Environmental Sciences

FFAR 2026 New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award

Internal Competition Under Review // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

Deadline note: This selection process is running with an anticipated deadline. We will inform all applicants of relevant updates in the guidelines, submission deadlines, and eligibility as soon as more information becomes available.

Limiting Language
Institutions may submit one nominee to the New Innovator Award program.

Eligibility 

  • From the 2025 cycle, subject to change in new RFA release: The nominated faculty member must have been hired on or after August 1, 2021, for a tenure-track or equivalent position and may work in any discipline or any department within the institution.
  • Preference will be given to individuals near the onset of their independent research career and who are within eight (8) years of receiving a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
  • This research concept must directly benefit U.S. agricultural interests.
  • Individuals with significant research experience prior to obtaining their faculty position will not be considered for this award. For the purpose of this funding opportunity, significant research experience is defined as a nominee that has been awarded a substantial research grant (three to five years of support) or has received project funding totaling over $1M within the time of their tenure position or has been awarded similar career development awards with similar budgetary scope.

Research must align with one of the following priority areas:

  • Cultivating thriving production systems
  • Sustaining vibrant agroecosystems
  • Bolstering healthy food systems
  • Strengthening the scientific workforce 
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
2/19/2026 (Anticipated)

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

Fiscal Year 2025 FEMA National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Multi-State and National Earthquake Assistance

No Applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Limiting Language
Only one application per eligible applicant may be submitted as determined by the applicant Universal Entity Identifier (UEI) number.

Executive Summary
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is a coordinating program for earthquake monitoring, research, implementation, education, and outreach activities developed and conducted by these four agencies:

Federal Emergency Management Agency;

National Institute of Standards and Technology;

National Science Foundation; and

U.S. Geological Survey.

The FEMA NEHRP Multi-State and National Earthquake Assistance (MSNEA) grant program makes funds available to nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education that possess the critical skills necessary to develop and implement regional (multi- state) and/or national earthquake risk mitigation activities. 

In accordance with this MSNEA NOFO, awardees are selected by a national review panel comprised of FEMA NEHRP subject matter experts (SMEs), who evaluate each applicant’s experience, proposed work plan, deliverable schedule, anticipated outcomes and proposed budget.

All activities funded by the MSNEA grant program must be consistent with the NEHRP vision, mission, and strategic goals.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
8/15/2025

2025 Innovative Grants - The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona

Limit: 1 per department 

L. O'Neill - (Center on Aging)

Limiting Language
My organization is a government, a tribal entity, or a university: You may submit one application per department. You may submit another if, and only if, you are collaborating with another organization.  
o If you would like to submit a second application on behalf of a collaborative group of organizations, submit only one application per project. This means choosing just one organization to submit the collaborative application.  
o If several departments are applying for the same project, please treat it as a collaborative application. 
o A government or tribal agency, or university may apply for projects separate from those the individual departments apply for.   

Grant Description
All organizations requesting grants must provide services that directly benefit populations residing in Cochise County and eastern Santa Cruz Counties. 

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona is seeking applications for Innovative grants.  

Grant Cycle – June 2, 2025 through September 26, 2025. Awards will be announced by December 13, 2025.  Grants will be awarded January 2026.  

Every year the Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona funds Innovation Grants for projects up to $50,000 that are aligned with the Foundation Mission of Promoting Population Health and Community Wellness. 

Collaboration and forging partnerships with other community organizations are key determinants in funding decisions. 

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona will kick off the Innovative Grant Cycle with a workshop that will provide full information regarding the goals of the cycle. 
 

Chesapeake Center for Collaborative Computing - EPA-R3-CBP-25-01

No Applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

Limiting Langauge
Applicants may only submit 1 application under this opportunity. Applicants that submit more than 1 application will be contacted to determine which application to evaluate. The remaining application(s) will be deemed ineligible.

Executive Summary

The Chesapeake Center for Collaborative Computing (C4) is a cloud- based infrastructure that supports collection, aggregation, storage, analysis, and dissemination of data for the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership. It also provides on-site support to non-federal partners located at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) in Annapolis, MD. The recipient of this award will administer the C4 by operating and maintaining the existing environment, expanding and enhancing the infrastructure to meet partnership needs as they change over time, and assessing technological advances to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency of operations. The targeted audience for this funding opportunity is eligible entities listed below capable of managing cloud-based infrastructure for a collaborative regional partnership.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
9/10/2025

2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Climate + Health Excellence Centers (CHEX)

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

K. Ernst (Public Health)

Program Overview
New institutional awards of up to $10,000,000 to stimulate development of strong research, education, and public communications connections between fields that aim to understand and mitigate the impact of climate change on human health. In general, this award will support institutions or consortia that are already 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. Applications from institutions just starting to integrate Climate + Health into their planning are expected to be uncompetitive. Up to three awards will be made over two rounds of competition. Providing support for U.S. and Canadian research and educational Institutions or consortia of research and educational institutions


Eligibility
Institutions should only submit one proposal that reflects the institution’s strategic goals in basic, applied, and implementation research in the area of Climate + Health. Individual departments, centers, etc. within an institution may be part of separate consortium applications—for example, a consortium focusing on shared interests around a region might include participation by several institutions around the region and would not disrupt those institutions own applications as long as there is not significant overlap between the proposals.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
8/7/2025
Solicitation Type

The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation - Support for Programs in Developing World (2025 - Grant Round 2)

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

M. Baro (Anthropology) 

Eligibility
In fairness to other organizations seeking support, we ask that organizations submit only one concept application per round of funding.

Description
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. 

For all fields of interest, please see the funding opportunity webpage.



 

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
6/15/2025

Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program - Region 9 Grantmaker: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs

Limit: 2 // Tickets Available: 0

B. Yang (Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture) 
A. Zuniga (Geography, Development & Environment) 

The Thriving Communities Grantmaker Program, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, signifies a crucial step towards advancing climate and environmental priorities. Our approach involves a strategic alliance of experienced community-based grant-makers with extensive networks in the region. By leveraging the collective expertise of our partners, including SEE’s proficiency in managing government grants and contracts, we seek to streamline the distribution process and maximize the impact of environmental justice initiatives.

Eligibility
Under this NOFO, Lead Applicants may submit a maximum of two applications. There is no limit on the amount of applications an organization can be a sub recipient on. 

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (USDA-NIFA-OP-011214)

RFA Withdrawn // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

Duplicate or Multiple Submissions – submission of duplicate or predominantly overlapping applications is not allowed. NIFA will disqualify both applications if an applicant submits multiple applications that are duplicative or substantially overlapping to NIFA programs within the same RFA fiscal year. 

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI), Assistance Listing 10.332, is intended to:  
1. Study agriculturally significant crops and animals in production environments to achieve sustainable and secure agricultural production. 
2. Ensure that current gaps in existing knowledge of agricultural crop and animal genetics and phenomics are filled. 
3. Identify and develop a functional understanding of relevant genes from animals and agronomically relevant genes from crops that are of importance to the agriculture sector of the United States. 
4. Ensure future genetic improvement of crops and animals of importance to the agriculture sector of the United States. 
5. Study the relevance of diverse germplasm as a source of unique genes that may be of importance in the future. 
6. Enhance genetics to reduce the economic impact of pathogens on crops and animals of importance to the agriculture sector of the United States. 
7. Disseminate findings to relevant audiences.