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E. Gornish and S. Spikes (School of Natural Resources and the Enivornment, Cooperative Extension)

At The Stocker Foundation, we're all about helping students from prekindergarten through eighth grade become curious lifelong learners. Our grantmaking supports 21st century reading literacy and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) activities that encourage kindergarten readiness, grade-level reading proficiency, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills. We believe that when all students have access to quality education, they develop a passion for learning, which paves the way for future opportunities.

In 2024, The Stocker Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved 199 grants totaling over $2 million to communities served. Our funding supports:

• The development of foundational reading and writing skills so that students can read at or above grade level by third grade
• Cross-disciplinary, project-based STEAM learning that connects subjects through hands-on experiences

We also set aside a small portion of our funding to help remove obstacles that might keep students from academic success.

The Stocker Foundation conducts one grant cycle annually. We welcome applications from organizations who share our passion for transforming educational opportunities for students who need them most.

Deadlines:
Stage 1 (eligibility check) - September 30, 2025
Stage 2 (application) - November 30, 2025

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These grants are not for a specific research project, but rather for personnel (i.e., a clinical research associate) or resources to allow more research to be done. These grants are intended for institutions with the potential to participate significantly more in childhood cancer clinical trials, but which are smaller or have barriers to greater participation due to a lack of resources. Applications to support Clinical Research Associate (CRA) type positions are preferred. Preference is given to institutions with high needs and low philanthropic support in geographical areas where St. Baldrick’s funds are raised. Institutions which do not currently receive other St. Baldrick’s grants are also given preference. (Grant will be $25,000–$50,000.)  

For full eligibility criteria, please see the RFA.

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* ATTENTION: limited submissions policy exception:  Due to high interest from donors and low numbers of past applications, 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
• Rhabdoid tumors - Extrarenal 
   

Fellowship Duration

St. Baldrick’s Fellowships are granted for two (2) years of pediatric oncology fellowship training, with an opportunity for one (1) additional year of funding based upon need, significant accomplishment, and approved application. 

Eligibility 

For full eligibility, please see the RFA.

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S. Ehsani (University of Arizona Cancer Center)

For the V Foundation Breast Cancer Research Game-Changer Grant 2025 funding opportunity, the University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate one applicant.

For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

Purpose of Award:

This request for applications will support breast cancer research specifically at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Hooters of America, LLC raised these funds through their local franchisees, for the 2024 “Give A Hoot” in the fight against breast cancer campaign and donated them to the V Foundation to support programs at regional cancer centers for breast cancer research. For these raised funds, the University of Arizona Cancer Center was selected as the designated recipient of regional funds in the amount of $186,000. This request for applications is specifically for Breast Cancer Research.

Applicant Eligibility:

• Nominee must meet all of the following criteria by the nomination due date:
  • Employed at the nominating institution and nominated by their Cancer Center Director or similar high ranking research official.
  • Must be either a US Citizen or have a legal permit (temporary or permanent) to work in the US.
  • Hold a full-time faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor or Assistant Professor-equivalent level or above. Non-promotable, adjunct, affiliated, temporary, part-time or acting faculty positions are not eligible for Principal Investigator nomination.
     

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Eligibility
Only one proposal will be considered by ECA from each applicant organization. In cases where more than one submission from an applicant appears in grants.gov, ECA will only consider the submission made closest in time to the NOFO deadline; that submission would constitute the one and only proposal ECA would review from that applicant.|

Executive Summary
The U.S. Study Abroad Branch within the Office of Global Educational Programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces an open competition to administer the FY2025 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (hereinafter referred to as the “Gilman Program”). The stated intent of the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000, the authorizing legislation for the Gilman Program, is to support U.S. undergraduate students of limited financial means to study outside the United States in order to “broaden the outlook and better prepare such students of demonstrated financial need to assume significant roles in the increasingly global economy.” As outlined in legislation, the Gilman Program is open to citizens and nationals of the United States and provides scholarships to enable undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue credit-bearing academic studies or internships overseas.

The University of Arizona is not eligible for this opportunity. For more information, please contact RDS. 

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The University of Arizona may submit a total of three nominations:

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  Y. Shirai (Family and Community Medicine)
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Eligibility:

1. Be a benefits-eligible faculty member in a United States accredited nursing school, allopathic medical school, or osteopathic medical school. Candidates should have approximately three to eight years of faculty experience at the time of application.
2. Be a doctorally prepared faculty member in good standing at the sponsoring school.
3. Be nominated by the dean of the nursing or medical school. There can be only one nominee per nursing or medical school, and a nursing or medical school with a first-year Macy Faculty Scholar is precluded from nominating a candidate.
4. Have an educational scholarship project with the appropriate institutional support.
5. Have a faculty mentor who will advise the candidate on the candidate's educational project and career development.
6. Have an institutional commitment for the protection of 50% of the candidate’s time.
7. Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories.

Program Overview

The Macy Faculty Scholars Program, now in its second decade, aims to identify and nurture promising early-career educators in medicine and nursing. The program will help develop the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education by identifying outstanding educators, physicians, nurses, and role models—individuals who represent the breadth of diversity seen in learners, patient populations, and health care settings around the country. By providing the Scholars with resources—especially protected time, mentorship, and a professional network of colleagues—the program aims to accelerate Scholars’ careers, to turn their teaching practice into scholarship, and to help them become impactful leaders locally, nationally, and beyond.

This is a career development award. The Foundation is interested in candidates for whom the program will have the maximum impact at this point in their career and who also have the greatest possibility for future impact at their home institutions and beyond. Macy Faculty Scholars will participate in the Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting and will be part of the family of Macy Faculty Scholars for the remainder of their careers.

In order to develop the careers of educators who are future leaders, the Macy Faculty Scholars Program will provide salary support for each Scholar up to $100,000 per year, which will protect 50% of the Scholar’s time over two years. The Scholar will devote this time to a mentored educational scholarly project and other appropriate career development activities.

8/21/2025 Update: This program is awaiting a new solicitation and is not currently accepting proposals.

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G. Chism (College of Information Science)
T. Robinson (Lunar and Planetary Lab) 

Eligibility
An eligible IHE may participate in only two (2) proposals per NRT competition as lead or collaborative nonlead. All Track 1 and/or Track 2 NRT proposals will be counted toward this total limit of two proposals per institution. 

Participation includes serving as a lead institution or a non-lead institution (i.e., as part of a separately submitted collaborative proposal or as a sub-recipient) on any proposal. Organizations participating only as evaluators on projects are excluded from this limitation. Planning proposals, described in Section II, Program Description, are also excluded from this limitation. Proposals that exceed the organizational eligibility limit will be returned without review regardless of whether the institution on such a proposal serves as lead or non-lead collaborative institution. Potential PIs are advised to contact their institutional office of research regarding processes used to select proposals for submission.

Proposals may only be submitted by the following: 
Track 1: All Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members and that award a research-based master's degree and/or a doctoral degree in STEM disciplines supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Track 2 and 

Track 2 Planning Grants: Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members that award a research-based master's degree and/or a doctoral degree in STEM disciplines supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation including: Master's Colleges and Universities and D/PU Doctoral/Professional Universities that award fewer than 20 research/scholarship doctoral degrees and Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity (R2, as defined in the Carnegie classification of higher education institutions). Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity (R1) are not eligible for Track 2 consideration. The University of Arizona is not eligible for Track 2. 

Program Synopsis

The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master's and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Proposals are requested that address any interdisciplinary or convergent research theme of national priority, as described in section II.D below. The NRT program addresses workforce development, emphasizing broad participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education. The program encourages proposals that involve strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national laboratories, field stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science centers, and academic partners. NRT especially welcomes proposals that reflect collaborations between NRT proposals and existing NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, Undergraduates (REU), Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM), and Research Experiences for NSF Scholarships in NSF STEM Ed Organizational Postdoctoral Fellowship program (STEM Ed OPRF) projects, provided the collaboration will strengthen both projects. Researchers at minority serving institutions and emerging research institutions are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Collaborations between NRT proposals and existing NSF INCLUDES projects should strengthen both NRT and INCLUDES projects.

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A. Granillo (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)

Eligibility 
Only one (1) application per organization/collaboration may be submitted. Fiscal sponsors may support multiple applications.

This grant is designed for organizations working on:

1. Public and behavioral health initiatives for substance use prevention, treatment, and early intervention services.
2. Restorative justice, jail diversion, workforce development, and mentoring services for economically disadvantaged individuals in communities disproportionately affected by higher arrest and incarceration rates.
3. Addressing the root causes of crime, reducing drug-related arrests, and lowering the prison population.
4. Developing technology and programs to restore civil rights and expunge criminal records.

Limit: 1 LOI per department

V. Lai (Psychology) 

Eligibility
Organizations may submit only one Letter of Inquiry and corresponding proposal per grant cycle. Common exceptions include proposals submitted by separate departments of large universities. 


RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. Of particular interest are:

• 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