80,000 to $100,000 for each grantee.
Funding Type
External Deadline
10/24/2025
Solicitation Type

Conservation, Food & Health Foundation Grants - 2026 Grant Round 1

The University of Arizona is ineligible for this cycle due to updated limiting language: "The Foundation will consider only one proposal from an organization in any calendar year". The next cycle the University of Arizona is eligible for will occur with a June 15, 2026 concept application deadline. 

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
12/22/2025

2026 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

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Limiting Language
An organization may submit only one application under this notice.

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is
accepting applications for the National Digital Newspaper Program. This program creates a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions. The Library of Congress (LOC) maintains this freely accessible, searchable online database.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
1/15/2026

Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1 - Clinical Trial Optional) - January 2026 Deadline

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Limiting Language
Two applications per institution (with a Unique Entity Identifier ) and a unique NIH eRA Institutional Profile File (IPF) number) are allowed per review round. The same or a similar topic may be submitted for subsequent review rounds involving the same or a similar team, but must be presented as a New application, not a Resubmission.

Program Description 
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs) to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are within the mission of NIGMS. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields.

This FOA is not intended for applications that are mainly focused on the creation, expansion, and/or maintenance of community resources, creation of new technologies, or infrastructure development.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
1/27/2026

Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition - January 2026 Deadline

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Limiting Language
An organization may submit one application per deadline under this notice. 

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition program. The purpose of this program is to preserve and improve access to primary source materials that document the history of America’s founding era and of American government in federal, state, and local contexts. Supported activities include conservation treatment and rehousing, digitization and description, transcription and translation, and updating existing digital resources to ensure longterm public availability. This program is offered in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
1/15/2026